Elements
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A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is Line?
100
The three basic colors that can't be made by mixing any other colors. (Red, Blue, Yellow)
What are Primary Colors?
100
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action or motion.
What is Movement?
100
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is Emphasis?
100
Common name for a color.
What is a Hue?
200
An element of art that refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is Value?
200
Orange, Green, and Purple
What are Secondary Colors?
200
A visual tempo or beat.
What is Rhythm?
200
A feeling that all of the parts in the artwork are working as a whole, or as a team.
What is Unity?
200
The colors produced when white light shines through a prism, known as ROY G BIV.
What is a Color Spectrum?
300
A flat 2-D figure created when lines surround a space.
What is Shape?
300
Element of art produced when a wavelength of light strikes an object and reflects back to the eyes.
What is Color?
300
A large difference between two things- For example: rough and smooth, or white and black.
What is Contrast?
300
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors, and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is Variety?
300
Colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel, and when mixed together, they make a neutral color.
What is a Complementary Color?
400
The empty or open area between, around, above, below, and within objects.
What is Space?
400
Colors made by mixing a primary with a secondary color, also called intermediate colors.
What is Tertiary?
400
The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of visual stability and strength in a work of art.
What is Balance?
400
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number, or degree.
What is Proportion?
400
The complementary color of red.
What is green?
500
Refers to how an object feels or looks like it would feel- For example: the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.
What is Texture?
500
Black, gray, brown, and white.
What are Neutrals?
500
The combination of elements repeated in an arrangement. For example: AAAA, ABABA, SSDKJ
What is Pattern?
500
Two types of Shapes-
What is Geometric and Organic?
500
The circular chart used to show color relationships.
What is a Color Wheel?
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