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Elements of Design
Elements of Design Q1 Exam
Question | Answer |
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Two-dimensional object that closes an area. | Shape |
A continuous mark that is one-dimensional. The variety of these are endless. Many can be described as adjectives. These can be both suggestive and expressive. | Lines |
Basic components used by the artist when producing works of art. | Elements of Design |
The areas around and between objects; it determines distance. This can be real or suggested. | space |
How a surface feels | Texture |
How light or dark a color is. This helps you understand a 2-D work of art. | Value |
Something that represents an object/idea. | Symbol |
What the eye sees when light is reflected off of an object. | color |
Three-dimensional object that takes up space and has height, width, and depth. | Form |
Telling a story through a picture. | Narrative Drawing |
Means rebirth; renewed interest in science, nature, art, literature, music and learning. | Renaissance |
Visual language using pictures/symbols. | Pictogram |
Stained glass window that possesses radial symmetry. | Rose Window |
Time between the fall of roman empire and the renaissance period (476 AD through about 1450 AD); time of the spread of Christianity through crusades; focus on art and architecture that reflects biblical scenes. | Middle Ages |
A size/shape relationship between two parts of an object. | Proportion |
Push the clay away from you with the heel of your hand and pull the clay back over itself creating a folding motion. | Knead |
Anything of, relating to, or arranged like rays. It is a type of balance based on a circle with its design extending from the center. | Radial Symmetry |
A stone column that reaches over a side aisle to support the heavy stone roof of a cathedral. | Flying Buttress |
Looks like graph paper. It has horizontal and vertical lines as an undersketch. | Grid |
A reproduction of an image to a different size, but uses the same proportions. | Scale Drawing |
A style of painting in which an image is created in such exact detail that it looks like photograph; uses everyday subject matter and often is larger than life. | Photorealism |
When you lighten a color with white, you are making a ? | Tint |
What are the 7 Elements of Deisgn? | Line, Color, value, shape, form, space, texture |
How tall is the average person in relation to a human head? | 7 ½ heads |
What are the secondary colors? | Orange, green, purple |
What are the primary colors? | Red, yellow, blue |
When you darken a color with black, you are making a ? | Shade |
What are the two types of shapes and define them? | Organic-irregular, usually curved sides, and appears to be from nature. Geometric – precise and mathematical; looks like it was made with a tool. |
What are the complimentary color pairs? | Red-green, Yellow-purple, Blue-orange |
What are the complimentary colors? | Colors opposite on the color wheel, when mixed make neutral colors of brown and gray. |
As Christianity spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, what was there a focus on? | Architecture and art reflecting biblical scenes |
Name 2 reasons why we knead our clay. | Clay often has air bubbles trapped in it. If left when heated it will explode. Wet & dry spots need to make uniform to make easier to work with |
What living artist used a grid to paint and is considered to be the father of Photorealism? | Chuck Close |
What artist began action painting? | Jackson Pollock (“Action Jackson”) |
What did the Moundbuilders contribute to pottery? | Coil pottery |
What did the Mimbres contribute to pottery? | Geometric painting designs |
What sub-era of the Middles Ages are stained glass windows a major artistic focus? | Gothic Era |
What are the 3 sub-eras of the Middle Ages? | Early Middle Ages (Dark Ages), High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages (Gothic Era) |
What kind of symmetry does a rose window have? | Radial symmetry |
Scratch the surface of clay to be joined | Score |
What are the 4 S’s of hand-building IN ORDER with clay. | Score, Slip, Squish, Smooth |
If your gridded original has 9 boxes on one side and 12 on the other, and you want to enlarge it on 27 x 36” paper, what is the largest size your squares can be? | 3 inch squares |
Move clay to smooth the surface; creates a seal | Smooth |
Add pressure to areas that are to be attached. | Squish |
Liquid clay that acts as a glue. | Slip |