Color Theory
The Primary Colors
What is Red, Blue and Yellow?
The painter of Starry Night.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged.
What is Line?
An object that is far away and closest to the horizon line is in this place.
What is the background?
This word describes a color that is mixed with white to make it lighter.
What is a tint?
These three colors are produced by mixing Primary Colors.
What are Green, Violet and Orange?
This painter was known for his paintings of food displays.
Who is Wayne Thiebaud?
These can be geometric, free form or organic.
What are shapes?
When art is flat it is called what?
What is 2D?
The object that is closest and the largest in scale in a picture is in this ground.
What is Foreground?
The color that is produced by mixing all of the Primary Colors.
What is Brown?
This cubist artist is known for his paintings of people with jumbled up faces.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This describes how something feels or looks like it feels.
What is texture?
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? (3D)
This balance is when the weight is the same on both sides.
What is symmetry?
Colors that are created by mixing a Primary Color with a neighboring Secondary Color.
What are Tertiary Colors?
This artist is known for his paintings of his Lily Pond.
Who is Monet?
This describes lights and darks.
What is Value?
Art that looks like real life.
What is realistic?
This describes when a design repeats itself over and over again.
What is Pattern?
When colors are across from each other on the color wheel they are called?
What are Complementary Colors?
This artist is known for being the father of Pop Art.
Who is Andy Warhol?
When there is depth in a work of art, usually created by overlapping objects.
What is Space?
Art that does not look like real life.
What is Abstract?
A sculpture is an example of this element