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| Emphasis | is an area that first attracts attention in a composition. This area is more important when compared to the other objects or elements in a composition. This can be by contrast of values, more colors, and placement in the format. |
| Movement | The principle of art that describes how the elements of art draw the viewer's eye around the composition. |
| Asymmetrical Balance | Type of visual balance which is more informal and takes into account the placement of hue (color), intensity (a color’s brightness), and value in addition to kinds of shapes and their size. The composition or arrangement of the elements moves the eye around the canvas. |
| Rhythm | Principle of art created by the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art, to cause a visual tempo or beat. |
| Variety | Principle of art, which is exercised by the combining of color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value in involved ways to create intricate and complicated relationships. |
| Contrast | Principle which refers to a way of combining elements like value, shape, line, and color to stress the difference between those elements. Examples: black and white stripes |
| Unity | Principle of art, which is achieved by the arrangement of elements and principles to create a feeling of completeness. |
| Symmetrical Balance | - A type of balance in which two halves of a picture are identical or have the same visual weight. The picture can be divided in half but not in fourths. ___/3pt. 13. Which painting has symmetrical balance? |
| Radial Balance | Type of balance, which occurs when objects are positioned around a central point. |
| Formalism | focus is on the composition or structural arrangement of elements in artworks and how the principles have been applied to them. |
| Expressionism | what the viewer thinks and feels when looking at an artwork, what thoughts and emotions the artist intended to communicate, and how successful he or she was at doing so. |
| Representationalism | evaluates art on how realistic or life-like objects or people are rendered. The emphasis is on how realistic an image is drawn, shaded, and painted. |
| Instrumentalism | emphasizes the use of art as an instrument for furthering moral, religious, social, or political points of view. When applying this theory, the main objective is to create an artwork that promotes a particular agenda. |
| Composition | the arrangement of elements in an artwork based on principles. |
| Positive Space | the objects in a picture |
| Negative Space | objects or space that makes up the background |
| Warm Colors | Colors that contain yellow and red |
| Cool colors | colors between green and purple on the color wheel |
| Primary colors | Cannot be mixed. Pure colors. Red, Yellow, Blue |
| Secondary Colors | Mixing equal parts of two primary colors. |
| Analogous Colors | Colors next to each other on the color wheel |
| Complementary Colors | Colors across from each other on the color wheel. Think sports teams. |
| Monochromatic | tints and shades of one color |
| Form | Element. Objects with three dimensions. They take up space. Sculptures. |
| Line | Element. Continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point |
| Shape | Element. defined by an enclosed line, organic or geometric. |
| Space | Element. Showing the distance or area around, between, above, below, and within things. |
| Linear Perspective | Method for representing the illusion of space or depth on a two-dimensional surface. |
| Texture | Element that refers to how things feel or might feel if touched. |
| Value | Element refers to light and dark |
