Art Appreciation 1.1

an implied line

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

an actual line

A line that is a continuous mark is ____________.

a geometric

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

a positive

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

a negative

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

directional line

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

Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo painted The Two Fridasshortly after she was divorced from which famous Mexican painter?

contour

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

horizontal

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

using black and white, lighting with spotlight, keeping the scene monochromatic, and dressing figures in dark clothing

In Carrie Mae Weems' Kitchen Table series, dramatic effect is achievedby doing what?

directional

In James Allen's etching The Connectors, and image of workers erecting the Empire State Building, the artists created a feeling of great height by using _________ line to lead the viewer's eye diagonally downward.

continuous

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

sculpture

In a 1941 drawing the British artist Barbara Hepworth used line to plan a ________.

a figure-ground reversal

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

negative

In her painting Music—Pink and Blue II, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue ________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

negative

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.

walls

In his drawing of the Church of Saint Spirito, Dosio used line to accentuate the patterned surface of the ceiling and differentiate it from the ________.

movement

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

regular

Mel Bochner used ________ line in the work Vertigobecause it is controlled and measured.

organic

Miriam Schapiro's collage Baby Blockscombines two different kinds of shape. ________ is the term used to describe a shape that suggests the natural world, while the term geometric suggests mathematical regularity.

implied line

Some jewish tests create images using this kind of line made up of small letters.

balancing black against white

The African American artist Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer who often concentrates on personal, cultural, and racial identity in her work. In her Kitchen Tableseries, she uses the principle of contrast by doing what?

implied

The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

irregular

The French artist André Masson wished to explore the psychological sourceof creativity through his "automatic" ink drawings of ________ lines.

vocabulary

The elements of art form the basic _______ of art

lineage

The line created by the vein in Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridasmakes reference to what personal aspect of her life?

by spiritual forces

The nineteenth-century Spiritualist artist Georgiana Houghton used irregular line to create the work Glory be to God. The artist claimed that the overall composition was organized how?

firgure-ground reversal

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

an implied

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by acontinuous boundary. This type of shape, which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect, is termed ________ shape.

organic

The type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines

loose, wild, chaotic, unpredictable

What words can be used to describe irregular lines.

controlled, geometric, cool-headed, predictable

Which words would best describe a regular line?

height

a flat work of art has two demensions: _________ and width

line

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

true

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

planes

the artist Dosio, in his drawing of the Church of Saint Spirito, created an impression of three dimensions by using the line to show the division between __________.

anxiety

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

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 ________.

outline

the line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ________.

outine......shape

the lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a _________

grammer

the principles of design are a kind of _____ that artists apply to the elements of art