Test 1 (part one)

Question 1

Contextualism

Answer 1

Methodological approach in art history that focuses on the cultural background of an art object. (The personal and social circumstances, surrounding the making, viewing and interpreting of a work of art)

Question 2

Art history

Answer 2

Combination of two different studies. Study of individual works of art outside time and place (connoisseurship) and cultural context (contextualism)

Question 3

Mythology

Answer 3

Most common subject in history of art

Question 4

Genre seen

Answer 4

Depicting events in every day life

Question 5

Still life

Answer 5

Representation of inanimate objects

Question 6

Fête galante

Answer 6

An outdoor entertainment or rural festival, especially as depicted in 18th-century French painting. Ballgowns often worn

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

Contains a meaning

Question 8

Representational art

Answer 8

Images that are clearly recognizable for what they purport to be

Question 9

Line

Answer 9

A mark left by a moving point

Question 10

Contour

Answer 10

The outline of an object or shape

Question 11

Silhouette

Answer 11

Outline of a casually done objective shape

Question 12

Moiré

Answer 12

A wavy pattern that seems to vibrate

Question 13

Hatching

Answer 13

Series of parallel lines

Question 14

Gesture

Answer 14

Rapid application of lines

Question 15

Shape

Answer 15

A two-dimensional area having identifiable boundaries, created by lines, color, value changes, or some combination of these.

Question 16

Organic shape

Answer 16

Reflect those in nature, irregular and curvilinear

Question 17

Geometric shape

Answer 17

Regular and precise, circles, squares, triangles

Question 18

Plastic

Answer 18

Representing the illusion of volume

Question 19

Positive shape

Answer 19

An enclosed area that may suggest recognizable objects

Question 20

Negative shape

Answer 20

The unoccupied or empty shape, space left after the positive shape has been defined

Question 21

Hue

Answer 21

Another word for color

Question 22

Primary colors

Answer 22

Red, yellow and blue hues that are pure and not the combination of any other hues

Question 23

Secondary colors

Answer 23

Orange green and violet these are hues created by mixing two equal amounts of two different primary colors

Question 24

Tertiary colors

Answer 24

These are Hughes created by mixing equal amounts of one primary color with one adjoining secondary color

Question 25

Complementary colors

Answer 25

Colors located opposite each other on the color wheel (Red/green blue/orange yellow/violet)

Question 26

Analogous colors

Answer 26

Hues which share properties and are found near each other on the color wheel

Question 27

Warm colors

Answer 27

Red, yellow, orange (appear to advance)

Question 28

Cool colors

Answer 28

Blue, violet, Green (appear to reseed)

Question 29

Advancing colors

Answer 29

Hues that are bright (saturated) and/or light

Question 30

Receding colors

Answer 30

Hues that are dark and/or dull (value)

Question 31

Connoisseurship

Answer 31

Study and evaluation of art based on formal, visual, and stylistic analysis