Art Appreciation

Exam Questions

What circumstance can alter the appearance of the acrylic cube made by Hans Haacke?

The amount of people in the room changed the temperature. - more condensation

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

Repatriation - the return of stolen art

What creates the various degrees between representational and non-objective?

Abstraction

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 line

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of _______ lines to suggest peaceful repose.

horizontal

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as:

geometric

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has the following three spatial measurements: height, width, and ____

depth

A two-dimensional object is called a shape; a three-dimensional object is known as a:

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 experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense, it them 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

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

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 alack of Chinese government concern for the past, the artist Ai Weiwei captured the destruction of what valuable object?

a 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

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

conceptual

Name the three kinds of unity.

compositional, conceptual, 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 artist painted a street scene with one large building on the left-hand side, and two smaller building on the right-hand side, what would be an example of ______ balance.

asymmetrical

The artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje can 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

When an artist chooses to highlight the entire surface of their work, without regard for any particular area, this is called:

broad emphasis

In his painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom. This is a fine example of:

subordination

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be:

a focal point in the artwork

This artist created the print “Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi” that uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

Ando Hiroshige

The area covered by a pattern is called the:

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 atmosphere of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of:

loneliness

What is the difference between analysis and critique?

analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself

Which one of the following types of analysis relates to only what we can see in a work of art, thus requiring a careful look and description, but not research or expertise?

formal analysis

Why would a psychological analysis help a viewer understand The Scream

Because the artist focused more on what he felt than what he saw