Elements
Principles
Women Artists
Movements
Mixed Media
100

A flat, enclosed area of an artwork created through lines

Shape

100

The principle that states using elements to create a work that is VISUALLY STABLE 

Balance

100

This artist's fierce self-portraits featuring her iconic bold unibrow and mustache were once described by André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, as "ribbons around a bomb."

Frida Kahlo

100

Donatello, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Raphael 

The Italian Renaissance

100

A painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution and maintain a traditionally transparent result.

Watercolors

200

Monochromatic paintings emphasize color and this element of art.

Value

200

The principle of art used to create the impression of action in a work of art

Movement


200

Known for her use of tight cropping, rich colors, and floral subject matter, she wanted to known as "one of the best painters, not just female painter"

200

Monet, Renoir, Degas, Matisse

200

The opaque white material used to prime a painting surface such as a canvas or wood board. 

Gesso

300

A three-dimensional composition or object within a three-dimensional composition

Form
300

The systematic arrangement of a repeated shapes or forms creates pattern.

Repetition or Pattern

300

One of three female artists and the only American officially associated with Impressionism.

Mary Cassat

300

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Munch

Post-Impressionism

300

Louise Nevelson creates these kinds of works consisting of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate and paints them one, flat color.

Assemblage

400

Josef Albers studies relationships of this element of art in his "Homage to the Square" paintings

Color

400

An area or object within the artwork that draws attention and becomes a focal point

Emphasis

400

Now recognized as the pioneer of abstract art, her earliest abstract compositions were completed years before those of Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian.

Hilma af Klint

400

Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Frankenthaler

Abstract Expressionism

400

Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.

Textiles or Fiber arts

500

This element of art is utilized by Wayne Thiebaud to convey a sense of touch through manipulation of surface quality.

Texture

500

Refers to the arrangement of opposite elements and effects.

Contrast

500

In her installation, The Dinner Party, from 1974 to 1979, this artist produced an iconic installation commemorating 1,038 women in history

500

Duchamp, Ernst, Arp, Schwitters

Dada

500

This artist uses a variety of materials including bread to explore positive and negative spaces and its relationship with the human form.

Antony Gormley

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