Art Test

Question 1

What is Aesthetic?

Answer 1

Something that is philosophically pleasing to the eye, is beautiful, and has an emotional nature.

Question 2

What is Architecture?

Answer 2

The art and science of designing buildings.

Question 3

Who is an Artist?

Answer 3

Someone who creates art in any form as a profession or hobby.

Question 4

What does Field refer to in design?

Answer 4

The area in which a design or sketch is applied.

Question 5

What is Idealization?

Answer 5

Something represented as perfect or ideal.

Question 6

What is a Landscape in art?

Answer 6

An art piece that represents the natural environment.

Question 7

What is Medium in art?

Answer 7

Material used by an artist, often implying the technique of using that material.

Question 8

What is Still Life?

Answer 8

A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, usually including fruit and flowers.

Question 9

What is Style in art?

Answer 9

A visual appearance of a work of art that relates to other works with similar aesthetic roots.

Question 10

What is a Horizon Line?

Answer 10

The division between earth and sky, as seen by an observer.

Question 11

What is Perspective?

Answer 11

The representation of three-dimensional objects and space on a flat surface.

Question 12

What is Aerial Perspective?

Answer 12

Creates an architectural style based on the illusion of distance by muting color and blurring detail.

Question 13

What is Linear Perspective?

Answer 13

Employs sets of parallel lines getting closer together until they merge at an imaginary vanishing point.

Question 14

What is a Vanishing Point?

Answer 14

The point on the horizon line to which parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance.

Question 15

What is Hatching?

Answer 15

The use of parallel lines to create shading.

When lines are overlapped at angles, it is called crosshatching.

Question 16

What is Pointillism?

Answer 16

A style of 19th century French painting in which colors are applied to canvas in small dots.

Question 17

What is Wash in painting?

Answer 17

A technique in which a very wet paint brush is applied to a wet or dry support.

Question 18

What is Colour in design?

Answer 18

An element that identifies natural and manufactured things as being red, orange, yellow, etc.

Question 19

What are Complementary Colours?

Answer 19

Any two colours located opposite each other on a colour wheel.

Question 20

What are Cool Colours?

Answer 20

The hues on one side of the colour wheel which contain blue and green.

Question 21

What is Gouache?

Answer 21

Any opaque water-soluble paint or opaque watercolour.

Question 22

What is Hard-edge art?

Answer 22

A style of art with crisp, clean edges and even, flat values and colours.

Question 23

What is Hue?

Answer 23

The attribute of a colour that gives it its name.

Question 24

What is Impasto?

Answer 24

A thick, heavy application of paint, with either brush or knife.

Question 25

What is Neutral in colour?

Answer 25

Something without much intensity or saturation, like tans, beiges, ivories, etc.

Question 26

What is Pigment?

Answer 26

A substance which gives colour to other materials.

Question 27

What are Primary Colours?

Answer 27

Colours used to create other colours when mixed together, cannot be created.

Question 28

What are Secondary Colours?

Answer 28

A colour created by mixing two primary colours.

Question 29

What is Shade?

Answer 29

Sets of the same base colour with different darkness or light added.

Question 30

What is Spectrum?

Answer 30

Bands of coloured light created when white light is passed through a prism.

Question 31

What is Tempera?

Answer 31

A water-based paint whose vehicle is egg yolk.

Question 32

What is a Tint?

Answer 32

A light value of a hue, made by adding white to the original colour.

Question 33

What is Tone?

Answer 33

The modification of a colour through the addition of neutrals.

Question 34

What is a Warm Colour?

Answer 34

A hue in the red to yellow range in the spectrum.

Question 35

What is Watercolour?

Answer 35

Any paint that uses water as a medium.

Question 36

What is an Element of Design?

Answer 36

The basic units of any visual design which form its structure.

Question 37

What is Form in design?

Answer 37

An element that is three-dimensional and encloses volume.

Question 38

What is Line in design?

Answer 38

An element that may be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or implied.

Question 39

What is Negative Space?

Answer 39

The area around the objects in a painting, sometimes called the background.

Question 40

What is Positive Space?

Answer 40

The objects in a work of art as opposed to the background.

Question 41

What is Sculpture?

Answer 41

A three-dimensional work of art.

Question 42

What is Shape in design?

Answer 42

An enclosed space having only two dimensions.

Question 43

What is Texture in design?

Answer 43

The quality of a surface, both tactile and visual.

Question 44

What is Value in design?

Answer 44

An element that relates to the lightness and darkness of a colour.

Question 45

What is Calligraphy?

Answer 45

The art of beautiful writing or printing.

Question 46

What is Contour?

Answer 46

A single line or lines that define the outer and inner edges of objects.

Question 47

What is a Portrait?

Answer 47

The image of a person’s face made of any sculptural material or medium.

Question 48

What is Proportion in art?

Answer 48

A comparative size relationship between several objects or parts of a single object.

Question 49

What is Realism?

Answer 49

A mid-19th century style of art based on showing subject matter true to life.

Question 50

What is Rendering?

Answer 50

The careful and complete drawing or painting of an object to make it appear realistic.

Question 51

What is Scale in art?

Answer 51

The relative size of an object when compared to others or its environment.

Question 52

What is Shading?

Answer 52

Graduated variations in value used to give a feeling of volume and depth.

Question 53

What is a Sketch?

Answer 53

A quick drawing that captures the immediate feeling of action or impression.

Question 54

What is Sfumato?

Answer 54

A slight blurring of the edges of figures and objects in a painting.

Question 55

What is Sgraffito?

Answer 55

The process of scratching lines into the surface of a work of art.

Question 56

What is Frottage?

Answer 56

The technique of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.