Elements of Art
a moving point that is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length
What is a line?
The three basic colors that can not be made by mixing colors.
What is Primary Colors?
Using only a single color or hue and its tints and shades.
What is monochromatic?
A visual tempo or beat-repeating elements and objects in a work of art
What is rhythm?
The art style of drawing or painting objects that are not alive and do not move
What is still life?
A flat enclosed area that is two-dimensional-artists use both geometric and organic
What is a shape?
Mixing 2 primary colors gives you this.
What are secondary colors?
Red, yellow and orange are what type of colors?
What are warm colors?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action-implied motion
What is movement?
The art style of drawing or painting yourself
What is portrait?
This describes the surface quality of an object. Artists use both actual and implied.
What is texture?
Colors made by mixing a primary and a secondary color. The other name for tertiary colors.
What is intermediate color?
Common name for color
What is hue?
A large difference between two things-rough and smooth or white and black
What is contrast?
This refers to the way light reflects off a surface. There are three properties-hue, intensity, and value
What is color?
This is referred to as the positive and negative area between, around, or within objects.
What is space?
Colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
Black, gray, brown and white
What are neutral colors?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team-the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
This describes the lightness or darkness of a surface
What is value?
These are three-dimensional and can be viewed from many angles. They also have volume and take up space.
What is form?
Colors that are directly opposite each other.
What are complementary colors?
When white light shines through a prism
What is the color spectrum?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention
What is emphasis?
Referring to the way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work-parts of equal visual weight
What is balance?