Elements of Art
Famous Artists
Color Meanings
Critiquing
Past Projects
100

An element that can be described by its hue, intensity, and value.

What is color?

100

This man painted Starry Night. 

Vincent van Gogh

100

The color that is typically used to represent war, violence, love, or anger. 

What is red? 

100

The basic aspects, pieces, or building blocks of a work of art that are used in formal critique. 

What are the elements of art?

100

The medium we used to color your grid snack artworks. 

What is tempera paint? 

200

An element of art that can be either actual, simulated, or invented.

What is texture? 

200

A man who had a very popular show in the 80's that taught people how to paint. 

Bob Ross

200

The color green. 

What is the color that is used to represent nature, greed, and envy? 

200

A place you can go to see fine art. 

What is a gallery or a museum? 

200

This type of artist creates logos and designs for companies.

What is a graphic designer?

300

The lightness or darkness of tones or colors.

What is value?

300

The best known artist from the Pop Art movement. 

Andy Warhol

300

This color scheme makes a viewer feel calm and peaceful. 

What is a cool color scheme? 

300

Artwork that uses the elements and principles to convey its intended message. 

What is successful artwork? 

300

This art media was used to create a dragon eye sculpture in class.

What is air dry clay or model magic? 

400

An identifiable path created by a point moving in space

What is line?

400

An artist who used chalk to create graffiti art in the New York subway and is known for his simplistic and childlike drawings of people, often in a primary color scheme.

Who is Keith Haring? 

400

This color scheme includes the colors orange, green, and violet. 

What is the secondary color scheme? 

400

A written paragraph, or more, displayed along with artwork, written by the artist

What is an artist statement? 

400

An artwork that shows one picture when viewed from the left and a different picture when viewed from the right.

What is an agamograph?

500

The canvas of a painter implicitly defines one aspect of this element in their work. 

What is shape? 

500

People created these in the 1970's and 80's and then photocopied them as a way to get out messages easily. More recently, artists have created these folded books made from one sheet of paper.

What is a zine?

500

Colors that when mixed create a neutral mud hue. 

What are complementary colors? 

500

When viewing an artwork, a person's eye is continually drawn to this.

What is focal point?

500

Art technique that often involves creating large scale 3D lettering and bold designs. 

What is graffiti art?