Art Appreciation Mid term

implied line

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

Balance

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.

distorts

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

the artist's own blood

The medium of Marc Quinn s Self is:

iconographical analysis

interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols

Agnolo Bronzino s portrait Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son, Giovanni conveys a sense of:

wealth, power, high staus

In Joseph Beuys s Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist_____.

wrapped himself in felt and lived five days in an art gallery with a coyote

small scale

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

Ghostwriter

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.

elements

line, shape, form, mass, volume, texture, space, time and motion and value

an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, vi

performance art

directional

In Francisco Goya s The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewer s attention in this way are known as ________ lines.

surrealist

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist M ret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

painting

In his photograph Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.

Honor Daumier

In one of his lithographic images, this French artist depicted the aftermath of a violent incidence of police brutality, where a family was killed in a case of mistaken identity.

cross-hatching

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

foreshortened

In the DC Comics image of Superman, the figure is portrayed at an extreme angle. This ________ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer s attention.

movement

In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of ________.

subordination

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

atmospheric perspective

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ________ to give a sense of the vastness of the American landscape.

energy dialogue

Marina's intent was to create ____ with her viewers.

regular line

Mel Bochner used ________ line in the work Vertigo because it is controlled and measured.

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.

spiritual

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

it expresses beliefs in an afterlife

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the Sun God Re (0.0.1) on a coffin chose his subject because ________.image

pink polka-dot trash bags

The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing ________.

value

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

Banksy

This British artist practices street art using a process that involves stencils and spray paint.

an organic form

This distortion of the human body, makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

life drawing

This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects.

focal point

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

gesture

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

two point

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

relief block

To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai s famous The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa , a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color.

rebel against

When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.

vibrate

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.

conceptual art

art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than its appearance or execution.

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

biographical analysis

considers the artist's personal experiences

contextual analysis

considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork

feminist analysis

considers the role of women presented in an artwork

prinicples

contrast, balance, unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis, pattern, proportion and scale

formal analysis

describes the use of formal elements in a work

As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.

extreme performance pieces,

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 opposite of emphasis is ________.

subordination