Art Appreciation Chapter 4
In what ways does Rosalba Carreira emphasize the positive shapes in the portrait of Gustavus Hamilton?
-By limiting the color of the ground -By using texture to define positive shapes -By changing the color of the shapes
How does Jan Vermeer elicit calm emotions in his piece Young Woman with a Water Pitcher?
-By placing various hues and values of blue throughout the composition -By depicting a calm domestic subject matter
By using vertical and diagonal lines, what can an artist accomplish?
-Create movement -Direct the viewer's attention
Which are types of line?
-Implied -Directional -Contour
Which characteristics best describe an implied line?
-It directs the viewer's eye without explicitly depicting a line. -It's an imaginary line that a viewer uses to follow the gaze of a figure.
What does Gijsbrechts do in Trompe l'oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still-Life to create visual texture?
-Mimic wood texture using paint -Use implied light
The human brain responds to color in what ways?
-Physiologically -Psychologically -Emotionally
Which are examples of using real light?
-Sculpture light by artificial light -Candle illuminating a sculpture
In what ways are the palette for an artist considered?
-The surface used to mix colors -A select set of colors an artist is using
Which are types of space?
-actual -implied
How is depth created in two-dimensional works of art?
-overlapping -position
Which are types of texture?
-pattern -visual -actual
Which are color properties?
-value -intensity -hue
What harmony uses adjacent colors on the color wheel?
Analogous
How does Peter Paul Ruben convey dynamic action and movement in his painting Raising of the Cross?
By placing forms and objects on a diagonal
What value technique is known for creating the illusion of three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional plane?
Chiaroscuro
The concave and convex areas on Bill Reid's The Raven and the First Men shows what technique?
Considered how the piece would interact with real light sources
How does Joaquuin Sorolla create a realistic depiction of representational light in the painting Boys on the Beach?
Highlights and shadows follow the direction of the sun.
What does space do?
It defines other visual elements.
How does pattern affect some of the visual elements present in Samuel Fosso's self-portrait?
It distorts or obliterates the mass of the objects.
The traced path of a moving point is the definition of what element of art?
Line
Thomas Eakins uses what kind of forms to create the lines needed in his painting The Biglin Brothers Racing?
Linear
Complementary harmonies using a basic color wheel will consist of one primary color and what other kind of color?
Secondary
Which work is an example of mass?
The Raven and the First Men
Of what does a triadic harmony consist?
Three colors equidistant on the color wheel
Jacques Callot's gestural drawing of a horse uses contour lines to do what?
To capture the form of the horse
Why does John Frederick Kensett use atmospheric perspective in his work Lake George?
To create a naturalistic landscape
How is the representation of light used in two-dimensional works of art?
To create visual mass
How do artists use color harmonies?
To restrain color use in a composition
Mona Hatoum uses actual texture to do what in the piece Dormiente?
Turn a familiar piece into something treacherous
What is an open palette?
Unlimited hues and their mixtures, tints, and shades
What does Mona Hatoum consider when viewers encounter the work Dormiente?
Viewers will project their own encounters of similar texture.
What kind of texture does Mona Hatoum uses in her work Dormiente?
actual
Which work is described as having a monochromatic color scheme?
chanter
Although Emmi Whitehorse's Chanter is consider monochromatic, it can also be labeled as ______.
complementary
The lines that establish the outside borders of a three-dimensional form are what kind of lines?
contour
How do most artists use color theories to their advantage?
control how colors interact
Visual cues can give a flat surface the appearance of what three-dimensional space?
depth
What kind of line can push an image forward or backward for the viewer?
diagonals
On the primal level, how can color effect a person?
emotionally
The shape that is visually detached from a background is known as ______.
figure
What does the patterns used in Samuel Fosso's self-portrait do to the image?
flatten
Mixing pigments that are complementary on the color wheel will produce what color?
grayish brown
Discussing shape as a background is also known as ______.
ground
What shape works to unify a work using incomplete information of shapes?
implied
What does Gijsbrechts use to create the trompe l'oeil effect in his painting Trompe l'oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still-Life?
implied light
What happens when gray is added to a hue?
intensity lowers
What does the architecture of the Guggenheim Museum encourage visitors to do?
investigate
A form that occupies a volume of space is known as ______.
mass
Because the work Chanter by Emmi Whitehorse is mostly tints and shades of one color, it has what kind of color scheme?
monochromatic
Compositions composed of a single hue in different values and intensity are classified as ______.
monochromatic
Hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling are methods that use lines or dots to create value through what means?
optical mixing
The flat surface used when creating two-dimensional works is known as ______.
picture plane
To create visual mass in a two-dimensional image, artist will use what kind of light?
representational
Artists working with select pigments and their mixtures, tints, and shades are described as using what kind of palette?
restricted
What interacts with other visual elements of an artwork to give them definition?
space
What light source used in the painting Boys on the Beach is the artist Joaquin Sorolla trying to depict?
sun
When analyzing how an object's surface may feel, with what do viewers identify?
texture
When an artists adds a hue to white to get a lighter color, the value created is known as ______.
tint
Actual texture in a work of art is experienced through what sense?
touch
Because analogous colors are adjacent one another on the color wheel, the colors can create what kind of emotion?
tranquil
By using an analogous color scheme in the piece Magnolias and Irises, Louise Comfort Tiffany is able to create what kind of atmosphere for the viewer?
tranquil
What technique do artists use to recreate natural textures on a flat painted surface?
trompe
Shades of light and dark are also known as ______.
values
In an architectural interiors, what provides the boundaries for space?
walls
In an additive color mixing process of light, red, green, and blue combine to create ______.
white
Theater combines red, blue, and green lights to create what color?
white
How does Devorah Sperber use optical color mixture in her work Hendrix?
with spools of thread
A cube, a pyramid, and a circle are examples of what kind of shapes and masses?
Geometric
How did Frank Gehry encourage exploration in the Guggenheim Museum?
He eliminated walls
How does Jean-Antoine Watteau use implied line in the work The Embarkation for Cythera?
He guides the viewer from one side of the canvas to the other.
Exemplified in Leonardo da Vinci's drawing The Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and John the Baptist, chiaroscuro is what type of value technique?
Modeling---Chiaroscuro involves the modeling of light and dark to create visual mass.
As depicted in Evening, Honfleur, Seurat's "dots," or use of pointillism, represent what coloring technique?
Optical mixing
Which artist is known for using triadic harmony in his works of art?
Piet Mondrian
Of what does a monochromatic color scheme consist?
a single hue
