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Terms for describing visual form and composition.
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What term names the flat surface of a painting or drawing on which an image is made?
What term identifies a color family, such as red, blue, or yellow?
In a still life, what is the term for the area occupied by the vase, fruit, and table?
What term names the empty area surrounding a silhouetted figure?
Which element describes how a surface looks or feels, whether rough, smooth, soft, or hard?
What term refers to the overall arrangement of visual elements within an artwork?
What is the term for the area designed to attract the viewer's attention first?
Which system creates depth by having receding parallel lines appear to meet at a single point?
A landscape shows distant hills as paler, bluer, and less detailed than nearby trees. Which device creates this effect?
A painter depicts a foot aimed toward the viewer so it appears much shorter than it is. Which technique is being used?
A candlelit scene uses stark light on faces against deep surrounding darkness. Which term best describes this use of light and dark?
A poster uses only blue, from pale blue to navy, with no other hue. What palette is this?
Blue and orange are placed side by side so each appears more intense. What color relationship is at work?
A landscape is painted mainly with yellow-green, green, and blue-green. Which color scheme does it use?
Repeated contours and a limited palette make all parts of a collage feel connected. Which principle is strongest?
A sculptor makes a seated figure twice life-size so it dominates a plaza. Which term addresses its size relative to people and setting?
A woven cloth repeats the same diamond motif in a regular covering across its surface. Which term is most exact?
A painter keeps the hue blue but shifts it from very light to very dark. Which color property changes?
An artist mixes black into red paint to make a darker red. What is the darker result called?
A drawing shows a flat, closed outline of a leaf without shading to suggest depth. Which element of art is the leaf?
The paint in this close-up rises in thick ridges that preserve the brush marks. Which handling is shown?

In the image, a bright yellow circle stands out from the surrounding dark shapes. Which principle describes this deliberate visual priority?

The white bowl in the image appears especially striking against its black surroundings. Which device produces this sharp visual difference?

The image invites comparison between cracked clay and smooth glaze. Which element of art is being examined?

A giant chair dwarfs the standing adult beside it in the image. Which term best describes this size relationship?

The curving branches in the image guide your eye toward the central bird. Which principle is most evident?

In the diagram, what term names point A, where the receding edges meet?

The diagram distributes matching forms on opposite sides of a central axis. What type of balance does it show?

Which term names the pale red color shown in the swatch?

The linked hues on the color wheel sit opposite one another. Which color relationship do they show?

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