Elements of Art
The range of shading from the lightest light to the darkest dark.
What is value?
Using short, quick brush strokes to create a painting.
What is "Impressionism?"
A Mexican mural artist/married to Frida Kahlo.
Who is Diego Rivera?
The very beginning of any artwork begins with this.
What is sketching?
The part of an artwork that is the most eye-catching.
What is emphasis?
The area in an artwork that is filled with objects or color.
Shading by only going in one direction.
What is "hatching"?
Collaborated with Disney/created Surrealism.
Who is Salvador Dali?
A drawing or painting of land.
What is a landscape?
An artwork that has objects and items evenly distributed.
What is balance?
The area in an artwork with no objects or color - the area is empty.
What negative space?
Shading going in 2 alternating directions.
What is "cross-hatching"?
A Dutch painter who created Starry Night/cut off part of his ear.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
A drawing or painting of another person.
What is a portrait?
When your eye continues to move throughout an artwork.
What is movement?
The way something in an artwork appears to feel.
What is texture?
Holding the pencil near the eraser.
What is "sketching position"?
A Spanish artist who created Cubism.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
What is a self-portrait?
When two colors are together to provide a visual difference.
What is contrast?
Includes curves and uneven lines.
What is an organic shape?
Holding the pencil up by extending your arm and closing one eye to measure the correct angle of an object.
What is "measuring with your pencil"?
An artist who sold one of their paintings for $110 million/friends with Andy Warhol.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Making sure everything is even with each other and looks correct and accurate.
What is proportion?
When an image or design is being repeated throughout an artwork.
What is a pattern?