Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Color Theory
Color Theory II
General Vocabulary
100

A mark made by a moving tool. Examples include: Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal

What is a line?

100

It happens when an Element is repeated.

What is Repetition or pattern?



100
Red, Blue, and Yellow

What are Primary Colors?

100

Red + Blue?

What is Purple?

100

This time period was known for Lords, Ladies, and many other things-including illuminated manuscripts..

What is Medieval?

200
Circles, squares, rhombus, rectangle, triangles, etc.

What is a shape?

200

Art work has this when both sides have equal visual weight.

What is Balance?

200

If you mix equal amounts of 2 primary colors you get secondary colors of....

Orange, Purple, Green

200

3-4 colors that are side by side on the color wheel 

What is analogous?

200

Which artist used primary colors, vertical, and horizontal lines to create his art?

Picasso, Mondrian, or Kandinsky

Who is Mondrian?

300

How light or dark a color is

What is Value?

300

This happens when you have differences in the elements of art such as light and dark, straight and curvy.

What is Contrast?

300

Tertiary colors are when you mix together a primary with a secondary color...One example would be red orange, what is another example?

Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Red-Violet, Blue-Violet

300

Blue + Yellow....

What is Green?

300

Which artist used all the colors and a variety of lines to create his abstract art? Hint: He had synesthesia.

Picasso, Mondrian, or Kandinsky

Who is Kandinsky?

400

The way something feels or looks like it feels.

What is texture

400

The part of the artwork that stands out or catches the eye.

What is Emphasis?

400

Two colors opposite on the color wheel.

What are complementary colors?

400

Yellow + Red?

What is Orange?

400

Art that is not realistic, but uses lines, shapes, and colors to create interesting design.

What is abstract art?

500

The reflected light that the eye sees. A few types of this Element are "warm," "cool," or "primary"...

What is color?

500

When all parts of an artwork has the feeling they belong together.

What is Unity?

500

Yellow, Orange, and Red

What are warm colors?

500
Blue, Green, and Purple...

What are cool colors?

500

This culture's architecture includes features such as domes, arches, minarets...and interior design features such as tiles with geometric patterns....

Islamic 

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