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PRINCIPLES/ELEMENTS
COLOR SCHEMES
BASIC COLORS
MISCELLANEOUS
THEORIES OF ART
100

 The artist uses only one color.

What is monochromatic?

100

A color scheme that involves a total of 3 colors-in which two of the colors are on either side of a color's complement

What are split-complementary colors?

100
These colors cannot be created by mixing any other colors (red, yellow, and blue)
What are primary colors?
100

The dark areas on a sphere are shadows, and the lightest area is called what?

What is a highlight?

100

An art movement in which an artist shows his or her personal expression to the elements of art

What is abstraction?

200

By adding this an artist can make a shape look 3D.

What is value?

200
Colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel are called.
What are analogous colors?
200
This important element of art is seen by the way that light reflects off a surface.
What is color?
200

When dark shapes are placed along side light shapes.

What is contrast?

200

This type of art falls under the art theory of Formalism

What is abstract and non-objective art?

300

When an artist uses Value it can also be referred to as

What is a gradation?

300
Colors such as red, yellow, and orange that can 'energize' a piece of art are called.
What are warm colors?
300
These colors are the direct result of mixing two primary colors
What are secondary colors?
300

When mixing a color with it's complement.

What is intensity?

300

This famous artist was known for making abstraction with just lines, shapes and colors

Who is Vassilly Kandinsky?

400

Another way an artist can bring appeal to an artwork is to add?

What is variety and/or unity?

400
Colors opposite each other on a color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
400
A color that has had black added to it can be called what?
What is a shade?
400

Artists' colors come from powdered substances

What are pigments?

400

This theory of art was closely associated with Michaelangelo who's artwork described biblical imagery

What is instrumentalism.

500

 Shapes that are three-dimensional.

What is form?

500
These twelve colors combined, represent what artist used to create with.
What is a color wheel?
500

Because it reflects the red rays in white light.

What is red?

500

The two sides of a composition are almost alike

What is approximate symmetry.

500

Andrew Wyeth's painting titled Christina's World falls under this art theory

What is imitationalism.