Art Chapter#6

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The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called?
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tenebrism.
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The artist that painted Le Chahut (The Can-Can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as?
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pointillism.
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Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize the
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division between male and female spaces.
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J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway. What are they?
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atmospheric and one-point
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Figure of a Woman by Paul Colin probably derives from his____________.
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association with Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre
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With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear?
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cooler and less distinct
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Nikolai Buglaj's "Race"ing Sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of?
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associating blackness with negative qualities
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By the 19th century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J.M.W. Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters. What type is it?
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aerial or atmospheric perspective
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Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr shows the use of
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cross-hatching.
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The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as
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"layered" pointillism.
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One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is?
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chiaroscuro.
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A color's brightness or dullness is called its
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intensity or saturation
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On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as?
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cool colors.
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On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called?
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intermediate colors
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The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the?
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palette
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Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of?
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arbitrary color
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Which of these elements does not help to create space in art?
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palette
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. What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Flavin?
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fluorescent lighting
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What is the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin?
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light and color
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. DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called?
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atmospheric perspective.
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The background mountains in DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of ?
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atmospheric perspective.
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In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by?
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
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Isaac Newton
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Is Jane Hammond's Fallen an overall warm or cool "composition"?
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warm
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Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces, sewn together as a whole. What is it made of?
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digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
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What is yellow's complementary color?
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violet
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Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into what?
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volume