Quiz Chapter 1.1
Henri Matisse drew Woman Seated in an Armchair using ________ line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive
Contour
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
The artist Thomas Eakins used ______________ line in the clouds and rowing oars to emphasize action and to guide the viewer's eye across the composition
Diagonal
In Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as ________ lines
Directional
Actual lines are most dominant in which image?
Mel Bochner, Vertigo, 1982
The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________
Outline . . . Shape
A characteristic way in which an artist or group of artists uses visual language to give a work an identifiable form of visual expression is ______________________________
Style
The elements of art form the basic _________ of art; the principles of art are the __________
Vocabulary; grammer
In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________
a figure-ground reversal
A shape made of precise, perfectly straight lines would be classified as ___________ shape; a shape composed of unpredictable, irregular lines is referred to as __________ shape
a geometric, an organic
A line that is a continuous mark is __________________ while marks that give the viewer the impression they are seeing a line is _________________
an actual line, an implied line
A line that is not actually drawn but gives the impression we are seeing a line where there is no continuous mark is _____________________
an implied line
Identify the type(s) of shape in this painting
geometric and organic
A flat work of art has two dimensions: __________ and width
height
