ART 100

The term ____________ art applies to art that departs significantly from the actual appearance of things.

Abstract

Textures we experience through the sense of touch are called _________ textures.

Actual or Tactile

The relative purity or grayness of colors is referred to as ________________.

All of these

The word form is identified in the text as ___________.

All of these

The types of lines usually considered to be the most dynamic and suggestive of movement are _________________________.

Diagonal

Although Oldenburg's Knife Ship is huge in its proportion, it falls into scale when displayed in a large space.

False

Complementary color harmonies are those in which the colors are close to one another on the color wheel.

False

If most of the forms in a work of art are concentrated in one side of the composition, the work is always out of balance.

False

Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot draw well.

False

One of the three primary colors can be made by mixing two colors together.

False

Proportion and scale refer to the size of an art object.

False

Style is always associated with one single artist, never with a group.

False

The concept of the "vanishing point" is the key to atmospheric perspective.

False

Unity is the appearance or condition of oneness usually brought about by a combination of motivating ideas.

False

White light refracts, or breaks up, into the colors of a rainbow when passed through a mirror.

False

When a painting or other work of art is designed almost entirely in one hue or color, its color scheme is said to be____________.

Monochromatic

Stonehenge dates from the __________ period.

Neolithic

When complementary colors are mixed together in equal amounts, the result is usually a ____________________.

Neutral

The term "Paleolithic" refers to the

Old Stone Age

Hue is _________________.

The name that differentiates one color from another

"Stylized" refers to art in which certain representative features of an image are exaggerated.

True

A drawing that has no shading or interior detail is often called an "outline drawing."

True

Analogous colors are adjacent to each other on a 12-color color wheel and have something in common.

True

Contrast is the interaction of elements that express the dualities seen in opposites.

True

Direction lines, lighting, placement, and isolation are all devices to create emphasis.

True

In a work of art, "content" refers to the message that is communicated.

True

In both linear and isometric perspective, forms meant to be understood as background are made smaller than forms meant to be seen as foreground.

True

In two-dimensional art, a massing of closely spaced lines or brush strokes can produce visual texture.

True

Many objects in our world, including the standard index card, have proportions close to that of the golden section.

True

On the color wheel, orange, green, and violet are known as secondary colors.

True

The text cites playfulness as one of the eight characteristics of creativity.

True

Visual rhythm operates when there is ordered repetition.

True

Repetition in a work of art helps to create ____________________________.

Unity

The term used to refer to relative lightness or darkness is _____________.

Value

Two ways to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface are __________________ and __________________.

Vertical placement and overlapping

The apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of forms arranged in a composition is referred to as ______________________.

Visual weight

A good example of a Paleolithic sculpture-in-the-round is

the Venus of Willendorf

Movement is an important element in much of the art of

Calder

One of the most recently-discovered Paleolithic caves containing many wall paintings is called ______________.

Chauvet Cave

The text identifies "style" as the sum of traits that we can see as ____________.

Constant, recurring, and coherent

____________ has a strong influence on style.

Context

The term _______________ describes a technique painters use to make human or animal forms appear to recede into depth "behind" the picture surface.

Foreshortening

The word ______________________ is used to describe how a work of art looks, its size, shape, materials, color, and composition.

Form

An important cultural change from Paleolithic to Neolithic is

From nomadic to agricultural

The story and symbols in a work of art make up its ____________.

Iconography

Kinetic sculpture is sculpture that____________.

Incorporates motion

When one form in a composition is visually different and apart from all the others, that form gains emphasis by ____________________________.

Isolation

In a painting meant to convey the illusion of depth in space, the extreme foreground and the painting's surface are the same. This is called the _______________________.

Picture plane

The term _____________ art, often used synonymously with figurative art, is defined as art which portrays, however altered or distorted, things perceived in the visible world.

Representational

Two characteristics often linked with creativity are ____________ and____________.

Sensitivity and Flexibility

The text identifies "style" as the sum of traits that we can see as ____________.

constant, recurring, and coherent