Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
Primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action. (Hint: if an object shows action what is it doing?)
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness. (Hint: think about the name of the country we live in)
What is unity?
Red + Blue =
What is violet?
Any three dimensional (3-D) object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
The words smooth, rough and soft are examples this element of art.
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of art to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
The complimentary color of red.
What is green?
Lightness and darkness
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree. (hint: the object in the back of a picture is smaller and in the front objects are bigger)
What is proportion?
When a variety of elements work well together. (Hint: it's the same word when people sing together in different notes and sounds pretty)
What is harmony?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
Negative and positive
What is space?
Mixing two complimentary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
A feeling of stability in a piece of art. (Hint: both sides have equal "weight")
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat. (Hint: Again think about music.)
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?