Color
The primary colors.
What is Red, Blue, Yellow?
Cubism
What is artworks that appear fragmented, distorted, or abstracted into shapes?
A famous painting made by Grant Wood with a farmer and his wife.
What is American Gothic?
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors.
What is Value?
A principle of design used to create the look and feeling of action and to guide the viewer’s eye throughout the work of art.
What is Movement?
The secondary colors.
What is Green, Orange, Purple?
Pop Art
What is artwork that bright colors, bold black lines, comics and well known media icons?
A painting of a giant wave made by artist Hokusai.
What is The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
An element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.
What is Texture?
A way of combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art.
What is Balance?
Complimentary color example.
What is yellow/violet, blue/orange, red/green, yellow-orange/blue-purple, orange-red/blue-green, red-purple/green-yellow?
The era when artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
What is surrealism?
A man and apple painting.
What is The Son of Man?
An element of art that connects two points and can be described as implied or contour.
What is Line?
A strong difference between different parts of the artwork
What is Contrast?
The colors that can not be made by mixing together any other color.
What are primary colors?
Medieval Art
What is art that includes sculptures, manuscripts, and paintings that were very religious in nature?
What is Girl With a Pearl Earring?
An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art.
What is Space?
Connects all other principles within a piece of work, allowing each individual element to coexist with one another to form an aesthetically pleasing design.
What is Unity?
Analogous colors
What is groups of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel?
The technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
What is pointillism?
This artist made a world famous painting with 13 men eating supper.
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
An element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume; includes height, width AND depth.
What is Form?
A principle of design that indicates movement, created by the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art to cause a visual tempo or beat.
What is Rhythm?