ARTH 110 Midterm

Niagra Falls was a popular subject for North American artist in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized

America's territorial expansion, the presence of God in nature, Grandeur, and the beauty and power of nature. (AKA, all of the above.)

________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

Asymmetrical

"Kindred Spirits" by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ________ to give a sense of thevastness of the American landscape.

Atmospheric Perspective

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of

Austrian Buisnessmen

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

Bas-relief

Why do we assume that the"Head of a Woman from Benin" was made for someone wealthy?

Because it was made from rare ivory

The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of

Calm and Introspective

In Pablo Picasso's "Blonde Woman in Profile" the artist uses a __________ line that follows the contours of the model's profile.

Continuous

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

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.

Futurists

The german word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is

Gestalt

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's "The Boating Party" uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ___________ compositon

Harmonious....relaxed

A flat work of art has two dimensions: __________ and width

Height

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt., where it was used to indicate social importance

Hierarchical scale

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition,he or she is employing this kind of scale.

Hierarchical scale

The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving, is derived from the ________ religion.

Hindu

The system, which derives its nam from the Greek meaning "equal measure" uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

Isometric Perspective

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted "The journey of the Sun God Re" on a coffin chose his subject because

It expresses belief in an afterlife.

"Girl with a Pearl Earring"" was painted by this dutch artist

Johannes Vermeer

Three words that can describe irregular line are:

Loose, WIld, Chaotic

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was

Looted by the Nazis

In her painting "Music-Pink and Blue III" Georgia O' Keefe emphasized the blue _____________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

Negative

The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. The title was

Nuestro Pueblo

In Japan, Ceramic tea bowls were appreciated because

Of their shape, subtle colors, and irregular surface.

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

Op Art

In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Palm

In "The School f Athens" Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are

Plato and Aristotle

The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens are both ______________ and ____________ symmetry.

Radial and bilateral

This Italian artist use two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting "The School of Athens"

Raphael

The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is recognizable as a man on a horse. This is called a ____________ artwork.

Representational

Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?

Roadside billboards, television, comic books, and oil paintings. (AKA, all of the above)

If a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is ________.

Running forwards

David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures)" using

Scale, color, and implied line. (AKA all of the above.)

Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of the sun.

Solar Rotary

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

Stroboscopic motion

True or False, artist Ai Wei Wei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics.

TRUE

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

TRUE

True or False, the "Head of a Woman from Benin" shows influence of European trade routes, as well as having local spiritual significance.

TRUE

True or False, the visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a colossal head is directly related to its mass.

TRUE

The medium of Marc Quinn's "Self" is

The artist's own blood

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids of Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were

The body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman.

In Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew, the artist used light and dark values to emphasize Christ's hand. Why did the artist draw our attention to the hand? What other features in the work are emphasized with light and darkness?

The other features in the work is a hand gesture from Michelangelo.

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

Unity

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

Variety

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

This American novelist notate that the "aim of every artist is to artist motion."

William Faulkner

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

a positive

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

an implied line

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

closer

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art, you would probably ant to consider the artist's use of

color, texture, emphasis, and scale. (AKA all of the above.)

Henri Matisse drew "Woman Seated in an Arm Chair" using ____________ lines so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contour

Three words that best describe a regular line are

controlled, cool-headed, and geometric.

Artists cam 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

In Francisco Goya's," The Third of May, 1808," the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as

directional lines

In the "Roettgen Pieta" from fourteenth-century Germany, the artist ___________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's "Suite avec 7 Personnafes" characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits

irregular line

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

line

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

movement

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

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

outline

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

outline...shape

The artist Dosio, in his drawing of the Church Saint Spirito, created an impression of three dimensions by using line to show the division between

planes

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions

the relationship between the sizes of different parts of a work make up it

proportions

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

in a 1941 drawing British artist Barbara Hepworth used line to plan a

sculpture

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

shade

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Cloud Gate" is appealing or viewers to touch.

smooth

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

three-dimensional

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

time...motion

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

touch

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

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

vanishing point

The elements of art form the basic ___________ of art.

vocabulary

The oldest museum in America, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in

1805

The Ancient Egyptian artist who painted "The Journery of the Sun God Re" was painted on

A coffin

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background, and the background becomes the figure, we perceive

A figure-ground reversal

The design by I. Michael Interior Design creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.

A harmonious

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

Absorb

Allan Houser's work Reverie is

Abstract and representational

The kind of motion is occurring when we movement in real life.

Actual motion

True or False, Jeff Koons made his sculpture "Rabbit" himself

FALSE

True or False, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional method and rules of art

FALSE

True or False, Louis Nevelson's work "White Vertical Water" is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.

FALSE

True or False, a graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.

FALSE

True or False, the elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography

FALSE

True or False, the self-portrait of the Dutch artist Rembrandt stole from the Swedish National Museum was one of many that the artist painted on copper

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.

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

geometric

The principles of design are a kind of _____________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

Roman Bearden's work "The Dove" uses an underlying _______reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order

grid

Jeff Koons did not make his sculpture "Rabbit" with his own hands, it is considered his work because

he designed it.

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 Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

implied