Elements of Art
The path of a moving point through space
What is a line?
A work of art that has nonmoving objects as the subject
What is a still life?
An expanse of scenery
What is a landscape?
A work of art depicting a person
What is a portrait?
The most important addition to watercolor paints
What is water?
Objects having three dimensions including length, width, and depth
What is form?
This artwork shows symbols of life and death
What is vanitas?
This artist was a child prodigy and got into art school on his talent.
Who is JMW Turner?
This artist painted Praying Hands
Who is Albrecht Durer?
In this technique, the artist paints the paper with water and then adds paint to the wet paper.
What is wet-on-wet?
This is what our eyes see when light is either reflected or absorbed by an object
What is color?
This artist painted still lifes with extreme detail, usually relating to women's interests.
Who is Audrey Flack?
This artist went to art school after dropping out of law school because he hated it
Who is Paul Cezanne?
The average adult person is this many head lengths tall
What is 6-8?
In this technique, watercolor repels from drawn image
What is a crayon/wax resist?
There are 2 types of texture. One you can feel through touch. The other you see with your eyes on a surface.
What is real (or actual) texture and implies texture?
This artist painted distorted angular planes with different perspectives on the canvas.
Who is Georges Braque?
What is background, middle ground, and foreground?
This artist lost her son in WWI and showed death in most of her artwork
Who is Kathe Kollwitz?
This technique works well to create a snowy effect
What is salt?
The emptiness of an area between, above, below, or within objects
What is space?
These are the 4 types of creating value.
What is hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, and blending?
This artist has several landscape paintings in a university collection
Who is my favorite teacher, Mrs. Rogers?
This artist had facial blindness and suffered a spinal artery collapse and became wheelchair bound
Who is Chuck Close?
This technique delivers the best results when trying to achieve a realistic outcome.
What is layering?