Principles & Elements
Media & Processes
Key Terms
Artists
Architecture
100
The relative lightness or darkness of a color is known as this term:
What is Value?
100
This method of creating ceramics involves using a potter's wheel.
What is throwing?
100
Art imagery that departs from recognizable images of the natural world is known as this
What is Abstract?
100
The above painting, The Basket of Apples by Paul Cézanne, is an example of this type of painting
What is a Still Life?
100
This is the part of a column that most clearly distinguishes between the three architectural orders of classical Greek architecture.
What is the Capital?
200
In the subtractive color system a color set such as yellow, yellow-orange, orange, orange-red and red might be described with the term:
What is Analogous?
200
This sculptural method involves cutting, carving, or shaving away
What is Subtractive?
200
This term defines a work of art that is composed of a single color
What is Monochromatic?
200
The Gleaners (1857) by Jean-François Millet, seen above, is a critique of the class system in 19th century France. At the time, large-scale portraits were typically reserved for depicting religious subjects, royalty, or other figures of political or cultural importance. Denoting importance by having the subjects larger than the other is known as this term
What is Hierarchal Scale?
200
The basic architectural form shown above is called this
What is a Barrel Vault?
300
In the subtractive color system color pairs such as red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and violet are described with this term:
What is Complementary?
300
Cinema, Digital Animation, and Performance Art are examples of this method of creation
What are Time-based Processes?
300
What is a readymade?
An everyday object that an artist has presented as a work of art.
300
The Horse in Motion study is considered the catalyst that led to film as it was the first motion picture. This work was completed by which artist?
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
300
The Great Court at Temple of Amun-Re used this type of construction:
What is Post-and-Lintel?
400
On the artist's color wheel, such colors as red-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange are known under this category of colors
What is Tertiary?
400
This is the key binding agent in encaustic painting
What is Wax?
400
This is the name of the process that involves painting directly onto freshly applied wet plaster
What is Fresco?
400
In the image above, a still from Damon Mohl's 888 (2024), we can see a heaps of robots piled in mounds. The closer robots have warmer tones and clearer outlines, while the robots that are further away are cooler and become hazy. This technique is used to create depth in images and is defined by this term
What is Atmospheric Perspective?
400
The basic architectural form seen here is known by this term:
What is a Corbel Arch?
500
In another subtractive color system sometimes described as "process" color, which is typical of inkjet or laser printers, black, denoted by K, is accompanied by these three colors
What is Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow?
500
This dot-by-dot application of paint was created by George Seurat and was famously used in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
What is Pointilism?
500
The circumstances surrounding the creation of a work of art, including historical events, social conditions, biographical facts about the artist and their intentions is known as this
What is Context?
500
This artist is championed as the pioneer of action painting.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
500
What are the three orders of classical Greek architecture?
What is Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?