Elements of Art
Color Theory
Art Terminology
It's all in your perspective.
Principles of Design
Architectural Terms
100
An element of art, a moving point.
What is line?
100
The color of an object under flat white light.
What is local color?
100
An image made of small colored glass or stones.
What is a mosaic?
100
The School of Athens by Raphael is a masterful example of this kind of linear perspective.
What is 1 point or single point?
100
The element of difference within an artwork.
What is variety?
100
Stonehenge features this type of architectural construction.
What is post and lintel?
200
It can be positive or negative.
What is space?
200
Similar in appearance and next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
200
This Japanese work is an example of this kind of print making.
What is wood block printing?
200
A single edge of a volume is closest to the viewer, and all planes appear to recede to one of two vanishing points.
What is two point perspective?
200
The Binocular entrance to the Chiat building is an example of this design principle.
What is emphasis?
200
The architectural term that describes this image.
What is a hypostyle hall?
300
Rapid, sketchy marks that mimic the movement of the human eye when examining a subject.
What are gesture lines?
300
Opposites on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
300
Many thin, parallel lines create the illusion of a light gray tone; parallel lines layered on top of each other create darker gray tones.
What is cross-hatching?
300
The point at which all orthagonal lines recede in linear perspective.
What is the vanishing point?
300
The figures in this work represent this principle of design.
What is repetition or pattern?
300
A wedge shaped stone.
What is a voussoir?
400
Tone is another word for this.
What is Value?
400
It refers to mixing color pigments to control the light that is reflected from them.
What is the subtractive color system?
400
This marks the edges of a 3-D object with varying line thickness and with some internal detail
What is contour?
400
This man discovered or "re-discovered" linear perspective around 1415.
Who is Brunelleschi?
400
Heiratic scale, where more important figures are larger than less important ones, is an example of this design principle.
What is proportion and scale?
400
A straight row of arches placed side by side.
What is an arcade?
500
It can be actual or implied.
What is texture or line?
500
Renaissance Italians used this term to describe light-dark gradations.
What is chiaroscuro?
500
The actual material substance used to make a work of art.
What is a medium?
500
This work by Davis is an example of this kind of perspective.
What is three point perpsective?
500
A type of balance, this is present when the visual weight is distributed evenly.
What is symmetrical balance?
500
Barrel, groin, ribbed or gothic.
What are types of vaults?
800
Organic or biomorphic.
What are irregular shapes?
800
When white is added to a hue.
What is a tint?
800
In this work, Hirst referenced this popular convention in Dutch Baroque painting that symbolized the fleeting nature of life.
What is a vanitas image?
800
A three-dimensional object is rendered with the front and back parallel. The side planes are drawn at a forty-five-degree angle from the front plane.
What is oblique perspective?
800
This Islamic mandala represents this type of visual balance.
What is radial balance?
800
An architectural feature used to support external walls.
What is a buttress?
1000
This wire child's toy from Africa has a lot of this, but not much mass.
What is volume or form?
1000
When black is added to a hue.
What is a shade?
1000
Pencil, charcoal, pastel and silver point.
What are dry media?
1000
The imagined or real line that divides the earth from the sky.
What is the horizon line?
1000
The careful distribution of uneven elements.
What is asymetrical balance?
1000
In the scope of human history, this relatively new building material allowed for unprecedented height in architecture.
What is reinforced concrete?