unit 1.4 art history
low
A color that is almost gray has a ________ chroma.
shade
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 ________.
Temperature
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.
aggression, passion, eroticism, and vitality
Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as:
red
Color associations vary by culture. For example, an American bride would probably wear white, while her Chinese counterpart might wear ________.
blue
Color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed that looking at the color ________ had beneficial effects.
complementary colors
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.
fauve
Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.
cyan, magenta, and yellow
Most commercial color printing is achieved using three "true" primary colors and black. These primaries are ________.
yellow
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.
Absorb
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.
monochromatic
The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.
Pointillism
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 ________.
green
The Puerto Rican artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo convinced the townspeople of Naranjito to paint their homes different shades and tones of what color?
pink polka-dot trash bags
The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing ________.
value
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.
Picasso
The painting, titled the Old Guitarist, relies on values of blue, brown, and gray. What was the name of the artist who did this work during his or her "Blue Period"?
hue
The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.
red, yellow, and blue
The traditional "artist's" primary colors are ________.
energy
The use of strong chromatic color in The Turning Road, L'Estaque by André Derain gives the work a feeling of ________.
music
The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ________.
Prism
This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
chroma
We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.
optical color
We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.
Wu Xing
What ancient Chinese philosophy used color as a symbolic element to explain how change affects the cosmos?
Color
What is the most vivid element of art and design.
Subtractive
When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.
Temperature
When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.
green has positive associations in Islamic art
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?
color
________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.
