Elements of Art
Shapes that are precise and sharply defined
What is geometric shapes?
Use of an image more than once in a composition is
What is repetition?
The three primary colors are
What is yellow, blue, and magenta
Post-Impressionist artist who painted Starry Night
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
A work of art that tells a story
What is a narrative?
Where objects are located, i.e. the foreground or background
What is Space?
Parts combining to create a sense of oneness
What is unity?
A person would make orange by
What is mixing yellow and magenta
Artist who painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The support for a sculpture, usually made out of wire
What is an armature?
The element of art that is three-dimensional
What is form?
A comparative size relationship; parts to a whole
What is proportion?
They create all other colors
What is the primary colors?
Style developed by Pablo Picasso that breaks composition into geometric shapes
What is Cubism?
A tool used to keep the clay an even thickness
What is a dowel?
The element that describes the way something looks or feels
What is texture?
How artist show emphasis
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
What is analogous colors?
The art movement from the 1800s that wanted to capture the feeling of light
What is Impressionism?
A sculpture that is three-dimensional in the front and flat on the back
What is a relief sculpture?
A form created from a square, it has 6-sides
What is a cube?
When a painting looks balanced and is ALMOST the same on both sides
What is approximate symmetry?
What is complementary colors?
Albrecht Durer, a realist, was most famous for
What is printmaking?
A tool used to transfer ink to a linoleum block
What is a brayer?