Art Appreciation Midterm 1.3-1.4

The Belgian Surrealist artist ______ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls out attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.

Rene Margritte

By using ______ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers towards a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and _________ composition.

harmonious...... relaxed

The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created _______ in his work Travlers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of fighter and darker values.

depth

If the artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

foreshortening

An artist paints a scene with large mountains, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined an bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is _______ than the tree.

further away

The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with _______.

music

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to crate depth. The painting contains imaginary nightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ______.

orthogonals

One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz's Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called ______.

relative placement

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

saturation

Detective movies of the 1940's were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the _____ mood of movies.

serious

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

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

three-dimensional

Ascending and Descending, by M.C. Escher, uses ______ perspective.

three-point

The vide game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. These units are called ______.

tiles

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of the hue, compared to another hue, is known as _______.

value

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

value range

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

vibrate

This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.

Albrecht Durer

Color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed that looking at the color ______ had beneficial effects.

blue