Elements of Art
Color Theory
Famous Artworks
Famous Artists
Art Media
100
This art element is what we see when light reflects off an object, and affects mood and balance of an artwork.
What is color?
100
Red, Yellow and Blue make up these foundational "building blocks" of color:
What are primary colors?
100
This famous artwork, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889, was inspired by the artist's view from his window in Southern France:
What is The Starry Night?
100
This famous Post-Impressionist artist is well known for having cut off his own ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
This art medium, composed of clay and graphite, is used for drawing and shading.
What is pencil?
200
This art element is "a path made by a moving point."
What is line?
200
These types of colors (hint: Orange, Green and Violet) are created by mixing 2 primary colors together:
What are secondary colors?
200
This famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci has been described as the "most well known, visited, written, sung and talked about" artwork in the world, and depicts an Italian noblewoman.
What is The Mona Lisa?
200
This Spanish painter is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, and is most well know for his abstracted, Cubism paintings.
Who is Pablo Picassco?
200
This translucent art medium, which is composed of pigment and a water-soluble binder, is mixed with water and brushed onto paper.
What is watercolor paint?
300
This art element is a flat (2D), enclosed area.
What is shape?
300
The circular representation of colors arranged in a specific order. It is a visual tool used to understand color relationships and combinations
What is a color wheel?
300
This artwork, best known by Leonardo da Vinci's late-1490s mural painting, depicts Jesus Christ and his disciples.
What is Last Supper?
300
Often recreating packaging (like soup cans) and imagery from pop culture, this famous artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement.
Who is Andy Warhol?
300
This pliable art medium is pulled directly from the earth, and has to be superheated to reach its final form.
What is clay?
400
This art element represents the way something feels or appears to feel.
What is texture?
400
The colors in this type of color scheme can find themselves across from each other on the color wheel:
What are complementary colors?
400
This artwork, created by Edvard Munch in 1893, has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition.
What is The Scream?
400
This Spanish artist blended reality with fantasy in his works, called Surrealism. He is most famously known for his painting The Persistence of Memory, which features multiple melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
400
This messy drawing medium, made from compressed carbon, can reach intense black values.
What is charcoal?
500
This art element is the range of lightness to darkness in a work of art.
What is value?
500
What is the term for a color created by mixing a primary color with black?
What is shade?
500
This famous painting, created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665, is titled after the subject matter (a female) and her iconic piece of jewelry (an earring).
What is Girl with a Pearl Earring?
500
This contemporary graffiti artist from England goes by this pseudonym, as his real identity is still unknown.
Who is Banksy?
500
This medium is composed of colored pigments mixed with an acrylic polymer, and is brushed onto a surface by the artist.
What is acrylic paint?