Colors
The Elements of Art
Space and Art
Types of Art
Color Schemes
100
This secondary color is made by mixing yellow and blue.
What is green?
100
Adding white to a color is called this.
What is a tint?
100
The area that appears farthest away from the viewer in an artwork.
What is the background?
100
A painting/drawing of an arrangement of objects. This artwork might show a table, fruit, or a bowl.
What is a still-life?
100
Red, blue, and yellow are apart of this color scheme.
What are primary colors?
200
Colors that give a calm and soothing impression (Green, Blue, & Violet)
What are cool colors?
200
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
200
The area that appears closest to the viewer in an artwork.
What is the foreground?
200

This type of artwork uses only lines, shapes, colors, and textures as the subject.

What is abstract art?

200
Purple, green, and orange are apart of this color scheme.
What are secondary colors?
300
A circle with showing the relationship between all of the colors of the rainbow.
What is a color wheel?
300
The basic outside line of an object is called this.
What is a contour line?
300

This point on the horizon is where things seem to disappear.

What is the vanishing point?

300

This type of artwork shows the land outside.

What is a landscape?

300
These colors are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. An example is blue-green.
What are tertiary/intermediate colors?
400
Black, white, gray, and brown are these types of colors.
What are neutral colors.
400
The way something feels or in an artwork, it gives you an idea of what it might feel like.
What is texture?
400
This line is where the sky meets the ground.
What is the horizon line?
400

This type of artwork shows the sea.

What is the seascape?

400
A group of colors found next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
500
Hue is another name for this.
What is color?
500
Shapes that are generally found in nature and are not geometric are called this.
What are organic shapes?
500
The technique that artists use to show distance and depth on a flat surface is called this.
What is perspective?
500

An artwork where the subject is a person, often focusing on the face or upper body.

What is a portrait?

500
Hues that are directly opposite one another on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
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