Elements of Art
Color Theory
Famous Artworks
Famous Artists
Art Media
100
This art element is visible evidence of the light spectrum.
What is color?
100
Red, Yellow and Blue make up these foundational "building blocks" of color:
What are primary colors?
100
This famous artwork, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889, was inspired by the artist's view from his window in Southern France:
What is The Starry Night?
100
This famous Post-Impressionist artist is well known for having cut off his own ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
This art medium, composed of clay and graphite, is used for drawing and shading.
What is pencil?
200
This art element is "the path of a dot through space."
What is line?
200
These types of colors (hint: Orange, Green and Violet) are created by mixing 2 primary colors together:
What are secondary colors?
200
This famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci has been described as the "most well known, visited, written, sung and talked about" artwork in the world.
What is The Mona Lisa?
200
This Spanish painter is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, and is most well know for his abstracted, Cubism paintings.
Who is Pablo Picassco?
200
This translucent art medium, which is composed of pigment and a water-soluble binder, is mixed with water and brushed onto paper.
What is watercolor paint?
300
This art element is a 2-dimensional object that is limited to height and width.
What is shape?
300
These types of colors are created by mixing a primary and secondary color together:
What are tertiary colors?
300
This famous painting, created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665, is titled after the subject matter and her iconic piece of jewelry:
What is Girl with a Pearl Earring?
300
Often recreating packaging and imagery from pop culture, this famous artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement.
Who is Andy Warhol?
300
This pliable art medium is pulled directly from the earth, and has to be superheated to reach its final form.
What is clay?
400
This art element represents the way something feels or appears to feel.
What is texture?
400
The colors in this type of color scheme can find themselves across from each other on the color wheel:
What are complementary colors?
400
This artwork, created by Edvard Munch in 1893, has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition.
What is The Scream?
400
Considered one of the pioneers of Abstract Art, this artist is well known for using line, shape and color to depict emotions, and often compared this process to music.
Who is Wassily Kandinksy?
400
This messy drawing medium, made from compressed carbon, can reach intense black values.
What is charcoal?
500
This art element is the range of lightness to darkness in a work of art.
What is value?
500
The colors in this type of color scheme can find themselves next to each other on the color wheel:
What are analogous colors?
500
This artwork, created by Grant Wood in 1930, depicts a fictional farmer and his daughter in front of their home, whose architectural style influenced the name of the painting.
What is American Gothic?
500
This contemporary graffiti artist from England goes by this pseudonym, as his real identity is still unknown.
Who is Banksy?
500
This medium is composed of colored pigments mixed with an acrylic polymer, and is brushed onto a surface by the artist.
What is acrylic paint?