ARTH 110 Midterm
Niagra Falls was a popular subject for North American artist in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized
America's territorial expansion, the presence of God in nature, Grandeur, and the beauty and power of nature. (AKA, all of the above.)
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
Asymmetrical
"Kindred Spirits" by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ________ to give a sense of thevastness of the American landscape.
Atmospheric Perspective
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of
Austrian Buisnessmen
The type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.
Bas-relief
Why do we assume that the"Head of a Woman from Benin" was made for someone wealthy?
Because it was made from rare ivory
The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of
Calm and Introspective
In Pablo Picasso's "Blonde Woman in Profile" the artist uses a __________ line that follows the contours of the model's profile.
Continuous
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.
Cross-hatching
By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using ________.
Directional line
This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.
Futurists
The german word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is
Gestalt
Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's "The Boating Party" uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ___________ compositon
Harmonious....relaxed
A flat work of art has two dimensions: __________ and width
Height
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt., where it was used to indicate social importance
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.
Hierarchical scale
The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving, is derived from the ________ religion.
Hindu
The system, which derives its nam from the Greek meaning "equal measure" uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth
Isometric Perspective
The ancient Egyptian artist who painted "The journey of the Sun God Re" on a coffin chose his subject because
It expresses belief in an afterlife.
"Girl with a Pearl Earring"" was painted by this dutch artist
Johannes Vermeer
Three words that can describe irregular line are:
Loose, WIld, Chaotic
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was
Looted by the Nazis
In her painting "Music-Pink and Blue III" Georgia O' Keefe emphasized the blue _____________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.
Negative
The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. The title was
Nuestro Pueblo
In Japan, Ceramic tea bowls were appreciated because
Of their shape, subtle colors, and irregular surface.
The art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.
Op Art
In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.
Palm
In "The School f Athens" Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are
Plato and Aristotle
The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens are both ______________ and ____________ symmetry.
Radial and bilateral
This Italian artist use two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting "The School of Athens"
Raphael
The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is recognizable as a man on a horse. This is called a ____________ artwork.
Representational
Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?
Roadside billboards, television, comic books, and oil paintings. (AKA, all of the above)
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 ________.
Running forwards
David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures)" using
Scale, color, and implied line. (AKA all of the above.)
Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of the sun.
Solar Rotary
This kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called
Stroboscopic motion
True or False, artist Ai Wei Wei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics.
TRUE
True or False, contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object and can be used to suggest a volume in space.
TRUE
True or False, the "Head of a Woman from Benin" shows influence of European trade routes, as well as having local spiritual significance.
TRUE
True or False, the visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a colossal head is directly related to its mass.
TRUE
The medium of Marc Quinn's "Self" is
The artist's own blood
The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids of Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were
The body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman.
In Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew, the artist used light and dark values to emphasize Christ's hand. Why did the artist draw our attention to the hand? What other features in the work are emphasized with light and darkness?
The other features in the work is a hand gesture from Michelangelo.
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
Unity
This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.
Variety
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.
Vibrate
This American novelist notate that the "aim of every artist is to artist motion."
William Faulkner
A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as _______ space.
a positive
A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is
an implied line
An artist can use color to indicate depth. When color is very pure and intense, then it seems to be
closer
This is the most vivid element of art and design.
color
When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art, you would probably ant to consider the artist's use of
color, texture, emphasis, and scale. (AKA all of the above.)
Henri Matisse drew "Woman Seated in an Arm Chair" using ____________ lines so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.
contour
Three words that best describe a regular line are
controlled, cool-headed, and geometric.
Artists cam create a sense of ___________ by using light and dark values.
depth
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
directional lines
In the "Roettgen Pieta" from fourteenth-century Germany, the artist ___________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.
distorted
The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's "Suite avec 7 Personnafes" characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits
irregular line
One definition of this element is "A mark that connects two points."
line
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.
movement
We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.
optical color
Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.
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 artist Dosio, in his drawing of the Church Saint Spirito, created an impression of three dimensions by using line to show the division between
planes
The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.
proportions
the relationship between the sizes of different parts of a work make up it
proportions
The traditional primary colors are ________.
red, yellow, blue
in a 1941 drawing British artist Barbara Hepworth used line to plan a
sculpture
A color that is lighter that its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a
shade
The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Cloud Gate" is appealing or viewers to touch.
smooth
These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ________ works of art.
three-dimensional
Traditional visual art, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of _________ and _____________.
time...motion
Because a form exists in "real" space we can experience it not only visually, but also through the sense of ________.
touch
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as
value
The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called
value
One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.
vanishing point
The elements of art form the basic ___________ of art.
vocabulary
The oldest museum in America, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in
1805
The Ancient Egyptian artist who painted "The Journery of the Sun God Re" was painted on
A coffin
In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background, and the background becomes the figure, we perceive
A figure-ground reversal
The design by I. Michael Interior Design creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.
A harmonious
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.
Absorb
Allan Houser's work Reverie is
Abstract and representational
The kind of motion is occurring when we movement in real life.
Actual motion
True or False, Jeff Koons made his sculpture "Rabbit" himself
FALSE
True or False, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional method and rules of art
FALSE
True or False, Louis Nevelson's work "White Vertical Water" is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.
FALSE
True or False, a graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.
FALSE
True or False, the elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography
FALSE
True or False, the self-portrait of the Dutch artist Rembrandt stole from the Swedish National Museum was one of many that the artist painted on copper
FALSE
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.
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as a__________ shape.
geometric
The principles of design are a kind of _____________ that artists apply to the elements of art.
grammar
Roman Bearden's work "The Dove" uses an underlying _______reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order
grid
Jeff Koons did not make his sculpture "Rabbit" with his own hands, it is considered his work because
he designed it.
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 Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.
implied