Color Theory
Abstract and Landscape Painting
Color Theory Cont. and Principles and Elements
100

This is the main group of colors that when combined in different ways can make all of the other colors.

What are the primary colors, or red, blue, and yellow?


100

Abstract painting began in this century (same as the American Revolution)?

What is the 18th?

100

These colors are considered warm colors.

What are red, yellow, and orange?

200

These pair of colors are opposite each other on the color wheel. Ex: blue and orange

What are complimentary colors?

200

This camera is credited as a reason why artists began abstracting their work.

What is the camera?

200

This type of element has only one dimension.

What is a line?

300

These colors, in groups of three, are nearby neighbors on the color wheel and can all be mixed together.

What are analogous colors?

300

These are some processes artists use to abstract their work.

What is to simplify elements like shape and form, or use extreme color schemes.

300

This element of art refers to the way something feels or looks like it feels.

What is texture?

400

When complimentary colors are blended you get this type of color.

What is a neutral color?

400

The subject of a landscape is this.

What is a place?

400

Either when an artist is attempting to draw your eye to a part of an artwork, or the name of that part of the artwork.

What is emphasis, and focal point?

500

When you blend a primary and secondary color together you get this kind of color.

What is tertiary?

500

The principle of design that refers to the relative size of an element.

What is scale?