art in focus chapter 2

When Artists try to conceal the outline of objects in their pictures, the pictures are described as

Painterly

Movement is achieved through the placement of elements so that

The eye follows a certain path

What is always evident in works where the elements and principles of art work well together?

Unified

The simplest kind of balance is

Symmetrical balance

Three

dimensional space is known as

An ordered, step

by

Cool colors appear to move

Recede in space

Warm colors appear to move

Advance in space

Balance

A way of combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art.

Color

An element made up of three distinct qualities: hue, intensity, and value

Contrast

A way of combining elements to stress the differences between those elements.

Emphasis

A way of combining elements to stress the differences between those elements.

Form

an object with three dimensions.

Gradation

A way of combining elements by using a series of gradual changes in those elements.

Harmony

A way of combining similar elements in an artwork to accent their similarities.

Hue

The name of a color.

Intensity

Quality of brightness and purity

Line

To refer to it as a continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

Movement

Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or curved.

Proportion

The principle of art concerned with the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.

Rhythm

Created by the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art to cause a visual tempo or beat.

Shape

A two dimensional area clearly set off by one or more of the other visual elements.

Space

The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.

Texture

The element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel it touched.

Unity

Look and feel of wholeness or oneness in a work of art.

Value

Refers to that hue's lightness or darkness.

Variety

a way of combining elements in involved ways to create intricate and complicated relationships.