Art Assessments Exam 2
By positioning the dark, dense image of death next to the billowing, light form representing life, Gustav Klimt's painting Death and Life demonstrates artistic use of what design principle?
Asymmetrical balance
The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.
Chinese
Georges Seurat used what medium in his pointillist work, Café-concert?
Conte Crayon
What element is most often used to indicate boundaries between forms?
Contour lines
Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels?
Different binders are used
What feature of James McNeill Whistler's work, Billingsgate, creates rhythm?
Vertical lines of ship masts
What type of drawing medium is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends?
brush and ink
What is the term for the organization of visual elements in two-dimensional art?
composition
How may the appearance of balance be achieved in a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance?
distribute visual weight accordingly
In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of ______.
foreshortening
what is an example of a liquid medium
ink
Art that moves is called ______ art.
kinetic
What drawing material was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance?
metalpoint
What term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work?
model
In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.
outlines; contour lines
The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as ______.
pigment
What aspect forms the basis for rhythm in art?
repetition
What design principle is based on repetition?
rhythm
Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.
secondary
how is scale defined
size in relation to a standard or "normal" size
What term is used to describe a color lighter than a hue's normal value?
tint
A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors but captures the ________ of the colors.
values
What aspect is manipulated to affect the balance of the composition?
visual weight
By what method did the ancient Egyptians govern the "correct" proportions of their drawn human figures?
A squared grid
Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?
Just behind the head of the figure of Jesus
The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?
Lake George by John Frederick Kensett
What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)?
Nib
Chris Ofili used what medium in his work, Prince among Thieves with Flowers?
Pencil
Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.
Picasso
The Mandala of Jnanadakini shows what kind of balance?
Radial
