ART 111: Ch 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger-than-life sculpture of this everyday item.

A book of matches

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.

A harmonious

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

A monochromatic

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

Absorb

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

Animation

In his work Six Persimmons, the thirteenth-century Chinese monk Muqi used different visual weights on each side of the composition. This is known as ________ balance.

Asymmetrical

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

Blue

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

Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.

Compositional unity

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

Eroticism, Passion, and Aggression

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

False

In his painting The Flagellation, Italian artist Piero della Francesca created unity by concentrating groups of figures in two different areas, ________ and ________.

Foreground . . . Background

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of ________ objects.

Found

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

Romare Bearden's work The Dove uses an underlying ________ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order.

Grid

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

Head

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

Hue

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.

Implied motion

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

Intimacy

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

Josef Albers

If the action portrayed in the early film Fred Ott's Sneeze was not a sneeze, but a man simply wiping his nose, this would have an effect on the level of intensity in the movie. The movie would be ________.

Less intense

Tibetan Buddhist monks create colored sand images with a radial design. This representation of the universe is called a ________.

Mandala

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

Mobile

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

Movement

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

Music

In her work Astroculture (Shelf Life) bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with growing plants in artificial light for use in ________.

Outer space

Cecilia Beaux's strong use of the color red in her self-portrait, which was commissioned for the prestigious Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, may have been an expression of ________, related to an event that had happened before she started the project.

Pain

In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Palm

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

Performance art

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.

Plato . . . Aristotle

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

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

Prism

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.

Proportions

The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.

Radial and Bilateral

The traditional primary colors are ________.

Red, yellow, blue

Baltimore album quilts, which use variety to unify their composition, are named after these collections.

Scrapbooks

The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Shah Jahan

Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of the sun.

Solar Rotary

Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board in this New York museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

Spiritual

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.

Surrealists

________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.

Symmetrical

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

Time . . . Motion

It does not matter if a sculptor is creating a human statue on a monumental scale, or a figure much smaller than lifesize: if the sculptor applies the ratio of the Golden Section, the sculpture will have naturalistic proportions.

True

An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:

Unity and variety

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

Variety

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