Art Appreciation - Exam 1

depth

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

form

A 2D object os called a shape, a 3D object is known as a:

Foreground

to imply greater depth, the sculpture who created the reliefs on the outside of the Ava Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the _____ more deeply than those in the background, so they would further stand out to the viewer.

Subversive

By using ______ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them

Contrast

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light colored background. this is an example of what principle?

Directional Lines

By orienting lines 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 logog consisting of ____ lines to suggest peacefulness.

Geometric

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

Room Temperature

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

Repatriation

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

Abstraction

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

Vocabulary

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

Closer

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense it then seems to be:

Atmospheric Perspective

When objects are far away, they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of foucs because of the interference of air. In what process do 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 toward the viewer, what techniques 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 colors.

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 can only exist in one place and time in history?

a 2000-year-old urn

In a series of three photographs that reference a lack of Chinese government concern for the past, the artist Ai 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.

Compositional, Conceptual, Gestalt

Name three kinds of unity:

Unity and Variety

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:

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 besed on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant:

broad emphasis

When an artists chooses to hightlight 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 Brueget the Elder intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice icarus plunging to his doom. This is a fine example of:

a focal point in the artwork

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:

Ando Hiroshige

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

Lonliness

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:

Analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself

What is the difference between analysis and critique?

Formal analysis

Which 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?

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

Why would a psychological analysis help a viewer understand The Scream?