ART APPRECIATION CH. 1-8

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

aesthetics

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

beeswax

Which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

charcoal

Identify the technique used by two-dimensional artists to create the illusion of volume with light.

chiaroscuro

In painting media, the pigment provides

color

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use ______ theories.

contextual

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

The term "art criticism" refer to making ____ of art, both favorable and unfavorable.

discriminating judgements

____ art theories focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it.

formal

Drawing is considered to be the ______ of all other media.

foundation

The wide variety of shapes can be grouped into two general categories:

geometric and organic

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already painted surface is called

glaze

Opaque watercolor is sometimes called

gouache

Which of the following refers to the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art?

iconography

_____ is the term for the purity or saturation of a color.

intensity

In which media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

lithography

In the art world, _____ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique.

medium

Art made with a combination of different materials, such as a photomontage, is referred to as...

mixed media

A(n) _____ print is one in which an artist is physically involved with its production

original

Pastel, charcoal, Conte crayon and _______ are types of dry drawing media.

pencil

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make _____ to check on the developing image.

proofs

_____ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole.

proportion

Figurative art is a type of ______ art.

representational

Architects are primarily concerned with qualities of

space

In ______ balance, the two sides of a composition on either side of an imaginary vertical dividing line correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form.

symmetrical

A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

tempera

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of

the society that produced it.

The Taj Mahal is one of the world's best-known works of architecture. Identify its function.

tomb

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting, A Smoke Backstage, is...

trompe l'oeil

____ is the appearance or condition of oneness in a work of art.

unity