Elements & Principles Review
What element of art refers to the lightness or darkness of a color?
What is value?
What is the term for a light, preliminary sketch used to plan a drawing?
What is gesture drawing?
What do you call a painting technique where paint is applied thickly so brush or palette knife marks are visible?
What is impasto?
This printmaking tool is used to roll ink onto a printing plate.
What is a brayer?
This famous painter cut off part of his ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
What are the three Secondary Colors?
What are Orange, Green & Purple?
This type of shading uses parallel lines to create value.
What is hatching?
Mixing a color with white creates what kind of color?
What is a tint?
Linocut belongs to what major type of printmaking?
What is relief printing?
This artist is known for drip-painting by flinging paint onto canvases laid on the floor.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
The principle that creates a sense of visual harmony by repeating elements is called what?
What is pattern or repetition?
What drawing medium is made from a compressed carbon residue and creates rich, dark blacks?
What is charcoal?
In watercolor, what technique involves adding water to the paper before adding pigment?
What is wet-on-wet?
In printmaking, what is the term for a test print used to check ink coverage?
What is a proof?
This scientist invented the color wheel in 1666, after discovering light is composed of a spectrum of colors
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The path your eye follows through an artwork is called what principle?
What is movement?
When objects appear smaller as they move into the distance, this principle is being demonstrated.
What is perspective? (one-point, two-point)
Oil paint dries slower because it is made with oil compared to this water based paint?
What is tempera?
What is a gouge?
This mysterious street artist shredded their own artwork at a Sotheby's auction in 2018.
Who is Banksy?
What element of art refers to how something LOOKS like it would feel?
What is implied texture?
The shadow that is created onto the ground from an object, opposite the light source, is called what?
What is cast shadow?
What is the term for painting thin transparent layers of color over a dried layer to build depth? (similar to ceramics?)
What is glazing?
A limited edition print series is labeled with numbers like “5/20.” What does “20” represent?
What is the number of prints in the series?
This classic Renaissance painting has it's own mailbox at the Louvre in France and receives thousands of letters a year.