Principles and Elements
This principle refers to the "visual weight" of an artwork and can be symmetric, asymmetric, or radial.
What is balance?
This kind of artwork contains no representational imagery, or nothing you can recognize from the real world.
What is abstract?
These are the three main colors that all other colors are made from?
What is red, blue, and yellow or the primary colors.
When an artist draws your eye to a specific part of an artwork using the elements of art.
What is a focal point or emphasis?
This kind of artwork contains some representational imagery, or some images that you could recognize as being from the real world.
What is semi-abstract?
Blue, green, and purple all belong to this "temperature" color scheme.
What is cool colors?
This principle refers to the repeated use of elements that are similar but not necessarily the same.
What is rhythm or repetition?
This kind of abstract artwork often has unexpected or unplanned results due to the process. Some artists who worked in this style were Jackson Pollock, and Norman Lewis.
What is abstract expressionism?
Blue, blue-green, and green are colors in this kind of color scheme because they are close neighbors on the color wheel and can blend together.
What are analogous colors?
When an artist uses a bunch of different elements in an artwork they are using this principle of design.
What is variety?
Early abstract artists were trying to do this to their subjects by rendering them in exaggerated colors, or just forms and shapes.
What is to simplify?
Red, orange, and yellow all belong to this temperature color group.
What are the warm colors?
This element can mean both depth, or paper space that is either blank or has markings on it.
What is space?
A color scheme that uses only one color along with various tints and shades of that color.
What is monochromatic?