MODULE 2 (CHAPTER 3-4)

What is the difference between a shape and a mass?

A mass occupies three-dimensional volume.

Which of the following is the source of Chinese artist Hung Liu's paintings of women?

Archival photographs

Which of the following is true of both Duccio's Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?

Both have receding lines that emphasize the main figure.

How does Pat Steir use line to express pleasure in The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style?

By combining a variety of styles

Which of the following allowed artists to move beyond the frame and traditional boundaries of time and matter?

Computers

Ellsworth Kelly's Brier exhibits which type of line?

Contour

Terry Winters's Color and Information attempts to transform which of the following into a painting?

Digital information

Which medium did Umberto Boccioni use to create a metaphor for exposing the limitations of a single point of view?

Drawing

Which of the following helps the viewer recognize the importance of both negative and positive shapes to perception?

Figure-ground reversal

How does Albrecht Dürer create the illusion of space in Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude?

He employs one-point linear perspective.

Which of the following creates a sense of not only enclosure and connection but also movement and direction?

Implied line

Which type of line emphasizes the curse in Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices?

Implied line

What is the difference between level distance in Chinese painting and in a traditional Western perspective?

It does not make use of a vanishing point.

How does Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph Lisa Lyon use line to subvert conventional representations of women?

It uses strong horizontal and vertical lines.

The "Superflat" style takes inspiration from

Japanese prints.

Which design element can contribute to a viewer's sense of space, as seen in medieval cathedrals?

Light

Which artist contrasts bold graphic patterns with rigid colorful lines?

Pae White

What medium does Terry Winters use in Color and Information to explore boundaries of chaos and order in our contemporary world?

Painting

Which formal element does Ellsworth Kelly focus on in Three Panels: Orange, Dark Grey, Green?

Shape

What is the effect of two-point linear perspective?

The composition becomes more dynamic.

What visual devices create the contrasting symbolic relationship between reality and utopia in Wenda Gu's united nations—china monument: temple of heaven?

The cursive writing and the table

What motivated Renaissance artists to mathematically codify a system of perspective?

The desire to create the illusion of real space on two-dimensional surfaces

What distinguishes Eugène Delacroix's approach to painting from that of Jacques-Louis David?

The emotional emphasis of his work

What do Matthew Ritchie's and Pae White's lines have in common?

They activate an architectural space.

Which trait do Henry Moore's The Arch and the African feast-making spoon (Wunkirmian) share?

They are both based on the human form.

What do Guo Xi's Early Spring and Paul Cézanne's Mme. Cezanne in a Red Dress have in common?

They do not make use of traditional perspective.

How are the lines of Vincent van Gogh's drawing The Sower similar to Eugène Delacroix's Study for The Death of Sardanapalus?

They emphasize movement.

How did Japanese artists such as Utagawa Hiroshige approach the idea of perspective?

They ignored the middle ground.

Why does Hung Liu use drips in her painting?

To achieve a sense of liberation

Why are modern artists interested in new ways of representing space?

To draw attention to the complex conditions of contemporary culture

Titian uses which implied shapes in Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin to link the separate horizontal realms of his composition?

Triangles

Which of the following is created when lines are drawn on the picture plane in such a way as to represent parallel lines receding to a single point on the viewer's horizon?

Vanishing point

Which artist described his work as "almost a cry of anguish"?

Vincent van Gogh

How does Rembrandt create shadow in The Three Crosses?

With dense line

The shape at the center of Henry Moore's The Arch is

a negative space.

The stereoscope was invented to imitate

binocular vision.

Henri Matisse almost completely eliminated any sense of three-dimensionality in the painting Harmony in Red (The Red Room) by

creating one large field of uniform color and design.

The Chinese symbols within a red square on Hung Liu's Relic 12 represent the

creation goddess.

The area where line almost disappears in Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses represents

divine light.

One of the basic signatures of contemporary abstract painting is the

dripping line.

In order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view in The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utilizes

foreshortening.

The technique used to counter the weird and disquieting imagery produced when the foreground of an image is up close is known as

foreshortening.

The negative space in the Rubin vase is

in both the white and dark areas, depending on how you look at it.

Boccioni believed that objects must be seen

in relation to their surroundings.

The primary function of an outline is to

indicate a two-dimensional shape.

Matthew Ritchie uses drawing as a central component to his work because

it has infinite possibilities in time and space.

A noticeable visual element in Henri Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) is the

lack of spatial depth.

For Vincent van Gogh, the figure of The Sower represents

longing for the infinite.

Linear perspective is not considered accurate in depicting how we see "real" space because

our vision is not monocular but, rather, binocular.

In Vincent van Gogh's The Sower, the line showing the circular shape of the sun would best be considered a(n)

outline.

If an object has mass, it is a

solid that occupies a three-dimensional volume.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates orients line to emphasize

stability.

The function of contour lines is to

suggest a three-dimensional form.

Mme. Cézanne in a Red Dress is evidence that Paul Cézanne's primary concern is

the activity of painting itself.

European modernist painters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to stray from the use of perspective because

they found the rules of perspective limiting and imaginatively cumbersome.