Red, yellow, and blue... Colors that cannot be made by putting other colors together.

A style of painting, developed during the Modern period of art history, which imitated the style of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture. Neoclassicism paintings usually have grand themes from history and legend as subject matter. They generally include formal, balanced compositions, use strongly drawn lines to define forms and have smooth, polished canvases.

Lines drawn by an artist to mark the edge of something, or outline it, like the lines that form the outer edge of a building. Lines formed where objects touch or overlap, so that different colors touch or overlap, so that different colors or shapes come together, like the lines our eyes see at the horizon where the earth and sky meet.

The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

A painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery. The outdoor view itself.

_________ is how individual elements, like light, color, lines, and shape, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting. Light and shade make us see three dimensional images instead of just two dimensions. Color helps set the mood, and suggests relationship between the parts of a painting. Lines and shape organize space and create structure.

A painting of a person, usually one formally posed and looking outward from the painting. Paintings that feature more than one person are called group portraits.

Secondary Colors

What is a canvas?

The three dimensional shape of an object, shown traditionally in painting through variations of light and dark paints or by gradual shading of color.

The position from which the viewer sees objects in a painting. Looking at the object on a table while sitting in a chair drawn up to the table is one point of view. Looking at those same objects while standing across the room is another point of view.

Something that stands for or suggests an idea. For example, a halo or the color blue might suggest holiness, flags might suggest patriotism, a pocket watch might suggest the passage of time.

____ a painting of ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities.

A style of painting practiced briefly at the beginning of the Contemporary period of art history, with shockingly bright colors and often strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

Something that repeats, and creates a kind of pattern. Artists use elements like color, lines and shape to create rhythms that help create the mood of a painting, or that move our eyes to different parts of a painting.

Complementary colors are...

What is an Allegory?

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

the part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.