Elements of Art
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part II
Works of Art
Color Wheel
100

A one-dimensional mark made by a drawing tool or brush?

What is a line?
100

The mirror image of the other half.

What is symmetrical?

100

a foundational element defining three-dimensional objects that possess length, width, and height. Occupying real or implied space. 

What is Form?

100

He painted "Monarch of the Glen" in this year. 

Who is Sir Edwin Landseer, in 1851?

100

These are the primary colors.

What are red, yellow, and blue?

200

Any flat, enclosed space.

What is a Shape?

200

The accurate relationship between parts and a whole.

What is Proportion?

200

A network of UNIFORMLY spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines. 

What is a Grid?

200

This is the year "Four Beetles and a Flying Stink Bug" was painted. 

What is 1715?

200

These are the secondary colors.

What are Orange, Green, and Purple?

300

The lightness and darkness of a color.

What is Value?

300

A full value finishing of a drawing. 

What is Rendering?

300

The way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

What is a Composition?

300

The medium Rembrandt's Elephant was painted. 

What is Black chalk and Charcoal.

300

These are the Tertiary Colors.

What are red-orange, red-violet, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, and blue-violet?

400

How a surface looks or feels. 

What is Texture?

400
An outline, especially of a curving or irregular figure.

What is Contour?

400

Shapes that do not have clear edges or boundaries and are freeform, they do not have exact angles and measurements. 

What are organic shapes?

400

This artist painted "Native Huts at Nassau" in 1885.

Who is Winslow Homer?

400

These are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel.

What are Complimentary Colors?

500

The area around, within, and between shapes, forms, colors, and lines of a piece.

What is Space?

500

A detailed analysis of something. 

What is a critique?

500

A technique that uses an uneven distribution of elements to create a sense of visual balance.

What is Asymmetrical Balance?

500

This is the year Van Gogh painted the Milk Jug. 

What is 1862?

500
This is what you add to make a shade, and what you add to make a tint. 

What is Black and White.