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Elements & Principles of Art

Key Points

  • Elements of art: line, shape, form, space, colour, texture, value
  • Primary colours: Red, Yellow, Blue; Secondary: Orange, Green, Violet
  • Complementary colours are opposite on the colour wheel
  • Nok terracotta: earliest known Nigerian art (500 BC–200 AD)
  • Ife bronzes: 12th–15th century naturalistic bronze heads

Practice Questions

2 questions
1

The primary colours in traditional art are:

2

The technique of applying thick paint to a canvas to create texture is called: