Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Art Potpourri
Color Theory
Good to Know
100
Can be straight or curved or jagged. A dot that took a walk.
What is a line?
100
Main idea or what grabs your attention in a work of art.
What is Emphasis?
100
Exclusive legal rights that protect works of authorship, composition or artistry.
What is Copyright?
100
Red, Blue and Yellow.
What are Primary Colors?
100
Red & Green, Blue & Orange, Yellow & Purple
What are Complimentary Colors?
200
Contrast of light and dark in a work of art.
What is Value?
200
Symmetrical, Radial and Asymmetrical are types of this Principle of Design.
What is Balance?
200
Product used on pottery that turns into a glass like finish in the kiln.
What is Glaze?
200
A Primary Color plus a Primary Color makes this.
What is a Secondary Color?
200
A guide in a museum.
What is a docent?
300
An orange, a Cat and a Flower and a Biomorphic Blob are examples of this kind of shape.
What is Organic Shape?
300
A repeated Line, Design, Color or Shape.
What is Pattern?
300
A piece of art made by using different papers, magazines and/or other miscellaneous flat items, glued to a surface to make a new composition.
What is Collage?
300
When you add white to a color.
What is Tint?
300
An every day object for school that cannot be worn in a museum.
What is a Book Bag?
400
How something feels, or how it looks like it feels.
What is Texture?
400
__________ creates a sense of oneness in a work of art, bringing it all together.
What is Unity/Harmony?
400
art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
What is abstract art?
400
When you add Black to a Color.
What is Shade?
400
Pink, Rose, Red, Maroon
What is a Monochromatic Color Scheme?
500
Cube is to Form as Square is to _________
What is Shape?
500
The way a piece of art shows objects in relation to each other
What is Proportion?
500
When an artist makes a work of art that looks like it would in person, or in real life, it is done in this style.
What is Realism?
500
One color with different tints and shades
What is monochromatic color scheme?
500
Refers to the use of Light & Dark in a work of Art.
What is Chiarroscuro?