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100
This is a person who specializes in evaluating art.
What is an Art Critic?
100
These Colors (red, blue, yellow) cannot be created.
What are the Primary Colors?
100
In this step of Art Criticism, you indicate how did the artist use the elements of art.
What is Analyze?
100
When an artist uses and combines two or more mediums together in an Artwork.
What is Mixed Media?
100
This includes these 4 steps: Describe, Analyze, Interpret & Judgement.
What Feldman's Model for Art Criticism?
200
This style of cubism dissects the image and shows multiple points-of-view at once.
What is Analytic Cubism?
200
This term came about after a critic looked at one of Monet's paintings. He mocked the painting and said it wasn't a painting.
What is Impressionism?
200
This Element of Art has 3 properties: Hue, Intensity & Value.
What is Color?
200
To create this effect, first wet your paper with a large brush or sponge. Load a smaller brush with a lot of water and a little paint and watch the watercolors swim all over the page! Colors will bleed together, so don't plan on having much control with this technique.
What is wet-on-wet?
200
In this step of Art Criticism wants you indicate what you see (just the visual facts).
What is Describe?
300
In this step of art criticism you need to indicate what you think the artist was trying to say (There isn't necessarily a right or wrong answer! This can be your opinion.)
What is Interpret?
300
This is a mixture of color with white to increase the lightness.
What is Tint?
300
This Element of At can be changed by adding more or using less water when using Watercolor paint.
What is Value?
300
This watercolor painting was created by using this color scheme: using multiple values of a single color.
What is Monochromatic?
300
These are compositional tools that artists use to create artwork which include line, shape, texture, value, color, form, and space.
What are the Elements of Art?
400
Using this step of Art Criticism is more than "I like it" and "I hate it," it is your personal evaluation based on your understanding of the art. You "like it" but you explain why.
What is Judgment?
400
An artwork that is containing no recognizable figures or objects as the subject matter.
What is Non-Objective?
400
The use of Decorative types of this Element of Art is a characteristic of Synthetic Cubism.
What is Shape?
400
This medium uses a palette to mix colors with water.
What is Watercolor?
400
These 2 artist are well-known for creating Cubism.
Who are Picasso & Braque?
500
The name of the color scheme that shows 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What is Analogous Colors?
500
These are things you find, such as yarn, twigs, or coins to be used in your artwork (non-traditional art materials)
What are Found Objects?
500
This Element of Art can be created when using the Wed-on-Dry technique and by using different brushstrokes.
What is Texture?
500
You were required you to use these to create 3 separate artworks that told a story.
What is Cut-Out Shapes?
500
This artist, after he could no longer draw or paint easily with a pencil or brush, used scissors to cut out simple forms from brightly-colored paper. After cutting out his forms, he pinned them to the walls of his studio.
Who is Henri Matisse?