Elements 1
Refers to the area near, inside or within an artwork. It can be negative or positive and it can be busy or empty.
What is space?
Refers to space enclosed by a line and it is 2D.
What is shape?
This refers to the distribution of visual weight in a work of art. It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial.
What is balance?
when the artist directs the viewer's eye toward the most important areas first
What is emphasis?
Red, blue, and yellow are known as what type of color?
What are primary colors?
This element is a dot that went for a walk. It can communicate ideas and lead your eye through artworks.
What is line?
These are 3 examples of a geometric shape
What is circle, square, rectangle, or triangle?
This principle is created when you have both repetition and movement in a work of art.
What is pattern or rhythm?
Refers to an artwork looking like it all goes together and looks complete
What is unity?
green, orange, and purple are known as what type of color?
What are secondary colors?
Refers to the tactile surface of the artwork. Examples of which are scratchy, smooth or bumpy.
What is texture?
Unlike shape, this element has a third dimension of depth
What is form?
Using elements that are clearly opposites or very different and is often use to create emphasis in work.
What is contrast?
Uses the elements of art in planned repetitions to make the artwork more interesting.
What is pattern?
Name the three cool colors
What are violet, green, and blue?
When light bounces off something, certain parts of that light bounce of and create a hue, or this element.
What is Color?
These are all seven elements of art
What is line, color, shape, form, space, value, and texture?
If the viewers eye does not follow a path through an artwork, then the artwork lacks this principle of art
What is movement?
This is the principle that refers to finding the size of parts in relation to the other parts nearby?
What is Proportion?
Name the three warm colors
What are red, yellow, and orange?
list 3 types of lines
What is vertical, horizontal, diagonal, straight, thick, thin, curve, spiral, broken, zig zag, scallop
An example of this element is Maroon and Pink. It refers to the darkness or lightness of a color.
What is Value
Name the three types of balance
What is symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial?
These are guidelines to using the elements of art to make your work better?
What are the Principles of Art?
What does an analogous color scheme refer to?
What are colors next to each other on the color wheel?