The Elements of Art

The Elements of Art are:

• The rules of art

• The building blocks of art

• The materials used to make art

• The place you go to look at art

Line is

• the lightness or darkness of a color or shade

• something that goes straight in either direction forever

• a moving point

• a Principle of Design

Which is NOT an Element of Art?

• Line

• Balance

• Shape

• Value

The Principles of Design are:

• The building blocks of Art

• The rules of art

• The materials used to make art

• The place you go to look at art

Shape is:

• the lightness or darkness of a color or shade

• a moving point

• an area enclosed by a line

• the area between objects in an artwork

One way to show space in an artwork is:

• add complementary colors

• add light and dark values

• add patterns to shapes

• add foreground, middleground, background

You can create textures by making _________ with other elements

• tints and shades

• actual and implied

• foreground, middleground, background

• patterns

Complementary colors are:

• colors that look good together

• opposites on the color wheel

• side by side on the color wheel

• one color plus black and white

Analogous colors are

• colors that look good together

• colors that are side by side on the color wheel

• colors that are opposites on the color wheel

• one color plus black and white

Brown, black, grey, and white are______________ colors

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• neutral