Elements of Art
Materials
Principles of Design
Artists
Mystery
100

Red, blue, and yellow are known as these colors because they cannot be made by mixing other colors together.

What are primary colors?

100

After shaping clay, artists place it in this special oven to heat it until it becomes permanent.

What is a kiln?


100

This principle of design shows the path your eyes follow through an artwork, often created with lines, shapes, or repeating elements.

What is movement?

100

This painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows a woman with a mysterious smile and is one of the most famous artworks in the world.


What is the Mona Lisa?

100

The large Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture, created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, can be found in this Minnesota art museum’s sculpture garden.


What is the Walker Art Center?

200

How many Elements of art are there?

5

200

This Japanese art form uses folding paper to create animals, flowers, and other designs without cutting or gluing.

What is origami?

200

How many Principles of design are there?

7

200

This famous artist, known for Cubism, also spent time creating colorful and playful ceramic pieces later in his life.

Who is Pablo Picasso? 

200

One of the easiest ways for an artist to show space.  

What is overlap?

300

This is an example of: 

What is a geometric shape?

300

Artists use this book to practice drawing, plan ideas, and experiment before creating a final artwork.

What is a sketchbook?  


300

This principle of design happens when all the parts of an artwork work together to create a complete, harmonious composition.

What is unity?

300

Besides American Gothic, this artist painted landscapes of rolling hills, farms, and small towns in the American Midwest.

Who is Grant Wood? 

300

This type of artwork is a picture that an artist creates of themselves.

What is a self-portrait?

400

Real texture is how something actually feels when you touch it, while this type of texture only looks like it has texture in a drawing or painting.


What is implied texture?


400

This art form focuses on beautiful, decorative handwriting and often uses special pens or brushes to create letters.

What is calligraphy?

400

This principle of design is when one part of an artwork stands out the most and draws your attention first.

What is emphasis?

400

This television painter, famous for his “happy little trees,” hosted The Joy of Painting and encouraged artists by saying, “We don’t make mistakes, just happy accidents.”

Who is Bob Ross?

400

This type of artwork shows natural scenery like hills, trees, rivers, and fields, instead of focusing on people or buildings.

What is a landscape?

500

The area between and around objects; positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art.

Space

500

This term describes clay that has been shaped and dried but has not yet been fired in the kiln.

What is greenware?

500

This principle of design involves using slight differences in elements like color, shape, size, or texture to make an artwork more interesting.

What is variation?

500

Many artists have painted this famous Paris landmark, which was built in 1889 for the World’s Fair.

What is the Eiffel Tower?

500

This is a liquid mixture of clay and water that artists use to join pieces of clay together.  

What is slip?