Art Vocabulary

6. a principle of design that suggests movement or action.
7. a technique used in art in which the artist depicts objects with an unnatural scale to show their importance or lack thereof.
8. refers to the arrangement of opposite elements and effects
10. a color's lightness or darkness which is altered when black or white is added.
13. artwork arranged around a central component.
14. "heavier" or "lighter" in some areas, looks unstable, can make the viewer uncomfortable.
18. Green, Blue, Purple
19. the size relationship between the various parts of an artwork.

1. Colors draw a line from one side of the color wheel to the other, ex. red/green, yellow/purple etc.
2. Red, orange, yellow
3. Colors Red, blue and yellow
4. artwork that is well balanced and looks even and stable
5. Refers to color, often measured by boldness or dullness.
9. The name of the color.
11. also known as harmony, a design principle that refers to the cohesiveness of an artwork- how whole, consistent, and complete it appears.
12. colors that are touching on the color wheel. ex. blue/green, red/orange.
15. The pigment of an object that is detected by the eye as a result of the way the object reflects light.
16. refers to the area of an artwork that dominates attention or draws interest.
17. describes the size of one object in relation to another.