Art test 1

The Belgian Surrealist artist ------- created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.

Rene Magritte

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

Solar Rotary

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

Surrealists

Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?

a museum website

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

absorb

Artists can use ------ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

all of the other answers

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

an implied line

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are.......

analogous

The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom creates an atmosphere of...

anxiety

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

balance

Considers the artist's personal experiences

biographical analysis

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

complementary colors

Considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed.

contextual analysis

Henri Matisse drew Woman Seated in an Armchair using ---- line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contour

In the painting The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that...........

contrast

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of----

contrast

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

depth

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ......

depth

Considers the role of women in artwork

feminist analysis

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

focal point

Analyses the use of formal elements in a work

formal analysis

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ...... sculpture.

freestanding

The principles of design are a kind of ----- that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

A flat work of art has two dimensions:----- and width

height

Interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols

iconographical analysis

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

mandala

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called........ scale.

monumenal

The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life.

monumental

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the -------- of a -------

outline of a shape

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called......

pattern

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

performance art

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its.........., affects how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions

The traditional primary colors are.........

red, yellow, blue

By using ------ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Meret 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.

surrealist

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features where:

the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman

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

time and motion

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ------

value

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

value

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

variety

the elements of art form the basic ------ of art.

vocabulary

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

volume

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

Josef Albers

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

Chuck Close

This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.

Edward Weston

Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.

False

Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past.

False

80 Backs by Magdalena Abakanowicz was deeply influenced by the artist's personal experiences during World War II

True