humanities art ch.3-5

The top example in this illustration shows which principle of asymmetrical or informal balance?

A large form is visually heavier than a smaller form

In Gustav Klimit's painting Death and Life, which general principle of visual balance applies?

A smaller dark form can balance a larger light form.

Which statement best describes the artistic theme of "the here and now"?

Art can be about everyday things as well as big, grand stories

Aerial perspective is also known as __ perspective

Atmospheric

When two forms __ the one we perceive as partial is behind

Combine

Some artists question the very nature of makes something art. What, for John Baldessari, creates the distinction?

Conceptualizing and naming the activity differently, even though the physical activity is the same

Leonardo's last supper served as a good example of a work of art that need to be

Conserved

How does the Garden of Earthly delights demonstrate Bosch's unique innovation?

Depictions of otherworldly plants and animals. Imaginative interpretation of textual sources. A fanciful landscape

Visual cues can give a flat surface the third dimension of

Depth

Colors have the same general meaning and emotional associations across cultures.

False

Texture in a work of art can only be experienced through touch

False

True or false: A work of art can only fit into one theme.

False

True or false: Rousseau, in the Dream, inspired the classic pose of the reclining nude woman seen so commonly during this era.

False

Albrecht durer's draftsman drawing a reclining nude

Foreshortening

Eugene Delocroix's Liberty Leading the People supported a revolution in which country?

France

Art that expresses the sacred realm deals with what kind of subject matter?

Gods, goddesses, and the spiritual world

How did Spiral Jetty creator Robert Smithson think artists could impact the natural world?

He believed artists could shape the landscape like a geological force

How did Eugene Delacroix change the role of the artist in politics?

He showed that artists have the ability to disagree with those in power.

Why is the statue of Marcus Aurelius a political piece of art?

He was an emperor of Rome

At the center of Francesco di Giorgio Martinis

Horizon; vanishing point

Rama and Lakshmana Bound by Arrow-snakes is part of the Ramayana, an epic story from what culture?

India

__ colors are the product of a primary color and an adjacent secondary color

Intermediate

Art which takes art itself as a subject

Is the result of artists looking at and learning from art.

Muslim painters frequently use the system of __ because it allows for scenes to be depicted as they might be seen from Gods perspective

Isometric perspective

How does Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman Holding a Balance depict the theme of the human experience?

It deals with issues of temptation and self-knowledge

In thomas cole's the oxbow

It is cole himself sitting in the landscape while also painting it.

what is one of the reasons given for why art can be its own theme?

It is created purely for visual pleasure

Why would Hopper's 1940 painting Gas be considered an example of using the present?

It is of an ordinary man doing his job in a setting in his time period

In conjunction with the use of chiaroscuro

Linear perspective

Forms wih __ such as sculpture and architecture

Mass

James Abbot McNeil used which of the following elements

Monochromatic color and strong horizontal and vertical lines

What type of subject matter is portrayed in the theme of the natural world?

Nature and humans' relation to it

Visual texture can be created by a

Pattern

How did the composition and presentation of Guernica present Picasso's point of view?

Picasso created a visceral depiction of the city's suffering and anguish condemning what he saw as an unforgivable atrocity of war. 2 Picasso's use of strictly black, white, and gray.. 3 Picasso created a composition on a massive scale to overwhelm and awe viewers.

Which of these is not one of Hieronymus Bosch's inspirations for the Garden of Earthly Delights?

Politics

Which pairing would result in the perception of simultaneous contrast

Red & blue

Without touching a surface, the way the surface __ gives us an idea of its texture

Reflects light

the golden section, which is portrayed in this illustration, was employed by

Renaissance architects and artists.

What kind of subject matter falls under the theme of here and now?

Scenes from everyday life in the present day

What subject matter was Edward Hopper particulary good at painting?

Scenes of loneliness and empty spaces

__ interacts with other visual elements of an artwork to give them definition

Space

As demonstrated in Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna and child with Saint ann

Stimulates the recession of space by depicting objects in the background as gray or hazy

Why do artists rely on stories for subject matter?

Stories create a sense of community because they rely on a culture's collective memory.

The surface quality of an object is its

Texture

What is the most apparent difference discussed between Jeff Wall's A sudden Gust of Wind and the original Hokusai print?

The absence of the mountain featured in the original print

Which of the following is an example of the use of scale in a composition?

The artist want to emphasize a female figure and makes her larger than all the other figures in the composition.

How is the element of space used in Thomas Cole's the Oxbow

The diagonal tree at the left draws the viewers eye into the painting

Which figures are foreshortened in Hans Baldung Grien's the groom and the witch

The groom and the horse

What Christian idea does Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman Holding a Balance represent?

The last Judgment

What is significant about this image?

This model serves as one of the earliest images of daily life in ancient Egypt

Actual texture in a work of art is experienced through what sense

Touch

The Sainte-Chapelle is best known for what?

Towering walls that appear to be made of stained glass.

The African-American artist Meta Warrick Fuller's sculpture Talking Skull is about what?

Trying to reconnect with and take pride in African heritage

Linear perspective is easily recognized in a picture by the use of

Two converging lines at the center

When we see markings in an artwork that we associate with texture, whether or not they actually depict actual texture, we are experiencing

Visual texture

In an architectural interior, __ provide the boundaries for space

Walls

How does an artist know when a composition is balanced?

When it looks balanced

An implied shape is

a suggested but not explicitly outlined form used to harmonize a composition

A __ harmony uses adjacent colors on the color wheel

analaguous

An __ harmony uses adjacent colors on the color wheel

analogous

Many works of __ were created to provided a space for people to worship the divine realms

architecture

When visual weight is equally distributed in a composition, the composition feels

balanced

The Sainte- Chapelle ws commissioned in 1239 by the French king Louis IX to.

be a private chapel for the king and his court. 2 house his important collection of religious relics.

Modeling through the use of different values to create the illusion of three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional space is known as

chiaroscuro

It may be safe to say that the visual element that gives people the most pleasure is

color

__ can increase appetite or lower blood pressure

color

on a two-dimensional surface, the organization of the elements of art is called

composition

A __ follows the outline of a figure, establishing the boundaries between separate forms.

contour line

The perpendicular layering of closely spaced lines over one another to stimulate areas of dark or shadow is defined as.

cross-hatching

Unity, variety, balance, emphasis, subordination, proportion, scale, and rhythm are all examples of principles of

design

To convey dynamic action and movement in a static composition, artists use __ lines

diagonal

An implied line

directs a viewer's eye within a work of art, but is not explicitly depicted

When an artist chooses an area of composition to highlight or draw attention to, this is called

emphasis

in the process of optical color mixing, small patches of color close to one another i a composition are "blended together" by the __ eye to produce a new color

eye

A kinetic work of art

features one or more moving parts

A cube, a pyramid, and a circle are examples of __ shapes and masses

geometric

The french architect Le Corbusier used measurements based on the __

golden

Hans Baldung Grien's print The Groom and the Witch exemplifies the technique of __ to create areas of shadow

hatching

This image depicts the _ of the color wheel and their respective ___ value scale

hues;gray

In Francisco de Goya's painting Executions of the Third of May, 1808, emphasis on the main figure is created by

implied light and directional line

A form that is suggested rather than explicitly...

implied shape

Experiments by Sir Isaac Newton during the 17th century established that colors are components of

light

Which of the following elements are used in our analysis of an artwork's form?

light, shape, line, color

Value is related to what color property?

lightness and darkness

The traced path of a moving point is the definition of a

line

The space in Masaccio's Trinity with the virgin

linear perspective

forms with __ such as sculpture and

mass

Exemplified in Leonardo da Vinci's drawing the Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and John the Baptist....

modeling

As depicted in Evening, Honfleur, Seurat's "dots," or use of pointillism, represent what coloring technique?

optical mixing

Symmetry in art often represents

order, harmony, and authority

shapes perceived as figures in a work of art are described as being __ shaped

positive

which of the following are principles of design

proportion and scale, unity and variety, balance, Rhythm

The principle of variety is used to

provide interest in the image

Complementaries are said to __ with one another more vividly than other colors.

react

The principle of rhythm can be identified by the

repetition of elements in a composition

On this painted cloth titled Thirteen-Deity Jnaadakini Mandala, the symmetrical balance of the Mandala

represents the cosmic order and logic of like for Tibetan Buddhists

Artists working with a few pigments and their mixtures, tints, and shades are described as using a

restricted palette

The architect Leon Battista Alberti used a repeating vertical

rhythm

An artists can use __ ti create an afterimage

saturated color to fatigue receptors in viewers' eyes, and then allow the eyes to rest

Size in relation to a standard or expected size is referred to as

scale

The artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are known for their huge sculptures,

scale

A __ is a two-dimensional form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries

shape

The areas of an image that contain a "painting within a painting" are called

space cells

When light passes through a prism, it is refracted into six colors of the visible

spectrum

The use of dots to suggest value is known as

stippling

If a line is drawn down the center of a composition, and each side corresponds to the other, it is referred to as

symmetrical balance

Leonardo da Vinci's study of human proportions according to Vitruvius was intended to illustrate

the ancient idea of perfect human proportions

What does the word iconoclasm mean?

the destruction of religious imagery due to idolatry

In a work of art the ground refers to

the visual information figures stand out from

An artwork with asymmetrical composition can feel balanced if

the visual weight on each side is similar

Areas of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many cultures throughout history are known as __ and eight of them are explored in the chapter

themes

A__ is a color that's lighter than a hue's normal value, and a

tint;shade

Eugene delacroix used the implied shape of a __

triangle to unify and order his composition Liberty Leading the People

Shades of light and dark are also known as

values

We perceive and respond to the __ such as texture, mass, and space, when we look at artwork

visual elements

We perceive and respond to the ___ such as texture, mass, and space, when we look at artwork

visual elements

Unity based on the elements of art, such as shape, line and color, is called

visual unity

Colors on the red-orange side of the color wheel are described as __ the blue-green side is described as _

warm;cool

in an additive color mixing process of light- red, green, and blue

white