Art Appreciation Exam 1

An area covered by a pattern is called:

Field

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a:

Motif

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object:

Close-up

In the Great Mosque, there are red and white stone wedges that make up the series of repeating arches that dominate the interior. What are these stone wedges called?

Voussoirs

The artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen use this kind of scale in their sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life.

Monumental

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies:

Intimacy

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences

surrealists

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant

Spiral

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ___ unity.

Conceptual

Name the three kinds of unity.

Compositional, conceputal, gestalt

An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. Such an artwork uses the following principles of art:

unity and variety

If an artists painted a street scene with one large building on the left hand side, and two smaller buildings on the right hand side, this would be an example of ____ balance.

asymmetrical

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as:

implied motion

What type of art can only exist in one place and time in history

performance art

In a series of three photographs that reference a lack of Chinese government concern for the past, the artist Ai Weiwei captured the destruction of what valuable object

2,000 year old urn

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ___ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

Bioartists

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to:

absorb

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

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

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, ___ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color

Josef Albers

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense, it then seems to be:

Closer

When objects are far away, they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. In what process do artists take advantage of this?

Atmospheric perspective

Which type of perspective is being used when an object is viewed from an angle, rather than from directly in front?

Two-point

If 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

what circumstances can alter the appearance of the acrylic cube made by Hans Haacke?

The number of people in the room changes the temperature

Which term best relates to the controversy over the British museum’s collection of sculptures from the Parthenon

theft and reparation

What creates the various degrees between representation and non objective

Abstract

When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art to what do the elements of art refer

vocabulary

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light background. This is an example of what principle?

contrast

By orienting lines so they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art, the artist is using

directional lines

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would be classified as

geometric

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontal calm, and diagonal action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ___ lines to suggest peaceful repose?

Horizontal

Because it is 3D, a form has the following 3 spatial measurements: height width & ___

Depth

A 2D object is called a shape: A 3D object is called ___

form

To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the reliefs on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ___ more deeply than those in the background, so they would further stand out to the viewer

Foreground

By using ___ texture to contradict previous tactile experiences artists invite viewers to reconsider the world around them

subversive

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is pure & intense it seems to be

closer

When objects are far away, they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. In what process do artists take advantage of this

atmospheric perspective

What circumstances can alter the appearance of The Cube

Temperature

A yellow field of flowers with one red flower demonstrates what?

A focal point

Who created the Riverside Bamboo Market painting

Utagawa Hiroshige

Artists use ____ when the attention of the piece is spread out

Broad emphasis

In his painting landscape of the fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the elder intended to divert our attention so we barely notice Icarus. This is an example of:

Subordination