Midterms Flashcards
The most expressive element and appeals to the emotion.
Color
Distinct qualities of color
(3 items)
Hue
Intensity
Value
T or F
Colors are only seen when light surrounds an
object.
True
Isaac Newton discovered this when a beam of light passed through a prism and breaks into visible color of spectrum.
Color
It is the color itself.
Color
It is the hue’s lightness or darkness and changes when white or black is added to it. It pertains to the absence of white or black.
Value
It is the aspect of brightness and purity of a color. High intensity colors are bold and bright. Low intensity colors are faint and duller.
Intensity or Saturation
which are red, yellow and blue. They are called primary colors because these colors cannot be produced by the mixture of any other colors.
Primary Colors
is the result of the combination of two primary colors in equal amounts. For example, when red and yellow combined the result is orange.
Secondary Colors
these colors can result from a combination of primary and secondary color. For example, red-orange [R + (R+Y)] or yellow-green [Y + (Y+B)]
Intermediate Colors
which are white, grey and black. They are called neutrals because they show no color quality or do not share the same characteristics of any color in the spectrum.
Neutrals
is created by combining any two secondary colors or by adding neutralizing one color by adding its complement or opposite color is in the color wheel.
Tertiary
T or F
There are 3 color temperatures:
Hot, Cold, and Autumn
False
There are 2 color temperatures:
Warm, and Cool
colors make us happy and excite while cool colors make us feel relax and encourage us to take it slow
Warm and Bright
a mark which moves from one place to another. The eye follows a line. Lines can be long, short, wavy, straight, thick, zig-zagged, curly etc
Line
Different Lines (5 items)
Horizontal
Vertical
Diagonal
Zigzag
Curved
straight lines that move from left to right or vice versa
Horizontal Lines
straight lines that move from top to bottom or vice versa.
Vertical Lines
lines that are between vertical or horizontal as if they are rising or falling
Diagonal Lines
diagonal form angles and change direction
Zigzag Lines
wiggly lines; lines that are organic, natural and adjust direction regularly, curvilinear.
Curved Lines
the artist intentionally shows the lines to give the viewer an interesting aspect of the composition
Actual lines
are used by the artist to make the viewer feel their involvement in interpreting the composition by seeing and connecting lines where none actually exists.
implied lines
another interesting element of the visual arts. Shapes result from the coming together of lines enclosing an area and separating it from its surrounding
Shape