Elements/ Principles of Art
Materials/Process
Color
Art Appreciation
100

A principle of art described as radial, symmetrical, and asymmetrical.

What is balance?

100

Another term for the word material (what the artist works with)

What is supply, media, or medium?

100

This is the lightness or darkness of a hue often used to show highlights and shadows of an object.

 

What is value?

100

A work of art that is painted as it looks.

What is realism or realistic?

200

An element of art where the artist repeats a series of colors, lines, shapes or symbols to depict a type of rhythm in a composition.

What is a pattern?

200

The clay stage in which the clay is completely dry, lighter in color, and is ready to be bisque fired

What is bone dry?

200

This is the group of  3 colors on the color wheel that make up all of the other colors within the wheel.

What the primary colors?

200

The simple outline of an object by the use of line.

What is a contour line?

300

The element of art that can be described as geometric or organic.

What is a shape?

300

This painting medium is translucent and uses techniques such as floating, wet-on-wet, and salt for texture.

What is watercolor?

300

These colors are made only by mixing 2 neighboring primary colors.

What are the secondary colors?

300

The technique that Chuck close used to duplicated and enlarge an image to a larger canvas.

What is a grid?

400

Another word for a focal point in a work of art. 

What is the emphasis?

400

A category of clay that includes the stages of plastic through bone dry. 

What is greenware?

400

A group of 3- 5 colors on the color wheel that are next to each other on the color wheel. Using these groups of colors often developed a visual mood in a work of art.

What are analogous or tertiary colors?

400

A term used when an artist works with more than one material in a work of art; whether it be a painting, drawing, or sculpture.

What is mixed media?

500

A principle of art demonstrated when everything in a composition feels and looks like it belongs together.

What is unity?

500

The arrangement of an artwork based on the thoughtful organization of the elements and principles of art.

What is composition?

500

These color pairs are not only across from each other on the color wheel but they can also be mixed to make a brown neutral color. 

What are the complementary colors?

500

Art created for the purpose of practical use as well as visual design.

What is functional art?