Q3 Color, Painting, Fauvism and Expressionism ARTS 1510

We have discovered paintings at Pech Merle in France that have been made by artists dating back ________ years.

25,000

An artist paints the American flag using the medium of watercolor, but forgets to do the white stars. To add them to the painting, the artist just needs to use the white watercolor pigment.

False

Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.

False

Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment.

False

If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.

False

Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.

Fauve

The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.

Jan van Eyck

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, ________ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color.

Josef Albers

Taking four years to complete, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by this artist in sections, and used the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.

Oil paint

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

Red

These two groups are Expressionist art movements which originated in Germany

The Blue Rider, and the Bridge

If an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, tempera would be a good medium to use.

True

What ancient Chinese philosophy used color as a symbolic element to explain how change affects the cosmos?

Wu Xing

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

a complementary

In Matisse's Joy of Life the artist is emphasizing ________.

a leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing

The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

a monochromatic

This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.

acrylic

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as:

all of the other answers: aggression passion eroticism vitality

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.

analogous

The colors of the bodies and trees in Matisse's Joy of Life are ________.

based on what the artist saw, but exaggerated

The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.

beeswax

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

blue

There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means "dry fresco," and this kind, which means "good fresco."

buon

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

complementary colors

Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.

detail

The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.

egg

The use of strong chromatic color in The Turning Road, L'Estaque by André Derain gives the work a feeling of ________.

energy

Vasily Kandinsky's book Concerning the Spiritual in Art talks about art

expressing an inner spiritual necessity

If an artist wanted to create an artwork that he or she could easily alter, and in which he or she could quickly fix any mistakes, buon fresco would be a good method to use.

false

The best surface to paint the medium of encaustic on is fabric.

false

Recent findings, derived from studying the finger lengths from the handprints that surround the spotted horses, have caused researchers to believe that most of the paintings were done by ________.

female artists

The Chinese literati painter Guo Xi developed a visual form that he called "the angle of totality." This is a kind of perspective that allows a viewer to see more than one angle at a time and is most often referred to as _________ perspective.

floating

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

fresco

Islamic and Renaissance artists often used tempera in conjunction with oil and this material, which adds a rich appearance to the work.

gold leaf

This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses a gum arabic binder.

gouache

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

green has positive associations in Islamic art

Two commonly used underpainting techniques are called _____ and _____ .

grisaille and verdaccio

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward 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 term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

hue

This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of the paper to which it is commonly applied. Usually there is a small amount of gum arabic in this medium, and it most often uses only black pigment.

ink

This paint binder is a by-product of the flax plant and first came into common use during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in northern Europe.

linseed oil

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting

luminosity

Painting that integrates many different painting media and materials is classified as ________ painting.

mixed-media

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

music

We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.

optical color

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.

pigment

The rich tradition of Chinese ink painting grew out of a literary form, so these artists became known as literati painters. What literary form was it?

poetry

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

pointillism

Color associations vary by culture. For example, an American bride would probably wear white, while her Chinese counterpart might wear ________.

red

The traditional "artist's" primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, and blue

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

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

temperature

The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors, which cannot be mixed from any other color combination.

true

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

value

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

One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.

water

This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey).

watercolor

Artists who work outdoors, completing most of their work in the landscape, often use watercolors because of their portability. What is this outdoor painting practice called?

working en plein air

Paul Gauguin's use of the color ________ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

yellow