Colour Theory
Elements of Design
Principles of Design
Art Styles
Miscellaneous
100
Red, yellow and blue.
What are the primary colours?
100
When the amount of colour varies from light to dark.
What is value?
100
A distribution of visual weight on either side of an axis.
What is Balance?
100
This style of art is famous for the "pop" of colour it includes.
What is Pop Art?
100
A place where artworks are displayed.
What is a gallery?
200
Yellow, orange and red.
What are warm colours.
200
When something appears to look smooth or bumpy.
What is texture?
200
The arrangement of opposite elements. For example, light vs. dark or small vs. large.
What is Contrast?
200
The technique of painting with tiny dots or "points".
What is Pointillism?
200
The famous art gallery in Toronto.
What is the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
300
Colours that are beside each other on the colour wheel.
What is an analogous colour scheme?
300
It creates the shapes used in artworks.
What is line?
300
Used to make certain parts of an artwork stand out.
What is Emphasis?
300
A "French" school of art that was very "new" in the 1890s.
What is Art Nouveau?
300
This numbered group of painters is famous for their paintings of Canadian landscapes.
Who are "The Group of Seven"?
400
A black, white and grey colour scheme.
What is achromatic?
400
When something appears to have dimension; length, width and height.
What is form?
400
The repetition of elements in an artwork, such as repeating shapes or colours.
What is Pattern?
400
An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes that were "cube-like".
What is Cubism?
400
How many words is a picture said to be worth?
What is 1000?
500
They are created by mixing two complimentary colours.
What are neutrals?
500
The area around, inside or between shapes and forms.
What is space?
500
A visually pleasing agreement among elements in an artwork.
What is Unity?
500
A school of late 19th century French painters who painted with strokes of unmixed colors to give the "impression" of reflected light.
What is Impressionism?
500
The name of the person who decides which artworks will hang in a gallery.
What is a curator?