Principles of Art
Elements of Design
Color Theory
Types of Art/Artists
Creating Art
100
A slow change from dark to light or from one color to another. Think GRADUAL.
What is gradation/gradient?
100
A mark made between two points. Can be straight, curved, thick, thin, etc.
What is line?
100
The three colors red, yellow, and blue are called this.
What are primary colors?
100
This famous pop artist created artwork that focused on famous actors/actresses and brands/logos. He liked to make prints of the same object/person in different colors.
Who is Andy Warhol?
100
The process of using pencil, pen, charcoal, chalk, etc. to create an artwork.
What is drawing?
200
How the viewer's eye looks at the artwork, the path the eye follows, includes MOTION.
What is movement?
200
How something feels or how it seems it feels.
What is texture?
200
The three colors orange, purple, and green are called this.
What are secondary colors?
200
This artist was known for created textured paintings full of movement and rhythm. He was also famous for cutting off his own ear and eating his own paint.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
200
Using a pointed tool and water to attach clay pieces together. (Two words!)
What are score and slip?
300
How an artwork shows a three-dimensional area.
What is space?
300
A closed line. Can be geometric or organic. They are FLAT, not 3D.
What is shape?
300
Mixing these two colors (across from each other on the color wheel) creates brown. The pairs of colors are red and green, blue and orange, and purple and yellow.
What are complementary colors?
300
A style of artwork that involves spray-painting on walls, adding paint or drawings to public spaces, often without permission, although it has been commissioned when done by famous artists.
What is graffiti/street art?
300
The process of using heated wax or glue to create a pattern/design onto fabric before dyeing/painting it and later washing out the wax/glue.
What is batik?
400
When an artwork shows a lot of difference and doesn't repeat the same design over and over again.
What is variety?
400
How light or dark something is - we learned about this term when we did any kind of shading.
What is value?
400
I can mix complementary colors to create this neutral color.
What is brown?
400
A type of artwork that shows a three-dimensional looking space by making everything recede (go back) towards one or two vanishing points. (Can be buildings and trees, or bubble letters with shadows)
What is one or two point perspective? (Will accept either)
400
Creating artwork that the viewer can recognize, but that was changed by the artist to look slightly unrealistic.
What is abstract art?
500
How big or small something is in comparison to another part of the artwork.
What is proportion/scale?
500
Three dimensional objects or objects that look three dimensional. Spheres, cylinders, boxes, and prisms are a few examples.
What is form?
500
I can mix this color into any color to create a darker VALUE.
What is black?
500
A famous surrealist artist known for creating works that fool the eye or that seem realistic except for one or two aspects. He is most known for his works "Son of Man", "Ceçi n'est pas une pipe", and "The Eye"
Who is René Magritte?
500
The process of drawing by looking at objects, rather than imagining something in your head. Can also be considered a science term.
What is observation or observational drawing?
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