art quiz #1 review

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

Bioartists

The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate means that the viewer and the city of blank, become a part of the work, in its reflection.

Chicago

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

Complementary colors

The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. The title was blank.

Nuestro Pueblo

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

Op art

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of blank.

Painted wood

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 known as blank.

Pointilism

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

Value

The ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun God Re was painted on blank.

a coffin

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive blank.

a figure-ground reversal

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

absorb

Allan Houser's work Reverie is ________.

abstract and representational

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.

actual

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by a continuous boundary. This type of shape, which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect, is termed ________ shape.

an implied

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

animation

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called:

atmospheric perspective

This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.

cone of vision

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using ________.

directional line

In the Roettgen Pieta from the fourteenth century Germany, the artist blank the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

foreshortening

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ________ forms.

geometric

The principles of design are a kind of blank, that artists apply to the elements of art

grammar

Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, it is considered his work because ...

he designed it

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form

kinetic

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was ________.

looted by the Nazis

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

mobile

Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne implies motion. What kind of motion is being depicted?

movement

The artist can more readily reflect the complexities of the real world by using more than one vanishing point. This is known as ________ perspective.

multi-point

An empty space defined by its surround is known as blank shape

negative

In her painting music pink and blue II, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue blank space in order to attract the viewers attention into deep interior

negative

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.

neutralize

In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated because ________.

of the shape, subtle colors, and irregular surface

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

outer space

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ________.

outline

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

performance art

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

pink polka dot trash bags

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a, blank,.

relief

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

saturation

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

temperature

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

three-dimensional

These four visual elements of art- form, volume, mass, and texture- are present in blank works

three-dimensional

Because a form exists in "real" space we can experience it not only visually, but also through the sense of ________.

touch

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

two-point

Jose de Riveras sculpture infinity can be described as non-objective because its subject matter is

unrecognizable

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

vanishing point

The elements of art form the basic blank of art.

vocabulary

The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is blank.

volume

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

yellow