Art Vocabulary
The part of a landscape that appears closest to the viewer.
What is the foreground?
The element that refers to how things feel or look like they feel.
What is texture?
The three primary colors.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
This painting features a woman with a mysterious smile.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This colorful art style features bold, flat colors and fun shapes, often seen in comics and advertisements.
What is Pop Art?
The part of a landscape that appears furthest away.
What is the background?
The element that refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
The colors made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color.
What are tertiary colors?
This painting shows a swirling night sky with stars.
What is Starry Night?
This type of art involves making pictures by folding paper into different shapes, often seen in cranes and animals.
What is Origami?
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
The element that refers to the area around or within an artwork.
What is space?
The complementary color to blue.
What is orange?
This type of art is painted on buildings or walls in public places.
What is a mural/graffiti?
This colorful drawing tool is similar to a crayon but can be blended and smudged to create soft, smooth textures.
What is an Oil Pastel?
A light version of a color, created by adding white.
What is a tint?
The element that refers to a continuous mark made by a moving point.
What is line?
The term for colors that create a sense of calm, like blue and green.
What are cool colors?
This famous artwork shows a person screaming on a bridge.
What is The Scream?
This art form involves creating pictures by cutting out shapes and gluing them together on a background.
What is Collage?
A dark version of a color, created by adding black.
What is a shade?
The element that refers to the way an object appears in three dimensions.
What is form?
The term for colors that stand out against each other and create contrast.
What are complementary colors?
These small colorful tiles are used to create pictures in floors or walls.
What is a mosaic?
This type of art involves molding soft materials, such as clay, to create three-dimensional objects.
What is Sculpture?