Art Elements/Principles of Design
Colors
Artists
Materials/Techniques
Color Mixing
100
This Art Element is a mark on a surface that describes a shape or outline. It can create texture and can be thick and thin. Some different types are: actual, implied, vertical, horizontal, diagonal and contour.
What is 'Line'?
100
Red, Yellow and Blue
What are Primary Colors?
100
She took up painting as a hobby when she was 75 years old. She completed 1600 paintings of rural American life.
Who is Grandma Moses?
100
This moist, sticky, muddy dirt is the most basic material used in ceramics.
What is clay?
100
Yellow + Blue
What is green?
200
This Element of Art refers to circles, squares, triangles and rectangles
What are Shapes?
200
Green, Orange, Violet
What are secondary colors?
200
This artist was mentally unstable and cut off part of his left ear after an argument.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
200
This is a type of artwork that involves a creative grouping of different textures, objects, and materials that are glued or attached to a backing.
What is collage?
200
Yellow + Red
What is orange?
300
This Element of Art changes a color to show the lightest tints and darkest shades.
What is value?
300
Changing a color by adding white.
What is a tint?
300
This artist painted while lying flat on their back after a terrible bus accident in Mexico city.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
300
These crayon-like sticks are formed by mixing pigments, gum and water?
What are pastels?
300
Red + Blue
What is purple?
400
This is a Design Principle that shows feeling of the visual equality in shape, form, value, color, etc. It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial.
What is 'Balance'?
400
Changing the color by adding black
What is shade?
400
This 20th Century American artist used a series of small dots to make his paintings look like a single frame in a comic strip?
Who is Roy Lichtenstein?
400
This form of art gives movement to the created pictures. Cartoons are one way artists use this art form?
What is animation?
400
Red + Black
What is a shade of red?
500
This is a Design Principle offers some change in value creating a visual discord in a composition. This design principle shows the difference between shapes and can be used as a background to bring objects out and forward in a design. It can also be used to create an area of emphasis.
What is contrast?
500
Colors opposite on the color wheel. These are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grey-scale color like white, black or brown.
What are complementary colors?
500
This Norwegian artist's most famous painting was entitled "The Scream"
Who is Edvard Munch?
500
In this artistic technique the artist paints on damp plaster or wets dry plaster before painting on it.
What is fresco?
500
Red + Green
What is brown?