Elements&Principles
The feeling of stability in an artwork.
What is Balance?
Art term used to describe the outlines or edges of an object.
What are contour lines?
A composition that is arranged mostly of diagnol lines. It can produce a feeling of being "on edge" when looking at it.
What is a dynamic composition?
Talented artist (1471–1528 ) who technically created the first self portrait, studied animals, and also elevated printmaking to an artistic form.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
DAILY DOUBLE for all. The names of both of Ms. Gibbs' border collies (not including new dog). Must get both correct.
Any team will recieve points if one person on the team gets both right. No points will be lost.
Who is Basil and Tesla?
a principle of art that describes the size, location or amount of one element to another (or to the whole) in a work.
What is proportion?
A guide that recommends you divide your composition into 3 vertical and 3 horizontal sections (9 squares) and place your focal point on the intersection of these lines is called what?
What is the rule of thirds?
The side of your brain that deals with visuals and creativity.
What is the right side of the brain?
Artist from Louisville who gained fame by taking his artwork off the canvas frames and draping his paintings almost like a sculpture.
Who is Sam Gilliam?
What art medium (material) is Mrs. Gibbs' favorite to work with?
What is Oil Paint? (Paint is acceptable).
The principle of art that describes extreme differences in an artwork.
Contrast
This term is used to describe the technique artists use when shading to create form. This technique requires them to apply their marks in the direction of the cross contours of the subject.
What is directional shading?
This is a fatty like material in the brain that acts as a conductor and helps transmit information more quickly. Intense practice (like the arts) is believed to help build it.
What is Myelin?
This contemporary artist takes photos of sheets and drapery and then collages them into beautiful abstract forms.
Who is Mira Burack?
The state Mrs. Gibbs is from.
Where is Florida?
Term used to describe how the artist organizes the elements and principles of art.
What is composition?
In this shading technique, artist apply repetitive "shapes" (such as dots/stippling or other shapes) closer or further apart in order to create value.
What is mark making?
*DAILY DOUBLE* for any team who answers this right. (As long as one person on team wrote it correctly in the time frame given).
No points will be lost.
This Italian engraver and painter, whose few, rare, prints translated the rich Venetian Renaissance style of oil paintings into engraving, also invented the stipple technique, where multitudes of tiny dots or dashes allow smooth graduations of tone in the essentially linear technique of engraving; variations on this discovery were to be of huge importance in future printmaking.
Who is GIULIO CAMPAGNOLA
This artist uses the technique of mark-making (stippling) to create large scale portraits, except instead of dots- he uses tiny human figures.
Who is Craig Alan?
The number of years Mrs. Gibbs has taught at Atherton (including this year).
What is 9 years?
The difference between shape and form.
What is (Shape)2D and (Form) 3D
EVERYBODY
This is for all teams. (teacher will explain how this works). Please list the names of all the shadows on a sphere. Each team can recieve (or lose) the assigned points.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
*For the team that picked this* Please draw and label the sphere to gain (or lose) double the points.
What is highlight, midtones, core shadow, cast shadow, and reflected light?
This element of art term is used to describe the lights and darks in an artwork.
What is value?
*DAILY DOUBLE* just for the team that selected this. (Can either gain or lose double the points).
Born in Málaga, Spain in 1973.
This artists work is characterized by portraits of great expressiveness and highly detailed stippling. With a style close to realism, he tells stories deeply rooted in his soul, metaphors of his own vital experience and his surroundings.
Who is Pablo Jurado Ruiz?
The name of Ms. Gibbs' new puppy.
Who is Viona?