ART Appreciation Final Exam - Questions With
Correct Solutions
Form Correct Answer - formal elements
i.e. lines, shapes, color, texture, spatial qualities and composition
Medium Correct Answer - tool/material that an artist uses
Content Correct Answer - the message/subject matter/ideas in
the artwork
Style Correct Answer - how the artist chooses to use the
medium
The characteristics in an artwork's form and content that identifies
a particular artist's or group of artist's work (used to define a kind of
work)
Artist’s style: describes the consistent use of form and content
Line Correct Answer - a mark that is made on a 2D or 3D
surface
More or less continuous that will define a shape or depict a motion
Can divide space and lead the eye into space
Lines have greater length than width and are NOT edges
Drafting Correct Answer - another word for drawing
,Shading Correct Answer - used in drawing to build atmosphere
or volume
crosshatched Correct Answer - a line also used to create
atmosphere or volume
contour line Correct Answer - outline or the edge of a figure or
a volumetric object.
neither a line or an edge but is made up of one or the other
implied line Correct Answer - describes the suggest lining up
of juxtaposed (side by side) objects
no actual line created by the artist
the compositional elements of an artwork allow the eye to see a
directional suggestion and move through the work
shape Correct Answer - shows the external appearance of an
object rather than its skeleton structure (ex: restroom symbols)
geometric shape Correct Answer - uses straight edges and
make the form look like a flattened 2D object
can be constructed on 2D or 3D
biomorphic shape Correct Answer - uses curving forms with
thinning and bulging shapes
references shapes of living beings
a symbol can be biomorphic rather than geometric!
can be constructed on 2D or 3D
, color Correct Answer - important formal element in artwork
complex concept, can be understood in 3 categories:
1) hue
2) value
3) intensity
hue Correct Answer - the word for the color itself (ex: blue,
red, yellow, etc.)
the hue of both the primary (red, blue, yellow), secondary (green,
orange, purple), and tertiary (combo of one primary and one/two
secondary colors like red-green) colors is their name
value Correct Answer - how much black or white has been
added to the hue/color
ex: on a 1-10 scale, 1 is the lightest sky blue, 5 is pure blue, and 10 is
dark blue-black/midnight blue
chroma/intensity Correct Answer - quantity or saturation of
color/hue in the paint/ink
how much of the color is in the medium of paint/ink
ex: in pink, there is less red in the color and in apple red, there is
more red
opacity Correct Answer - When a color/object covers another
and you're not able to see through it
when light cannot pass through a color/object, therefore the object
behind is obscured
Correct Solutions
Form Correct Answer - formal elements
i.e. lines, shapes, color, texture, spatial qualities and composition
Medium Correct Answer - tool/material that an artist uses
Content Correct Answer - the message/subject matter/ideas in
the artwork
Style Correct Answer - how the artist chooses to use the
medium
The characteristics in an artwork's form and content that identifies
a particular artist's or group of artist's work (used to define a kind of
work)
Artist’s style: describes the consistent use of form and content
Line Correct Answer - a mark that is made on a 2D or 3D
surface
More or less continuous that will define a shape or depict a motion
Can divide space and lead the eye into space
Lines have greater length than width and are NOT edges
Drafting Correct Answer - another word for drawing
,Shading Correct Answer - used in drawing to build atmosphere
or volume
crosshatched Correct Answer - a line also used to create
atmosphere or volume
contour line Correct Answer - outline or the edge of a figure or
a volumetric object.
neither a line or an edge but is made up of one or the other
implied line Correct Answer - describes the suggest lining up
of juxtaposed (side by side) objects
no actual line created by the artist
the compositional elements of an artwork allow the eye to see a
directional suggestion and move through the work
shape Correct Answer - shows the external appearance of an
object rather than its skeleton structure (ex: restroom symbols)
geometric shape Correct Answer - uses straight edges and
make the form look like a flattened 2D object
can be constructed on 2D or 3D
biomorphic shape Correct Answer - uses curving forms with
thinning and bulging shapes
references shapes of living beings
a symbol can be biomorphic rather than geometric!
can be constructed on 2D or 3D
, color Correct Answer - important formal element in artwork
complex concept, can be understood in 3 categories:
1) hue
2) value
3) intensity
hue Correct Answer - the word for the color itself (ex: blue,
red, yellow, etc.)
the hue of both the primary (red, blue, yellow), secondary (green,
orange, purple), and tertiary (combo of one primary and one/two
secondary colors like red-green) colors is their name
value Correct Answer - how much black or white has been
added to the hue/color
ex: on a 1-10 scale, 1 is the lightest sky blue, 5 is pure blue, and 10 is
dark blue-black/midnight blue
chroma/intensity Correct Answer - quantity or saturation of
color/hue in the paint/ink
how much of the color is in the medium of paint/ink
ex: in pink, there is less red in the color and in apple red, there is
more red
opacity Correct Answer - When a color/object covers another
and you're not able to see through it
when light cannot pass through a color/object, therefore the object
behind is obscured
