Painting Techniques and Color Theory

Question 1

This style of art often seems more real than the subject is.

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Photorealism

Question 2

Art that is created by how the artist represents it and not what is visibly there.

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Abstraction

Question 3

Complementary colors are:

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Colors opposite to one another on the color wheel

Question 4

Embraces the use of colors, textures, and the materials used to make it.

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Abstract

Question 5

When the artist aims to capture light in their work by focusing on gesture and illusion

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Impressionism

Question 6

What are the three primary colors?

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Red, orange, blue

Question 7

The emphasis of this style is the act of painting itself: brushwork, pigments, etc.

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Painterly

Question 8

What are the secondary colors?

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Green, Blue, Violet

Question 9

When the subject of the painting looks like the real thing rather than being abstracted or stylized.

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Realism

Question 10

If you mix the primary colors and secondary colors together, what do you get?

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Tertiary (intermediate)

Question 11

What is a monochromatic color?

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One color plus all of its tints and shades

Question 12

These styles of painting used bold and unrealistic colors that appealed to the artists who used them

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Expressionism and Fauvism

Question 13

The four parts of a landscape are:

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Foreground, Middle ground, Background, Bottom, Middle, Top

Questions 13