Vocabulary
Color Theory
Artists
100

What is value?

the degree of lightness and darkness of a shade

100

red, blue and yellow

What are the primary colors?

100

A Lao refugee artists known for making art inspired by his Hmong Heritage.

Who is Seexeng Lee?

200

Rules set by artists that make it easier to accurately depict the human form.

What is the canon of proportion?

200

orange, green and purple

What are the secondary colors?

200

A painter known for using the contemporary element appropriation to paint African American figures in traditional scenes.

Who is Kehinde Wiley?

300

A set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations pleasing to the eye and senses.

What is color theory?

300

an arrangement or combination of colors

What are color schemes?

300

A self taught artist known for symbolic paintings of her overcoming her personal tragedies.

Who is Frida Kahlo? 

400

A circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between colors ?

What is color wheel?

400

A color scheme that consist of various hues in this color group: red, orange and yellow

What is warm color scheme?

400

Name an artist who exaggerated or distorted the canon of proportions to create the human face/figure? 

Who is Modigliani, Hoch or Matisse?

500

An international art movement that that aim to depict the artist's visceral feelings; characterized by extreme angles, flattened forms and garish colors.


What is Expressionism?

500

This color scheme consist of colors opposite on the color wheel-red/green, blue/orange, purple/yellow

What is complementary color scheme?

500

Name an artist who uses the canon of proportion to create realistic human faces/figures? 

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci, Kehinde Wiley, Vincent Van Gogh, or Sargent?

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