Art 1 Final Exam Review Flashcards

Flashcards based on Art 1 final exam review notes to aid in studying.

What are the three secondary colors?

Orange, Green, and Violet

What are colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors called?

Primary Colors

In art, what is the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other called?

Proportion

What term describes clay that feels cool and moist but is hard enough to hold its shape and can be carved?

Leatherhard

What type of balance describes elements of art that are equally weighted on each side of the central axis?

Symmetrical Balance

What is the art or work of making objects of clay such as pottery and sculpture called?

Ceramics

What kind of sculpture is designed to be viewed from the front and made of forms protruding from the surface?

Relief Sculpture

What is the term for the first firing of clay projects, referring to unglazed clay?

Bisque

What state of clay do the terms Greenware and Bone Dry refer to?

Unfired Clay

What are colors opposite each other on the color wheel called?

Complementary Colors

What principle of design describes the way the elements of art are arranged to create a feeling of equilibrium or stability?

Balance

What element of art defines space with height, width, and depth (3D)?

Form

What is any coloring material known as?

Pigment

What separates the sky from the ground in a landscape?

Horizon Line

What determines the viewer’s position and direction of sight in a perspective drawing?

Vanishing Point

What is a light value of a color made by adding white called?

Tint

What is actual color in the color spectrum called?

Hue

What principle of design is used to produce the look or feel of movement?

Rhythm

What defines space using only height and width (2D)?

Shape

What is a name for a group of colors made by combining 2 primary colors?

Secondary

What adjectives describe colors that stimulate/excite and appear to advance?

Warm

What creates the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface?

Perspective

What is a circle drawn in perspective known as?

Ellipse

In perspective, how do objects in the distance appear compared to those that are close?

Smaller

What is the degree of lightness or darkness of a hue called?

Value

What principle of design accents similarities and binds picture parts into a whole using repetition?

Harmony

What is produced when the viewer's eye sweeps over the work in a certain manner?

Movement

In perspective, lines or planes receding into the distance appear to meet at which point?

Vanishing Point

What is the name for an oven or furnace used for drying, firing, and glazing clay creations?

Kiln

What adjectives describe colors that calm/ relax and appear to recede?

Cool

What is clay diluted with water to a creamy consistency and used to join two pieces of clay called?

Slip

What is the term for making rough indentations with a pointed tool before adding slip to the surface of clay?

Scoring

What kind of perspective offers a front/side view (and uses verticals, horizontals, consistent diagonals and vanishing points)?

One-Point perspective

What type of balance describes elements of art that come out from a central point?

Radial Balance

When drawing, using with hemisphere is said to allow for a more successful product?

Right

What is a person’s ability to express something silently he/she knows, sees or feels through media called?

Visual Arts

What is a dark value of a color made by adding black called?

Shade

What is a color scheme consisting of gradations/values of one color referred to as?

Monochromatic

What is a color scheme consisting of two or more colors called?

Polychromatic

The quality of wholeness or oneness, known as what principle of design?

Unity

What style of art distorts a shape in such a way as to concentrate on the essence of a thing, usually done by simplification?

Abstraction

What are three types of color responses?

Psychological, Physical, Symbolic

What is a visual sensation created when light is reflected off a surface and seen by the eye called?

Color

What Twentieth Century art movement stressed personal feeling over composition?

Expressionism

What is a continuous mark made on the surface by a moving point?

Line

What is the way the principles of design are used to organize the elements of art?

Composition

What are the three properties of color?

Hue, Value, Intensity

The element Texture may be what?

visual & tactile

Space is both what?

positive & negative

What is an emotional response to color known as?

Color convention

What kind of balance is symmetrical balance?

Formal Balance

What is an occupation or pursuit that requires artistic skill called?

Craft

Consisting of white, brown, & black, what is this group of colors called?

Neutrals

What is work of consistently high quality considered?

Craftsmanship

What is a type of informal balance where the elements of art are unevenly divided on each side of a central axis called?

Asymmetrical

What are three colors that form an equal triangle on a color wheel known as?

Triad

Side by side on the color wheel and have a common hue, what are these colors called?

Analogous

What kind of perspective offers a corner view (and uses verticals, consistent diagonals and vanishing points)?

Two-point perspective

What kind of formal balance has its elements of art equally divided on each side of a central axis?

Symmetrical

What is a network of uniformly spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines used as an aide in drawing for accuracy?

Grid

Name the two architects whose architectural drawings served as the basis for linear perspective

Brunelleschi & Alberti

Maintaining fidelity to nature or to real life without idealization, what kind of art is this?

Realism

Credited with the general development of aerial or atmospheric perspective, who is this?

Leonardo da Vinci

Painted Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon and marked the beginning of Cubism, who is this?

Pablo Picasso

Screen-prints of Campbell Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, what artist made these creations?

Andy Warhol

Who is considered the “original Renaissance man?”

Leonardo da Vinci

List the four stages of a formal critique.

Description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation

List all of the Principles of Design.

Rhythm, movement, variety, emphasis, balance, harmony, unity, and proportion

Who developed the first known color wheel?

Isaac Newton

What is a method of forming pottery or sculpture from rolls of clay welded together to create walls called?

Coiling

What is the act of squeezing plastic clay between the thumb and finger to form a pot or sculpture called?

Pinching

Combining elements to stress the differences between those elements, which principle of design is this?

Emphasis

Outlining an object or showing its edges, what kind of line is this?

Contour line

What colors are usually grouped in 3-4 and are next to each other on the color wheel?

Analogous

Scribbled and free-flowing, what kind of lines capture a fleeting movement or the posture of a subject?

Gesture Line

Small and quick, what is the name for compositional sketches?

Thumbnail

What is the name for a series of points that the viewer's eyes automatically connect and are only suggested?

Implied Line

What kind of lines suggest motion and lead our eyes in a slanting upward or downward direction?

Diagonal

Colors that are made from combinations of primary and secondary colors are called what?

Tertiary

When white light passes through a prism and is refracted into a rainbow spectrum, what is this called?

light ray theory

What year was the first color wheel developed?

1666

Red=anger, green=envy is an example of a color convention that is what?

psychological

Line, color, value, shapes, form, space, & texture are all considered what?

elements of art

Dividing the area of paper into 9 equal spaces and the subject matter resting on 3 of the 4 intersections, what compositional technique is this?

Rule of Thirds

Combining art elements to create difference and contrast, which Principle of Design is this referencing?

Variety

What is the focal point of a art piece?

The first part of a work to attract the attention of the viewer

Without much detail and used as a basic plan, what is this type of drawing called?

Sketch

Shapes that can be described and drawn using mathematical formulas are called what?

Geometric Shapes

Irregular and uneven with curved outlines, what kind of shapes are these considered?

Organic Shapes

What art style used geometric shapes to show all sides of a three dimensional object on a flat canvas?

Cubism

What pottery process includes pinching, coiling and building with slabs, without the use of the potter’s wheel?

Handbuilding

Other than red and blue, what is the last Primary color?

Yellow

Exploring the unconscious, which art movement uses images from dreams?

Surrealism

How bright, pure or gray color is, defines its…

Intensity

To expose clay to high heat in order to change it, is to…

Firing

An artist famous for creating larger than life sculptures including 'Spoon Bridge', who is it?

Claes Oldenburg

Borrowing images from mass produced culture, this style of art began in England in the late 1950's and is called…

Pop Art