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100

marks moving in a space between two points whereby a viewer can visualize the stroke movement, direction, and intention based on how it is oriented.

What is Line?

100

refers to the weight of objects and their placement in relation to each other

What is Balance?

100

a stick which consists of pigment mixed with a mixture of non-drying oil and wax.

What are oil pastels?

100

Art in which there is no concrete object, but rather a series of events performed by the artist in front of an audience, possibly including music, sight gags, recitation, audio-visual presentations, or other elements.

What is Performance art?

100

Ms. Lacasse's Birthday month

What is May?

200

a two-dimensional design encased by lines to signify its height and width structure

What is Shape?

200

when contrast, placement, size, color, or other features are used to highlight one object, area, or other elements of the artwork.

What is emphasis?

200

A circular grid that represents the colors based on color theory. This grid clearly shows the relationships colors have with each other (complimentary, opposite, etc.)

What is the color wheel?

200

A painting style of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery and visions from dreams and fantasies often combining unrelated or unexpected objects in compositions .

What is surrealism?

200

Ms. Lacasse's dog's name

Who is Miles?

300

 an element consisting of hues, of which there are three properties: hue, chroma or intensity, and value

What is Color?

300

the overall cohesion of the work. You might achieve this through any kind of grouping of objects

What is Unity?

300

Heating pottery or sculpture in a kiln or open fire to bring the clay to maturity. The temperature needed to mature the clay varies with the type of body used. Also, heating glazed ware to the necessary point to cause the glaze to mature.

What is firing?

300

A style derived from commercial art forms and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from mass culture.

What is pop art?

300

Ms. Lacasse's favorite kind of Soda

What is Dr. Pepper?

400

refers to the perspective (distance between and around) and proportion (size) between objects and how their relationship with the foreground or background is perceived.

What is Space?

400

This might be similar colors, shapes, sizes of objects, etc. It’s about repetition and a relationship between elements. This creates a sense of connection between the objects, creating a sense of flow.

What is Harmony?

400

An area of closely spaced lines intersecting one another, used to create a sense of three-dimensionality on a flat surface, especially in drawing and printmaking.

What is cross hatching?

400

A painting technique in which the artist concentrates on the changing effects of light and color. Often this style can be characterized by its use of discontinuous brush strokes and heavy impasto.

What is impressionism?

400

What is Ms. Lacasse's favorite kind of art?

What is Pringmaking?

500

 refers to the areas of the work with a subject

What is Positive Space?

500

is a sense of the difference between elements of an artwork – the opposite of unity, or harmony.

What is Variety?

500

Ink rolling pin

What is a brayer?

500

A short lived painting style in early 20th century France, which featured bold, clashing, arbitrary colors - colors unrelated to the appearance of forms in the natural world. Henri Matisse was its best-known practitioner. The word ____ means “wild beast.”

What is fauvism?

500

Where did Ms. Lacasse come from before coming to EHCS?

Where is Orlando?