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Art Vocab

Total questions: 95

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An element of art that can make a mark by a pencil, brush, or pen; a moving point through space.

a)

Shape

b)

Space

c)

Line

d)

Texture

2.

An element of art that is flat, enclosed area that had two dimensions; length and width. They can be geometric or organic.

a)

Form

b)

Color

c)

Space

d)

Shape

3.

An element of art that has objects that are three-dimensional. They have hight, width, and depth. They can be viewed from all sides. They can take up space and volume.

a)

Texture

b)

Form

c)

Line

d)

Organic Shape

4.

An element of art that is derived from reflected light. It has three properties: Hue, Value, and Intensity.

a)

Color

b)

Line

c)

Space

d)

Geometric Shapes

5.

The element of art that has lightness or darkness of a color causing contrast within a work of art.

a)

Color

b)

Form

c)

Value

d)

Shape

6.

The element of art that describes the feel of an actual surface. The surface quality of an object; can be real or implied.

a)

Texture

b)

Hue

c)

Value

d)

Geometric Shape

7.

An element of art that Is used to create an illusion of depth. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, positive or negative.

a)

Intensity

b)

Line

c)

Space

d)

Hue

8.

Circles, squares, and triangles are all what kind of shapes in the elements of art?

a)

Organic Shapes

b)

Geometric Shapes

c)

Texture

d)

Hue

9.

These shapes are found in nature: flower, clouds, animals. Also, they can be abstract.

a)

Intensity

b)

Geometric Shapes

c)

Texture

d)

Organic Shapes

10.

Another name for color

a)

Intensity

b)

Value

c)

Hue

d)

Form

11.

The brightness or dullness of a color

a)

Intensity

b)

Line

c)

Value

d)

Texture

12.

A visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object

a)

Texture

b)

Trompe l'oeil

c)

Organic Shapes

d)

Color

13.
What element of art is best represented in this picture?
a)
Line
b)
Form
c)
Value
14.
Which element of art is 3 dimensional
a)
shape
b)
form
c)
line
15.
What element of art is defined as the lightness or darkness of a color?
a)
Value
b)
Hue
c)
Intensity
16.
The area in and around objects.
a)
Space
b)
Shape
c)
Line
17.
________________ can be recognizable like squares, triangles, or circles, or they can be organic.
a)
Lines
b)
Value
c)
Shape
18.
A ______________ can be long, short, diagonal, vertical, squiggly, thick or thin.
a)
Line
b)
Space
c)
Value
19.
__________________ has three main characteristics
a)
shape
b)
color
color
c)
form
20.
What element of art is best represented in this picture?
a)
Color
b)
Line
c)
Shape
d)
Form
21.
What element of art is best represented in this picture?
a)
Color
b)
Line
c)
Texture
d)
Shape
22.
What element of art is best represented in this picture?
a)
Line
b)
Texture
c)
Shape
23.
What element of art is best represented in this picture?
a)
Shape
b)
Line
c)
Texture
d)
Color
24.
What elements  of art can be identified in this painting?
a)
Color and Value
b)
Line and Shape
c)
Form and Space
d)
All
25.
What elements  of art can be identified in this painting?
a)
Color and Value
b)
Line and Shape
c)
Form and Space
d)
All
26.
What is the primary element(s) of art used in this painting by Kandinsky?
a)
Shape
b)
Shape and Space
c)
Space and Color
d)
Line and space
27.
Which element does this picture illustrate?
a)
line
b)
texture
c)
color
d)
form
28.
What do the blue lines represent?
a)
perspective
b)
horizon
c)
value
d)
vanishing point
29.
What element is represented here?
a)
form
b)
line
c)
value
d)
texture
30.
How many shapes are organic?
a)
two
b)
three
c)
four
d)
all
31.
What does a form have that a shape does not have?
a)
color
b)
depth
c)
height and width
d)
texture
32.
Which of the following words would describe texture?
a)
red
b)
diagonal
c)
horizon
d)
smooth
33.
What about colors does this chart represent?
a)
warm
b)
cool
c)
primary
d)
complimentary
34.
What technique makes one horse look farther away than another?
a)
relative size
b)
vanishing point
c)
overlap
d)
perspective
35.
Which of the following is NOT an element of art?
a)
line
b)
value
c)
color
d)
perspective
36.
Adding black or white to a hue creates ____?
a)
2 dimensions
b)
proportion
c)
value
d)
a color scheme
37.
Which of the following are SECONDARY colors?
a)
pink, lime, teal
b)
orange, violet, green
c)
red, blue, yellow
d)
red-orange, blue-violet, yellow-green
38.
This is an example of which element of art?
a)
value
b)
perspective
c)
color scheme
d)
texture
39.
What is the dot in the picture called?
a)
perspective point
b)
vanishing point
c)
horizon point
d)
center point
40.
What makes the red circle look closer?
a)
hue
b)
overlap
c)
value
d)
horizon
41.
Which of these is NOT an element of art?
a)
color
b)
line
c)
space
d)
hue
42.

Linear Perspective

a)

adding shifts in value – as well as eliminating contour lines – creates more 3D looking forms

b)

landscapes

c)

The use of set vanishing point(s) set against a horizon line to depict linear aspects of depth with parallel and perpendicular forms.)

d)

buildings

43.

Vanishing Point

a)

Two or more lines that get closer and closer

b)

x marks the spot

c)

the point at which something that has been growing smaller or increasingly faint disappears altogether

d)

A form of drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as coming together to give the illusion of near and far.

44.

Horizon Line is

a)

the sunset

b)

the sunrise

c)

is a horizontal line that runs across the paper or canvas to represent the viewer's eye level, or seperates where the sky meets the ground.

d)

A form of drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as coming together to give the illusion of near and far

45.

one point perspective has

a)

1 vanishing point

b)

2 vanishing points

c)

3 vanishing points

d)

4 vanishing points

46.

2 point perspective

a)

has 6 points on the horizon line

b)

has 1 point on the horizon line

c)

has 2 points on the horizon line

d)

has 5 points on the horizon line

47.

______________ is a technique used to represent 3D forms on a flat, 2D surface; uses horizon lines, vanishing points and converging lines to depict forms.

a)

atmospheric perspective

b)

one-point perspective

c)

two-point perspective

d)

linear perspective

48.

___________________is a method that illustrates how objects appear to get smaller as they recede into space when viewed from the front and using a single vanishing point.

a)

linear perspective

b)

atmospheric perspective

c)

one point perspective

d)

two point perspective

49.

________________is a method that illustrates how objects appear to get smaller as they reced into space when viewed from the corner and using two vanishing points.

a)

linear perspective

b)

atmospheric perspective

c)

one-point perspective

d)

two-point perspective

50.

The _______________in a perspective drawing is the line that appears at eye level and can be implied.

a)

horizon line

b)

converging line

c)

eye level line

d)

linear perspective

51.

A ____________________ is the point(s) on the horizon line where the lines of the objects eventually converge.

a)

horizontal lines

b)

converging lines

c)

parallel lines

d)

vanishing point

52.

_______________ are a set of two or more lines that get closer and closer together as they approach the vanishing point(s).

a)

horizontal lines

b)

converging lines

c)

parallel lines

d)

vanishing points

53.
Where is the vanishing point located in a one point perspective drawing? 
a)
above the horizon
b)
below the horizon
c)
on the horizon
d)
never on the horizon
54.
Trees and buildings should appear _________ as they go away from us.
a)
larger
b)
smaller
c)
the same height
55.

ASSEMBLAGE is the ART of placing & grouping unrelated found objects.

a)

True

b)

False

56.

Louise Nevelson used mostly what materials in her large scale projects?

a)

Plastics & pipes

b)

Found wood objects

c)

Steel & metals

d)

Paper & paint

57.

Who created this piece of art in 1917?

a)

Marcel Duchamp

b)

Louise Nevelson

c)

Béatrice Coron

d)

Alberto Giacometti

58.

Who created this sculpture?

a)

Marcel Duchamp

b)

Louise Nevelson

c)

Béatrice Coron

d)

Alberto Giacometti

59.
Which shading technique is shown?
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
60.
Which shading technique is shown?
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
61.
Which shading technique is shown?
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
62.
Which shading technique is shown?
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
63.
Shading created with a smooth, gradual change in value.
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
64.
Shading using layers of hatching.
a)
stippling
b)
blending
c)
cross hatching
d)
hatching
65.
Shading created by using a series of dots.
a)
blending
b)
stippling
c)
hatching
d)
cross hatching
66.
Shading created with thin, parallel lines.
a)
hatching
b)
cross hatching
c)
blending
d)
stippling
67.
Light direction is . . .
a)
from the left.
b)
from the right.
c)
from the top.
d)
from the bottom.
68.
a)
hatching
b)
cross hatching
c)
texture
69.
a)
cross hatching
b)
hatching
c)
texture
70.

a)

scribble/scrumble

b)

hatching

c)

cross hatching

71.

A contour line defines the outline of a form, as well as interior structure, without the use of shading

a)

True

b)

False

72.

When an artist sketches a blind contour drawing , the most important rule is

a)

Erase lines

b)

Lift pencil off paper

c)

Don't look at your paper

d)

Look at your paper

73.

A scale showing a gradual change from the lightest value white to the darkest value black.

a)

Value Scale

b)

Color Scale

c)

Line Scale

d)

Music Scale

74.

Collage is the artistic process of gluing and __________ various materials to a flat surface.

a)

Taping

b)

Assembling

c)

Collaging

d)

Rearranging

75.

What does Origami mean??

a)

folding laundry

b)

folding paper

c)

cutting paper

d)

gluing paper

76.

Collage

a)

a picture made by gluing different materials - like paper and fabric shapes - onto a flat background.

b)

where you go to school after high school.

c)

a picture made by drawing with a pencil.

77.

Op Art is art that deals with ____________________.

a)

religious symbols

b)

optical illusions

c)

cultural aspects

d)

expressing emotion

78.
The arrangement of repeating or alternating elements is
a)
Rhythm
b)
Texture
c)
Pattern
d)
Harmony
79.
Contrast
a)
Difference in elements
b)
Values
c)
Difference in principles
d)
Similar elements
80.

What do you do when you're finished with a paintbrush?

a)

Throw it in the sink

b)

Put it in the brush cup

c)

Rinse it and then put it bristles-down in the brush cup

d)

Wash it out until the water runs clear, then put it bristles-up in the brush cup.

81.

Who is responsible for cleaning up at the end of art class?

a)

Me

b)

The custodians.

c)

Every student.

d)

Nobody.

82.

What are complementary colors?

a)

Colors that are nice to each other

b)

Opposites on the color wheel

c)

Next to each other on the color wheel

d)

All answers

83.

Which of the following are NOT complementary colors?

a)

Blue and green

b)

Red and green

c)

Yellow and purple

d)

Orange and blue

84.

What happens when you mix complementary colors?

a)

You get a vibrant color

b)

You get white

c)

You get a greenish brownish color

d)

All answers

85.

What happens when you put complementary colors side by side?

a)

They make friends

b)

They turn dull

c)

They stand out more.

86.

What is a tint?

a)

Hair color

b)

What you get when you add white to a color.

c)

Black

d)

all answers

87.

What is a shade in painting?

a)

Dark glasses

b)

Sun protection

c)

Darker value of a color

d)

All answers

88.

How do you make a shade?

a)

A small dab of brown or a complementary mix with color

b)

Mix all the colors together

c)

A dab of white mixed with color

89.

How do you check to be sure your paint brush is clean?

a)

Smell it

b)

Wipe it on a friend

c)

Wipe it on yourself

d)

Swipe in on a paper towel to see if it wipes clean

90.

What happens to brushes with acrylic paint on them that are not thoroughly cleaned?

a)

The brush is ruined and must be thrown in the trash.

b)

They disappear into the void.

c)

They are soft and ready to use

91.

Which artist created both of these self portraits?

a)

Rembrandt van Rijn

b)

Chuck Close

c)

Claude Monet

d)

Paul Gauguin

92.

What artist created the painting "The Scream"

a)

Vincent Van Gogh

b)

Edvard Munch

c)

Pablo Picasso

d)

Johannes Vermeer

e)

Leonardo da Vinci

93.

Having your cell phone out all the time can come across as rude.

a)

yes

b)

no

94.

My cell phone should be _______ during class

a)

In my hands the entire time

b)

On my desk.

c)

Turned off and put away.

d)

Playing videos or music.

95.

My art teacher's name is

a)

Miss

b)

Mom

c)

Captain Fantastic

d)

Mrs. Doty