Art1113(8week) Midterm
The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.
a monochromatic
What is the most vivid element of art and design?
color
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as:
geometric.
What is the difference between analysis and critique?
Analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself.
Why would a psychological analysis help a viewer understand The Scream?
Because the artist focused more on what he felt than what he saw.
It is not possible to analyze the meaning of an abstract artwork.
False
Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.
False
Which of the following does not create a pattern?
a single leaf
Memento mori refers to:
a symbolic reminder that death is inevitable.
Which one of the following types of analysis relates to only what we can see in a work of art, thus requiring a careful look and description, but not research or expertise?
formal analysis
A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a:
motif.
Which type of analysis would tell you that the appearance of Hieronymus Bosch's artwork consistently emphasized fantastic scenes and distorted human anatomy to emphasize a religious message that condemned immorality, rather than creating convincing realism or portraying accurate proportions?
stylistic
There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
two
The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.
vocabulary
Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs.
False
The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.
False
This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called:
chiaroscuro.
An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense, it then seems to be:
closer
What element of art can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions?
color
What is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn?
focal point
Which of the following words can be used to describe irregular lines?
loose, wild, chaotic, and unpredictable
Tibetan Buddhist monks create colored sand images with a radial design. This representation of the universe is called a:
mandala.
Which of the following terms refers to the substance contained in an object, though it does not necessarily imply weight?
mass
A________ scale is the kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life.
monumental
Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.
motion / time
What type of volume is a space enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid?
open
Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.
organic
The lines that create the image of the Nazca Monkey "drawing" define the ________ of a ________.
outline / shape
Which kind of sculpture can be viewed from more than one side and occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects?
freestanding
An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is ________ than the tree.
further away
This painting, titled the Old Guitarist, relies on values of blue, brown, and gray. What was the name of the artist who completed this work during their "Blue Period"?
Picasso
________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom
Radial
The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and most beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Shah Jahan
In her sculpture Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. To which twentieth-century art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind, did she belong?
Surrealist
This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.
Surrealists
________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.
Symmetrical
The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. According to the ancient Greek definition of a sphinx, what features distinguished a mythological creature?
The body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman.
The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors, which cannot be mixed from any other color combination.
True
What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
a facade
If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be:
a focal point in the artwork.
The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.
a harmonious
A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape.
a positive
A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.
a repetitive
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to:
absorb.
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
A line that is a continuous mark is:
an actual line.
Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and that are similar in wavelength, are referred to as ________ colors
analogous
Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs is an example of a series of individually photographed scenes played in rapid succession. This medium is called:
animation.
What kind of atmosphere does the combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom create?
anxiety
If an artist painted a street scene with one large building on the left-hand side, and two smaller buildings on the right-hand side, this would be an example of ________ balance.
asymmetrical
When objects are far away, they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. In what process do artists take advantage of this?
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
What type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for "low," does not imply great depth?
bas-relief
When an artist chooses to highlight the entire surface of their work, without regard for any particular area, this is called:
broad emphasis.
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.
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 Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background to:
draw attention to Icarus's fall.
Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.
elements
A two-dimensional object is called a shape; a three-dimensional object is known as a:
form.
In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.
format
Romare Bearden's work The Dove uses an underlying ________ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order.
grid
What is the process that uses a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art?
hatching
A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.
height
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of the ancient Maya, where it was used to indicate social importance.
hierarchical
What term refers to each of the basic colors of the spectrum?
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.
An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies:
intimacy.
This system, which derives its name from the Greek word meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth.
isometric perspective
This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.
kinetic
The definition "a mark that connects two points" describes which of the following elements?
line
This is the system that creates an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.
linear perspective
This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.
performance art
This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
prism
The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its:
proportions
The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.
radial and bilateral
What are the traditional "artist's" primary colors?
red, yellow, and blue
A three-dimensional surface designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a:
relief.
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
In her paintings, Golsa Golchini uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.
small scale
The opposite of emphasis is:
subordination
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.
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
Artists don't use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
unity
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
unity
A series of different values grouped together is referred to as a:
value range.
Louise Bourgeois is an American sculptor who created a work that stands outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What is the title of this spider-shaped sculpture?
Maman
This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.
Op art
Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.
Fauve
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
Asymmetrical
During what stylistic and historical period did Artemisia Gentileschi work?
Baroque
This artist formulated rules for creating depth, using the principle of linear perspective. To prove the rules, he used a painting with a small hole, a mirror, and the Florence Baptistery. The viewer would look through the back of the painting of the Florence Baptistery while the mirror reflected it; then when the mirror was removed, the viewer could see the actual building. Who was this artist and innovator?
Brunelleschi
Name the three kinds of unity.
Compositional, conceptual, gestalt.
An artwork can have only one focal point.
False
An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.
False
Artists only started to depict time in art in the twentieth century, and no other artwork that implied movement was created before 1900.
False
Heavy visual mass must always have a heavy physical weight.
False
Horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.
False
If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision.
False
Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object and can be used to suggest a volume in space.
True
It does not matter if a sculptor is creating a human statue on a monumental scale, or a figure much smaller than lifesize: if the sculptor applies the ratio of the Golden Section, the sculpture will have naturalistic proportions.
True
Performance artists in the Cirque du Soleil rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.
True
In the painting The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that:
contrast.
The area covered by a pattern is called the:
field.
Edvard Munch's The Scream depicts a suicide witnessed by the artist.
False
Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures
False
Holbein's The Ambassadors includes several references to religious content.
True
Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.
close-up
The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called:
pattern.
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
prayer figures.
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.
Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.
variety
This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring together many different ideas, media, or elements in one composition.
variety
