Art Appreciation Chapter 3

White, black, and gray are __________.

neutrals

Which of the following installations is an example of kinetic art?

Alexander Calder's mobile in the National Gallery

How does Cesar Pelli's design for the North Terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport recreate the experience of domestic space?

Atmospheric perspective produces a sense of infinite space.

What distinguishes Botero's The Horse from Giacometti's Man Pointing?

Botero creates a horse whose bulging form does not interact with the surrounding space.

Why is the figure-ground relationship important to the way that we perceive art?

It allows us to organize and analyze the images that we see.

What is the effect of the varied textures in the Native American man's bodice?

It creates a multisensory experience.

What is the effect of light and neon color in Keith Sonnier's Hartebeest?

It creates an interactive space for the viewer.

How does the dancing Krishna express implied motion?

Its limbs and torso create a dynamic pose.

In art, value refers to the __________.

Lightness and darkness of surfaces

What distinguishes atmospheric perspective from linear perspective?

Variations of light and color achieve spatial depth

Which of the following is a characteristic of organic shapes?

an irregular outline

What feature of Torii Kiyotada's An Actor of the Ichikawa Clan suggests swift and violent motion?

angular lines

Artists demonstrate the way that light reveals form by using __________.

change in value

In his Self-Portrait, François Bonvin gives his figure volume through the use of __________.

chiaroscuro

In the Aztec Calendar Stone, the central image of the sun god encircled by four previous versions of the world represents the idea that time is __________.

circular

In his painting Untitled (Square head with three eyes), Keith Haring creates a bold and vibrant visual effect with __________.

complementary colors

To create a shade, artists __________.

dd black to the hue

Giacometti's Man Pointing expresses human fragility through its __________.

eroded surfaces

Painters may use brushstrokes of thick paint to __________.

express emotions

The dominant shapes in a picture plane are called __________.

figures

Another term for mass is __________.

form

Comics convey a linear progression of time by using __________.

frames

Doug Wheeler's SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 uses a wall of light to create a sense of __________.

infinite space

The purity or saturation of a color is its __________.

intensity

The principal visual element in Gego's Reticulárea (Environment) is __________.

line

Raphael's The School of Athens creates the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface through the use of

linear perspective

How does Paula Modersohn-Becker imply mass in her painting Mother and Child?

she uses shading to imply fully rounded bodies

Architects are most concerned with the qualities of __________.

space

In two-dimensional art, the area where the viewer's eye, ground plane, and horizon line converge is known as the __________.

space

Artists use implied lines to __________.

suggest visual connections

In art, the tactile qualities of surfaces and the visual representation of those qualities are known as __________.

texture

The cube in the foreground of Raphael's The School of Athens is rendered in __________.

two-point linear perspective