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 red (magenta)
Post-Impressionist artist who painted Starry Night
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
A work of art that depicts inanimate objects
What is a still life?
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 red (magenta)
Artist who painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
A type of shading, where lines go in the same direction
What is hatching?
The element that describes the way something looks or feels
What is texture?
Relationships between elements; parts to a whole
What is proportion?
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
What is analogous colors?
Donatello and Michelangelo were from a period known as
What is the Renaissance?
A sculpture that is three-dimensional in the front and flat on the back
What is a relief sculpture/carving?
The element of art that is three-dimensional
What is form?
Arrangement of opposite elements in an artwork
What is contrast?
They create all other colors
What is the primary colors?
Imagery seen on the walls of the caves in Lascaux France
What is animals, humans, or hands?
A tool used to keep the clay an even thickness
What is a dowel?
A form created from a square, it has 6-sides
What is a cube?
When elements within an image radiate outwards from a central point
What is radial balance?
Colors that are across from each other on the color wheel
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?