Defines the outer edges of shapes with lines that vary in thickness and darkness.
What is Contour Line
100
Refers to the arrangement of visual elements to create stability in an artwork.
What is Balance?
100
Depicted and satirized popular culture such as mass-media symbols, comic strips, fast food, billboards, and brand-name products.
What is Pop Art?
100
Artworks that have no recognizable subject matter such as figures, flowers, buildings, etc.
What is Non-Objective?
200
A two-dimensional space that can be defined by edges.
What is a Shape
200
A line that combines an outline and the details of an object to give a greater sense of depth to the object
What is a Contour Line?
200
A balance arrangement in which the parts of a composition are organized so that one side duplicates or mirrors the other.
What is Symmetrical Balance
200
A twentieth-century art movement developed mainly by Picasso and Braque in which the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstract form, emphasizing geometric shapes
What is Cubism?
200
An arrangement of inanimate objects, most of the time done from direct observation
What is a Still Life?
300
shapes are irregular, such as those often found in nature. (ex: leaves, stones,
clouds)
What is Organic Shapes
300
Line Drawing done quickly to capture movement of the subject’s body
What is a Gesture Line
300
A principle of design referring to the arrangement of parts in an artwork to create a sense of motion to the viewer’s eye through the work.
What is Movement?
300
They were called Fauves, or “Wild Beasts”, because critics thought they used colors in a violent, uncontrolled way.
What is Fauvism?
300
In art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them
What is Appropriation?
400
Appears three-dimensional and encloses volume such as cube, sphere pyramid, or cylinder.
What is Form
400
Lines that send us a message about what the artist wants his or her work to make us feel.
What is Expressive Lines?
400
A principle of design in which one element, or a combination of elements, create more attention than anything else in a composition.
What is Emphasis?
400
A mid-nineteenth-century style in which artists turned to painting familiar scenes and events as they actually appeared in nature in the belief that subject matter should be shown true to life, without stylization.
What is Realism?
400
The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.
What is Public Domain?
500
A period and style in seventeenth-century European art in which painters, sculptors, and architects used dramatic movement, light, soaring spatial illusions, and ornate detail to encourage emotional involvement.
What is Value?
500
Lines that help us understand what we are seeing.
What is a Descriptive Line?
500
In the Image of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh the principle that is most evident in the sky.
What is Movement?
500
A twentieth-century style in which feelings and emotions are emphasized. Accident and chance are stressed rather than accurate representation of subject matter.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
500
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.