This principal can take your eye all around a work of art
What is movement?
100
Our bodies are representative of this idea, and if split in half are the same on both sides.
What is symmetrical?
100
Complimentary colors are located across from one another on the color wheel, and create this visual phenomenon when they are placed next to one another.
What is vibration of different light waves?
100
This Principle of Design comes from a serious fear of white space in an art work.
What is Horror Vacuui?
200
This looks very different in 2D and 3D works of art.
What is space?
200
Angular lines that are repeated in a composition may cause a viewer to feel this emotion
What is anxiety?
200
This form of composition has a strong center of interest and radiates outwards from a single point.
What is radial composition?
200
These are not colors, but are often thought of as colors, and are integral to color theory, both traditional and digital.
What is black, grey, and white?
200
Very strong contrast of black and white elements creates this Italian word...
What is chiaroscuro?
300
These can create a variety of surfaces in an artwork and relate to the way that it looks like it "feels"
What is texture?
300
This Principle of Design may refer to your subject matter, and identifies where you would like your viewer to focus.
What is the Center of Interest, or Emphasis?
300
One definition of composition
What are all the parts that make a whole?
300
If all the colors in an artwork are from the same hue, or color family, this is a term used to describe that work
What is monochromatic?
300
A figure-ground relationship denotes two kinds of space.
What are positive and negative space?
400
This element is found when things are either in--or out of-- proportion to one another.
What is scale?
400
There are three Principles of Design that relate to music, and they are all interrelated.
What are rhythm, movement, and harmony?
400
No matter how you arrange the parts that make your composition whole, you are looking for this Principle of Design to emerge.
What is Unity?
400
Any three colors that harmonize well with one another and that touch each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
400
This composition may use very different elements to create unity, and cannot be divided equally into parts.
What is an asymmetrical composition?
500
You can get in, go around, or be inside of this element of art.
What is volume?
500
If you have two separate textures and use a split-compliment color scheme in an artwork, you may find that you have created this Principle of Design using those elements.
What is contrast?
500
A planning tool for creating an original, balanced composition that will exhibit unity and be visually pleasing to the eye based on Holbien's sketch of a 15th century bar scene.
What is a thumbnail sketch?
500
Color can either make or break an artwork, a room, or an outfit. We refer to this idea if colors are arranged in a way that is pleasing.
What is color harmony?
500
Strong diagonals and a contrasting pattern of lyrical lines that are curly and relaxed, and that grow more so as they advance into the foreground in a composition, may signal to the viewer this emotional transition.
What is a transition from anxious to more lyrical, or relaxed?