AVI1O – Exploring Art Textbook Assignment

Chapter 4 – The Language of Art

Directions:
1. Read chapter 4 of your Exploring Art Textbook and complete the questions below.
2. Be sure to answer the questions thoroughly and in complete sentences.
3. Submit your completed assignment to Brightspace by Wed., February at 3:00 pm

Assignment:
1. “Language of Art” – Read pages 54-55 and answer the three questions at the bottom to check
your understanding of what you have read. /3 marks

2. “Colour” – Read pages 56-59 and answer the five questions at the bottom to check your
understanding of what you have read. /5 marks

3. “Line” – Read pages 62-65 and answer the four questions at the bottom to check your
understanding of what you have read. /4 marks

4. “Shape, Form and Space” – Read pages 66-69 and answer the five questions at the bottom to
check your understanding of what you have read. /4 marks

5. “Texture” – Read pages 72-73 and answer the three questions at the bottom to check your
understanding of what you have read. /3 marks

Evaluation: /19
marks
 Language of art
Questions & Answers
1. In what way can art be said to be a language
Art is a form of communication, it is a way to share your ideas, feelings, or words. Artists don’t always
express their feelings in ordinary words. Instead, they use visual images – things that others can see
and sometimes touch – to “speak” to us.

2. What is an element of art?

An element of art is a basic visual symbol an artist uses to create visual art

3. Name the six elements of art.

Color, line, shape, form, space, and texture.

Color
Questions & Answers

1. What are the three primary hues?

Red, Yellow, and Blue.

2. What’s the difference between a tint and a shade?

A tint is adding white to a color to lighten it, a shade is adding black to a color to darken it.

3. What are complementary colors? Give an example.

Complementary colors are pairs of colors, when combined or mixed, they produce a grayscale
color; white or black.

4. What is a monochromatic color scheme?

Monochromatic colors are different values of a single hue. For example, dark blue, medium blue,
and light blue is a monochromatic scheme.

5. Define an analogous color scheme.

Analogous colors are colors that are side by side on the color wheel and share hue.
(Ex. Violet, red-violet, red, and red-orange are analogous colors.)

Line
Questions & Answers
1. What is the meaning of the term line as it is used in art?
A trained artist uses lines to control the movement of the viewer’s eyes. Lines can lead the eyes
into, around, and out of visual images in a work of art.
2. Name 5 kinds of line?
1. Zigzag
2. Vertical
3. Horizontal
4. Curved
5. Diagonal
3. Describe the way each of the five kinds of line causes a viewer of an art work to feel.
Zigzag lines can create confusion. They suggest action and nervous excitement.
Vertical lines are used by artist to show dignity, formality, and strength.
Horizontal lines make the viewer feel comfortable, calm, and relaxed.
Like diagonal, curved lines, express movement, through in a more graceful, flowing way.
4. What affects line quality?
Line quality is affected by either the tool or medium used to produce the mark, or by a particular
motion of an artist’s hands.

Shape, Form and Space

Questions and Answers

1. What is a shape?
In art a shape is an area clearly set off by one or more of the other five visual elements.

2. What are two types of shape? Give an example of each type.

Geometric shapes – square, triangle, rectangle, and oval.
Organic shapes – found in nature they are not regular or even.

3. What is a form?
Like shapes, forms have length and width. But forms go a step further. They have depth.
A form is an object with three dimensions.

4. What are the two types of form?

Geometric forms – baseball or a child’s building block.
Organic forms – stone and a cloud
5. Name two techniques that artist use for creating a feeling of space
1. Overlapping: Having one shape cover another shape.
2. Size: Making distant shapes smaller than closer ones

Texture
Questions and Answers

1. What is texture?
Texture refers to how things feel, or look as though they might feel, if touched.
2. Through two of our senses do we experience texture?
Through our sight and sense of touch.
3. What is visual texture? What is actual texture?
Visual texture refers to an implied sense of texture  that the artist creates through the use of
various artistic elements such as line, shading, and color. Actual texture refers to the physical
rendering or the real surface qualities we can notice by touching an object.