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This Italian artist was the first to define a formal system of linear perspective.

Brunelleschi

In The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, by the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza, there are five figures. These five figures are: You selected:

St. Anthony (three times), a centaur, and St. Paul

The Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates kinetic sculptures that appear to walk, through the use of wind power, plastic pipe, and hydraulics. What does Jansen call his walking artworks?

Strandbeests

There are two kinds of relief sculpture: a pronounced surface treatment called high relief, and a shallow surface sculpture called

bas-relief

These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range

black and white

This color with a cool temperature is often used to describe a depressed psychological state of mind.

blue

Bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with creating artificial environments (such as the conditions suitable for life in outer space) in which she grows plants. In Astroculture (Shelf Life), 2009, the plants appear to be what color?

magenta

This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of large boulders or the sculpture House by Rachel Whiteread.

mass

This kind of perspective is best used when the artist is confronted by a complex scene in which the viewpoint is not at ground level.

multiple-point

Reflected light excites ________ that line the back of our eyes, and their signals are reprocessed and interpreted as color in our brains.

nerve cells

Raphael's The School of Athens uses both one-point and two-point perspective because the objects are not all arranged in a perpendicular and parallel pattern. Even though both one- and two-point perspective are used, the vanishing points are still positioned:

on the horizon line

The human figure communicates the rich experience of humanity, and artists emulate this experience using this kind of form:

organic

Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of:

organic and geometric forms

This type of art involves viewing actual, live motion and the artist's body in the work.

performance art

Our perception of color is the result of an interaction between light and what surface attribute?

pigment

Which of these is a form?

pyramid

Artists intersperse and alternate value and texture to create a sense of:

rhythm

A color that is almost gray has a low chroma, or

saturation

Barbara Hepworth used line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did she produce?

sculpture

Vertical lines tend to communicate:

strength

Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.

subversive

This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses.

tempo

The slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:

texture

These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a monkey, were discovered in modern times by an overflying commercial aircraft.

Nazca Lines

Color deception occurs when:

Our perception of a color is influenced by the color next, or adjacent, to it.

Noma Bar's illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:

the act of gun crime and its terrible result

Op art of the 1960s relied on a physiological effect that creates an illusion of motion. This effect is caused by:

the natural oscillations of the eye

Katsushika Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated _____.

the sensations of a fall day by the river

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is called a:

tint

Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:

two primary colors

In The Treachery of Images, Magritte tells us that painting is a:

visual trick

This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.

volume

The artist Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board to create a piece of art made up of:

words

What does the term context refer to in relation to art?

Historical events at the time a work was made

This artist, who used a process called automatic drawing to create spontaneous and free lines, would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.

André Masson

This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge poster, an expression that symbolizes the victory of the Bolshevik Red Army over the anti-Communist Russians.

El Lissitzky

This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.

Great Sphinx of Giza

The artists Brancusi and Rodin both made sculptures in which the principle of mass played a role. Their artworks had the same title. What was the title?

The Kiss

The ancient Chinese "Theory of Five Elements" associated colors with corresponding cultural symbols. This philosophy is called:

Wu Xing

Ai Weiwei created a series of photographs of himself dropping a 2,000-year-old object. What was it?

a Chinese urn

This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.

a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool

Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne implies motion. What kind of action is being depicted?

a chase scene

Color mixtures using light, for example those in digital displays, are called __________ color mixtures.

additive

Line can be used as a tool to:

all of the other answers

By using this kind of color combination, artists avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood.

analogous

Moving images created using individual frames of hand-sculpted puppets and backgrounds is a form of:

animation

Contemporary filmmakers use this effect to give the illusion of great depth, even when the scene is in a limited space.

atmospheric perspective

Artists sometimes use this method of applying value to create an impression of three-dimensionality.

chiaroscuro

This is a kind of color map that allows an artist to quickly assess the attributes of colors as they relate to each other.

color wheel

The African American artist Kara Walker exaggerates and intensifies her work using this principle of design that employs opposites:

contrast

The technique in which an artist creates a series of closely arranged parallel lines that is overlapped by another set of parallel strokes to suggest value is called:

cross-hatching

In the painting The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo uses __________ line to connect two figures, symbolizing two parts of her life.

directional

In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer's attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building.

directional

When Paul Gauguin painted his work Yellow Christ he chose the color yellow for its __________ qualities.

expressive

The method whereby rules of perspective are applied to represent unusual points of view, especially when depicting the human form, is called:

foreshortening

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.

geometric

Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It, by Sauerkids, are a good example of this kind of line.

implied

An artist can create an illusion of depth using only color by varying the:

intensity

This type of perspective is used by computer- and video-game designers because it allows them to create depth using parallel diagonal lines.

isometric

Which of these is NOT a geometric form?

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