Art Basics
These colors are red, blue, and yellow.
What are the primary colors?
This describes when an object is placed over another object to create space or depth in an artwork.
What is overlapping?
He painted "Starry Night"
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
Art that looks like real life.
What is Realism?
Something that has length, width, and depth (thickness). It pops out at you and is not flat. You can see it from many sides or angles.
What is 3-D?
These three colors are made from the primary colors.
What are orange, green and purple? (secondary colors)
This balance is when the weight is the same on both sides.
What is symmetry?
This artist could paint classically but experimented with many different art forms, including: cubism and surrealism. Often times when he created a portrait, the eyes and noses would be placed in silly places and abstracted.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This is the kind of art where you can cut and paste things together to make a new image.
What is a collage?
A symbol for a company, product or service is this.
What is a logo?
These can be geometric, free form or organic.
What are shapes?
This describes when something repeats itself over and over again.
What is repetition or a pattern?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Artwork showing an outdoor scene.
What is a landscape?
An object that is far away and closest to the horizon line is in this place.
What is the background?
This describes how something feels.
What is texture?
This type of balance is uneven.
What is asymmetry?
This artist painted for 30 years and never made a curved line. His paintings often featured brightly colored squares and rectangles.
Who is Piet Mondrian?
This style of art does not attempt to represent reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
What is abstract art?
An artwork made from small pieces of colored glass, stone, paper, or other materials.
What is a mosaic?
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged.
What is a line?
This line goes side to side.
What is a horizontal line?
This French artist is famous for his collages of bright colors and free form shapes.
Who is Henri Matisse?
A work of art of the artist, by the artist.
What is a self-portrait?
This word describes a color that is mixed with white to make it lighter.
What is a tint?