Art Fundamentals

Question 1

What is a subject in art?

Answer 1

The persons, things, signs, or ideas represented in an artwork that express the artists inspiration or intention.

Question 2

What is a measurable area of defined or occupied space?

Answer 2

Volume

Question 3

What is it called when something posses height and width?

Answer 3

Two-dimensional

Question 4

What is representational art?

Answer 4

A type of art in which the subject is presented through the visual art elements lens in a way that the observer is reminded of actual objects. See naturalism and realism.

Question 5

What is an example of unity in art?

Answer 5

Using a mother color to mix into all other colors of the painting.

Question 6

What makes an art piece three-dimensional?

Answer 6

Possesses a dimension of depth in addition to height and width.

Question 7

What is an artist technique?

Answer 7

The manner with which an artist uses tools and materials to achieve and expressive effect.

Question 8

What is the interval or measurable distance between points or images?

Answer 8

Space

Question 9

What are the three qualities of a plane?

Answer 9

1 - An area that is essentially two-dimensional having height and width. 2- A flat or level surface. 3 - A two dimensional surface having a positive extension and special direction or position.

Question 10

What is it called when you use the elements of art to create and illusion of the third dimension on a two dimensional surface?

Answer 10

Plastic art (architecture, sculpture, ceramics)

Question 11

What’s a positive area?

Answer 11

The portion of an artwork in which the art elements (shape, line, etc.), or their combination, produce the subject - nonrepresentational or recognizable images.

Question 12

The style of art that creates an impression of visual actuality without going to extremes of detail while attempting to relate and interpret universal meanings that lie beneath the surface appearances.

Answer 12

Realism

Question 13

What is abstraction?

Answer 13

The selection, simplification, and/or arrangement of the representation of natural appearance. Simply arranged to satisfy the artists needs for organization or expression.

Question 14

Aesthetic

Answer 14

A branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of the beautiful. Attempts to discover the origin of the art experience and it’s relationship between art and other aspects of culture.

Question 15

Creative vision derived from the imagination

Answer 15

Conceptual perception

Question 16

Content

Answer 16

The essential meaning and significance of a wok of art.

Question 17

Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in the use of tools and materials

Answer 17

Craftsmanship

Question 18

What is ornamenting, enriching or emphasizing the two dimensional nature of an artwork or any of it’s elements?

Answer 18

Decorative art

Question 19

A type of art that is based on adherence to actual appearances.

Answer 19

Descriptive

Question 20

How would you describe design?

Answer 20

The underlying plan on which an artwork is based. In a broader sense, design may be considered synonymous with the term form.

Question 21

The overall organization and arrangement of visual elements that develop unity in an art work.

Answer 21

Form

Question 22

Medium or media?

Answer 22

The materials and means used to bring an artwork into existence.

Question 23

The approach of art that attempts a description of things as they appear in nature. No interpretation from artist.

Answer 23

Naturalism

Question 24

Art that is based on physical actuality, optical perception, and the appearance of things as they are.

Answer 24

Objective art

Question 25

Things as seen through the eye

Answer 25

Optical perception

Question 26

The actual flat surface on which an artist executes a pictorial image

Answer 26

Picture plane