Elements of Art Vocabulary

You know what the elements of art are enables us to:

• describe what you see in artwork

• tell the story about your life

• use ASL to describe the artwork

• write the words about picture

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

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

Texture can be ______________ if you can feel it, or _______________ if it's 2-D

• factual, imagined

• real, pretend

• positive, negative

• actual, implied

Shapes can be either _______ or _________

• geometric, abstract

• geometric, neutral

• geometric, radial

• geometric, organic

• shape
• form

• geometric forms
• geometric shapes
• organic forms

• visual texture
• actual texture

• diagonal
• vertical
• horizontal

• vertical
• horizontal
• diagonal