1st Semester Final

Question 0

Define value scale

Answer 0

a grayscale; a series of spaces filled with the tints and shades of one color, starting wih white or the lightest tint on one end and gradually changing into the darkest shade or black on the other.

Question 1

Define grayscale

Answer 1

the range of neutral values, or shades of gray in an image

Question 2

Define shade

Answer 2

The use of a rang of values to define form

Question 3

Define chiaroscuro

Answer 3

a word borrowed from Italian (“light or shade” or “dark”) referring to the modeling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly

Question 4

Define graduation

Answer 4

A gradual, smoothly nuanced, step-by-step change from dark to light values or from large to small shapes, or rough to smooth textures, or one color to another.

Question 5

Define contrast

Answer 5

A large difference between two things: for example, hot and cold, green and red, light and shadow

Question 6

Define composition

Answer 6

The arrangement of the elements and or objects in an artwork. The way principles of art are used to organize elements

Question 7

Define drawing

Answer 7

Using lines to show forms and figures

Question 8

Define focal point

Answer 8

Area of an artwork that attracts attention first

Question 9

Define realistic

Answer 9

Art that shows life as it is. Art that aims to reproduce things as they appear

Question 10

Define subject

Answer 10

The image that viewers can easily recognize in a work of art

Question 11

Define still life

Answer 11

An arrangement of inanimate objects

Question 12

Define contour line

Answer 12

Lines that form the outer edges of forms and surfaces within a form, such as shapes, or wrinkles or folds

Question 13

Define outline

Answer 13

Lines that show the outer edges of shapes

Question 14

Define hatching

Answer 14

Shading using closely spaced parallel lines; used to suggest light and shadow

Question 15

Define cross-hatching

Answer 15

Shading created by crossed parallel lines

Question 16

Define gesture drawing

Answer 16

The act of making a sketch with relatively loose arm movements (gestures)–with the large muscles of the arm, rather than with the small muscles of the hand and wrist of the artist

Question 17

Define implied lines

Answer 17

Lines that are indicated indirectly in artworks at edges where two shapes meet, where a form ends and the space around it begins, or by positioning several objects or figures in a row