The "C" and the "L" in our Elements of Art Acronym
What is "Color" and "Line"
100
Matisse's father wanted him to take up this profession instead of art.
What is Law- or a become a Lawyer
100
This Principle of Design is used to create a visual equilibrium of colors, shapes or pictorial parts in an artwork
What is "Balance"
100
The philosophy and study of Beauty
What is "Aesthetics"
100
When white light shines through a prism, This is also know as ROY G BIV
What is the "Color Spectrum" or Rainbow
200
The lightness or darkness of a color
What is "Value"
200
Matisse tried this technique of painting late in his life which involved using tiny dots of color. In painting it later became known as Impressionism.
What is "Pointillism"
200
This Principle of Design can to be a hard edged difference or soft and subtle comparable difference
What is "Contrast"
200
The classification of Shape that resembles a Human or Animal form.
What is "Figurative" or Figurative Shapes
200
This is needed to excite the gas in a "Neon" sign to create a particular color.
What is electricity or an electric charge
300
This Art Element refers to shapes that have volume and mass and take up physical space
What is "Form"
300
Matisse referred to his style and technique of cutting shapes from painted sheets paper with scissors this technique.
What is "Carving in Color"
300
This Principle of Design means the same thing as the French word "Motif" in the art world.
What is "Pattern"
300
The classification of shapes that can be found occurring in nature.
What are "Organic" or Organic Shapes
300
Found in the skin of fruit and vegetables, this gives them their color. They help reflect certain wavelengths of color back to our eyes.
What are Chemicals or "Cartinoids". Unique chemicals in the skin of fruit and vegetables
400
This Art Element refers to the specific surface qualities of an object
What is "Texture"
400
A style of painting that Matisse helped pioneer in 1905 that abandoned traditional usage of color in landscape and portrait painting. An Art critic called these painters the "Wild Beasts".
What is "Fauvism" or the "Fauves"
400
This Principle of Design is a visual technique that used to lead a viewers eyes around or within an artwork.
What is "Movement"
400
Yellow, Red, Blue
Green, Orange, Violet
What are the "Primary" and "Secondary" colors
400
When we see a Red t-shirt these colors are absorbed
((Name the 6 colors that are absorbed))
What are Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet,
500
The Art Element of "Color" has 3 distinct properties
what are they
What are "Hue"-(its Name)
"Value"-(its lightness or Darkness)
"Intensity"- (Brightness or Dullness)
500
Matisse was heavily influenced by Patterns found in artworks from these 3 cultures artworks.
What are...Islamic, African, and Asian cultures.
500
This is Principle of Design can be a comparison of size or quantity of objects
What is "Proportion"
500
Any grouping of 3 colors that have equal distance between them on the color wheel
What is a "Triad"
500
The wavelength of light that bends the most
across the atmosphere.