Louise Nevelson’s work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river. |
False |
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional methods and rules of art. |
False |
The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of |
calm and introspection |
The rarity of an artwork, and its value, are often closely related. |
True |
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. is valuable because |
Lincoln is a symbol of American values and identity |
Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist. |
Johannes Vermeer |
The elements of art form the basic ________ of art. |
vocabulary |
The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art. |
grammar |
A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width. |
height |
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 |
One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points." |
line |
The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the |
boundary |
The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________. |
boundary . . . shape |
Pick the three words that would best describe a regular line |
controlled geometric cool-headed |
Three words that can describe irregular line are: |
loose wild chaotic |
A line that is a continuous mark is ________. |
an actual line |
A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________. |
an implied line |
By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using ________. |
directional line |
A contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space. |
True |
horizontal line |
calm |
diagonal line |
action |
vertical line |
strength |
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 |
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape. |
a geometric |
This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines. |
organic |
A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape. |
a positive |
An empty space defined by its surround is known as ________ shape. |
a negative |
In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________. |
a 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 |
A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ______. |
form |
Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________. |
depth |
These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ________ works of art. |
three-dimensional |
Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ________ forms. |
geometric |
The artist David Smith created sculptures of geometric forms. In his work Cubi XIX , Smith used the following geometric shapes: |
cuboids |
Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms. |
organic |
A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________. |
relief |
This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth. |
bas-relief |
A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________. |
nearly every angle |
The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is ________. |
volume |
The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a Colossal Head (1.40 ) is directly related to its mass. |
True |
This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but it does not necessarily imply weight. |
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 |
Because a form exists in "real" space we can experience it not only visually, but also through the sense of ________. |
touch |
When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture. |
actual |
The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________. |
value |
Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values. |
depth |
Triangular planes make up the surface of a geodesic sphere. Planes that are closer to and facing toward the light source tend to be lighter than planes that are further from it and facing away. |
True |
This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three dimensional solid form is called _____. |
chiaroscuro |
The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called ________. |
hatching |
Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth. |
three-dimensional |
An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ______. |
closer |
When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called: |
atmospheric perspective |
This system, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth. |
isometric perspective |
This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines. |
linear perspective |
One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________. |
vanishing point |
This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space. |
cone of vision |
If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision. |
False |
When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this ________. |
foreshortening |
an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm? |
foreshortening |
This is the most vivid element of art and design. |
color |
This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum. |
prism |
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to _____. |
absorb |
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? |
red |
The traditional primary colors are ________. |
red, yellow, blue |
When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed. |
subtractive |
The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is ________. |
hue |
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ______. |
value |
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 ________. |
shade |
An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic. |
False |
We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ______. |
saturation |
A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation. |
low |
Colors that are on opposite sides of a color circle are radically different in wavelength and are called ________. |
complementary colors |
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 and green |
Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors. |
analogous |
When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________. |
temperature |
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 |
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 ________. |
pointillism |
Most commercial color printing is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix ________. |
CMYK |
If you were to choose the color scheme for a health retreat, red would be a good color to pick. |
False |
Color affects the way we think and react to the world, and can be used for healing purposes. This practice is called ________. |
chromotherapy |
ART- Mid-term (1.1 – 1.4)
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