Review Sheet
Instructor: Ms. Amal
Composition: Arrangement of elements in a work of art.
Foreground: Part of the picture plane that appears closest to the viewer. The foreground is usually at the bottom of the picture.
Unity: Principle of design that allows the viewer to see a combination of elements, principles, and media as a whole.
Variety: Principle of design concerned with difference or contrast…a change in form, shape, detail…making one object different from another. The use of various elements---lines, shapes, textures---to create interest in an artwork.
Symmetry: A special type of formal balance in which two halves of balanced compositions are identical, mirror images of each other.
Medium: Any materials used to create art.
Background: Part of the picture plane that appears farthest from the viewer.
Two-dimensional: Flat artwork. Like drawing, painting, prints, and photography.
Three-dimensional: Artwork that exists in real space. Like sculptures and architecture.
Negative spaces: Empty spaces surrounding shapes and forms. The shape and size of negative spaces affect the interpretation of positive spaces. Negative spaces are also called ground.
Positive spaces: Shapes or forms in two- and three-dimensional art. Empty spaces surrounding them are called negative spaces or ground.
Details: Small parts in the artwork.
Shape: an element of art that is two-dimensional and encloses space. Shape has length and width. Shapes are either geometric or free forms.
Forms: Objects having three dimensions. Like a shape, a form has height and width, but it also has depth. Forms are either geometric or free forms.
Emphasis “Focal point”: Area of a work of art that attracts the viewer’s attention first; focal points are created by: 1. Contrast 2. Location 3. Isolation 4. Use of the unusual.
Motif: A unit (object, shape, etc.) repeated in visual rhythm. Sometimes motives are exact duplicates and sometimes they are not.
Module: A three dimensional motif.
Texture: the element of art that refers to how things feel, or look as if they might feel, if touched. Tactile texture / Visual texture
Color: is an element of art that is derived from reflected light. Three properties of color work together to make the color we see.
Components of Color:
- Intensity: is the brightness or dullness of a hue.
- Value: is the art element that describes the lightness or the darkness of a color. Value depends on how much light a surface reflects.
- Hue: is the name of the color in the color spectrum.
Primary Colors: Blue, red, and yellow; they are called primary because they cannot be made by mixing other hues together.
Secondary Colors: Made by mixing two primary colors together. Secondary colors are green, purple, and orange.
Analogous Colors: Colors that sit side by side on the color wheel and have a common hue.
Monochromatic Colors: A color scheme that uses only one hue and the tints and shades of that hue for unifying effect.
Complementary Colors: The colors opposite each other on the color wheel. Mixing any color with its complementary dulls it. For example, red /green, blue/ orange, yellow/ purple.