Art Appreciation 1301 Midterm

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

Complementary

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

In order 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

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

Depth

The binding agent for tempera paint is?

Egg

Henri Matisse was a member of the __________ movement, a groups of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.

Fauvist

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

Foreshortening

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

Fresco

Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as ________.

Funerary Adornments

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

Grammar

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called?

Hatching

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ____________ and width.

Height

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

Hue

The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint

Jan Van Eyck

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

Line

This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.

Linear Perspective

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of _________ to a painting.

Luminosity

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

The artist can more readily reflect the complexities of the real world by using more than one vanishing point. This is known as ________ perspective.

Multi-Point

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

Two-Point

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

Value

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

Value

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

Vanishing Point

The elements of art from the basic ___________ of art.

Vocabulary

This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.)

Watercolor

The oculus in Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua is

A Painted Illusion

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

An Implied Line

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ______ colors.

Analogous

The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's "The Bedroom" creates an atmosphere of ________.

Anxiety

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called:

Atmospheric Perspective

What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Edouard Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere"?

Barmaid, Bar Top, Liquor and Wine Bottles

There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, and another that means "good fresco."

Buon Fresco

The most vivid element of art and design.

Color

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

Organic

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

Outline

The painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.

Palette Knife

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.

Pigment

This component of paint had traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.

Pigment

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

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

Positive

The traditional primary colors are?

Red, Yellow, & Blue

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

Saturation

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

Three-Dimensional