The Elements of Art
Color
General Art Knowledge
General Art Knowledge 2
The Principles of Art
General Art Knowledge 3
100
The mark or path of a moving point.
What is a line?
100
Red, yellow, and blue.
What are the primary colors?
100
When one object partially covers another.
What is overlapping?
100
Artwork created through the use of computer technology.
What is digital art?
100
An artist can create this by equalizing the visual weight in an artwork.
What is balance?
100
The art process of making multiple copies from a single image.
What is printmaking?
200
How smooth or rough a surface feels or looks like.
What is texture?
200
Green, orange, and purple(violet).
What are the secondary colors?
200
Construction methods for hand building with clay.
What are pinch, coil, and slab?
200
The oven-like piece of equipment used to fire clay.
What is a kiln?
200
This is created by repeating design elements like line, color, texture, and shape in a planned way.
What is pattern?
200
How the elements are arranged in an artwork.
What is composition?
300
One way to create the illusion of this is to use linear perspective.
What is space?
300
The main colors that you select for your artwork.
What is a color scheme?
300
The artist's choice of materials.
What is media?
300
When an artist uses the power of independent thought or constructive imagination they are being this.
What is original?
300
A sense of oneness or wholeness.
What is unity?
300
Using skill, knowledge, neatness, and effort.
What is craftsmanship?
400
3-D forms that are carved, constructed, or modeled.
What are sculptures?
400
Opposites on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
400
Doing this to clay before using it helps remove air pockets.
What is wedging?
400
Artwork created with natural or synthetic materials.
What is fiber art?
400
This is created by arranging the elements to suggest motion or action.
What is movement?
400
The part of the picture plane that appears closest to you.
What is the foreground?
500
A circle, square, triangle, and pentagon are considered to be this type of shape.
What is geometric?
500
Red, orange, and yellow.
What are the warm colors?
500
The process of an image being captured and recorded by light.
What is photography?
500
Your own imagination, your own photograph, or your own observation.
What is a primary source?
500
This is created by repeating elements to move the eye through an artwork.
What is rhythm?
500
A drawing style that focuses on the edges of the object without looking at the paper.
What is blind contour?
600
A chart used by artists to compare lights and darks in a design.
What is a value scale?
600
A color scheme that uses only one color with its tints, tones, and shades.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
600
A basic guide to help you decide where to place your focal point in a design.
What is the rule of thirds?
600
Opaque.
What are art materials that you cannot see through?
600
a line in a perspective drawing that separates sky from earth.
What is a horizon line?
600
This is made when an artist creates differences to help areas stand out more.
What is contrast?
700
This refers to size relationships.
What is proportion?
800
This is created by bringing greater attention to a particular part of your design.
What is emphasis?