Art Elements

A portrait

• is a picture of a person

• is a frame of a person

• is a picture of a person that is painted

Genre paintings are

• pictures of extraordinary people

• ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities

• ordinary people engaged in common everyday activities, they are not famous and we rearely know them by name

Still life paintings are

• paintings of obects that don't move. Their subjects are things like flowers, books, dishes, instead of peope or places

• painting of people that move

• painting of objects that move like flower

• paintings of objects that move like flowers and books

A landscape is

• a photograph taken by a camera

• a photograph of a famous person

• a painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery

The term abstract can be and often is

• used for one type of painting that show objects as they really look

• used for many different kinds of paintings that do not show objects as they look

• used for many different kinds of paintings that show objects as they look

A landscape is a painting of

• an indoor view

• an outdoor view

• an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery

• an outdoor view that features large areas of supernatural scenery

color is what we see when light hits an object and can be thought of as

• primary colors only

• secondary colors only

• only dark colors

• both primary and secondary colors

Primary colors are

• red, yellow, and blue primarily because they cannot be made by putting other colors together

• red,yellow, and blue

• red, yellow, and blue primarily because they can be made by putting other colors together

• red, blue, yellow, green

Secondary colors are made by

• combining primary colors

• cannot be combined with other colors

• cannot be combined with primary colors

• combining primary colors like red, yellow and blue to make other colors

light in paintings usually mean two things

• the actual source of light

• the actual source of light and the lightness or darkness of different areas of the painting surface

• the actual source of darkness

• it is dark and light