Art History TEST 2 CH. 3-4

Vanishing point

A vanishing point is a point in space, usually located on the horizon, where parallel edges of an object appear to converge.

Time can appear in a work in all these ways EXCEPT what?

A work can have been created a very long time ago.

In Francisco Goya. The Third of May, 1808, the guns form_______ (blank) lines, while the man in the white shirt and two men to his left form_______ (blank) lines as they look in different directions.

Actual / implied

Jackson Pollock's Number 1, 1949 is:

Afocal

John Tenniel

Alice, the Duchess, and the baby. (Baby is crying while a weird small man is holding the baby)

How does the large circular shape placed at the left edge gain its weight?

All of these

With asymmetrical balance both sides have:

An even distribution of visual weight

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie Antoinette with a Rose is an example of _______ (blank) balance.

Asymmetrical

Why does Jesus's halo emphasize him?

Because it frames his head

tertiary colors

Created by mixing a primary color with a neighboring secondary color.

Giotto di Bondone, in his Madonna Enthroned, hierarchically scaled the Virgin Mary to create:

Emphasis

Which of the following terms refers to an area of a work that carries the most visual weight?

Emphasis

A ____ (blank) fits perfectly over the façade of the Parthenon because the width of the building (C) divided by the height of the building (A) is 1.618.

Golden Rectangle

Diminishing size

Objects appear smaller in the distance

Overlapping (art)

Objects placed on in front of the other.

In either a two-dimensional or three-dimensional work, ______ (blank) visually captures repetitive patterns.

Rhythm

Fernand Léger

Three Women (women appears to be in different shapes)

Figure 4.23 Interactive Image

Tintoretto. The Last Supper 1592-94. Oil on Canvas

local color

the actual color of an object

What is the empty area around and within a mass called?

A negative space.

What is a mass?

A solid form that has bulk.

Vertical Positioning

- Objects are placed at different heights - Top objects are seen as farthest away

Why do the lines that radiate from Jesus's halo emphasize him?

Because they also point back to him

How do vertical lines usually feel?

Bold.

Benny Andrews

Chalking up (1989) (Two weird lookin men. One has his hands on back pockets)

The term 'unity' refers to the quality of oneness, _____ (blank), or wholeness among the visual elements of a work of art.

Coherence

What elements of repetition are used in the Inca Royal tunic to create rhythm?

Color and shape

Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory shows melting watches at the same scale as a tree in order to:

Create a fantasy world

Why do artists use hatching and cross-hatching?

For Shading

How does the right side of the painting gain its weight?

From the large number of forms

What is a mathematical and regular shape called?

Geometric

Alyson Shotz

Geometry of Light

What hues are in a complementary scheme?

Hues that are opposite each other on the color wheel.

Misconstruing scale in reproductions:

Impacts viewer interpretation of the work

Why does the Standard of Ur's war panel show the passage of time?

It uses repeating figures

What happens in the first scene?

Jesus directs Peter

Elizabeth Murray

Landing

Grant Wood's American Gothic uses which property of color to show the serious nature of the people it portrays?

Low intensity

What does an artist do when using atmospheric perspective?

Makes objects in the distance appear blurrier, lighter, and duller.

Figure 3.56 Interactive Image

Masaccio. The Tribute Money. From Chapel. 1425

Marcello Gandini and Gruppo Bertone

Orange Car

Kitagawa Utamaro's Woman at the Height of Her Beauty is dominated by what kind of shapes?

Organic

Sultan Muhammad's illustration of Rustam Sleeps While Rakhsh Fights Off a Lion uses which methods for depicting the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface?

Overlapping and vertical positioning

Jacques-Louis David. The Oath of the Horatii uses which methods for depicting the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface?

Overlapping, diminishing size, linear perspective

Figure 3.51 Interactive Image

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Harvesters. Oil on Wood.

Olowe of Ise's Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife has figures with elongated necks, which show manipulation of:

Proportion

The mathematical relationship between the size of a part of an object and the size of the whole defines which term?

Proportion

Because its two halves are almost mirror images of each other, Mark Rothko's No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth/Violet and Yellow in Rose) is almost an example of:

Pure symmetry

Which of the following terms refers to an even distribution of visual weight around a central point?

Radial balance

Théodore Géricault

Raft of the "Medusa" (Broken Ship)

What is texture called that is suggested by an artist through an illusion?

Simulated

M. C. Escher

Sky and Water

Which of the following textures in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's David is the actual texture?

Smooth stone

Eugène Delacroix

Studies of Lions (1829)

By making the human figure very small, Caspar David Friedrich made the monk:

Subordinated

Hilma Af Klint

The Ten Biggest No.7

Where is Jesus placed to emphasize?

The center

What is a local color?

The color we expect an object to be.

Pieter Bruegel

The harvesters 1565

What is the heaviest form in the painting?

The large circular shape placed at the left edge

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson uses chiaroscuro because:

The light and shadow mimic how light plays across solid objects in the real world

Value color

The lightness or darkness of a color

Which objects in the painting show that the artist used overlapping?

The people who are in front of the fields

What is a vanishing point?

The point in linear perspective toward which parallel lines converge.

Chiaroscuro

The treatment of light and shade in a work of art, especially to give an illusion of depth.

Which object(s) in the painting show that the artist used diminishing size?

The tree that is so large

Sen no Sôtan may have made the flower container named Ordinary Transformation at a small scale so that:

The viewer would be brought in for a closer look

What is impasto?

Thick, built-up paint.

The Taj Mahal complex reflects all of the following principles of design EXCEPT for:

Tracking

This detail of Marisol's The Party is dominated by what kind of color scheme?

Triadic

How do we know the third scene is a third moment in time?

Two men are repeated

What is chiaroscuro?

Using light and dark tones to mimic how light plays across solid objects.

What is the degree of lightness or darkness of a tone of color called?

Value.

Figure 4.16 Interactive Image

Vassily Kandinsky. Composition 8. 1923

Which of the following is true in an afocal work?

Visual weight is evenly distributed

Deborah Butterfield. Rosey is several different textures and forms, which gives it variety. Which of the following help create unity?

Warm color scheme/All the pieces are metal

How do we know that the second scene shows a different point in the story?

We see Peter's orange garment again

When does figure-ground reversal occur?

When the negative and positive shapes flip.

A positive shape

a dominant shape on a ground

Hue

a particular shade of a given color

A negative shape

a shape "left over" or around a dominant shape

vantage point

artist's viewing location

This view of the Musée d'Orsay reminds us of the difference between mass and negative space. The mass is the ____________ (blank) and the negative space is the __________ (blank).

train-like galleries / empty, unfilled area

Horizon line

your eye level line; the place where land and sky appear to meet.