Art Exam Flashcards
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.
