Elements of Art
The distance between two objects; in paintings or photographs this is often an illusion made by the artist
space
This tool artists use that contains all the colors in a circle.
color wheel
What is painting or photograph of forests, oceans, mountains, fields, or cities called?
Landscape
What are the three primary colors?
Red, yellow, and blue
An object that is far away and closest to the horizon line is in this place.
What is the background.
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged.
What is a line.
What is a collage?
Collage is from the French meaning "paste up". The combination of pieces of cloth, magazines and other found objects to create artwork
What is picture or drawing of a person OTHER than the artist.
portrait
What are the secondary colors?
Green, orange, and purple (violet)
This type of shape is flat, having only width and length.
What is two-dimensional (2-D).
These can be geometric (3D), free form, or organic.
What are shapes.
Two or more shapes, colors, or objects that repeat.
pattern
A _______ is a drawing or painting of YOU (the artist)?
a self portrait
What is a tint?
A color mixed with WHITE to make a color lighter.
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 three-dimensional (3-D)
This describes how something feels: fuzzy, soft, hard, slimy, rough
texture.
When a shape or object is placed in front of another to make it look like it is closer.
Overlapping
What does the term "medium" or "media" mean in art class?
Materials used to create an artwork: paint, color pencils, clay, crayons, etcetera.
What is a shade?
A color mixed with BLACK to make it darker.
Art that looks like real life.
What is realistic.
This describes the range of light colors and dark colors in an image or artwork.
What is value.
This technique uses a pencil or charcoal to make value in a picture; the artist holds this tool and adds more pressure to make dark values and less pressure to make lighter values.
shading
A 3-D work of art that stands on its own in space; in can be made of stone, wood, brick, metal, clay, plastic, etc.
What are the neutral colors?
White, brown, and black. These do not have any single color, but usually a mix that makes them dull.
These colors are split on the color wheel and divided by temperature?