This is the repetition or reoccurrence of a design element, exact or varied, which establishes a visual beat.
What is pattern?
100
Material used to make art.
What is medium?
100
This term refers to the tactile qualities of a surface (actual way it feels) or to the visual representation of such surface qualities (implied way it appears to feel).
What is texture?
100
This is an organized approach for studying a work of art.
What is art criticism?
200
This is an enclosed area that is two-dimensional.
What is shape?
200
This is the impression of equilibrium in a pictorial or sculptural composition. It is often referred to as symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial.
What is balance?
200
A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with drying agents, such as linseed oil. It reached Italy in the 1420s and quickly replaced tempera as the primary painting medium because of its range of tonality and flexibility.
What is oil paint?
200
This is the area between and around objects. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, negative and/or positive.
What is space?
200
In the first step of writing a critique, you introduce the work of art and give a visual narrative of what the art work looks like.
What is description?
300
They have three properties – hue, value, and intensity.
What are colors?
300
This term refers to the created center of interest, the place in an artwork where your eye first lands.
What is emphasis?
300
This is a painting tool, object with hair-like bristles on a handle, bristles can be soft, porous, and natural (like sable) or manufactured for watercolor paints or the bristles can be stiff and manufactured for oil paints.
What is a brush?
300
Repeated shapes, lines, or colors create this. It can be flowing, regular, alternating, progressive or random.
What is rhythm?
300
In the second step of writing a critique, you discuss how the artist used the principles of design to organize the elements in the art work.
What is analysis?
400
This has depth, length, and width and resides in space. It is perceived as three-dimensional.
What is form?
400
This is achieved when the components of a work of art are perceived as harmonious, giving the work a sense of completion.
What is unity?
400
This drawing media has color and a waxy texture.
What is a crayon?
400
Red, yellow and blue, from these all other colors are created.
What are the primary colors?
400
In the third step of writing a critique, you explain what message the artist is trying to communicate to the viewer.
What is interpretation?
500
This term refers to relative lightness and darkness and is perceived in terms of varying levels of contrast.
What is value?
500
This term refers to the size relationship of parts to a whole and to one another. Scale refers to relating size to a constant, such as a human body.
What is proportion?
500
This is a scale of squares that are used to enlarge an image for drawing or painting.
What is a grid?
500
Colors that are created by the mixture of two primary colors, i.e. red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green, blue and red make violet, etc.
What are the secondary colors?
500
In the last step of writing a critique, you decide whether or not you think the art work is successful or not.