Art Appreciation 1113 Holmes

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional methods and rules of art.

False

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.

Surrealists

The ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun god Re (0.0.1) was painted on ________.

a coffin

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

a figure-ground reversal

Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?

all of the other answers roadside billboards oil paintings comic books television commercials

Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology are:

basic attributes of time terms that describe time attributes of film central tenets of time-based art all of the other answers

The French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon created chiaroscuro by using ________ chalk on paper.

black and white

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

chiaroscuro

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

complementary colors

Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.

compositional unity

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

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

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________.

depth

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

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

form

The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.

harmonious . . . relaxed

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

hierarchical scale

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

hue

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

Variety can ________ a design.

invigorate

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

kinetic

Stolen art loses much of its value because:

lacking good title and proper provenance prevents its resale

The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life.

monumental

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

monumental

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.

organic

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

outline

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

performance art

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz's Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called ________.

relative placement

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were:

the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman

Katsushika Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated

the sensations of a fall day by the river

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

three-dimensional

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

three-dimensional

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

time . . . motion

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene?

unity

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

value