UIL Art Elements

A general style of painting that developed during the Twen-

tieth Century period of art history, characterized by subjects that were

not realistic. They feature shapes, lines, and colors, like

more realistic paintings, but sometimes don't represent objects in the

real world at all. Paintings that distort reality, but not so much that we

can't still recognize real-world objects.

• Abstract

• Contrast

• Cubism

• Impressionism

A category of paintings whose subjects are individual art

elements like color, line, and composition or the painted surface itself

rather than representations of things in the real world.

• Pointillism

• Genre Painting

• Abstract

• Neoclassicism

blue, green, and violet

• secondary colors

• warm colors

• primary colors

• cool colors

A color made by mixing two primary colors...

green, purple, orange

• secondary colors

• warm colors

• primary colors

• cool colors

Sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors; red, yellow, and blue

• secondary colors

• warm colors

• primary colors

• cool colors

colors such as black, white, tan, and beige, which have neither a warm nor a cool effect in painting.

• secondary colors

• warm colors

• primary colors

• neutral colors

A work that uses symbols, often human forms, to stand for ideas

or to convey messages.

• Genre

• Allegory

• Rococo

• Symbol

The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

• Texture

• Art Elements

• Rhythm

• Form

That part of a painting that seems farthest away from the

viewer.

• Background

• Foreground

• Point of View

• Lines

A period of art history, approximately 1600-1750. Important

historical events of the period included scientific discoveries by Galileo

and Isaac Newton, the growth of the Protestant religion, and ordinary

citizens becoming patrons of the arts, particularly in the Netherlands.

• Baroque

• Modern

• Rococo

• Renaissance