Elements of Art
A connection or path made between two points that moves across a surface.
What is line?
The "smoke detector" of your brain.
What is the Amygdala.
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of implied action. How the viewers eye travels through the artwork.
What is Movement or Rhythm?
A famous female Artist who uses repetition of polka dots in her artwork.
Who is Yayoi Kusama?
The three parts of the brain.
What are the neocortex, limbic, and reptilian brain.
The ability of your brain to adapt and change and learn new things in response to experiences.
What is Neuroplasticity.
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention. Also known as the Focal Point.
What is emphasis?
A large difference between two things. Example: Black and White.
What is contrast?
The 8-fold path principle that requires you to come into the present moment by observing your 5 senses.
What is Right Mindfulness?
Examples are Smooth, rough, soft, bumpy
What is texture?
The thinking or logic and decision-making part of your brain
What is the Neo Cortex or Pre Frontal Lobe
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
Geometric and Organic
What is Shape?
When the thinking part of your brain (neo cortex) goes "offline" and you are out of control because you are making decisions based only on emotions (limbic system).
What is called "Flipping the Lid"
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
The feeling that all parts work together and create wholeness. When a variety of similar elements in an artwork go well together.
What is harmony or Unity?
A 3-dimensional artwork.
What is sculpture?
The illusion of depth in an artwork that is created through negative and positive elements
What is space?
The process by which the synapses in your brain are reduced or removed. The neuron connections that remain are strengthened.
What is pruning (synapses pruning)
Three types of BALANCE in an artwork.
What is symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial symmetry.
Drawing an object's edges or outlines in a continuous line without looking at your paper
What is a blind contour drawing?
The process of growing accustomed to a stimulus, or situation, or thought pattern (can be negative or positive).
What is Habituation?