Module 1 Quiz

An empty space defined by its surrounding shape is known as ___ shape.

a negative

When touching an object, we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ___ texture.

actual

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.

actual motion

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense, it then seems to be ___.

closer

A two-dimensional object is called a shape; a three-dimensional object is known as a:

form

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

geometric

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

organic

The ___ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate invites its viewers to touch the surface.

smooth

The elements of art form the basic ___ of art.

vocabulary

What is a line that gives viewers the impression they are seeing a line where there is no continuous mark called?

an implied line

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ___ to give a sense of the vastness of American landscape.

atmospheric perspective

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called ________.

chiaroscuro

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

chroma

Henri Matisse drew Woman Seated in an Armchair using ___ line so that he could represent the figure with great simplicity, while still being descriptive.

countour

To create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ___, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

cross-hatching

Most commercial color printing is achieved using three "true" primary colors and black. These primaries are:

cyan, magenta, and yellow

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

directional line

Marisol's work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S. State of ________.

Hawaii

By using ____ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ___ of the chase.

movement

In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of:

movement

Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet uses actual motion by costumed dancers as an example of ___ art.

performance art

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

prism

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as:

geometric

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. What is a color darker than its basic hue called?

shade

These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ___works of art.

three-dimensional

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla implied motion by repetition and inference in his work ________ of a Dog on a Leash.

Dynamism

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as:

implied motion

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

kinetic

Which of the following terms refers to the substance contained in an object, though it does not necessarily imply weight?

mass

For his own text on drawing, this German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn form an oblique angle.

Albrecht Dürer

Louise Bourgeois is an American sculptor who created a work that stands outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What is the title of the spider-shaped sculpture?

Maman

The French artist 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, is known as:

Pointillism

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

René Magritte

In what New York City museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright did Jenny Holzer create an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board?

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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

temperature

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing motion occurs as time passes, this is called:

the illusion of motion

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

value

A series of different values grouped together is referred to as a:

value range

When complimentary 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.

vibrate