Elements of Art
This fundamental element is defined by a point moving in space. It's often the starting point of art.
What is line?
This principle refers to the visual arrangement of elements with a repetitive form or intelligible sequence.
What is pattern?
A line that runs across paper or canvas to represent one's eye level or represent where sky meets ground. Usually about a third of the way up or down on the paper.
What is horizon line?
The colors, red, blue, and yellow, that cannot be created by mixing other colors.
What are primary colors?
This element defines how light or dark a color or hue can be. Usually represented by a scale.
What is value?
A closed line that is flat an expresses length and width.
What is shape?
It's concerned with the visual distribution or weight of the elements in a work of art.
What is balance?
A work of art that consists of an arrangement of inanimate objects set up and drawn or painted.
What is a still life?
Also called spectral color, this is the traditional color name given to a specific wavelength of light. What you know as red, green, blue, pink, etc.
What is hue?
There are many types of this principle including texture, interval, color, detail, and shape.
What is contrast?
A shape, but it expresses depth in addition to length and width. Three dimensional.
What is form?
A way of using elements to stress a certain area in an artwork or to describe a focal point.
What is emphasis?
What is abstract art?
Also known as chroma, this is one of the three properties of color. It refers to a hue's intensity and vividness.
What is saturation?
This geometric pattern consists of line, shape, and often colored to create different designs.
What is mandala?
A reflection of light that consists of three properties: hue, intensity, and value.
What is color?
This principle can be conveyed by using bold and directional hand movements in artwork.
What is movement?
What is gesture sketch?
These are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel. When mixed, these colors lose hue and cancel each other out by producing a gray color.
What are complementary colors?
Art that has portions of blank space alongside portions of detail is known as this.
What is detail contrast?
The surface quality that can be seen and felt .
What is texture?
The relationship between the sizes of different parts in an artwork.
What is proportion?
This is the point at which parallel lines appear to converge.
What is vanishing point?
Groups of three colors that have similarities and close relation to each other on the color wheel. (Example: yellow, yellow-green, and green).
What are analogous colors?
The type of art that has only one vanishing point on the horizon line.