Art Appreciation Midterm- 1.3/1.4

One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz's Pastorial (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. The process for creating depth is called __________.

Relative Placements

The Belgian Surrealist artist ________ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.

Rene Magritte

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

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

By using ________ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

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

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

The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ___________

music

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

saturation

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ________ mood of the movies.

serious

hatching and cross-hatching used two-dimensional lines to communicate _____________ depth.

three-dimensional

The Chinese artists Fan Kuan created ___________ in his work Travelers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values.

Depth

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers towards a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a _________ and _____________ composition.

Harmonious, relaxed

This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.

Albrecht Durer

color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed that looking at the color __________ had beneficial effects.

Blue

A Summer Shower by the British Edith Hayllar Employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sight lines that converge towards a single vanishing points. These lines are also called

Orthogonal

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

Three-Point

The video game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. The units are called ______________.

Tiles

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

Value

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

Value range