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Compelling Quiz on Fundamentals of Art

All About Art!!
Sucheta Pradhan

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If you love art, get your creative juices flowing. Take this quiz on the fundamentals of art to check how much you truly understand the arts!
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The Power of Imagination
Art includes everything the human mind can imagine and all that imagination, which can be expressed into a physical, communicative form.
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Art can be tangible and intangible. Tangible art includes all forms, which can be seen and touched. Intangible art includes forms, which can only be seen and experienced, not touched.
Art Types
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The Tactile Sense
Tangible art refers to all physical art forms, those which can be touched. They include forms such as painting, sculpture, architecture, mosaics, ivory work, metal work, and so on.
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Intangible art forms are characterized by performativity and interactivity. They include all art forms, which can be felt and experienced – music, dance, drama, oral tradition, and so on.
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Elements of Art are stylistic features, which directly communicate the artist’s feelings and intentions to the appreciator. They include shape, texture, form, signs & symbols, lines & contours, etc.
The Basic Elements
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What's Your Perspective?
Sensory components directly impact sensory system and include line, form, space, color, texture, size, etc. Perspective is a visual element, achieved by creating an illusion with lines and dots.
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In art terms, a contour is a continuous line that clearly defines the inside details and shape of an element.
The Continuum
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When any two points in an artwork are joined together, a straight line is formed. Therefore, the path between any two distinct points in art is a line.
Line of Thought
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Shape It Up
In visual arts, shape is a flat, 2d area that is enclosed on all sides and has clearly defined edges and an outline. Four basic shapes used in art are square, rectangle, triangle, and circle.
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Form is one of the seven fundamental art elements. It either refers to the overall form taken by an artwork or that of a specified element within the given artwork.
Give it a Form!
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Value, or more precisely tonal value, in art defines how dark or light a given artwork can be. Tonal value can actually tell how the texture and light in an artwork appears.
What's the Value?
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Unity or harmony is  important in all art forms, that gives an artwork a sense of completeness and coherence. Artists use this principle to tie the entire composition together so that it makes perfect sense.
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