Art Appreciation Test One Study Sheet

The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

a monochromatic

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by a continuous boundary. This type of shape, which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect, is termed ________ shape.

an implied

The artist Egon Schiele drew his Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing, with Hands on Hips using ________ line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contour

In Vesperbild (or Pietà) from fourteenth-century Germany (1.32), the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

green has positive associations in Islamic art

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

height

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

horizontal

The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

hue

The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

implied

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

prism

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

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

relief

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

temperature

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

three-dimensional

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

three-dimensional

Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.

vanishing point

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Peter 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

This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens.

Raphael

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

By using objects that most viewers would be familiar with, Nam June Paik's TV Buddha draws on our previous experience of ________ texture.

actual

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

alternating value relative size overlapping relative position all of these answers

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

an implied line

In Vesperbild (or Pietà) from fourteenth-century Germany (1.32), 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 a mother and son.

an organic

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

boundary . . . shape

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional solid form is called ________.

chiaroscuro

This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.

cone of vision

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 medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera obscura, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

dark room

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created ________ in his work Travelers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values.

depth

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this ________.

foreshortening

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

geometric

The computer simulation game The Sims uses ________ perspective.

isometric

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

low

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

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

mass

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 ________.

monochrome

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

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.

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

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

orthogonals

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

palette

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

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

subversive

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

value

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a ________.

value range

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

vanishing point