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A line that divides sky from land
What is Horizon Line?
100
Repeated line, shape or colors
What is pattern?
100
The color scheme that uses one color in a piece of artwork. The prefix means one.
What is Monochromatic?
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Painting of a person
What is a portrait?
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An artist that can make many copies of their art by using a printing technique
What is a Printmaker?
100
A shape that is natural, and is usually made with a curvy line
What is an Organic or Free form Shape?
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This is another word for the artist's material(s)
What is medium or media(pl)
200
This means Togetherness in art. All the elements of art work well together.
What is Unity?
200
A Color scheme that uses colors that are across from each other on the color wheel. 
What are complementary colors?
200
The three parts to a picture that show depth
What is foreground, middleground, and background?
200
This Artist is the designer of homes and other buildings.
What is an Architect?
200
A shape that can be measured and has it's own name. For example...square, circle, triangle
What is a Geometric Shape?
300
What is the predominant element of art used in this artwork?
What is Line?
300
This principle of art is usually associated with music but can be found in art work when the art elements are repeated in a consistent way.
What is rhythm?
300
A color scheme that uses three colors are located next to each other on the color wheel. An example is Yellow, Yellow-Green and Green
What are analogous colors?
300
This is a short phrase that means perspective. It how you look at something.
What is point of view?
300
An artist that plans, forms and works on something before it is made.
What is a designer?
300
How the surface of an object feels or looks like it feels
What is texture?
400
When one part of an object covers another part in art work to help create depth
What is Overlapping?
400
The focal point is the main idea of the artwork. It is made to STAND OUT more than any other part of the picture.
What is emphasis?
400
When an artist adds black to a color to make it darker
What is a shade?
400
These are ways that an artist creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface. Here is an example
What is overlapping, size or placement?
400
When you make a color lighter by adding white
What is a tint?
400
Symmetry, Assymetry and Radial are all examples of this principal of art
What is Balance?
500
The composition is the word for the whole piece of artwork. What are the 2 kinds of space that are found in the whole composition?
What is positive and negative space?
500
Comparing size relationships when doing a drawing. When you look at the size of one object and compare it to another object in the artwork.
What is proportion?
500
A set of complementary colors.
What are Red and Green or Blue and Orange or Yellow and Violet?
500
A painting of objects that were arranged by the artist
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What is a still life?
500
Here is an example of this type of painting...
What is a Portrait?
500
Here is an example of this type of painting
What is a Landscape?