Grade 8 Midterm Quiz Study Guide

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Grade 8 Art Quiz- STUDY GUIDE
The midterm quiz will consist of information learned during semester 1 and 2. The test will include short answer, true false, fill in the blank and multiple choice, 20 questions total.


  1. Color Theory
1. Definitions:
-Primary Colors: Colors that cannot be mixed, they create every other color on the color wheel. Ex: Red, Yellow, and Blue
-Secondary Colors: Mixed from equal amounts of two primary colors. Ex: Orange, Violet, Green
-Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color. Hint: Their names tell you which colors it is made of, are mixed from ⅔ one color and ⅓ another. They also contain a hyphen.. Ex: Blue-Green= Blue+Green= Blue+(Blue+Yellow)
-Analogous Colors: Colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel.
-Complementary Colors: Colors that are ACROSS from each other on the color wheel.
2. How to create colors (mixing)
-IE: What two colors make Violet?
-How would you mix tertiary colors? ___+____+___
II. Keith Haring
  1. Biography background
-Where Keith Haring was born and grew up: Kuztown/Reading, Pennsylvania
-City Keith Haring lived in as an adult: New York City
-Keith Haring’s inspirations:Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Andy Warhol
    2. Art Style
- Type of artwork:Graffiti, Pop Art
-Characteristics of his artwork: Simple, Bold, Outlined, Very few Details
-Medium (where he created it) On black paper that was behind advertisements in the Subways
-Symbolism
III. Shapes
  1. Organic vs Geometric Shapes and examples
-Organic: Shapes found in nature, have less defined edges, more free flowing
-Geometric: include points, lines, can defined edges, polygons
IV. Positive and Negative
  1. Definition
-Positive: The area in focus, the object occupying space
-Negative: The empty areas surrounding the item, can be background
-NOT ALWAYS DEFINE AS BLACK OR WHITE
V. M.C Escher
  1. Biography
-Birth Name: Maurits Cornelis Escher
-Born: The Netherlands
2. Artwork
-Types created: Books, tapestries, murals, drawings, sketches
-Tessellation: Look like “puzzle pieces”

-Metamorphosis: Where one object transforms into another

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