There are three types of this principle that create different levels of formality, informality, or organization. The three main types are:
Symmetrical/formal, asymmetrical/informal, or radial.
What is balance?
100
The area between and around objects in a work of art.
What is space?
100
An arrangement of the colors of the spectrum on a circle, showing the relationships between colors by their position on the circle.
What is a color wheel?
100
A technique which creates the illusion of depth in two dimensional art work.
What is perspective?
100
The line between sky and sea, midground and background, and establishes the viewer's eye level.
What is the horizon line?
200
The principle that creates visual interest through differences and can create chaos if there is too much in a work of art.
What is variety?
200
The way an object feels, or looks as if it would feel, if it were three dimensional.
What is texture?
200
The name for the grouping of three colors which cannot be created by mixing other colors together.
What is the primary triad?
200
A drawing and painting technique in which objects loose detail the farther from the viewer they appear to be.
What is atmospheric perspective?
200
The point (or point) in a two dimensional work, where parallel lines appear to converge. (come together)
What is the vanishing point?
300
The principle that makes all the parts of a work of art look as if they belong together, and creates the feeling that the work is finished,
What is unity?
300
How the eye of the viewer percieves light waves as they are reflected from a surface.
What is color?
300
This group of three colors are created by mixing the primary colors to create another triad.
What is the secondary triad?
300
A perspective technique where the objects closer to the viewer cover objects farther away in the picture plane.
What is overlapping?
300
A method of rendering a specific object or figure, at an acute angle, in a picture, in depth.
What is forshortening or perspective?
400
This principle of art creates the area of focus and tells the viewer what the artist thinks is the most important part of the art work.
What is dominance?
400
A two-dimensional area defined by any of the elements of art. It has length and width.
What is shape?
400
One primary and one secondary color are mixed to create each of these colors.
What are intermediate or tertiary colors?
400
A type of perpective in which there is only one vanishing point.
What is one-point perspective?
400
The eye level of the viewer.
What is the viewing point?
500
Balance, variety, contrast, emphasis, dominance, subordination, rhythm, movement, harmony/unity are all parts of this category and are used to organize the elements of art.
What are the principles of art?
500
An object that occupies, or appears to occupy space. It has length, width, and height.
What is form?
500
A specific pallette or group of colors from which the artist has chosen.
What is a color scheme?
500
A type of perpective in which there is more than one vanishing point.
What is multiple point perspective?
500
The imaginary plane upon which two dimensional art is created.