Principles of Art
A regular arrangement of repeated same elements (line, shape, colors) over and over again.
What is pattern?
Primary Colors
What are Red, Yellow and Blue?
He painted Starry night. Also famous for cutting of part of his ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
White and black mixed together.
What is Gray?
Marks made on a surface.
What is line?
Two elements of a design that are presented in opposite ways
What is Contrast?
Secondary Colors
What are Green, Orange, and Purple?
This Spanish artist created artwork with broken up shapes or cubes. Sometimes he painted faces with the eyes and noses in silly places.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
Another word for color.
What is Hue?
A color (hue's) lightness or darkness.
What is Value?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Red and Green,
Blue and Orange,
Yellow and Purple.
What are complimentary (opposite) colors?
She painted close ups of flowers. She created a very famous painting called "Oriental Poppies" in 1928.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
When you add white to a hue you create this?
What is a tint?
This refers to the surface quality in a work of art. It defines the way an art object in a composition feels or looks as if you would touch it.
What is texture?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate colors?
Creator of the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is a shade?
An outline of an area, two-dimensional, flat, limited to height and width.
What is shape?
Combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability an artwork. Examples are Symmetry and asymmetry.
What is balance?
Similar colors like blue, blue-green and green are examples of this.
What are analogous colors?
Surrealist artist from Spain famous for the painting "The Persistence of Memory" otherwise known as the melting clocks painting.
Who is Salvador Dali?
Red, Yellow and Blue mixed together.
What is brown, or neutral?
Refers to the area within, around, above or below an object. Can be positive or negative, open or closed, shallow or deep, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
What is space?