Quiz: Light, Value and color

colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are are called ___________.

Complementary colors

Most commercial color printing is achieved using these primaries are __________.

Cyan, magenta, and yellow

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

False

Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment

False

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of panting made up of small dots of color known as _________.

Fauvism

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 ________ colors a mixed, they make a fuller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

Subtractive

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

Value

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

Value Range

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three dimensional solid form is called ________.

chiaroscuro

________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

color

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called ________.

hatching

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

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

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

saturation

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

temperature

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate _________ depth.

three dimensional

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

to highlight