Art 111 Midterm Review Part 2
low
A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.
shade
A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.
height
A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.
lime yellow
Advertisers often use this color to reach their audience because it is the most visible in the spectrum.
mobile
Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.
unity and variety
An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:
intimacy
An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.
further away
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.
False
An artist would probably use distorted scale if he or she wanted to create a lifelike scene that the viewer could relate to.
false
An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.
movement
Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.
monumental
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a sculpture that uses _________ scale to depict an everyday item.
chromotherapy
Color affects the way we think and react to the world, and can be used for healing purposes. This practice is called ________.
complementary colors
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.
analogous
Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.
variety
Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art
balance
Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.
conceptual
Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.
running forwards
If a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is ________.
asymmetrical
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.
red and green
If you were to design an eye-catching poster using only two colors, the combination that would most stand out to passersby would be ________.
red
If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?
foreground
In Mantegna's The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, the body of Jesus is portrayed at an extreme angle. This ________ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention.
Plato and Aristotle
In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.
distorted
In Vesperbild (or Pietà) from fourteenth-century Germany, the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.
changing visual texture
In addition to alternating value, Wang Hui's Landscape after Ancient Masters uses this process to give the viewer a sense that some areas are closer than others.
asymmetrical
In his work Six Persimmons, the thirteenth-century Chinese monk Muqi used different visual weights on each side of the composition. This is known as ________ balance.
cross-hatching
In order 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.
found
Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of ________ objects.
CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)
Most commercial color printing is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix ________.
Bioartists
Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.
the sun
Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of _________.
false
Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs.
absorb
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.
spiral
Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant ________.
pointillism
The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.
gestalt
The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is ________.
repeating marks
The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated the rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of ________ in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens.
radial
The Italian architect Andrea Palladio created a ___________ design in his plan for the Villa Capra.
harmonious
The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.
multi-point
The artist can more readily reflect the complexities of the real world by using more than one vanishing point. This is known as ________ perspective.
false
The elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography.
stroboscopic motion
The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.
monumental
The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.
proportions
The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.
motion
The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.
compositional, conceptual, gestalt
The three kinds of unity are:
red, yellow, blue
The traditional primary colors are ________.
Op art (optical art)
This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects
variety
This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition
actual motion
This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.
performance art
This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.
Golden Section
This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.
zoetrope
This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures.
performance art
This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.
bas-relief
This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.
hierarchical
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
kinetic
This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form
true
This work of art is asymmetrically balanced.
mandala
Tibetan Buddhist monks create colored sand images with a radial design. This representation of the universe is called a ________.
foreground
To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more.
invigorate
Variety can ________ a design.
unity
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
unity
What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene?
rebel against
When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.
temperature
When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.
the illusion of motion
When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ________.
implied motion
When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.
hierarchical scale
When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.
vibrate
When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet
radial
________ 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.
symmetrical
________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.
assymetrical
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
an open
________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.
