Elements of Art
This element of art is the path made by a moving point. It can be straight, curved, thick, or thin.
What is line?
This drawing technique uses lines to show the outlines and edges of an object.
What is contour drawing?
In traditional painting, these three colors are considered primary colors.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
This famous typeface, created in Switzerland in 1957, was the subject of a documentary we watched in class.
What is Helvetica?
This famous graphic designer created movie posters and opening title sequences for Hollywood films, often using bold shapes and simple images.
Who is Saul Bass?
This element of art describes how light or dark a color or area appears.
What is Value?
This drawing technique uses light and dark values to make an object appear three-dimensional.
What is shading?
When you add WHITE to a color, you create this lighter version of the original color.
What is a tint?
This term describes the small decorative strokes found at the ends of letters in typefaces like Times New Roman.
What are serifs?
A heart representing love or a dove representing peace are examples of these images that communicate ideas beyond their literal meaning.
What are symbols?
This element of art describes how a surface feels or appears to feel, such as rough, smooth, or bumpy.
What is texture?
This technique uses repeated parallel lines to create shading, texture, or darker values.
What is hatching?
When you add BLACK to a color, you create this darker version of the original color.
What is a shade?
Helvetica belongs to this family of typefaces, which do not have decorative strokes at the ends of letters.
What is sans serifs?
Besides movie posters and title sequences, Saul Bass was also famous for designing these recognizable symbols for companies and brands.
What are logos?
Unlike a flat shape, this element of art has height, width, and depth.
What is form?
This shading technique uses layers of intersecting lines to create darker values and textures.
What is cross-hatching?
When you add GRAY to a color, you create this more muted version of the original color.
What is a tone?
This term refers to the art and technique of arranging letters and text to make language visually appealing and readable.
What is typography?
We watched the opening credits of this television series about the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Its opening was inspired by the graphic design style of Saul Bass.
What is Feud: Bette and Joan?
An artist draws a baby shoe so that some areas appear closer and others farther away. This element of art helps create the illusion of depth and distance.
What is Space?
When drawing the baby shoe, artists compare the size of the sole, laces, and other parts to ensure their relationships are accurate. This artistic concept describes those size relationships.
What is proportion? / What are proportions?
These colors are located directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green or blue and orange.
What are complementary colors?
This classic serif typeface, commonly used in books, newspapers, and school essays, was originally designed for a British newspaper in 1931.
What is Times New Roman?
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford starred together in this 1962 psychological thriller about two sisters, one a former child star.
What is "What is What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"?