Color Terms
Red, Yellow, and Blue are known as these.
Primary Colors
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is dominated by a night sky roiling with chromatic blue swirls, a glowing yellow crescent moon, and stars rendered as radiating orbs.
Starry Night
An element of art defined by a point moving in space. It may be two-or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract.
Line
A fiber from the cocoon of a silkworm.
Silk
An art technique of assembling different pieces of art into one cohesive art piece.
Collage
Orange, Purple, and Green are known as these.
Secondary Colors
An oil painting by Italian artist, inventor, and writer Leonardo da Vinci. Likely completed in 1506, the piece features a portrait of a seated woman set against an imaginary landscape.
Mona Lisa
An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width.
Shape
A finely ground powdered pigment mixed with some type of binder.
Pastels
A freehand drawing representing what the artist is seeing, but not necessarily the finished work.
Sketch
This is the degree or lightness or darkness in a color.
Value
A fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted between 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.
The Creation of Adam
An element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume; includes height, width AND depth (as in a cube, a sphere, a pyramid, or a cylinder). It may also be free flowing.
Form
This is very similar to pastels, but instead of grinding the rock into a fine powder, it is left in its natural state.
Chalk
This refers to the placement of visual elements in a painting or work of art. It also denotes the organization of people, vignettes, and lighting.
Composition
The traditional color name given to a specific wavelength of light in the light spectrum.
Hue
Depicts a woman dressed in colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana and a man holding a pitchfork.
American Gothic
An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art.
Space
A fiber from shearing sheep, llamas, or yak and woven into clothing that retains its warmth even when wet.
Wool
A print of text or pictures from an etched stone or metal plate and is based on the principle that oil and water do not mix.
Lithography
The prevailing effect of harmony of color and values.
Tone
A yoko-e (landscape-oriented) woodblock print created by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai during the Edo period. It is the first piece in Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, a series of ukiyo-e prints showing Japan's tallest peak from different perspectives.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value; black is the darkest.
Value
A combination of a binder and color, mixed to form a liquid drying as a solid.
Paint
Crafted by creating images using small pieces of colored tile, stone, or glass.
Mosaic