Elements of Art
An element that can be described by its hue, intensity, and value.
What is color?
This man painted Starry Night.
Vincent van Gogh
The color that is typically used to represent war, violence, love, or anger.
What is red?
The basic aspects, pieces, or building blocks of a work of art that are used in formal critique.
What are the elements of art?
The medium we used to color your visual interpretations of your favorite song.
What are oil pastels?
An element of art that can be either actual, simulated, or invented.
What is texture?
A man who had a very popular show in the 80's that taught people how to paint.
Bob Ross
The color green.
What is the color that is used to represent nature, greed, and envy?
A place you can go to see fine art.
What is a gallery or a museum?
This type of art was the predominant style in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is an illuminated manuscript?
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors.
What is value?
The best known artist from the Pop Art movement.
Andy Warhol
This color scheme makes a viewer feel calm and peaceful.
What is a cool color scheme?
Artwork that successfully uses the elements and principles to convey its intended message.
What is successful artwork?
This object needed to be driven into your Nkisi Nkondi to activate its lucky powers.
What is a nail?
An identifiable path created by a point moving in space
What is line?
Artists who wrote and illustrated illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
This color scheme includes the colors orange, green, and violet.
What is the secondary color scheme?
This type of symbolism or metaphor can be achieved by placing a subject directly in the middle of a composition.
What is religious symbolism?
High School: This pigment was put onto your windchimes to give them their hues.
Middle School: This type of art was used to fill in the silhouette of an animal or symbol on a piece of cardboard.
High School: What is glaze?
Middle School: What is collage?
The canvas of a painter implicitly defines one aspect of this element in their work.
What is shape?
Who is Damien Hirst?
Colors that when mixed create a neutral mud hue.
What are complementary colors?
The place meaning or message can be found in a work of art. (Opt. hint)
What is contrast?
High School: The basic weaving stitch, over one under one.
Middle School: A centuries-old art in which a soft metal is worked with a rounded tool on the back side in order to create a raised design on the front.
High School: What is tabby stitch?
Middle School: What is metal tooling?