Art Exam Flashcards
(27 cards)
What are primary colours?
primary colours are Red, yellow, and blue. They exist in the natural world and all colours are made by mixing primary colours
What are secondary colours?
secondary colours are Green, orange and violet. They do not exist in the natural world and made by mixing primary colours
What are complementary colours?
Complementary colours are colours opposite of each other on the colour wheel.
Example: red and green, yellow and purple, orange and blue.
What are analogous colours?
Analogous colours are beside each other on the colour wheel and blend easily together.
Example: blue and blue green
What are monochromatic colour schemes?
Value that is change by adding tints, shades and tones.
What are cool colours?
Colours that recede in the background.
Example: blue purple and green
What are warm colours?
Colours that advance to the foreground.
Example: red, yellow and orange
What is value?
Lightness or darkness or a colour, light blue and dark blue.
What is a tint?
Adding white to a colour.
What is linear perspective?
It is a system of parallel lines and vanishing points used to create a 3 dimensional shape.
What is realistic art?
It is a image that clearly represents something in the real word that exists.
What is abstract art?
It is art pulled apart from reality, a recognizable image that has been distorted by an artist
What is non objective art?
It is an image that is created by an artist, is unrecognizable as anything in the real world.
What is dry brush?
Very little water in a brush with paint
What is rendering?
Creating an illusion of 3~d by adding value : shade, dots, lines and crosshatching.
What is a grid?
A method used to enlarge or reduce a picture using vertical and horizontal lines.
What is a medium?
Material used to create artwork
Examples: paint, pencil and clay
What is the renaissance?
It was a time of great discoveries, science, music, art, perspective and rendering to create 3-d a image and sharing architecture.
When and where did the renaissance occur?
In the 1400-1500 in Florence Italy.
Who were the member of the group of seven?
Harris, Jackson, MacDonald, Carmichael, casson, Varley and lismer.
What did the group of seven paint?
They painted rugged Canadian landscapes, using bold colours that painted the effect of wind and water.
What was the appearance of the group of seven paintings?
There painting were bold and aggressive, representational , post-Impressionism. From a distance the image looks real, but up close it looks like blobs of paint.
Where did the group of seven come from?
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
What is the definition of pop art?
Pop art is everyday common elements of society to the Status of art
Ie. celebrity portraits and flags.
