Elements
Principles
Techniques & Tools
Vocabulary
Art Evaluation
100
This is the path of a moving point through space.
What is a line?
100
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 critique?

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 fast drying paint medium in which pigment has permanent and block out qualities.

What is acrylic?

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 describe?

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 analyze?

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

What are the 4 shading techniques?

What is Hatching, Cross- Hatching, Stippling and Blending?

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 interpret?

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

Scale used to achieve light, dark and mid- tones?

What is a Value Scale?

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.

What is judge?

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