Elements of Art
Elements of Art
Artists and Artworks
Art Styles & Concepts
Color Theory
100

A dot that went for a walk. 

Line

100

The outline of an object is its ________. 

Shape

100

The painting American Gothic by Grant Wood has this type of balance 

Symmetrical Balance

100

What type of artwork involves cutting and glueing things together to create something new? 

Collage

100

___________ + ___________ = Purple

Red + Blue

200

The way light reflects off of the surface of an object is its _______. 

Color

200

The actual or perceived qualities of the surface of an object

Texture

200

This painting by Van Gogh utilizes line and complementary colors Blue and Orange to create an engaging composition. 

Starry Night

200

Which artist was a United States Navy veteran? 

Bob Ross

200

What is the complement of Yellow?

Purple

300

The lightness or darkness of a color

Value

300

The space an object takes up in three dimensions

Form

300

This painting titled Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich utilizes which element to influence the viewer's eye? 

Line

300

What is the system we used for creating landscape/indoor compositions that look real? 

One Point Perspective

300

These colors can be mixed to create every color, but they cannot be created by mixing other colors together. What are they called and which colors are they? 

Primary colors - Red, Blue, Yellow

400

______ + _______ = Form 

Which elements of art go in the blank spaces?

Shape and Value 
400
These allow artists to test the capabilities of their materials by going from dark to light value

Value Scale

400
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali has something in the painting that is a pop culture reference, and can make the painting easily identifiable. What is it? 

A melted clock

400

Who were the two artists we learned about in the collage unit? 

Romare Bearden and Lance Letscher

400

___________ + ___________ = Secondary color

Primary color + Primary color

500
This element of art refers to the arrangement of a composition and how an artist uses the paper, but it can also refer to what is perceived when the viewer looks at the artwork. 

Space

500

These elements can be BOTH positive or negative

Line & Space

500
This artist was one of the first collage artists ever. 

Romare Bearden 

500

This can influence how an artwork is perceived, the path of the viewer's eye, and the overall impact of an artwork. It is a part of every single type of artwork since the dawn of time, and will continue to be forever. 

Composition

500

___________ + __________ = tertiary colors

primary colors + secondary colors

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