Art Appreciation Honors FINAL CUMULATIVE EXAM
The study of the creation, appreciation and critical thinking of art. Traditionally concerned with beauty now this branch of philosophy covers all aspects of the arts as well as art's ability to get and hold visual interest. It is:
Aesthetics
This painting, by Gilbert Stuart, is an example of what (less practical) aesthetic role art?
Documenting human history
Who is qualified to make, view and react to art?
Everyone
2-D art refers to works having the three dimensions of height, width, weight and depth.
False
Aesthetics and beauty in art are defined and concrete qualities accepted by all viewers.
False
Each art element and principle works independently and is not associated or connected to the other elements or principles.
False
Elements of line and shape are clearly defined and cannot be implied or suggested.
False
If most of the forms in a work of art are concentrated on one side of the composition it is impossible for the work to achieve balance.
False
Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot draw well.
False
The concept of the vanishing point is the key to converging lines in the principle of proportion.
False
The element of shape cannot be defined or implied because it has no boundaries.
False
The elements and principles of art are set, governing rules that cannot be challenged and must always be adhered to by all artists.
False
Unity and variety are art principles that never work together and are clearly separated from one another.
False
This image is a good example of what?
Perception. How we distinguish figure and ground
Pablo Picasso was born in
Spain
Which of these are some of the listed artist characteristics from your student workbook?
Spark insight and discovery, willingly take risks, and persist in pursuing a goal.
Analogous color schemes are colors that are adjacent to one another on the color wheel.
True
Art, unlike nature, is a human creation and one of the many ways we express ourselves and attempt to communicate.
True
Directional lines, lighting, placement and isolation are devices used to create emphasis.
True
Everyone is qualified to make art and express their human existence to the rest of us.
True
In two-dimensional art, the organization of the elements and principles is referred to as the design or composition.
True
On the color wheel, orange, green and violet are known as secondary colors.
True
Our individual patterns of perception have a great deal to do with the experience of art.
True
Radial balance occurs when forms in a composition appear to move outward from a central point, like spokes on a wheel.
True
The elements and principles are applied in both 2-D and 3-D artworks.
True
When studying art, understanding the process by which it was made helps in our appreciation.
True
White light refracts, or breaks up, into multiple colors when passed through a prism.
True
Textures we experience through the sense of touch are called ____________ textures.
actual or tactile
The two main categories of texture are:
actual texture and visual texture
If you stare at certain color areas for half a minute and then turn your eyes quickly to a white page or wall, you may see the same image in its complementary colors. This phenomenon is called ____________.
afterimage
Which of the following are examples of implied lines?
all of the above
In media and materials for making art, what is an art material?
all of the above. Anything on earth is potential material for making art
In ________________, the goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the works of art thus leading to greater pleasure and awareness. Every viewer has unique and individual aspects in their perceptions and reactions.
art criticism
Nature (in and of itself) is separate from art because:
art, unlike nature, has to have a human connection or involve human manipulation to exist.
As discussed, what three things connect all human beings and contribute to the idea of the human condition?
being born, living and death
As we studied, these three things connect all human beings:
being born, living and dying
Outsider, Naïve or Folk art contains characteristics of:
both B and D
Colors directly opposite one another on the color wheel are called ______________.
complementary
The text defines __________ unity as a 'unity of ideas'.
conceptual
The blues and greens on the color wheel are generally considered to be ___________.
cool and receding
When intersecting groups of lines are used to create value and shading, the technique is:
cross-hatching
Lines considered the most dynamic and suggestive of movement are ____________.
diagonal
Artists use our visual tendency to follow lines to:
direct our attention around an image or object and to suggest movement
The less practical / more aesthetic art roles are:
document human history, illustrate emotions, ideas / spiritual aspects and challenge the conventions of perception
The element of color can be very dramatic because of its:
emotional reactions in the viewer
______________ is what we see when we look at art in terms of the visual elements and design principles as well as the media and material choices of the artists. The physical appearance of a work of art.
form
The two main categories of shape are:
geometric and organic
In perception, figure is the object or image we distinguish whereas, ____________ is the backdrop against which we see the figure or object.
ground
ALL art regardless of its culture, style, time period or means shares this essential connection:
having a human connection and relating to or being about the human condition.
The interpretation of meaning, images and symbols (describing images) in a work of art make up its:
iconography
The aesthetic qualities of beauty in art suggest beauty is not only physical appearance. Art should touch beyond the eyes, to the _______________________ as well.
intellect and emotions
In art criticism, what you feel the content (meaning or message) of the artwork is, represents:
interpretation
According to your workbook, the essentials of appreciation are:
making, viewing and reacting
When a painting or other work of art is designed almost entirely in one hue or color, its color scheme is said to be __________________.
monochromatic
In representational art, _________________ occurs when a work of art closely resembles forms and objects of the natural world.
naturalism
When Franco allowed Hitler to bomb the city of Guernica, Spain in 1937, the reason was:
no reason other than military experimentation
_________________ works do not have a recognizable connection to visual reality but instead focus on the subjective and emotional qualities (the things we feel) through the formal elements and principles.
non-representational
________________ shapes could be found in or mimic nature.
organic
When discussing beauty in art, we learned the Italian term Pieta means:
pity and is the subject of Mary holding the body of Christ after the crucifixion
Which of the following is NOT an art element?
price
On a basic color wheel, the hues red, yellow and blue are called ___________ colors
primary
The term ________________ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole or between items perceived as a unit.
proportion
Joel Shapiro is the name of the artist who created this work, which plays on our tendency to:
recognize human form in works of art that are abstract or non-representational (see things as we are)
This painting is by Picasso. It is abstracted but is still within the _____________ category of art.
representational
The two main categories of art are:
representational and non-representational
When two primary colors are mixed together in equal amounts, the result is a:
secondary color
In linear perspective, forms seen as farther away from the viewer are ____________.
smaller
_______________ is what the art is about or what is being depicted (person, place, object or event).
subject
As discussed, art contains three basic components which are:
subject (what), form (appearance / material) and content (message)
This painting by Picasso illustrates the story of what event?
the German bombing of a city in Spain
In studying art, we realize that artists learn from studying the achievements of the past and observing _________________.
the efforts of their peers
In The Last Supper, da Vinci used linear perspective to create _________________.
the illusion of depth in two-dimensional space
Hue is _____________.
the name that differentiates one color from another
Repetition in artwork helps create _____________________.
unity
The term used to refer to relative lightness or darkness is _____________.
value
In linear perspective, parallel lines receding into the distance seem to converge, until they meet at the ____________.
vanishing point
The equation for an Art Experience consists of an artist/creator, a conveyed message (image or object) and a(n) ________________.
viewer (you)
We discussed the practical role of art (or art in the broadest definition) to be what?
virtually every man-made object on the planet touching every aspect of your life.
The apparent 'heaviness' or 'lightness' of forms in a composition is referred to as:
visual weight
We will sometimes create or collect things as impractical objects. Meaning their form goes well beyond the basic practicality in design (i.e. Ferrari, fancy china, even a lamp). We do this because:
we want aesthetic objects to appeal to our sense of beauty / visual interest, elevate our status in society or give meaningful importance to some of the things in our life.