Elements of Art
This element refers to the way something feels or looks like it would feel if touched.
What is Texture?
This principle shows differences in visual elements to create interest.
What is contrast?
These colors cannot be made by mixing other colors.
What are the primary colors?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
What is a tool you use to erase pencil marks.
What is an eraser?
This element is created when a line connects back to itself, forming an enclosed space.
What is shape?
This principle creates a sense of harmony by using similar elements throughout an artwork?
What is unity?
these colors are made by mixing two primary colors.
What are secondary colors?
Known for his starry skies and bold brushstrokes, he cut off part of his own ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
This painting technique uses water-based paint that is transparent.
What is watercolor?
This element of art is created by light and has three properties: hue, value, and intensity.
What is color?
This principle helps lead the viewer's, eye through the artwork.
What is movement?
A color plus white creates this type of color.
This artist is known for abstract shapes and the painting The Persistence of Memory, which features melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dali?
This tool is used to blend pencil or charcoal smoothly.
This element refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
This principle gives a sense of equal visual weight on both sides of an artwork.
What is balance?
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
This famous Mexican artist is known for her self-portraits and bold use of color and symbolism.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This technique involves shading form dark to light with smooth transitions.
What is gradual shading or blending?
This element is the path of a moving point and can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, or zigzag.
What is a line?
This principle is created by repeating elements like shapes, lines, or colors.
What is rhythm or pattern?
This term describes colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel and create strong contrast.
He co-funded Cubism and painted Guernica as a protest against war.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This technique uses tiny dots to create value or texture in a drawing.
What is stippling?