Elements
Principles
African Art
Chapter 1
Media & Processes
100
The element of art that can be described as having depth, length and width.
What is Form?
100
What Principle of Art creates one or more centers of interest in a composition?
What is emphasis?
100
This people group creates a leaf mask to wear at the end of the dry season, before the rains begin.
What is Bwa?
100
An artist creates a work for _______________ when they decide to create the work for aesthetic purposes.
What is visual appeal?
100
Sculpture is an example of this type of process in art.
What is three dimensional?
200
The brightness and purity of a hue.
What is intensity?
200
The principle of art concerned with the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.
What is proportion?
200
The continent of Africa has nearly ____________ cultural groups.
What is 1000?
200
To communicate intelligently about a work of art, you must know and use accepted specific _______________ in order to understand, judge and defend those judgments.
What are criteria?
200
Pigment, binder and solvent.
What are the three components of paint?
300
The colors, values, textures, shapes, and space relationships which artists use to create their artworks are called the________of art.
What are the elements of art?
300
______________refers to a way of combining similar elements in an artwork to accent their similarities.
What is harmony?
300
A brilliantly colored and patterned fabric that became the royal cloth of the Asante.
What is kente cloth?
300
When art is used to convince people to adopt a certain point of view, it is considered a form of __________________.
What is propaganda?
300
A sculptural form that actually moves in space.
What is kinetic art?
400
Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
400
___________is the feeling that everything in the work of art works together and looks like it fits.
What is unity?
400
A full costume including a face covering, or mask.
What is masquerade?
400
In many cultures, art is used to depict ___________________.
What is moral behavior?
400
a melted-down metal or liquid substance is poured into a mold to harden.
What is casting?
500
A two dimensional area clearly set off by one or more of the other visual elements is referred to as ________.
What is shape?
500
______________________is a way of juxtaposing elements of art to stress the differences between them.
What is contrast?
500
Oral historians who are also musicians and performers.
What is griot?
500
The design or decoration of functional objects to make them pleasing to the eye is called the ____________________.
What is applied art?
500
Any free standing work surrounded on all sides by space.
What is sculpture in the round?
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