LINE
What is a line?
A continuous mark made by a tool.
What is a shape?
A flat, two-dimensional area with height and width.
What does value mean in art?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What are the three primary colors listed in the traditional color wheel?
Yellow, blue and red
Where is Jean Michel Basquiat from?
New York
What are the five basic types of lines students practiced drawing?
horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, and zigzag.
What kind of shapes are even, regular, and can be named, such as squares and triangles?
Geometric shapes.
What is texture?
The way something feels or appears to feel if you cannot touch it.
What color do you get when you mix yellow and blue?
Green
Romare Bearden uses an art technique where different materials like paper, photos, and fabric are glued onto a flat surface to create a new whole. What is this technique called?
Collage
What kind of line is continuous and unbroken and shows the edges and ridges of an object? (Hint: Our shoe drawings)
A contour line (contour drawing).
What do we call irregular shapes that have no specific name?
Free-form shapes.
What is the difference between tactile texture and visual texture?
Tactile texture is how a surface really feels when touched; visual texture looks like it might feel a certain way.
What are warm colors? Name the three warm colors from the flipbook.
Colors associated with warmth; red, orange, and yellow.
When studying this artist you guys learned how to draw elevated stick figures doing different movements.
Keith Harring
Lines that feel peaceful and relaxing are called?
Calm lines
You are designing a cardboard city. Name two geometric shapes and explain how you could use them in a building.
Answers vary; for example, a rectangle for the building and a square for a window.
Name one shading technique from the flipbook that can create light and dark values.
Stippling, hatching, cross-hatching, or blending graphite.
What are complementary colors; where are they located on the color wheel?
They are opposite each other on the color wheel and stand out when placed side by side.
How much did Jean Michel Basquiat sell his record breaking painting for?
110.5 Million
Your city needs a building that feels energetic and full of movement. What kind of lines could you use, and why?
Active lines, such as diagonal, zigzag, or jagged lines, because they can suggest movement and energy.
The art of planning for buildings and bridges. Geometric and free-form shapes are used to design them.
Architecture
You remove one side of a piece of cardboard to expose its ridges. What is this called? Is this tactile or visual texture?
Corrugated. Tactile texture, because the exposed ridges are a real surface texture that can be felt.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
A color scheme using only tints and tones of one color.
What is the name of the famous piece Romare Bearden created about the neighborhood he lived in?
“The Block”