Elements of Art
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
Primary Colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
This movement emerged in the UK and USA during the mid-to-late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane mass-produced object. Well-known artists of this movement are Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
What is Pop Art?
This Post-Impressionist Dutch painter is best known for creating The Starry Night, an oil on canvas painting depicting the sky view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence just before sunrise. This painting is located at The Museum of Modern Art.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
A flat, geometric object, enclosed area or space of artwork created through lines, textures, or colors and intended to create interest in user interfaces.
What is Shape?
A Principle of Design that can be defined as a 'difference between two or more elements in a composition'. The more difference between the two elements, the greater and easier they are to compare and comprehend.
What is Contrast?
Red + Blue =
What is Violet?
This Art Movement developed in Europe after WW1 and largely influenced by Dada. Best known for its visual artworks and writings, and the juxtaposition of distant realities to activate the unconscious mind through imagery. Famous artists include Salvador Dali, André Breton, Max Ernst, and René Magritte.
What is Surrealism?
This American artist based mainly in America's Southwest is best known for her enlarged flower paintings and is recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
This element deals with the lightness and darkness of a color.
What is Value?
The distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space.
What is Balance?
When you add white to a hue you create this.
What is Tint?
This art movement began in France in the 1860s when a group of young and talented artists including Claude Monet, Egar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Auguste Renoir decided to rebel against the established art critics, called the Salon in France, and form a new style of painting all their own. They wanted to capture a moment in time and often painted outdoors and worked quickly to capture light before it changed. They used rapid brush strokes and often used unmixed color to save time.
What is Impressionism?
English based street artist and political activist. Active since the 1990s his satirical, political and social commentary art combines dark humor with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.
Who is Banksy?
The roughness or smoothness of a surface in a design element in a work of art.
What is Texture?
A principle of design that suggests movement or action. Achieved through repetition of lines, shapes, colors, and more. It creates visual tempo in artworks and provides a path for the viewer's eye to follow.
What is Rhythm?
Intermediate Colors
What is the name of colors between Primary and Secondary colors?
An early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, with a new representation of reality invented by artists like Pablo Picasso and George Braque.
What is Cubism?
This Japanese contemporary artist works primarily in sculpture and installation but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, Pop Art, and abstract expressionism. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.
Who is Yayoi Kusama?
Any three-dimensional object that can be measured by height, width, and depth.
What is form?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is Unity?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is Shade?
Originating from New York City's graffiti boom in the 1960s this unofficial, independent, guerilla style visual art is created in public locations for public visibility.
What is Street Art?
This High Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and poet was born in Florence Italy in 1475. He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art. His contemporaries called him 'il Divino', the divine one, because they thought his workmanship superior to mere mortals. Famous works include David (1501-04), and The Creation of Adam (1508-12) painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome.
Who is Michaelangelo?