ART 101

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called ________.

Hatching

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.

Height

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

Horizontal

The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

Hue

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.

Implied Motion

The computer simulation game The Sims uses ________ perspective.

Isometric

Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.

Johannes Vermeer

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

Kinetic

Advertisers often use this color to reach their audience because it is the most visible in the spectrum.

Lime Yellow

THe Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. is valuable because...

Lincoln is a symbol of American values and identity.

One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points."

Line

This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.

Linear Perspective

Three words that can describe irregular line are:

Loose, WIld, Chaotic

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

Low

Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy, but in fact this is not necessarily the case. This element of art is called ________.

Mass

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

Mobile

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.

Nearly every angle

An empty space defined by its surround is known as ________ shape.

Negative

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

Op art

We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.

Optical Color

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.

Organic

This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

Organic

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

Performance Art

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

Performance Art

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus . This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

Pointillism

Eugene Delacroix's painting The Massacre at Chios was intended to:

Portraythe Turks as fierce murderers

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape.

Positive

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

Prisim

The traditional primary colors are ________.

RED YELLOW BLUE

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

Red

If you were to design an eye-catching poster using only two colors, the combination that would most stand out to passersby would be ________.

Red and Green

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.

Relief

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

Saturation

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

Shade

The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.

Stroboscopic Motion

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

Subtractive

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

Subversive

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ________.

THe Illusion of motion

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

TIme...Motion

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

Temperature

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

Temperature

Because a form exists in "real" space we can experience it not only visually, but also through the sense of ________.

Touch

A contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space.

True

The rarity of an artwork, and its value, are often closely related.

True

Winslow Homer's Prisoners from the Front was based on his personal experiences during and after the Civil War.

True

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

Two-point

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

Unity

The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.

VOcabulary

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

Value

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

Value

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a ________.

Value Range

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

Vanishing Point

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

Vibrate

The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is ________.

Volume

Paul Gauguin's use of the color ________ in his 1889 depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

Yellow

This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures.

Zoetrope

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

bas-relief

Winslow Homer's Prisoners from the Front (1866) was intended to call for ________.

reconcilliation after the Civil War

The orientation of a line can communicate particular feelings. Match the type of line with the feeling it communicates: 1. horizontal line (a) action 2. diagonal line (b) strength 3. vertical line (c) calm

1. c 2.a 3.b

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

3-D

These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ________ works of art.

3-D

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.

3-point

A line that is a continuous mark is ________.

AN Actual Line

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________

AN implied line

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.

Actual

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life

Actual Motion

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

An open

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors

Analogus

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

Animation

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called:

Atmospheric Perspective

Why do we presume that the head of a woman from Benin (0.18 ) was made for someone wealthy?

Because it was made from rare ivory.

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ________.

Boundary

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________.

Boundary and Shape

Most commercial color printing is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix ________.

CMYK

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color circle are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

COmplementary COlors

Pick the three words that would best describe a regular line.

COntrolled, Geometric, Cool-headed

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three dimensional solid form is called ________.

Chiaroscuro

Color affects the way we think and react to the world, and can be used for healing purposes. This practice is called ________.

Chromothereapy

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ________.

Closer

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

Color

________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

Color

This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.

Cone of vision

THe elements of time and motion are not spplicable to the art of photography

False

The positive and negative shapes in M. C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are an example of ________.

Figure-ground reversal

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

Foreshortening

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this ________.

Foreshortening

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

Form

An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is ________ than the tree.

Further Away

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.

Geometric

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ________ forms.

Geometric

THe principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

Grammar

The building that houses the Lincoln Memorial was based on the form of an ancient Greek temple. Why?

Greek architecture symbolizes values important to Americans

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

Cross-hatching

By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using ________.

DIrectional Line

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

Depth

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________.

Depth

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

False

If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision.

False

If you were to choose the color scheme for a health retreat, red would be a good color to pick.

False

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional methods and rules of art.

False