Elements
A mark with length and direction that moves across a surface.
What is line?
The primary colors.
What are red, blue and yellow?
A way of combining the elements of art to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
Red + Blue =
What is purple/violet?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
The secondary colors
What are orange, green and purple/violet?
A work of art that is designed to catch and hold the viewer's attention.
Hint: focal point
What is emphasis?
A large difference between two things.
Hint: black and white
What is contrast?
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
Smoothness, roughness, softness.
What is texture?
Blue, blue-green, and green is an example of...
Colors that are next to eachother on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
The use of different elements of design (lines, shapes, textures, colors) to create visual interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
When an object is replicated over and over again in a work of art.
What is repetition?
The complimentary color of red.
What is green?
The lightness and darkness of a color.
Hint: light, medium, dark
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
Ex: red + orange = red-orange
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relative size of various elements in an artwork.
Hint: Scale = the size of an object
What is proportion?
Combining similar, related elements in an artwork.
What is harmony?
When you add black to a color you create this.
What is shade?
Negative and positive. Creates a sense of depth.
What is space?
Red, orange and yellow.
What are warm colors?
Creates a feeling of stability by using different shapes.
Hint: Different but equal on both sides.
What is asymmetrical balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to color you create this.
What is tint?