Art Appreciation Ch. 4-5 - Visual Elements

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which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?
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line
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During the 20th century, ______ became a recognized element of art.
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motion
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Lines are used in art to indicate
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boundaries between forms, direction and motion, shadows and highlights, spatial depth on flat surfaces, all of these
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In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called
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organic shapes
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Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a
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triangle
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the 18th century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are
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position and overlap
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A black and white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ___ of the colors
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values
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In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by___, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ____
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outlines, contour lines
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In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ___ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.
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Chiaroscuro
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Charles White's Untitled illustrates the techniques of
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hatching
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which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world?
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James Turrell
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in the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce
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white light
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Mixing two primary colors produces a
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secondary color
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"Passive pink" refers to the color that seemed to calm and relax violent ___ in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body
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children
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a necessary feature of pattern is
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repetition
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the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is
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all of these: at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, and on the horizon line
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one common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is
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all of these: the effect of light, the work of earlier restorers, changing levels of heat and humidity, pollution
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in Albrecht Durer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of
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foreshortening
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The use of _____ perspective is a prominent aspect of The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt
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atmospheric
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Artists can portray ___ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted picture
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visual
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In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by distributing
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visual weight accordingly
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rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometime create ___ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art
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conceptual
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in a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is along the vertical axis down the ___ of the composition
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center
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the Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ___ to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.
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symmetry
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Annette Messager's Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Eden both demonstrate the use of
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conceptual unity
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The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create image of the "correct of "perfect" human, as have many cultures both ancient and modern. This set of proportions was created using a
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squared grid
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Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of
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symmetrical balance
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Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional them of
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vanitas
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Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses __ and __
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order and authority
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Another term for asymmetrical balance is
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informal balance
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In art, the design principle of balance function to:
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all of these: encourage our active participation in a work, help communicate a work's moods, lead our eyes around a work, help communicate a work's meanings
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Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through
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all of these: size and placement of the figures, directional lines of sight leading to a focal point, contrasting values of dark skin against a pale background, and elimination of detail and bright colors in the background.
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through us of
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scale
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This work of art, a royal altar to the hand, uses
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hierarchical scale
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the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of the
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circle and square
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the use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as
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hierarchical scale
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the architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool used for calculation human proportions, based upon the
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golden section
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Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong use of
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rhythm
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Artists will often add ___ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art
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variety
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Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies- Bergere invites us to consider points of view in its subject and composition. Interpretations of this painting include ___ approaches
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all of these: formalist, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic