Visual Art: Elements, Forms, Purpose, Terms, Concepts (and some artists)

These lines in art create cohesiveness in artwork that may contain multiple subjects. Also called contour lines, these lines are predominantly found in Expressionists and Impressionists works like Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Gesture Lines

Who created Composition Xl using geometric shapes?

Doesburg

Who created the Harlequinn’s Carnival using geometric and organic shapes?

Joan Miro

Who made the Rococco painting in his series Marriage a la Mode using two-point perspective called The Marriage Contract?

Hogarth

Who made the woodcut Tower of Babel using three point-perspective otherwise known as oblique perspective?

Escher

What artist used foreshortening in his painting called the Lamentation of Christ?

Mantegna

Who made The Separation of Light from Darkness?

Michelangelo

Who used deep and shallow space in order to create Delivery of the Keys?

Perugino

Shallow space is demonstrated in what artist’s painting of The Portuguese?

Braque

What art element is the color as distinguished from any other color such as the names assigned to the colors like red, green, or blue?

Hue

This element represents the shade of lightness a hue possesses. Sometimes called the luminosity of color, the value is represented on a color gradient chart from light to dark. When white is mixed with a huge its called tint and when black is mixed with a huge its called shade.

Value

This element is the brightness or dullness of a hue. The purer the hue, the higher the saturation or ____.

Intensity

Colors found opposite from one another on the color wheel are…

Complimentary Colors

Colors located beside each other on the color wheel are…

Analogous Colors

All art elements are line, shape, space, form, value, color, and ____

Texture