Elements
Principles
Techniques
Styles
Important people
100
A point set in motion; the path of a point moving through space
What is Line?
100
The position, layering, and shading of forms to create the illusion of a three dimensional space.
What is Perspective?
100
The (current) most common technique, you're doing it right now.
What is Drawing?
100
A style attempting to mimic photographs, typically with the subject in sharp focus.
"works that aimed to produce a kind of super realism..." (2025-26 art packet)
What is photorealism?
100
The creator of the most famous painting ever, also an inventor, theorist, engineer, scientist, etc. He did a lot.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
200
Shapes or values arranged to imitate a third dimension.
What is form?
200
When multiple elements (colors, forms, etc.) within a piece come together to create a cohesive whole.
What is Harmony/Unity?
200
Use of a matrix to transfer ink between surfaces (1.5x for naming one of the four types)
What is Printmaking?
Relief Printing, Intaglio printing, lithography, and screen printing.
200
A style emphasizing emotion over reason, typically using the natural world as a subject
what is romanticism?
200
Main founder of impressionism, famous for his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
Who was Claude Monet?
300
The lightness or darkness of an image, point or line. Most noticeable in the form of gradients.
What is Value?
300
Repeated use of a motif or pattern within a piece to create a path for the eye to follow.
What is Rhythm?
300
Technique involving dipping a stick into a solution and spreading it onto a board. I'm intentionally explaining it badly, don't overthink it.
What is painting?
300
A style that emphasized the scientific properties of color, typically depicting dreamlike imagery
What is impressionism?
300
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, known for his strange self portraits and co-founding the cubist movement.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
400
The distance within, around, and between objects in an art piece.
What is space? (Also accepting: positive space/negative space)
400
The amount, size, number, or other relationship of elements to a whole work and to one another
What is Proportion?
400
A set of subtractive or additive processes to create a three dimensional artwork. Once again, don't overthink it.
What is sculpting?
400
Organized as a result of dissatisfaction and disillusionment due to WW1, this style typically sees life as having little or no meaning.
What is Dada?
400
A post impressionist painter, famous for creating a painting of the stars on a castle and cutting off his own ear.
Who was Vincent Van Gogh?
500
The result of light bouncing off of an object and contacting cones in our eyes. Must also name one of the different 'schemes' and types.
What is Color?
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary; Monochromatic, Dichromatic, Achromatic, Warm/Cool, Analagous, the list goes on.
500
Distribution of Visual Weight within an artwork. Must include one of the three types
What is Balance?
Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Balance, Radial Balance.
500
The use of other art pieces to create a cohesive larger art piece. Most frequently includes photographs, prints, and similar.
What is collage?
500
Arising from the invention of acrylic paint and airbrushing, this style uses precise outlines and seeks to reduce art to its barest essentials
What is minimalism?
500
He was an Austrian symbolist painter, incorporated gold leif in their paintings.
Who was Gustav Klimt?