1.4 Color

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

When complementary 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 the two colors meet.

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology are:

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ________.

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

The three kinds of unity are:

Variety can ________ a design.

An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

An artwork can have only one focal point.

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.

Which of the following can create a pattern?

The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.

Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.

Memento mori refers to:

Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?