Elements of Art
Properties of Color
Shape/Form
Principles of Design
Art Media and Techniques
100
The path of a dot through space.
What is line?
100
A color's name.
What is hue?
100
A square shape that has form.
What is cube?
100
A principle of art concerned with arranging the elements so that no one part of the work overpowers, or seems heavier than the other part.
What is balance?
100
A material used to create a work of art.
What is a medium?
200
An area clearly set off by one or more of the other five elements of art.
What is shape?
200
The lightness or darkness of a hue.
What is value?
200
A triangle shape that has form.
What is a cone or pyramid?
200
Combining one or more elements of art to create interest?
What is variety?
200
Moving a drawing medium quickly and freely over a surface to capture the form and actions of a subject.
What is gesture drawing?
300
An element of art that refers to an object with three dimensions.
What is form?
300
Red, yellow, and blue.
What are primary colors?
300
A circle shape that has form.
What is a cylinder or sphere?
300
Principle of art that leads the viewer to sense action in a work of art.
What is movement?
300
A finely ground powder that gives paint its color.
What is pigment?
400
The distance or area between, around, above, below, and within things.
What is space?
400
Orange, violet, and green.
What are secondary colors?
400
Shapes that are found in nature.
What is organic or free-form shapes?
400
Making an element or an object in a work stand out.
What is emphasis?
400
A visual representation of a person at rest.
What is a portrait?
500
How things feel, or look as though they might feel if touched.
What is texture?
500
Red and green, orange and blue, yellow and violet
What are complementary colors?
500
Precise, mathematical shapes.
What are geometric shapes?
500
Combing the elements of art to accent their similarities.
What is harmony?
500
Transferring an image from an inked surface to create a work of art.
What is printing or printmaking?
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