Midterm- 1.3;1.4 Practice Test Flashcards
(30 cards)
When complimentary 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 two colors meet.
Vibrate
One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz’s Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called _________.
Relative placement
A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge towards a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.
Orthogonals
Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ___________ mood of the movies.
Serious
Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses __________ perspective.
Three-point
The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created ____________ in his work Travelers amount the Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values.
Depth
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ___________.
Value
A series of different values that are grouped together is called a _________.
Value Range
If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?
Foreshortening
The Belgian Surrealist artist _________ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.
Rene Magritte
An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is __________ than the tree.
Further Away
Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers towards a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt’s The Boating Party used yellow, green, and blue hues to create a __________ and ___________ composition.
Harmonious… relaxed
A color that is lighter that its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than it’s basic hue is called a _________.
Shade
The video game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. The units are called __________.
Tiles
We generally associate a color with a purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.
Saturation
This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.
Albrecht Dürer
Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate _________ depth.
Three-dimensional
Color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed the looking at the color ________ had beneficial effects.
Blue
By using __________ color scheme in his painting Twilight bin the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.
A complimentary
The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ____________.
Music
___________ is the use of non-overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness in a drawing.
Perpendicular Shading
____________ is the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness and lightness.
Cross hatching
__________ is a method of applying value to a two-dimensional piece of artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form.
Chiaroscuro
One the drawing below, which shadow is the Cast Shadow? (Ball in the dark)
B
