FAMOUS ARTISTS
COLOR KNOWLEDGE
ELEMENTS
PRINCIPLES
Misc
100
The artist of the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
Primary Colors
What is the color group that contains Red, Yellow and Blue?
100
These forms are similar to forms in nature and usually have curved or irregular edges.
What is an organic shape
100
The principle of art that repeats?
What is pattern
100
The name of the line that divides the sky from the ground
What is the horizon line
200
He painted a sky filled with swirling yellows and blues in the piece "Starry, Starry Night
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
200
Violet, Green, and Orange
What are secondary colors?
200
This element of art is used when you use a horizon line and make things that appear to get smaller to show distance.
What is Space?
200
This can be Asymmetrical, Symmetrical, or Radial
What is Balance?
200
An art work that shows a likeness of the person that created the art.
What is a self-portrait.
300
Got his inspiration from African art and masks then developed Cubism
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
Complementary Colors
What are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel?
300
The quality of a surface; how something feels
What is texture
300
This is the focal point of the art piece; the center of interest?
What is emphasis
300
An artwork that shows non-living things, such as books, candles, and so on.
What is a still life
400
famous because of her beautiful abstract pictures of flowers
Georgia O' Keefe
400
Neutral Colors
What are black, white, gray and some browns?
400
This the lightness and darkness of a color
What is value
400
This principle of art is used when an artist uses a dark color next to a light one, or a busy pattern next to a solid area to create a visual difference?
What is contrast
400
The use of more than one type of medium in an artwork [example: paint, paper, crayon, pastel, etc].
What is mixed media
500
He's most famous for his Campbell Soup Can paintings and his role in the Pop Art movement.
Andy Warhol
500
Monochromatic
What is the term used to describe a color group that only has shades and tints of one color?
500
The element of art is something that occupies 3-dimensional shape?
What is form
500
When an artist uses a color, shape or line throughout the picture or design to make it looks like things go together, it is called this
What is unity
500
This describes artwork where something is zoomed in and looks like lines, shapes and colors or not real.
What is abstract art