Art Quiz

Sculpture in the round

Freestanding can be walked completely around and seen from multiple viewing points

Relief Sculpture

Design carved into or projecting from a background

High Relief

Form project far from the background

Low relief

Forms project only slightly from their background

Sunken Relief

Forms carved or sunken, into the background they do not project at all (Example; Hieroglyphs)

Medium/Media

What the art object is made of

Technique

The way the artist handles the material

Additive Method

Building up a form from a material

Subtractive Method

Taking away material from an existing block

Formal Elements

The visual aspects of a work of art (Line, color, texture, space, and composition)

Line

Narrow, elongated dash or mark made by a pencil, pen, paintbrush , or chisel; The path traced by a moving point

Color

Combination of pigments used in a painting

Hue

The name of the color

Value/Tonality

Degree of lightness or darkness of the color

Insensity/ Saturation

The purity of a color; its brightness or dullness

Value

Saturation

Shading

gradual transition from light to dark ( creates a sense of 3D)

Texture

The tactile (touch percieved) quality of a surface

Space (Scuplture)

The unlimited three dimensional realm in which all material objects are located

Space (painting)

The illusion of depth on a two dimensional surface

Proportion

Relationship from one part to another, or one part of the whole

Composition

How the artist arranges or organizes forms in an artwork ( The plan!)

Balance

The distribution of objects within the compostion

Symmetry

Forms dirstrubted equally (bilaterally)

Asymmetry

Forms distributed unequally

Radial Balance

Forms extending equally from the center of a circle

Foreshortening

Representing an object at an angle so that it
conveys the illusion of depth