Question | Answer |
Three dimensional sculpture where part of my expression relates to movement | Kinetic Sculpture |
Tendency of the eyes to blend the individual patches of color placed near one another so as to perceive different, combined colors | Optical Color Mixture |
19th century art style associated with George Seurat in which small patches of color are placed close together to build form | Pointillism |
Pattern of closely spaced dots or small marks used to create a sense of three-dimensionality on a flat surface, especially in drawing and print making | Stippling |
Color made by mixing primary color and an adjacent secondary color | Tertiary Color |
The point on the horizon where parallel lines seem to converge | Vanishing Point |
Color that is lighter than a hue's normal range | Tint |
Color that is darker than a hue's normal range | Shade |
Size in relation to some normal or constant size | Scale |
Painting a picture with only a few colors | Restricted palette |
Painting using all available colors | Open palette |
Another name for color | Hue |
A hue that cannot be created by mixing any other colors | Primary Colors |
If you mix two complementary colors together the result will be a... | Neutral |
Apparent heaviness of lightness of the forms arranged in a composition | Visual Weight |
Lightness or darkness of a hue | Value |
Area of closely spaced parallel lines used to create a sense of three dimensionality on a flat surface, especially in drawing or printmaking | Hatching |
Juxtaposition of hues that contain the same color in different proportions. They sit near each other on the color wheel | Analogous |
Any painting style that calls for vigorous physical activity | Action Painting |
Circular arrangement of hues based on some particular color theory, often arranged in a rainbow | Color Wheel |
Having only one color, perhaps with variations of value and intensity | Monochromatic |
Three dimensional form | Mass |
Descriptive of design in which the two sides of the composition on either side of an imaginary axis are identical in size, shape and placement | Symmetrical |
Tendency of complimentary colors to seem brighter and more intense when placed side by side | Simultaneous Contrast |
Size relationships between the parts of a whole | Proportion |
Use of parallel lines to convey recession, but the parallel lines do not converge | Isometric Perspective |
When parallel lines converge as they recede from the viewer | Linear Perspective |
A literal flat surface that is assumed to be identical with the surface of the painting | Picture Plane |
The illusion of three dimensionality on a flat surface created by stimulating effects of light and shadow | Modeling |
light to dark | Chiaroscuro |
Hues that appear directly opposite of each other on the color wheel | complementary Colors |
When the balance of the composition is not symmetrical | Asymmetrical |
an area of closely spaced lines intersection one another, used to create a sense of three dimensionality on a flat surface | cross-hatching |
a method of portraying forms on a two dimensional surface that they appear to project or recede from the picture plane | |