Elements of Art
This is an element that is three-dimensional.
What is form?
This is a difference between visual elements.
What is contrast?
This artist drew Igor Stravinsky.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This is the term for an artwork using only one color with all of its' tints and shades.
What is monochromatic?
The arrangement of elements within a piece of art.
What is a composition?
This is the element referring to the lightness or darkness of grays or colors.
What is value?
The repetition of elements in an artwork, such as lines, shapes, and colors.
These are Picasso's two famous painting periods.
What are the Blue Period and the Rose Period?
This is how you mix tertiary colors.
What is mixing a primary color with a secondary next to it?
This is the technique of gluing cut paper to a surface.
What is collage?
This term refers to the thinness or thickness of a line.
What is line weight?
The distribution of visual weight in an artwork.
What is balance?
This is a Colombian street muralist who worked with vibrant colors and shapes.
This is the term for when you add gray (white and black) to a color.
What is a tone?
This is a drawing where you don't lift your pencil off of the paper.
What is a continuous contour line drawing?
These are colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
A similarity of visual elements.
What is unity?
This artist started the Fauvist Movement, working with bright, expressive colors.
Who is Henri Matisse?
This is a color scheme using blues, violets, and greens.
What is a cool color scheme?
This side of the brain is visual rather than verbal.
What is the right side of the brain?
This is the open area between and around objects in a piece of art.
Negative space.
When one section of an artwork attracts more visual attention it is called this.
What is emphasis?
This artist famously worked in large gridded portraits, despite having face blindness.
Who is Chuck Close?
These are the three pairs of opposite colors on the color wheel.
What are Red+Green, Blue+Orange, and Violet+Yellow?
These are all 6 tertiary colors!
What are red-violet, red-orange, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?