Art and Artists
Color Theory
Elements of Art
Principles of Art
Vocabulary
100
Who created the famous painting The Starry Night?
Vincent Van Gogh
100
What are the three Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
100
What are Lines in Art? How can they be used?
Lines can be straight, curvy, looped, zig-zag, etc. They can be used to create objects.
Ex: 4 straight lines can be put together to make a square.
100
What are patterns? And how can they make your art more interesting?
Patterns are repeated colors, symbols, or drawings. They can make art more interesting by giving the viewer more to look at, so it is more exciting to the eyes. It can also be used to show expression.
100
What does 2D and 3D stand for?
two-dimensional and three dimensional
200
What is abstract art?
- Abstract: Non-representational or simplified forms.
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200
What are the three Warm Colors?
Red, Orange, and Yellow
200
What is Value?
Shading from light to dark. 
200
How can you show movement in art?
Movement can be depicted by using lines, color, and shading to make an object appear to be in motion, or by adding action lines.
200
What does Contrast mean?
a big difference between two or more things.
YIN-YANG - Black vs. White = a strong difference because one is light and the other is dark. 
300
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Da Vinci
300
What two colors make purple?
Red and Blue
300
What is form?
Three-dimensional objects that have length, width, and depth, unlike 2D shapes
300
What can Balance look like in Art?
Balance can refer to the balance of objects stacked on top of each other, or it can be the visual weight of the composition.
Ex: The left side of the picture has one big tree, while the right side has three small ones.
300
What is a Monochromatic Painting?
A painting done only with one color, but has different values. 
400
Pablo Picasso started a new art movement called what?
Cubism
400
If you add white into a color what is it called?
Ex: White added to Red will make Pink
A Tint
A tint is a value of a color. It is made when white is added to make a lighter version of the color, and black is added to a color to create a shade.
400
What is Negative Space?
The area around the main subject. 
400
What is Proportion?
In art, proportion is the relationship between the sizes, amounts, or degrees of different parts within a composition, crucial for creating realistic, balanced, or stylized effects, often referencing ideal human body ratios
400
What is the Foreground in art?
Foreground is the very front section of a landscape, and everything in the foreground is bigger than any of the other objects.
500
Who were the first artists to ever exist?
Cave Men! They used mud and dirt to paint on the walls of caves.
500
What are Complementary colors?
Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. They look good together.
Red/Green
Blue/Orange
Purple/Yellow
500
There are two different types of shapes. What is the name of the second group of shapes?
Organic- meaning it doesn't look like any of the shapes we know (blobs)
???- Mathematically correct. They can be measured. All of our normal shapes like triangles, squares, circles...
Geometric Shapes
500
What is Unity in art?
Unity in art is the principle of creating a sense of wholeness, harmony, and cohesion where all elements (like color, line, shape, texture) work together to form a complete, balanced composition, making the artwork feel like a single, unified idea rather than separate parts.
500
What is Atmospheric perspective in art?
Atmospheric Perspective – things farther away appear lighter/bluer.