The Elements of Art
These colors (red, orange, yellow) convey the feeling of high temperature
Warm colors
The repetition of line and shape
Pattern
This artist is well known for painting the ceiling of the sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Outside his window from the asylum Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Van Gogh painted this iconic painting
Starry Night
A media made of burnt wood
Charcoal
An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of an object
Value
The implied motion in a work of art
Movement
This iconic female surrealist painter is famous for her unibrow.
Frida Kahlo
In 2015 a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonard Da Vinci portrait
Mona Lisa
A media used to create ceramics
Clay
A line that defines both the exterior and interior edge of a form (outline of an object).
Contour line
A large difference between two objects such as the difference between light and dark
Contrast
This artist is attributed with starting the Impressionist movement with his debut of Impression Sunrise
Claude Monet
This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a farmer and his wife
American Gothic
A media of slow drying pigment powder mixed with linseed oil
Oil paint
The space behind an object
Negative space
This principle provides stability and structure to a design based on the placement of your elements.
Balance
A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's moustache.
Salvador Dali
This famous ready-made sculpture of a urinal by Marcel Duchamp was part of a Dadaist exhibit.
The Fountain
A type of sculptural material made of gypsum, sand, and water that hardens as it dries.
Plaster
This element refers to tactile qualities. It can be actual or implied.
Texture
The spaces between repeating visual elements such as alternating, flowing, random, regular, and progressive.
Rhythm
This famous artist known for dripping paint all over his canvas was often nicknamed "Jack the Dripper"
Jackson Pollock
A restaurant on New York's Greenwich Ave inspired this 1942 Edward Hopper Painting
The Nighthawks
A type of opaque watercolor similar to tempera paint
Gouache