Elements of Art Terms

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Across
  1. 3. refers to the attribute of an artwork that has height, width, and depth (or the illusion of it on a 2-d surface)
  2. 4. the pure or actual color of the 12 colors on the color wheel
  3. 6. adding white to a hue to make it lighter
  4. 7. a moving dot
  5. 8. perceived by the way light reflects off a surface; represented with a color wheel
  6. 13. the illusion of texture created through artistic techniques like shading or brush strokes
  7. 14. the area between, around, and (sometimes) within objects
  8. 15. Flat, enclosed areas that are two dimensional (length and height)
  9. 16. lines that convey feelings or emotions
  10. 18. an artwork’s actual or implied surface quality, such as rough, smooth, or soft
  11. 20. the degree of saturation and strength of a color
  12. 21. type of shapes related to geometry (circle, triangle, square, etc)
Down
  1. 1. lines that are indicated indirectly in artwork
  2. 2. the physical surface qualities of an artwork that can be felt through touch
  3. 5. the full range of values from lightest to darkest in an artwork
  4. 9. type of shape that is irregular often with curving or rounded edges
  5. 10. the building blocks of art
  6. 11. refers to the lightness or darkness of a color
  7. 12. adding black and white to a hue to reduce the intensity of the hue
  8. 17. adding black to a hue to make it darker
  9. 19. lines that help us understand what we see