Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
Secondary Colors
What are orange, green and violet?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
The artist that created the gridding method.
Who is Chuck Close?
A famous Mexican female artist who created many Surrealism self-portrait and portraits.
Who is Frida Khalo?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
A common name for color.
What is hue?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
Freedom to ignore the conventions or rules that normally govern the art in which he or she works.
What is creative/artistic license?
The reason why the movement is called "Surreal." (What is it?)
What was because surrealists were interested in ideas and images that were above or beyond real?
Can be applied or physical in a work 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 design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
A painting technique where you place paint on top of a wet surface to make the colors bleed.
What is "wet-on-wet" technique?
This Spanish Surrealist artist painted 'The Persistence of Memory'
Who is Salvadore Dali?
Helps to create perspective through techniques like overlapping.
What is space?
All tints, tones, and shades of one color creates this.
What is a monochromatic color scale?
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
What is the method for critiquing artwork?
What is Feldman's Method of Art Critique?
The decade that surrealism began. (Give or take 10 years.)
What is 1920?
Hatching and stippling help to create this.
What is value?
Brown, grey, black and white.
What are nuetral colors?
A feeling of stability with different shapes.
What is asymmetrical balance?
Placing objects close to each other, or overlapped, for impact.
What is juxtaposition?
A Belgian surrealist artist best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday imagery.
Who is Rene Magritte?