COLOR
What is a Color Wheel?
visual representation of purest colors, arranged according to wavelength.
What is a Tint? Give an example.
A hue with the addition of WHITE
RED + WHITE = PINK
What is a Contour Line?
A line that follows the contour (outline) of an object.
What is color?
spectrum of light broken down when hitting a surface and reflected into the eye
Where did Keith Haring start his art career?
The subways of New York City.
What are the primary colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
What is a SHADE? Give an example.
A hue with the addition of BLACK.
BLUE + BLACK = NAVY BLUE
What is Implied Line?
Lines that are not physically drawn, but SUGGESTED by how objects "line up" in the artwork.
What is the difference between SHAPE and FORM?
SHAPE is usually 2-dimensional and
FORM is 3-dimensional (whether implied or real)
What materials did he use for his first artworks?
White Chalk on Black Paper panels in the subway.
What are Secondary Colors?
Colors created by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors together.
They are Orange, Purple and Green
What is TONE?
A hue with the addition of GREY.
What are Gesture Lines?
expressive, loose, sketchy lines that capture the essence rather than the exact form.
What is Value?
The amount of lightness or darkness of tone in an image.
What influenced the art of Keith Haring?
What are Tertiary Colors? Give one example...
Colors resulting from the combination of a primary and a secondary color
RED Orange / RED Purple
YELLOW Orange / YELLOW Green
BLUE Purple / BLUE Green
What is a HUE?
The purest colors. They are represented on the color wheel.
The use of a variety of different lines in a work of art. (different widths, lengths, textures, thicknesses etc....)
What is SPACE? Explain Positive and Negative space.
The distance between shapes and objects.
Positive space is the space taken up by a subject/object.
Negative space is the space outside of a subject/object.
What did Keith Haring use line to convey in his art?
Energy and movement. The lines moving outward from and between the bodies seem to represent the impact of sound (music).
What are Analogous colors? Give an example of 3 colors.
Colors that are beside each other on the color wheel.
Blue / Blue Green / Green
What is SATURATION (OR CHROMA / OR INTENSITY)?
The brightness or dullness of a color.
High saturation means a very pure color with no black, grey or white added.
Low saturation means a color that has a lot of black, grey or white added.
Why is LINE such an important part of an artwork?
It is the beginning to most pieces of art.
It is often used to create the other elements. (shape, texture, form, value)
What is Texture?
How the eye perceives the surface quality of an artwork, whether real or implied.
Rough, smooth, Prickly, Soft etc...
What famous structure did he famously paint a mural on?
The Berlin Wall.