Art Vocabulary

What are primary colors?

• Black, Gray, White

• Blue, Yellow, Red

• Purple, Orange, Green

What is Positive space in artwork?

• Space that is empty around and between the subject or main focus of an artwork.

• The main focus or subject of an artwork.

• The parts of a painting that make you feel positive.

What is a portrait?

• A painting or a drawing an artist composes of his/her self.

• A painting or drawing an artists composes of another person.

• A painting of an ocean scene.

Shape is an element of art, what is the definition of shape?

• An element of art that is a two-dimensional defined by lines that create an enclosed area.

• An element of art that is three-dimensional and enclosed. It has length, width, and height.

• An element of art used only when creating things from clay.

What are secondary colors?

• Different shades of gray created from adding different amounts of white paint to black paint.

• The colors we get from mixing two primary colors together. These are; orange, green, and purple.

• Any color that you use second in an art work.

What is "negative space" in art?

• Space that makes you feel bad about yourself.

• Empty space surrounding or space in-between the subject or main focus of an artwork.

• Artists that paint in space with bad attitudes.

What is Form as an Element of art?

• The way in which an artist holds his/her paint brush.

• 2d shapes such triangles, rectangles, or squares.

• An element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses. volume; includes height, width and depth (as in a cube, a sphere, a pyramid, or a cylinder)

Which set of colors are considered "cool" colors?

• Black, brown, white, and gray

• orange, brown, red, yellow

• blue, indigo, violet, green

What does "overlap" mean in art?

• The placement of objects over one another in order to create the illusion of depth.

• When you accidently run over another artists painting.

• When water laps over the shore in a painting.

What does "tint" mean in art?

• Something an artist sleeps in when they go camping.

• Any color or mixture of pure colors to which black is added.

• Any color or mixture of pure colors to which white is added.