Art Exam 2
📌📌- Which element of art is "a mark that connects two points"?
Line -
Organic - 📌📌- What type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular
lines?
negative - 📌📌- What do you call an empty space that is defined by what
surrounds it?
micrography - 📌📌- Use of implied line is important in which Jewish art form?
shape - 📌📌- In art, what basic two-dimensional element is used to define
space?
📌📌
Georgia O'Keeffe
abstract - - The works of the American artist ________ often play upon the
relationship between positive and negative _________ shapes derived from a
close observation of organic objects.
Music—Pink and Blue II
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negative
positive - - In the painting ________, our attention is drawn initially by the
________ blue shape in the bottom right, before the ________ pink arc above it
carries us along through a maze of tender folds.
To make us identify with the people being executed.
Goya's powerful sequence of implied lines draws our eye from the top left of the
📌📌
painting round in an anticlockwise loop that leaves our gaze focused on the
victims facing imminent death. - - What is the particular effect of Goya's use
of implied line in his painting The Third of May, 1808?
depth, surface - 📌📌 - What does the sixteenth-century artist Dosio give the
viewer a better sense of when he uses lines to accentuate the ceiling in his
drawing of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence?
shape and line - 📌📌
- This giant spider incised into the landscape at Nazca,
Peru, can show us much about which basic element(s) of art?
positive and negative - 📌📌 - In his Obey campaign poster, the street artist
Shepard Fairey uses a striking contrast between what types of shape in order to
grab the attention of viewers?
positive - 📌📌- What do you call a shape on a flat surface that is defined by the
, width and height - 📌📌 - Which of the following attributes are necessary for
defining a two-dimensional figure?
📌📌
to guide our attention, to define shapes, to communicate direction and
movement, to denote texture - - Lines in two-dimensional art have what
function(s)?
contrast - 📌📌 - When an artist uses two noticeably different states of an
element together, what principle is he or she applying?
canon - 📌📌 - What is the name for a set of rules, based on precise
mathematical proportions, that imposes strict controls on how an artist works and
on the appearance of the images that he or she creates?
True - 📌📌 - T/F: Our experience of the texture of a highly polished marble
sculpture will be different if we look at a picture of it in a book or if we stand next
to it in the same room.
actual texture - 📌📌 - When we physically encounter a three-dimensional form,
the tactile sensation we experience is its ________.
implied texture - 📌📌 - Two-dimensional images, however, have ________,
which means the artist creates an effect that reminds us of our tactile memory of
a real-life surface.
subversive texture - 📌📌 - Artists who wish to contradict our previous tactile
experiences employ _________ in order to make us reconsider our
preconceptions about the world around us.
Surrealists - 📌📌 - Which of these artistic movements would you most associate
with the use of subversive texture's contradictions and contrasts in order to make
viewers reconsider their preconceptions about the world around them?
true -📌📌 - T/F: The diagonal angles of the American sculptor David Smith's
Cubi XIX imply movement and lightness, giving these simple, stainless steel
forms a visual energy.
organic - 📌📌- What type of form is composed of unpredictable, irregular
planes?
pyramid - 📌📌 - Which three-dimensional form is most associated with the
ancient Egyptians?
to create a counterpoint between industrial and natural form - 📌📌- Why did
David Smith burnish the surface of his work Cubi XIX?
📌📌- Which element of art is "a mark that connects two points"?
Line -
Organic - 📌📌- What type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular
lines?
negative - 📌📌- What do you call an empty space that is defined by what
surrounds it?
micrography - 📌📌- Use of implied line is important in which Jewish art form?
shape - 📌📌- In art, what basic two-dimensional element is used to define
space?
📌📌
Georgia O'Keeffe
abstract - - The works of the American artist ________ often play upon the
relationship between positive and negative _________ shapes derived from a
close observation of organic objects.
Music—Pink and Blue II
📌📌
negative
positive - - In the painting ________, our attention is drawn initially by the
________ blue shape in the bottom right, before the ________ pink arc above it
carries us along through a maze of tender folds.
To make us identify with the people being executed.
Goya's powerful sequence of implied lines draws our eye from the top left of the
📌📌
painting round in an anticlockwise loop that leaves our gaze focused on the
victims facing imminent death. - - What is the particular effect of Goya's use
of implied line in his painting The Third of May, 1808?
depth, surface - 📌📌 - What does the sixteenth-century artist Dosio give the
viewer a better sense of when he uses lines to accentuate the ceiling in his
drawing of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence?
shape and line - 📌📌
- This giant spider incised into the landscape at Nazca,
Peru, can show us much about which basic element(s) of art?
positive and negative - 📌📌 - In his Obey campaign poster, the street artist
Shepard Fairey uses a striking contrast between what types of shape in order to
grab the attention of viewers?
positive - 📌📌- What do you call a shape on a flat surface that is defined by the
, width and height - 📌📌 - Which of the following attributes are necessary for
defining a two-dimensional figure?
📌📌
to guide our attention, to define shapes, to communicate direction and
movement, to denote texture - - Lines in two-dimensional art have what
function(s)?
contrast - 📌📌 - When an artist uses two noticeably different states of an
element together, what principle is he or she applying?
canon - 📌📌 - What is the name for a set of rules, based on precise
mathematical proportions, that imposes strict controls on how an artist works and
on the appearance of the images that he or she creates?
True - 📌📌 - T/F: Our experience of the texture of a highly polished marble
sculpture will be different if we look at a picture of it in a book or if we stand next
to it in the same room.
actual texture - 📌📌 - When we physically encounter a three-dimensional form,
the tactile sensation we experience is its ________.
implied texture - 📌📌 - Two-dimensional images, however, have ________,
which means the artist creates an effect that reminds us of our tactile memory of
a real-life surface.
subversive texture - 📌📌 - Artists who wish to contradict our previous tactile
experiences employ _________ in order to make us reconsider our
preconceptions about the world around us.
Surrealists - 📌📌 - Which of these artistic movements would you most associate
with the use of subversive texture's contradictions and contrasts in order to make
viewers reconsider their preconceptions about the world around them?
true -📌📌 - T/F: The diagonal angles of the American sculptor David Smith's
Cubi XIX imply movement and lightness, giving these simple, stainless steel
forms a visual energy.
organic - 📌📌- What type of form is composed of unpredictable, irregular
planes?
pyramid - 📌📌 - Which three-dimensional form is most associated with the
ancient Egyptians?
to create a counterpoint between industrial and natural form - 📌📌- Why did
David Smith burnish the surface of his work Cubi XIX?
