1.1 Quiz

This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.

André Masson

Which artist uses abstract shapes derived from organic objects to symbolize the erotic and life-giving nature of womanhood?

Georgia O'Keefe

These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by overflying commercial aircraft

Nazca Lines

This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater.

Shepard Fairey

Line gives an unsettling energy to a painting of The Bedroom created by Dutch artist __________

Vincent Van Gogh

The elements of art form the basic ________ of art

Vocabulary

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape

a positive

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

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

an implied line

The French term used to refer to a work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface is called a(n)_______________.

collage

In Pablo Picasso's Blonde Woman in Profile, the artist uses a ________ line that follows the contours of the model's profile.

continuous

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

contour

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

Line can be used as a tool to:

demarcate boundaries imply direction give a sense of surface indicate movement

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

directional

In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer's attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building

directional

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

figure-ground reversal

The positive and negative shapes in M. C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are an example of ________.

figure-ground reversal

Artists use a contrast of elements and varying applications of the principles of design to create an area(s) of visual interest within an artwork. This area(s) is referred to as the __________

focal point

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise

geometric

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

One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points."

line

The artist Dosio, in his drawing of the Church of Saint Spirito, created an impression of three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface by using ______

linear perspective (diagonal lines)

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

negative

This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

organic

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the _______

outline

Vertical lines tend to communicate:

strength

Noma Bar's illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:

the act of gun crime and its terrible result

Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space.

true