humanities art ch.3-5
The top example in this illustration shows which principle of asymmetrical or informal balance?
A large form is visually heavier than a smaller form
In Gustav Klimit's painting Death and Life, which general principle of visual balance applies?
A smaller dark form can balance a larger light form.
Which statement best describes the artistic theme of "the here and now"?
Art can be about everyday things as well as big, grand stories
Aerial perspective is also known as __ perspective
Atmospheric
When two forms __ the one we perceive as partial is behind
Combine
Some artists question the very nature of makes something art. What, for John Baldessari, creates the distinction?
Conceptualizing and naming the activity differently, even though the physical activity is the same
Leonardo's last supper served as a good example of a work of art that need to be
Conserved
How does the Garden of Earthly delights demonstrate Bosch's unique innovation?
Depictions of otherworldly plants and animals. Imaginative interpretation of textual sources. A fanciful landscape
Visual cues can give a flat surface the third dimension of
Depth
Colors have the same general meaning and emotional associations across cultures.
False
Texture in a work of art can only be experienced through touch
False
True or false: A work of art can only fit into one theme.
False
True or false: Rousseau, in the Dream, inspired the classic pose of the reclining nude woman seen so commonly during this era.
False
Albrecht durer's draftsman drawing a reclining nude
Foreshortening
Eugene Delocroix's Liberty Leading the People supported a revolution in which country?
France
Art that expresses the sacred realm deals with what kind of subject matter?
Gods, goddesses, and the spiritual world
How did Spiral Jetty creator Robert Smithson think artists could impact the natural world?
He believed artists could shape the landscape like a geological force
How did Eugene Delacroix change the role of the artist in politics?
He showed that artists have the ability to disagree with those in power.
Why is the statue of Marcus Aurelius a political piece of art?
He was an emperor of Rome
At the center of Francesco di Giorgio Martinis
Horizon; vanishing point
Rama and Lakshmana Bound by Arrow-snakes is part of the Ramayana, an epic story from what culture?
India
__ colors are the product of a primary color and an adjacent secondary color
Intermediate
Art which takes art itself as a subject
Is the result of artists looking at and learning from art.
Muslim painters frequently use the system of __ because it allows for scenes to be depicted as they might be seen from Gods perspective
Isometric perspective
How does Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman Holding a Balance depict the theme of the human experience?
It deals with issues of temptation and self-knowledge
In thomas cole's the oxbow
It is cole himself sitting in the landscape while also painting it.
what is one of the reasons given for why art can be its own theme?
It is created purely for visual pleasure
Why would Hopper's 1940 painting Gas be considered an example of using the present?
It is of an ordinary man doing his job in a setting in his time period
In conjunction with the use of chiaroscuro
Linear perspective
Forms wih __ such as sculpture and architecture
Mass
James Abbot McNeil used which of the following elements
Monochromatic color and strong horizontal and vertical lines
What type of subject matter is portrayed in the theme of the natural world?
Nature and humans' relation to it
Visual texture can be created by a
Pattern
How did the composition and presentation of Guernica present Picasso's point of view?
Picasso created a visceral depiction of the city's suffering and anguish condemning what he saw as an unforgivable atrocity of war. 2 Picasso's use of strictly black, white, and gray.. 3 Picasso created a composition on a massive scale to overwhelm and awe viewers.
Which of these is not one of Hieronymus Bosch's inspirations for the Garden of Earthly Delights?
Politics
Which pairing would result in the perception of simultaneous contrast
Red & blue
Without touching a surface, the way the surface __ gives us an idea of its texture
Reflects light
the golden section, which is portrayed in this illustration, was employed by
Renaissance architects and artists.
What kind of subject matter falls under the theme of here and now?
Scenes from everyday life in the present day
What subject matter was Edward Hopper particulary good at painting?
Scenes of loneliness and empty spaces
__ interacts with other visual elements of an artwork to give them definition
Space
As demonstrated in Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna and child with Saint ann
Stimulates the recession of space by depicting objects in the background as gray or hazy
Why do artists rely on stories for subject matter?
Stories create a sense of community because they rely on a culture's collective memory.
The surface quality of an object is its
Texture
What is the most apparent difference discussed between Jeff Wall's A sudden Gust of Wind and the original Hokusai print?
The absence of the mountain featured in the original print
Which of the following is an example of the use of scale in a composition?
The artist want to emphasize a female figure and makes her larger than all the other figures in the composition.
How is the element of space used in Thomas Cole's the Oxbow
The diagonal tree at the left draws the viewers eye into the painting
Which figures are foreshortened in Hans Baldung Grien's the groom and the witch
The groom and the horse
What Christian idea does Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman Holding a Balance represent?
The last Judgment
What is significant about this image?
This model serves as one of the earliest images of daily life in ancient Egypt
Actual texture in a work of art is experienced through what sense
Touch
The Sainte-Chapelle is best known for what?
Towering walls that appear to be made of stained glass.
The African-American artist Meta Warrick Fuller's sculpture Talking Skull is about what?
Trying to reconnect with and take pride in African heritage
Linear perspective is easily recognized in a picture by the use of
Two converging lines at the center
When we see markings in an artwork that we associate with texture, whether or not they actually depict actual texture, we are experiencing
Visual texture
In an architectural interior, __ provide the boundaries for space
Walls
How does an artist know when a composition is balanced?
When it looks balanced
An implied shape is
a suggested but not explicitly outlined form used to harmonize a composition
A __ harmony uses adjacent colors on the color wheel
analaguous
An __ harmony uses adjacent colors on the color wheel
analogous
Many works of __ were created to provided a space for people to worship the divine realms
architecture
When visual weight is equally distributed in a composition, the composition feels
balanced
The Sainte- Chapelle ws commissioned in 1239 by the French king Louis IX to.
be a private chapel for the king and his court. 2 house his important collection of religious relics.
Modeling through the use of different values to create the illusion of three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional space is known as
chiaroscuro
It may be safe to say that the visual element that gives people the most pleasure is
color
__ can increase appetite or lower blood pressure
color
on a two-dimensional surface, the organization of the elements of art is called
composition
A __ follows the outline of a figure, establishing the boundaries between separate forms.
contour line
The perpendicular layering of closely spaced lines over one another to stimulate areas of dark or shadow is defined as.
cross-hatching
Unity, variety, balance, emphasis, subordination, proportion, scale, and rhythm are all examples of principles of
design
To convey dynamic action and movement in a static composition, artists use __ lines
diagonal
An implied line
directs a viewer's eye within a work of art, but is not explicitly depicted
When an artist chooses an area of composition to highlight or draw attention to, this is called
emphasis
in the process of optical color mixing, small patches of color close to one another i a composition are "blended together" by the __ eye to produce a new color
eye
A kinetic work of art
features one or more moving parts
A cube, a pyramid, and a circle are examples of __ shapes and masses
geometric
The french architect Le Corbusier used measurements based on the __
golden
Hans Baldung Grien's print The Groom and the Witch exemplifies the technique of __ to create areas of shadow
hatching
This image depicts the _ of the color wheel and their respective ___ value scale
hues;gray
In Francisco de Goya's painting Executions of the Third of May, 1808, emphasis on the main figure is created by
implied light and directional line
A form that is suggested rather than explicitly...
implied shape
Experiments by Sir Isaac Newton during the 17th century established that colors are components of
light
Which of the following elements are used in our analysis of an artwork's form?
light, shape, line, color
Value is related to what color property?
lightness and darkness
The traced path of a moving point is the definition of a
line
The space in Masaccio's Trinity with the virgin
linear perspective
forms with __ such as sculpture and
mass
Exemplified in Leonardo da Vinci's drawing the Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and John the Baptist....
modeling
As depicted in Evening, Honfleur, Seurat's "dots," or use of pointillism, represent what coloring technique?
optical mixing
Symmetry in art often represents
order, harmony, and authority
shapes perceived as figures in a work of art are described as being __ shaped
positive
which of the following are principles of design
proportion and scale, unity and variety, balance, Rhythm
The principle of variety is used to
provide interest in the image
Complementaries are said to __ with one another more vividly than other colors.
react
The principle of rhythm can be identified by the
repetition of elements in a composition
On this painted cloth titled Thirteen-Deity Jnaadakini Mandala, the symmetrical balance of the Mandala
represents the cosmic order and logic of like for Tibetan Buddhists
Artists working with a few pigments and their mixtures, tints, and shades are described as using a
restricted palette
The architect Leon Battista Alberti used a repeating vertical
rhythm
An artists can use __ ti create an afterimage
saturated color to fatigue receptors in viewers' eyes, and then allow the eyes to rest
Size in relation to a standard or expected size is referred to as
scale
The artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are known for their huge sculptures,
scale
A __ is a two-dimensional form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries
shape
The areas of an image that contain a "painting within a painting" are called
space cells
When light passes through a prism, it is refracted into six colors of the visible
spectrum
The use of dots to suggest value is known as
stippling
If a line is drawn down the center of a composition, and each side corresponds to the other, it is referred to as
symmetrical balance
Leonardo da Vinci's study of human proportions according to Vitruvius was intended to illustrate
the ancient idea of perfect human proportions
What does the word iconoclasm mean?
the destruction of religious imagery due to idolatry
In a work of art the ground refers to
the visual information figures stand out from
An artwork with asymmetrical composition can feel balanced if
the visual weight on each side is similar
Areas of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many cultures throughout history are known as __ and eight of them are explored in the chapter
themes
A__ is a color that's lighter than a hue's normal value, and a
tint;shade
Eugene delacroix used the implied shape of a __
triangle to unify and order his composition Liberty Leading the People
Shades of light and dark are also known as
values
We perceive and respond to the __ such as texture, mass, and space, when we look at artwork
visual elements
We perceive and respond to the ___ such as texture, mass, and space, when we look at artwork
visual elements
Unity based on the elements of art, such as shape, line and color, is called
visual unity
Colors on the red-orange side of the color wheel are described as __ the blue-green side is described as _
warm;cool
in an additive color mixing process of light- red, green, and blue
white