Art Midterm

Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as

signs or symbols

When you add white pigment to another color pigment you are doing what to the color?

tinting

_____________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid

Open

Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understand the meaning of Velazquez's Las Meninas

True

If an artist created a painting that uses predominantly blue, and orange the color harmony is complimentary

True

In hierarchical scale important figures or holy figures to be drawn, painted or sculpted larger than other figures in the images.

True

Isometric perspective uses diagonal parallels and has been used in China for over one thousand years.

True

One mode of analysis involves considering political, economical r religious aspects of a work of art.

True

Thomas Struth's photograph Museo del Prado 7 is

a portrait of art appreciation

Which of these elements helps to create space in art?

all of the above

Abstraction refers to the highly rendered forms, sometimes considered to "fool the eye" because they look so much like the "real" world

False

Atmospheric perspective is used to model form and show the 3-D quality in figure paintings.

False

Expressive color is a color approach in which artists never uses random color choices based not on visual observation but instead on the emotional needs

False

Linear perspective is most effectively used for rendering irregular and natural forms rather than man-made forms.

False

Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.

False

Vertical and horizontal structures are a Western convention for representing female forms

False

When art artist uses shifts in color, lower contrast and detail based on the effects of light and air in the landscape it is called

atmospheric perspective

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of _____________ in creating a work of art.

balance

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is _____________ unity.

conceptual

Shepard Fairey uses which of the following concepts as a strong component of his graphically painted images

contrasting negative and positive shape

What is the method of value depiction where an artist uses a series of parallel lines?

cross hatching

Psychological analysis of Nighthawks by the artist Edward Hopper tells us that the painter was

expressive loneliness

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

geometric

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is

gestalt

The type of line which is the most calm or placid is which of the following?

horizontal

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

implied lines

A color's brightness of dullness is called

intensity or saturation

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a

relief

If we can recognize the objects or people in a work of art, it is

representational

The exaggerated use of contrasting light vs dark colors to play up the dramatic qualities of a given scene can be used most effectively for which of the listen purposes?

to create emphasis

The tools of formal analysis help us to

understand how an artwork was made

An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is

unrecognizable

The elements of art form the basic ________ of art

vocabulary

Which color would be considered an analogous color to yellow?

yellow-orange

This painter creates images of historical Chinese women to explore their "social captivity" and subjugation in oil, employing drips and line to suggest power and control vs. freedom.

Hung Liu

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the

palette

A work of art is the product of interrelationships between various art elements and

principles