Art Appreciation Flashcards
The artist of Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
Leonardo da Vinci
The medium used for the painting of Mona Lisa
Oil on Wood
The genre of Mona Lisa
Renaissance portrait art
The movement which the Mona Lisa painting belongs to.
High Renaissance
The Mona Lisa painting was painted ____ and _____.
1503 and 1506
No one is sure who the woman in the painting is.
True or False?
True
There is a possibility that the Mona Lisa is unfinished.
T/F
True
The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 and was hidden during _______.
World War II
The year that the Mona Lisa traveled to America.
1963
It is an extended dot in space.
Line
It makes an object stand out against the background, challenge our perception, and arouse our emotions.
Line
__________ may enhance or lessen the aesthetic effect of our surroundings.
Line
These are straight lines parallel to the horizon that move from left to right.
Horizontal Lines
These lines suggest width, distance, calmness and rest.
Horizontal Lines
Landscapes and seascapes are primarily horizontal. True or False?
True
These are lines that are perpendicular to the horizontal lines.
Vertical Lines
Lines that never slant, and are moving up and down.
Vertical Lines
These lines suggest strength, balance, and stability because they extend towards the sky and seem unshakeable.
Vertical Lines
Monuments of a country’s heroes are usually depicted as verticals.
T/F
True
Monuments of a country’s heroes are usually depicted as horizontals.
T/F
False.
Lines that are between a vertical and horizontal line.
Diagonal Lines
Lines that look either as rising or falling to convey meaning or implications.
Diagonal Lines
Lines that indicate stress, frustration, or defeat like the posture of a soldier when defeated.
Diagonal Lines
Lines that may indicate movement or action just like the posture of a runner in full run.
Diagonal Lines
Lines that are created by connecting diagonal lines together at their point.
Zigzag lines
Lines that create excitement and intense movement.
Zigzag Lines
Lines that may convey confusion and nervousness as they change direction quickly and frequently implying danger and destruction as they break down.
Zigzag lines
Renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh used ________ in his painting Starry night.
Curved Lines
Curved lines are technically called _________.
Curvilinear
Curvilinear lines are organic and natural, adjusting to direction regularly.
T/F
True
The outline of the human body is an example of ________ lines.
Curved lines
If a curved line goes around itself, it usually forms a figure of a _________.
Seashell
When curved lines continuously move in ______ directions, wavy lines are formed to show graceful movements.
Opposite
Lines that can take the form of a zigzag line or a mixture of curves and straight forms.
Freeform
The five main types of lines
- Horizontal lines
- Vertical lines
- Diagonal Lines
- Zigzag lines
- Curved lines
?. Freeform lines
The five variations of lines
- Length
- Thickness
- Texture
- Direction
- Curvature
Four types of lines
- Solid
- Broken
- Psychological
- Implied
Uses and Functions of Lines
- Movement
- Sense of Space
- Define Objects
- Sketching
- Add Depth
It is the most expressive element of art.
Color
Color shares a powerful connection with emotions.
T/F
True
The object used to separate the colors from the white sunlight.
Glass Prism
_____________ are the building blocks of color theory.
Primary Colors
The primary hues in light.
Red, Blue, Green
The ______ model is concerned with the mixing of light.
RGB
The primary colors of ink/printing.
Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow
The primary colors that only apply when mixing paint.
Red Yellow Blue
There are no “real” primary colors.
T/F
True
What color is created when yellow and magenta are mixed?
Red
What color is created when cyan and yellow are blended together?
Green
What color is produced when magenta and cyan are mixed?
Blue
There are no “real” primary colors, but there are conceptual primary colors that we can rely on to inform our understanding of the world of color.
T/F
True
Refers to the name for which the color is known.
Hue
______ is identified by the wavelength of light physically given by the color.
Hue
These are the colors of the visible spectrum.
Hue
If you combine all the colors of light, you get ______ light.
White light
The kind of color mixing where the mixing of all the colors would result into white.
Additive color mixing
When it comes to _____, mixing all the colors results in black.
Pigments
Pigments mix subtractively because they absorb wavelengths.
T/F
True
Subtractive color mixing is where mixing all the colors would result in black.
True or False
True
The model that has additive color mixing.
RGB model
The model that has subtractive color mixing.
CMY and RYB model
It is the physical property of color that refers to the lightness and darkness of the color.
Value.
Value of a color refers to its lightness and darkness, whether there is an absence of white or black.
Hues can exist in different degrees of values.
True or False.
True
_______ is the result of a hue and white being combined.
Tint
The result when the hue and grey are mixed.
Tone
The result when the hue and black and mixed.
Shade
This physical property of color is also referred to as “intensity” or “chroma”.
Saturation
It refers to the dominance of hue in the color.
Saturation
When the color is desaturated, the color will either be black, white, or grey, depending on the value.
True or False?
True
Colors that are on the opposite sides of the color wheel.
Complementary colors
Colors that are next to each other, creating a gradient.
Analogous colors
Monochromatic color scheme refers to the use of the same hue with different saturations or values in a particular color palette.
True or False
True
An example of a painting with monochromatic color scheme by Julian Onderdonk.
Bluebonnet Scene
There is a relationship between color and emotions.
Colors can enhance one’s mood.
True or False?
True
Warm, bright colors make us happy and excite us.
True or False?
True
Cool colors relax us and encourage us to take it slow.
True or False?
True
Reds, pinks, and yellows stimulate us, make us fell warm and passionate.
True or False?
True
