General Knowledge
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Balance
100

What is harmony?

This principle of art often evokes a feeling in the viewer.

100
Repeating an element of art (i.e., shapes, lines, or colours) to achieve decoration or ornamentation.
What is pattern?
100
The most prominent principle used in Zentangles or doodles.
What is variety or repetition?
100
The principle of design that is concerned with dominance.
What is emphasis?
100
This principle of design refers to the visual equalization of the elements in a work of art.
What is balance?
200

the ways that artists use the Elements of Art to create good Compositions (artwork)

What are the principles of design?

200
The design principle that uses some of the elements of art to produce the look of action or to cause the viewer’s eye to sweep over the art work in a certain manner.
What is Movement?
200
Picasso's blue or rose period emphasized which principle?
What is Unity/Harmony?
200
The development of a main idea or centre of interest. Also another way of saying emphasis.
What is focal point?
200
This number refers to the number of types of balance.
What is 3?
300

Placing opposite colours, lines, values, and or shapes within a composition creates this.

What is contrast?

300
A way of combining art elements so that the same elements are used over and over to achieve balance and harmony.
What is repetition?
300
In Starry Night, famed artist Vincent Van Gogh creates which principle using colour and line.
What is movement?
300
in Wassily Kandinsky’s, Composition VII, what was used to create emphasis in the composition?
What is a large black circle, surrounded by a a colored circle?
300
Balance where the art elements in a composition are balanced in a mirror-like fashion (it does not have to be exact but close).
What is symmetrical balance?
400
A design principle that can shows stability
What is balance?
400
The relationship in size of one component (part) of a work of art to another.
What is proportion?
400
The most prominent principle found in cubism.
What is repetition?
400
Isolation, drastic change in proportion, line, value or colour.
What are methods of creating emphasis?
400
Which form of balance shows an equal weight of shapes/objects in an image are harmoniously placed.
What is assymetrical balance?
500
Pattern, Repetition, and Movement are all methods of creating this within a composition.
What is rhythm?
500
Refers to a way of utilizing the art elements to produce the look and feel of rhythmic movement with a visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
500
Cezanne use of blues, yellows and greens in his painting, Mt. Victoria. By using related colours (remember blue and yellow make green), the piece appears to work as a whole this creating this principle of design.
What is unity/harmony?
500
In Francisco Goya’s, The Shootings of May Third 1801, what does the artist do to emphasis the man in the white shirt in the composition?
What is "the use of value/contrast to emphasize the area"?
500
A kind of balance where the elements branch or radiate out from a central point.
What is radial balance?
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