Art Appreciation Honors FINAL CUMULATIVE EXAM

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The study of the creation, appreciation and critical thinking of art. Traditionally concerned with beauty now this branch of philosophy covers all aspects of the arts as well as art's ability to get and hold visual interest. It is:

Aesthetics

This painting, by Gilbert Stuart, is an example of what (less practical) aesthetic role art?

Documenting human history

Who is qualified to make, view and react to art?

Everyone

2-D art refers to works having the three dimensions of height, width, weight and depth.

False

Aesthetics and beauty in art are defined and concrete qualities accepted by all viewers.

False

Each art element and principle works independently and is not associated or connected to the other elements or principles.

False

Elements of line and shape are clearly defined and cannot be implied or suggested.

False

If most of the forms in a work of art are concentrated on one side of the composition it is impossible for the work to achieve balance.

False

Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot draw well.

False

The concept of the vanishing point is the key to converging lines in the principle of proportion.

False

The element of shape cannot be defined or implied because it has no boundaries.

False

The elements and principles of art are set, governing rules that cannot be challenged and must always be adhered to by all artists.

False

Unity and variety are art principles that never work together and are clearly separated from one another.

False

This image is a good example of what?

Perception. How we distinguish figure and ground

Pablo Picasso was born in

Spain

Which of these are some of the listed artist characteristics from your student workbook?

Spark insight and discovery, willingly take risks, and persist in pursuing a goal.

Analogous color schemes are colors that are adjacent to one another on the color wheel.

True

Art, unlike nature, is a human creation and one of the many ways we express ourselves and attempt to communicate.

True

Directional lines, lighting, placement and isolation are devices used to create emphasis.

True

Everyone is qualified to make art and express their human existence to the rest of us.

True

In two-dimensional art, the organization of the elements and principles is referred to as the design or composition.

True

On the color wheel, orange, green and violet are known as secondary colors.

True

Our individual patterns of perception have a great deal to do with the experience of art.

True

Radial balance occurs when forms in a composition appear to move outward from a central point, like spokes on a wheel.

True

The elements and principles are applied in both 2-D and 3-D artworks.

True

When studying art, understanding the process by which it was made helps in our appreciation.

True

White light refracts, or breaks up, into multiple colors when passed through a prism.

True

Textures we experience through the sense of touch are called ____________ textures.

actual or tactile

The two main categories of texture are:

actual texture and visual texture

If you stare at certain color areas for half a minute and then turn your eyes quickly to a white page or wall, you may see the same image in its complementary colors. This phenomenon is called ____________.

afterimage

Which of the following are examples of implied lines?

all of the above

In media and materials for making art, what is an art material?

all of the above. Anything on earth is potential material for making art

In ________________, the goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the works of art thus leading to greater pleasure and awareness. Every viewer has unique and individual aspects in their perceptions and reactions.

art criticism

Nature (in and of itself) is separate from art because:

art, unlike nature, has to have a human connection or involve human manipulation to exist.

As discussed, what three things connect all human beings and contribute to the idea of the human condition?

being born, living and death

As we studied, these three things connect all human beings:

being born, living and dying

Outsider, Naïve or Folk art contains characteristics of:

both B and D

Colors directly opposite one another on the color wheel are called ______________.

complementary

The text defines __________ unity as a 'unity of ideas'.

conceptual

The blues and greens on the color wheel are generally considered to be ___________.

cool and receding

When intersecting groups of lines are used to create value and shading, the technique is:

cross-hatching

Lines considered the most dynamic and suggestive of movement are ____________.

diagonal

Artists use our visual tendency to follow lines to:

direct our attention around an image or object and to suggest movement

The less practical / more aesthetic art roles are:

document human history, illustrate emotions, ideas / spiritual aspects and challenge the conventions of perception

The element of color can be very dramatic because of its:

emotional reactions in the viewer

______________ is what we see when we look at art in terms of the visual elements and design principles as well as the media and material choices of the artists. The physical appearance of a work of art.

form

The two main categories of shape are:

geometric and organic

In perception, figure is the object or image we distinguish whereas, ____________ is the backdrop against which we see the figure or object.

ground

ALL art regardless of its culture, style, time period or means shares this essential connection:

having a human connection and relating to or being about the human condition.

The interpretation of meaning, images and symbols (describing images) in a work of art make up its:

iconography

The aesthetic qualities of beauty in art suggest beauty is not only physical appearance. Art should touch beyond the eyes, to the _______________________ as well.

intellect and emotions

In art criticism, what you feel the content (meaning or message) of the artwork is, represents:

interpretation

According to your workbook, the essentials of appreciation are:

making, viewing and reacting

When a painting or other work of art is designed almost entirely in one hue or color, its color scheme is said to be __________________.

monochromatic

In representational art, _________________ occurs when a work of art closely resembles forms and objects of the natural world.

naturalism

When Franco allowed Hitler to bomb the city of Guernica, Spain in 1937, the reason was:

no reason other than military experimentation

_________________ works do not have a recognizable connection to visual reality but instead focus on the subjective and emotional qualities (the things we feel) through the formal elements and principles.

non-representational

________________ shapes could be found in or mimic nature.

organic

When discussing beauty in art, we learned the Italian term Pieta means:

pity and is the subject of Mary holding the body of Christ after the crucifixion

Which of the following is NOT an art element?

price

On a basic color wheel, the hues red, yellow and blue are called ___________ colors

primary

The term ________________ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole or between items perceived as a unit.

proportion

Joel Shapiro is the name of the artist who created this work, which plays on our tendency to:

recognize human form in works of art that are abstract or non-representational (see things as we are)

This painting is by Picasso. It is abstracted but is still within the _____________ category of art.

representational

The two main categories of art are:

representational and non-representational

When two primary colors are mixed together in equal amounts, the result is a:

secondary color

In linear perspective, forms seen as farther away from the viewer are ____________.

smaller

_______________ is what the art is about or what is being depicted (person, place, object or event).

subject

As discussed, art contains three basic components which are:

subject (what), form (appearance / material) and content (message)

This painting by Picasso illustrates the story of what event?

the German bombing of a city in Spain

In studying art, we realize that artists learn from studying the achievements of the past and observing _________________.

the efforts of their peers

In The Last Supper, da Vinci used linear perspective to create _________________.

the illusion of depth in two-dimensional space

Hue is _____________.

the name that differentiates one color from another

Repetition in artwork helps create _____________________.

unity

The term used to refer to relative lightness or darkness is _____________.

value

In linear perspective, parallel lines receding into the distance seem to converge, until they meet at the ____________.

vanishing point

The equation for an Art Experience consists of an artist/creator, a conveyed message (image or object) and a(n) ________________.

viewer (you)

We discussed the practical role of art (or art in the broadest definition) to be what?

virtually every man-made object on the planet touching every aspect of your life.

The apparent 'heaviness' or 'lightness' of forms in a composition is referred to as:

visual weight

We will sometimes create or collect things as impractical objects. Meaning their form goes well beyond the basic practicality in design (i.e. Ferrari, fancy china, even a lamp). We do this because:

we want aesthetic objects to appeal to our sense of beauty / visual interest, elevate our status in society or give meaningful importance to some of the things in our life.


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