Art Vocabulary Terms 1

What are the elements of art?

• an element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look

  as if they might feel if touched.

• the quality of brightness and purity.

• the basic components, or building blocks: color,

  value, line, texture, shape, form, and space.

• the different ways the elements can be used in a

  work of art: balance, emphasis, harmony, variety, gradation,

  movement, rhythm, and proportion.

What are the principles of art?

• a two dimensional area confined by an actual line or

  implied line.

• the different ways the elements can be used in a

  work of art: balance, emphasis, harmony, variety, gradation,

  movement, rhythm, and proportion.

• the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular

  color.

• the basic components, or building blocks: color,

  value, line, texture, shape, form, and space.

What is unity?

• the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular

  color.

• an element made up of three distinct qualities: hue, intensity,

  and value.

• an object with three dimensions.

• the look and feel of wholeness or oneness in a work of art.

What is color?

• an element made up of three distinct qualities: hue, intensity,

  and value.

• the distance or area between, around, above, below, or

  within things. In art, space is an element that can be either

  three-dimensional or two-dimensional.

• an imaginary line that is traced through an object or several

  objects in a picture, can be helpful when you are trying to identify movement and the direction of movement in a work of art.

• the element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look

  as if they might feel if touched.

What is intensity?

• a continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

  The mark is made by a ballpoint pen moving across a sheet of paper

  and also on a canvas.

• the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular

  color.

• quality of brightness and purity.

• an object with three dimensions.

What is value?

• the different ways the elements can be used in a

  work of art: balance, emphasis, harmony, variety, gradation,

  movement, rhythm, and proportion.

• the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular

  color.

• the distance or area between, around, above, below, or

  within things. In art, space is an element that can be either

  three-dimensional or two-dimensional.

• quality of brightness and purity.

What is a line?

• an imaginary line that is traced through an object or several

  objects in a picture, can be helpful when you are trying to identify

  movement and the direction of movement in a work of art.

• the element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look

  as if they might feel if touched.

• the look and feel of wholeness or oneness in a work of art.

• a continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

  The mark is made by a ballpoint pen moving across a sheet of paper and also on a canvas.

What is an axis line?

• an imaginary line that is traced through an object or several

  objects in a picture, can be helpful when you are trying to identify movement and the direction of movement in a work of art.

• an element made up of three distinct qualities: hue, intensity,

  and value.

• a continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

  The mark is made by a ballpoint pen moving across a sheet of paper and also on a canvas.

• the distance or area between, around, above, below, or

  within things. In art, space is an element that can be either

  three-dimensional or two-dimensional.

What is texture?

• a two dimensional area confined by an actual line or

  implied line.

• the element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look

  as if they might feel if touched.

• the look and feel of wholeness or oneness in a work of art.

• an object with three dimensions.

What is a shape?

• an object with three dimensions.

• the basic components, or building blocks: color,

  value, line, texture, shape, form, and space.

• a two dimensional area confined by an actual line or

  implied line.

• the distance or area between, around, above, below, or

  within things. An element that can be either

  three-dimensional or two-dimensional.