Elements
A mark that can vary in direction, thickness, or color.
What is line?
What is shape?
Subtractive primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
What is balance?
Similar elements that visually hold the composition together.
What is unity?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Created with linear perspective.
What is space?
Secondary colors
What is made by mixing primary colors?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
Visual tempo or beat
What is rhythm?
simulated or actual qualities of a surface
What is texture?
A property of light.
What is color?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
Opposite elements used to create variety or emphasis.
What is contrast?
Created by isolating elements.
What is emphasis?
Lightness and darkness of a color, develops illusion of form
What is value?
Seen in kinetic sculpture.
What is motion?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary color?
The relationship of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
Created with elements placed close together.
What is unity?
Implied depth
What is space?
Seen in "continuous narrative" works.
What is time?
What are complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary.
Size of an artwork in comparison to another object.
What is scale?
Using mathematical formulas in art.
What is proportion?