Art Appreciation Exam #1

The room temperature and how many people are in the room

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

Repatriation

Which term best relates to the controversy over British Museums collection of sculptures from the Parthenon

Abstraction

What creates the various degrees between representational and non-objective

Vocabulary

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

Contrast

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?

Directional Line

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

Horizontal

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 response.

Geometric

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

Depth

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

Form

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

Foreground

To imply greater depth, the sculptor who creator the reliefs on the outside of the A Auguste carved the figures in the _________ more deeply than those in the background would further stand out to the viewer.

Subversive

By using _______ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can reconsider the world around them.

Closer

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

Atmospheric Perspective

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

Two Point

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

Foreshortening

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly towards the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

Absorb

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

Vibrate

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.

Temperature

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.

Josef Albers

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

Implied Motion

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

Performance Art

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

2000-year-old Urn

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

Bioartists

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.

Conceptual

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

Conceptual, Gestalt, Compositional

Name the three kinds of unity.

Unity + Variety

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

Asymmetrical

If an artist 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.

Monumental

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.

Intimacy

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

Surrealists

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

Spiral

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

Broad Emphasis

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

Subordination

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 an example of ________.

Focal point

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 the __________.

Ando Horisige

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi" that uses placement fir emphasis in order to create focal points.

Field

The area covered by a pattern is called the:

Motif

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

Close-up

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

Voussoirs

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?