Visual Arts Comprehensive (Finals) flashcards

To help study for finals

____ is a pen technique that makes tiny dots with a pen

Stippling

____ is a pen technique that makes tic-tac-toe lines

Cross-Hatching

____ is a pen technique that makes parallel lines

Hatching

TRUE OR FALSE: watercolor painting should be heavy and applied in thick layers

FALSE

Flat artwork such as drawing, or painting, lacks depth is called ___ dimensional

2

List the primary colors:

Red, Blue, Yellow

The two families of shape are _____ and _____

Geometric & Organic

This element of art is measured by length and includes 5 types: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zigzag, and curved

Lines

Value is the amount of ___ & ___ in a composition

Light & Dark

Line is measured by ____

Length

This element of art, ___ refers to surface quality rough and smooth

Texture

Arrangments of elements in a work of art are called a ____

Composition

Another name for color is ___

Hue

In painting, when you add brown or its complement to a color it is called a ___

Complementary Color

In painting, when you add white to a color it is called a ____

Tint

This type of contour line drawing is done by not looking at the paper while drawing ____

Blind Contour drawing

Name two tertiary colors; _____ & ______

Red-orange & Yellow-orange

Art that has no recognizable subject matter is called ____

Non-representational art

Material such as paint, glass, metal, or fibers used to make art is known as ____

Medium

Each complementary pair has a warm color and a ___ color and is located on the color wheel ____ from each other

Cool, opposite

When making a gradation with a pencil you should use a ____ motion with your pencil

Circular

To create smudge shading we use a ____ tool

Smudge

A shape is an ___ line. That is measured by ____ & ____

one demensional, length, and with

is flat, 2-D is an enclosed line and can be organic or geometric. measured length & width

Shape

the distance or areas around, between, and within components of a piece

space

What are all the elements of Art?

line, space, form, color, texture, value, shape

it has depth, 3-D, forms are solid objects. Measured by length, width & depth

Form

has 3 properties, color-hue, or chroma, Value, intensity

Color

What are all the 4 steps for Art Critiques

Describing, Analyzing, Interpreting, Evaluating

what is the one point (in one-point perspective) where the lines converge to a single point, in which objects appear to get smaller as they get closer to this point

Vanishing Point

In a typical portrait, how wide is the average human head?

5 eyes wide

pop artists used common images for everyday life like advertisements, consumer, products, and celebrities

True

Negative space is the ____ around an object

Empty Space

This color scheme is tints and shades of one color

monochromatic

painting or drawing of inanimate objects is called a ____

Still Life

____ placement of objects one on top of the other to create illusion of depth

Overlapping

____ is a type of balance consisting of mirroring portions of an image, also meaning it is the same on one side as on the other side

Symmetry

____ is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space in a compositiion

Balance

A form is ___ -dimensional that is measured by ____ & ____ & ____

3-dimensional, height, width, depth

In pen and ink, we learned cross-____ style of drawing

hatching

How do you spell the art teacher’s last name

S-T-I-C-K-L-E