Art Appreciation Lesson 3A Quiz

Additive

A color created by mixing light.

Subtractive

A color created by mixing paints or inks

Secondary

A color created by mixing two primaries

Cool

A color ranging from green to violet on the color wheel

Triadic

A color scheme using three colors equidistant from each other on the color wheel.

Primary

A color that can't be created by mixing

Expressive

A curved line

Shape

A flat area created by a line, color or value. Can be positive or negative.

Contrast

A large difference between two things: for example, rough and smooth or white and black

Line

A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.

Negative

A shape adjacent to a more significant object/form.

Form

A shape or three-dimensional volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density or bulk.

Positive

A shape that defines an actual object

Point

A singularity in space

Plane

A surface area in space

Value

An element of art that refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.

Split Compliment

Color scheme using three colors, two of which are on both sides of the first color's complement on the color wheel.

Warm

Colors ranging from yellow to red on the color wheel.

Complimentary

Colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel. When mixed together, they make a neutral gray or brown.

Color

Element of art produced when a wavelength of light strikes an object and reflects back to the eyes.

Perspective

Geometric pictorial construct using a single vanishing point to give the illusion of receding space on a two-dimensional surface.

Implied

Line created by the visual connection between two or more areas

Texture

The element of art that refers to the surface quality or feel of an object.

Space

The empty or open area between, around, above, below and within objects.

Saturation

The purity or intensity of a color

Monochrome

The use of variations of a single hue

Figure/ground relationship

The visual reaction between a mark and the surface its created on

Spectrum

Visible bands of the sequence of colors

Equiluminance

Visual effect when two colors are next to each other and share the same intensity

Analagous

nother name for related colors. Found next to each other on the color wheel.