Art Vocab Units 1&2

3. is when you add white to a color to make it lighter
4. an area or space enclosed with a line
6. a flat plane figure or a shape that has two dimensions – length and width
9. These irregular shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals
10. these shapes have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature, such as circle, square, triangle, rectangle, etc
12. to partially cover something
13. This type of space is the background or the area that surrounds the subject of the work
14. These are colors made by mixing 2 primary colors; green, orange, violet
16. The lightness or darkness of an object or area

1. This is another word for color
2. This type of space is the subject or areas of interest in an artwork
3. The 5 __________ of line are zigzag, diagonal, horizontal, curved, and vertical.
4. The distance between, around, above, below, or within things
5. This is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
7. is when you add black to a color to make it darker
8. A continuous mark with length and direction that is made on a surface by a moving point
9. _____ pastels are a drawing medium with a pigment, a non-drying oil, and wax binder
10. A gradual change from light to dark values, or from one color to another
11. This is a group of colors from which all other colors can theoretically be mixed; red, yellow, blue
13. abstract art that does not represent specific objects, people, or other subjects found in the natural world
15. One of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting, well known for his non-objective art