Year 7 Art Flashcards
Name the three primary colours
Red, yellow and blue
Name the three secondary colours
Orange, green and purple
What do you get if you mix two primary colours together?
Secondary colour
What do you get if you mix two secondary colours together?
Tertiary colour
Mark making describes the …….
Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat.
Where are the harmonious colours on the colour wheel?
Harmonious colours sit beside each other on the colour wheel. These colours work well together and create an image which is pleasing to the eye. Harmonious colours may also be referred to as analogous colours.
On the colour wheel what colour is complementary to blue?
Orange. Because orange sits opposite to blue on the colour wheel, it’s a natural complement to blue
What was Van Gogh’s first name?
Vincent
Van Gogh’s brother was called what?
Theo
What does Juxtaposing mean?
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
What is Cubism and when did it start?
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
What is Analytical Cubism?
The term analytical cubism describes the early phase of cubism, generally considered to run from 1908–12, characterised by a fragmentary appearance of multiple viewpoints and overlapping planes
Who was one of the most famous Cubist artists?
Pablo Picasso (Also Georges Braque and Juan Gris)
What did Analytical Cubism mainly use browns and greys?
To give the illusion of depth and dimensions in their paintings, the artists would utilize a variety of subdued hues such as browns, grays, and ochres. Instead of distracting the spectator with bright, dramatic colors, this lets them concentrate on the structure and shape of the things they were depicting
How Cubism is said to have got the name?
The name ‘cubism’ seems to have derived from a comment made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who, on seeing some of Georges Braque’s paintings exhibited in Paris in 1908, described them as reducing everything to ‘geometric outlines, to cubes’.
