ART 1301 Chapter Intro,1.1,1.2

These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ________ works of art.

3D

Three words that can describe irregular line are:

Chaotic, loose, wild

The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate means that the viewer and the city of ________ become a part of the work, in its reflection.

Chicago

Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space.

False

Edvard Munch's The Scream depicts a suicide witnessed by the artist.

False

Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.

False

Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past.

False

Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended as a heroic symbol commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. If it had been built, it would have been much smaller than the Eiffel Tower.

False

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.

Ghostwriter

Marisol's work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S. State of ________.

Hawaii

One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points."

Line

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

Open

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.

Relief

Holbein's The Ambassadors has several references to religious content.

True

The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a colossal head is directly related to its mass.

True

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.

actual

A line that is a continuous mark is ________.

actual Line

The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom creates an atmosphere of ________.

anxiety

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

bas-relief

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were:

body-lion, wings-eagle, head-women

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 David Smith created sculptures of geometric forms. In his work Cubi XIX, Smith used the following geometric shapes:

cuboids

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________.

depth

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

In James Allen's etching The Connectors, an image of workers erecting the Empire State Building, the artist created a feeling of great height by using ________ line to lead the viewer's eye diagonally downward.

directional

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany, the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

distorts

The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended to give the design a feeling of ________.

dynamism

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________.

figure-ground reversal

The positive and negative shapes in M. C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are an example of ________.

figure-ground reversal

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.

foreground

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

form

The organic form and abstract quality of Lino Tagliapietra's sculpture, Batman, allow it to express the idea of ________.

freedom and life

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ________ sculpture.

freestanding

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ________ forms.

geometric

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.

height

The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits ________.

irregular line

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.

loneliness

Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.

mass

Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy, but in fact this is not necessarily the case. This element of art is called ________.

mass

This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but it does not necessarily imply weight.

mass

What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?

member of the Order of santiago

Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors?

memento mori iconography anamorphosis

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.

nearly ever angle

In her painting Music—Pink and Blue II, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue ________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

negative

American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest) to imply the presence of water. The work's many empty spaces, which were created using irregular horizontal members, are an example of ________ volume.

open

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.

organic

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany, the shrunken, twisted body of Jesus and the oversized, anguished head of Mary are accentuated for expressive effect. This distortion of the human body, ________ form that we can all understand, makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

organic

This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

organic

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ________.

outline

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________.

outline....shape

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

smooth

An upright stone that has an incised relief on its surface, such as the Maya sculpture (1.2.7), is known as ________.

stela

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

Méret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational, conscious thought. Her fur-lined teacup and saucer, Object, conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________ texture.

subversive

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

surrealist

Memento mori refers to:

symbol of mortality

Because a form exists in "real" space, we can experience it not only visually, but also through our sense of ________.

touch

The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.

vocabulary

The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ________.

wanted artist to be of high status