Spring term vocab

Which of these abstract designs uses organic shapes?

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What are primary colours?

• They are the colours that you need to have in order to mix all the other colours on the colour wheel.

• They are the colours you can mix using other colours.

• They are the colours you use at primary school.

• They are orange, purple and green.

What is hue?

• Tone

• Colour

• Sound

• Rhythm

What does gestural mean in painting?

• The application of paint with invisible brushstrokes.

• The application of paint in free sweeping gestures with a brush

• The application of paint using smoothly blended brushstrokes

• The application of paint in dots.

What sort of colours does this colour wheel show?

• Complementary colours

• Harmonious colours

• Analogous colours

• Clashing colours

What kind of colours do these colour wheels show?

• Complementary colours

• Analogous colours

• Clashing colours

• Tertiary colours

Abstract art is ...

• Art that gives an impression of a fleeting moment.

• Art that creates an illusion of space that is convincingly real.

• Art that depicts people and places

• Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect

What is synaesthesia?

• Synaesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses.

• Synaesthesia is the ability to remember dreams.

• Synaesthesia is a disease of the mind.

• Synaesthesia is a condition that gives you the ability to hear very high pitched sounds.

Which of these artworks uses only geometric shapes?

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Which colours are the secondary colours?

• Red, blue and yellow

• Red, green and yellow

• Orange, green and purple

• Orange, blue and yellow