Color
Shape/Form
Art Vocabulary
Art Elements & Medium
Art Then&Now
100
Red, Yellow and Blue
What are the Primary Colors?
100

A 3-dimensional circle. 

What is a sphere? 

100
This can be zig-zag, straight, wavy, curly, curvy, thick or thin.
What is a line?
100

This is a repetition of specific visual elements

What is a pattern?

100
The person who creates the art for a book.
Who is an illustrator?
200
Green, Purple, and Orange
What are the secondary colors?
200

This shape is a 3D square. 

What is a cube? 

200
An art work that the artist makes of themselves is called what?
What is a self-portrait?
200
This type of paint uses water in order to paint the color.
What is watercolor paint?
200

This artist is known for her abstract paintings that include small patches or mosaic like tiles of color in concentric circles or vertical lines. 

Who is Alma Thomas? 

300
Yellow + Blue =
What is green?
300
This shape has 4 sides. 2 sides are long and 2 sides are short.
What is a rectangle?
300

 Art which does not represent images of our everyday world. It has colour, line, and form and is not intended to represent objects or living things, but perhaps an idea. 

What is abstract art? 

300

An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of an object.

What is value? 

300

Mexican artists Hugo Crosthwaite and Lourdes Villagomez are artists of the present day and therefore their work is considered to be this. 

What is contemporary? 

400
Yellow + Red =
What is orange?
400

A work of art is the same on one side as the other, a mirror image of itself. 

What is a symmetry? 

400
An artwork that has land in it.
What is a landscape?
400

This medium is used in ceramics.  It can be fired, baked, or left to air dry. 

What is clay? 

400

The Roxbury based artist, Rob "Problak" Gibbs, is known for this type of art - and has recently completed a 3rd one in his series Breath Life at Madison Park High School. 

What is a mural? 

500

Colors that are opposite of eachother on the color wheel, for example: blue and orange. 

What are complementary colors? 

500
This shape has six equal sides.
What is a hexagon?
500
The part of the picture that looks farthest away.
What is the background?.
500

This element refers to tactile qualities (how the surface of an object feels).  It can be actual or implied.

What is a texture? 

500

The objects in the foreground of a picture will appear ____ and _______ when compared with the objects in the background. 

What is larger and darker?

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