HUMA 1315-20 Final Exam

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

implied lines

On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called

intermediate colors

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called

photorealistic

The term "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe

representational art

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

retains realistic elements but presents the world from a subjective view

Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves

rubbing a sheet of paper over a texture surface

The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of

symmetrical balance

Artist Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique called

tenebrism

Trompe-l'oeil is a technique literally meaning

trick of the eye

When and where was linear first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

during the Renaissance in Italy

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's

expressive line

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately resembling a vase or the space between two faces

figure-ground reversal

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

his proclivity for things seen but not examined

In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their

flattening of space between foreground and backgrounds

Objects that are intended to simulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but

aesthetic

When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the

afocal

To understand art you must understand a visual literacy, which are

all of the above (words and images, symbols and interpretation, and representation and abstractions)

How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?

analytical

Those artists working in new and experimental ideas are known as

avant-garde

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements

carefully drawn structured lines and uncontrolled drip lines

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the

Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's

Which of the following is not an aspect of texture?

content

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called

contour lines

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

cooler and less distinct

John Singer Sargent, Muddy Alligators, 1917

*no picture but literally what the title is*