Line and Shape
This is a path of a moving point.
What is a line?
This refers to the relative degree of
lightness or darkness of a surface or color.
What is value?
This type of texture is related to the real materials used to create the work.
What is actual texture?
This is the basic act of organzing elements of art.
What is designing?
What is composing?
Ink is an example of this type of drawing medium.
What is a fluid medium?
These are lines that are physically present in a work of art.
What are actual lines?
What are outlines?
This color scheme uses only one color.
What is monochromatic?
This texture is the illusion of real texture.
What is visual texture?
This principle shows oneness or togetherness.
What is unity?
This type of paint is made using eggs.
What is tempera paint?
These types of lines are created by perception, and are not so obvious in the work.
What are implied lines?
What are contour lines?
This color family is created by mixing a primary color with a secondary color.
What is tertiary?
This is a version of visual texture that makes no reference to visible reality.
What is invented texture?
This principle refers to the area of an artwork that dominates attention or draws interest.
What is emphasis?
This material is suspended in a binder to create paint.
What is pigment?
These are dense patterns of criss-crossed lines in an artwork.
What is cross-hatching?
This is color as it appears on the color wheel,
based on the eye’s sensitivity to specific parts of the visible spectrum.
What is a hue?
These are textures that may be used to surprise us, or undermine our expectations.
What is subversive texture?
This principle refers to the distribution of weight in a composition.
What is balance?
This type of art is assembled inside the gallery that will show the work.
What is an installation?
This is a kind of line that suggests a conceptual connection—an invisible linear path—between or among elements or characters in a composition.
What is a psychological line?
This term describes the brightness or dullness of a color. (Hint: there are two answers to this question)
What is intensity?
What is saturation?
This is the most common painting technique that created actual texture.
What is impasto?
This principle suggests movement or action.
What is repetition?
This type of art is usually a part of the landscape and cannot be moved.
What is site-specific art?