2 Line

Question 1

actual line

Answer 1

A line that is physically present in a work of art.

Question 2

chiaroscuro

Answer 2

A technique in which subtle gradations of value create the illusion of rounded three dimensional forms in space; also termed “modeling”. From the Italian meaning “light” and “dark”.

Question 3

closure

Answer 3

The psychological tendency to perceive a broken figure as being complete or whole.

Question 4

continuity

Answer 4

The psychological tendency to perceive a series of points or a broken line as having unity.

Question 5

contour line

Answer 5

A perceived line that marks the edge of a figure as it curves back into space.

Question 6

crosshatching

Answer 6

The creation of shading in a drawing or etching through the use of intersecting sets of parallel lines.

Question 7

diagonal line

Answer 7

A line that runs crosswise; diagonal lines can impart a sense of movement, conflict, or chaos

Question 8

dot

Answer 8

In art, a point that has a measurable size

Question 9

hatching

Answer 9

The drawing or engraving of fine parallel lines or crossed lines (crosshatching) to represent shading

Question 10

horizontal line

Answer 10

A line that runs left and right; horizontal lines can impart a sense of stability

Question 11

implied line

Answer 11

A line created by a viewer’s perceptual tendency to connect a series of points.

Question 12

line

Answer 12

The element of art created by the connection of points, either actual or implied

Question 13

measure of a line

Answer 13

The length and width of a line

Question 14

outline

Answer 14

A line that marks the outer boundaries of contours of a figure or an object.

Question 15

pictogram

Answer 15

A picture that represents a word or an idea, as formed in hieroglyphic symbols; a schematized or abstract form of an ancestral image, animal, geometric form, anatomic part, or shape suggestive of a cosmic symbol or microscopic life

Question 16

pictorial space

Answer 16

The illusionary space that by seeming to recede from the picture plane into the distance provides a sense of depth in a two-dimensional composition

Question 17

Pop Art

Answer 17

An art style that originated in the 1960s and uses commercial and popular images and themes as its subject matter.

Question 18

Post impressionism

Answer 18

A late nineteenth century French school of painting that rejected the objective naturalism of Impressionism and used form and color in personally expressive ways.

Question 19

psychological line

Answer 19

A suggestion of linear direction formed by a viewer’s knowledge of relationships in a work of art, such as the relationship between the glance of a person toward an object

Question 20

quality of line

Answer 20

The measure of a line (that is, thick or thin), along with its other characteristics (for example, smooth or rough)

Question 21

Surrealism

Answer 21

A twentieth-century art style whose imagery is believed to stem from unconscious, irrational sources and therefore takes on fantastic forms.

Question 22

texture

Answer 22

The surface character of materials as experienced by the sense of touch

Question 23

value

Answer 23

The relative lightness or darkness of a color

Question 24

vertical line

Answer 24

A line that runs up and down; vertical lines can impart a sense of rising or falling.

Question 25

volume

Answer 25

The mass or bulk of a three-dimensional work; the amount of space it contains.