Chapter 3 Review [Art-1301-10015]

What distinguishes Botero's The Horse from Giacometti's Man Pointing?

Botero creates a horse whose bulging form does not interact with the surrounding space.

Which of the following is a characteristic of organic shapes?

an irregular outline

What feature of Torii Kiyotada's An Actor of the Ichikawa Clan suggests swift and violent motion?

angular lines

In the Aztec Calendar Stone, the central image of the sun god encircled by four previous versions of the world represents the idea that time is

circular

The illusion of a third-dimension on a picture plane is called

depth

The dominant shapes in a picture plane are called

figures

Another term for mass is

form

What is one way that Paul Cézanne implies depth in Still Life with Apples?

he simulates the texture of the apples and the flat surface of the table by using warm colors.

Doug Wheeler's SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 uses a wall of light to create a sense of

infinite space

Why is the figure-ground relationship important to the way that we perceive art?

it creates the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional picture plane.

How does Cesar Pelli's design for the North Terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport recreate the experience of domestic space?

large windows allow people to observe the nearby landscape.

The principal visual element in Gego's Reticulárea (Environment) is

line

Raphael's The School of Athens creates the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two- dimensional surface through the use of

linear perspective

In two-dimensional art, the area where the viewer's eye, ground plane, and horizon line converge is known as the

picture plane

Paul d'Agostino's The Rarely Glimpsed Junkfish plays with the concept of

positive and negative shapes

How does Paula Modersohn-Becker imply mass in her painting Mother and Child?

she uses shading to imply fully rounded bodies.

Architects are most concerned with the qualities of

space

Artists use implied lines to

suggest visual connections

The cube in the foreground of Raphael's The School of Athens is rendered in

two-point perspective

What distinguishes atmospheric perspective from linear perspective?

variations of light and color achieve spatial depth.