Color
Themes
Style
The Visual Elements
Principles of Design
100
These colors are red, yellow, and blue.
What are primary colors?
100
This theme involves images for meditation and places for public worship.
What is the religious theme?
100
This style of painting perfectly portrays the natural world.
What is representational art?
100
You might simply create this with a pencil on paper, but they can also imply movement and direction.
What is a line?
100
This principle helps the work have "oneness".
What is unity?
200
These colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel, like violet and yellow.
What are complementary colors?
200
This theme might depict images like men working at a gas station, or surfers waiting for a wave.
What is the here and now?
200
This drawing style involves layering parallel lines to create a modeling effect.
What is crosshatching?
200
These can be organic or geometric.
What is a shape?
200
If a piece has the exact same composition on each side of a central axis, then it has this type of balance.
What is symmetrical?
300
These are the three secondary colors.
What is orange, violet, and green?
300
This theme might include a tomb built for a pharaoh, or a painting of a citizens' revolt.
What is the political realm?
300
This style incorporates images that have no basis on reality.
What is nonrepresentational or nonobjective art?
300
When using linear perspective all diagonals should met at this.
What is the vanishing point?
300
If the artist specifically emphasizes a certain point, then the work has one of these.
What is a focal point?
400
This is what you get when you mix a primary and an adjacent secondary color together.
What is a tertiary color?
400
In the religious realm, this refers to the prohibition or destruction of figurative images.
What is iconoclasm?
400
The French word for this kind of image is so realistic you might momentarily mistake it as reality.
What is a trompe l'oeil?
400
A sculpture that incorporates movement is called this.
What is kinetic?
400
If the artist has portrayed a king or queen on a larger scale than everyone else, then they are using this design principle.
What is hierarchical scale?
500
The theory of optical color mixture was used by Seurat who painted with this technique.
What is pointillism?
500
Hieronymos Bosch definitely created works in this realm.
What is invention and fantasy?
500
The Egyptians developed a style for creating images that has become standardized, so that it can be easily repeated without further observation.
What is stylized?
500
This type of perspective uses diagonals, but they never meet.
What is isometric?
500
If a bisected rectangle uses the ratio of 1:1.618, then the artist has utilized this most pleasing proportion.
What is a golden rectangle?
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