ARTS 1301 - Quiz 1 Review

What characteristics are associated with red, yellow, and blue?

They are primary colors that, in theory, cannot be created by a mixture of other hues. Varying combinations of these primary hues can be used to create all the other hues of the spectrum.

What are monochromatic colors?

Variations of the same hue, often with differences of value and intensity.

Black and white photographs don't capture hue and intensity, but instead, they capture __________ . (hint: the relative lightness or darkness of a color)

value

What is the effect of pattern? Look at Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

Pattern is any decorative, repetitive motif or design. It can create visual texture (but not always). It tends to flatten our perception of mass and space.

What does pattern need?

A repetitive motif or design.

Tina Modotti's Stairs photograph demonstrates ______ and _______ through __________ .

unity; variety; shapes

Altar to the Chases High School commemorates what historical event?

The Holocaust

What is NOT a role that art plays?

To help us see the world in the same way we view it.

Augustus of Prima Porta depicts the Roman Empire's first emperor. What else does it do/serve as?

It's likely idealized to make the emperor more handsome and robust to demonstrate might and political authority.

Still life art consists of what?

A "portrait" of everyday objects, such as flowers, food, cutlery, etc.

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo depicts what?

Frida Kahlo's self-portrait of herself with both of her exposed hearts interlinked by a vein. The two versions of herself are holding hands.

Know the medium and elements to Maria van Oosterwijck's Vanitas.

Oil on canvas; it gives visual form to feelings and ideas—this work depicts humanity's knowledge that our earthly possessions do not come with us when we die and the fear this causes.

Isometric perspective uses what types of lines?

Diagonal lines without converging parallel lines.

The National Parks Preserve Wildlife poster was designed according to what feature?

The golden rectangle and its spiral.

Why did an artist create the Shiva Nataraja?

To give visual form to the unknown—in this case, giving visual form to the Hindu god Shiva in his guise as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance.

The Dome in the Great Mosque of Cordoba emphasizes its _______ .

sacredness

Toulouse-Lautrec's Divan Janopais has what characteristic of color?

It has rhythm, unity, color, contrast, and variety. (RYTHMN & VARIETY)

What is nonrepresentational art?

Art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself. It conveys meaning and expressive power through the elements of art (line, shape, form and color).

What is chiaroscuro?

Italian for light/dark. In 2-D representational art, it is the technique of using values to record light and shadow, especially to provide information about 3-D form.

Asymmetrical balance is the same as _________________ .

imbalance.

What do we call art that moves?

Kinetic art.

Look carefully at A Harlot's Progress. This question on the quiz is NOT a trick question. It will simply be a test of your observational skills.

A Harlot's Progress

What is emphasized in Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson?

Light, size, and placement emphasizes the figures of the old man and the young boy. Light illuminates the older man's side and the child's face. The man and the child are posed so that they have the most mass and the largest form. They also have darker values while the background has lighter values.

Art isn't always images. The Colosseum was made for what reason?

To create a place for some human purpose—in this case, an amphitheater for gladiatorial games and public entertainment.

Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788 consists of diagrams with small figures showing little space between enslaved individuals.

Stowage of the British Slave Ship

Who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?

Frank Gehry

Buddha ushnishas point to the Buddha's ______________ .

enlightenment

Henry Rousseau's The Dream depicts what?

Rousseau's vision of his own jungle (he had never left France nor visited a jungle) with a nude woman on a velvet sofa being serenaded by a musician and surrounded by animals.

Kimonos' imagery represents what?

the natural world

What is visual weight?

The apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged in a composition, as gauged by how insistently they draw the viewer's eye.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etching The Sawhorse from Il Carceri features what kind of environment?

A subterranean dungeon. It depicts a dark prison of ambiguous spaces, stairways to nowhere, and soaring, dark vaults.

In Utah at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, what type of art did the Native Americans create?

The Fremont created images to communicate their beliefs and that the drawings are still significant to their descendants.

Often, artists will make a _______________ before starting an artwork.

sketch

What are contour lines?

Contours are the boundaries we perceive of 3-dimensional forms, and contour lines are the lines we draw to record those boundaries.

_______________ balance repeats without hierarchy.

Symmetrical

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the St. Petersburg Album, from the early 17th century, conveys who?

It conveys Bichtir as a court artist, offering a painting to the emperor seated on an hourglass throne surrounded by gold accents.