Chaps 4-8

Question 1

Visual realities

Answer 1

Computer simulations of real or imagined places

Question 2

Foreshortening

Answer 2

The dimensions of the closer extremities are adjusted in order to make up for the distortion created by the point of view

Question 3

Atmospheric or aerial perspective

Answer 3

These rules state that the quality of the atmosphere between us and large objects changes their appearance. Objects farther away appear less distinct and often bluer in color, and the contrast between light and dark is reduced

Question 4

Chiaroscuro

Answer 4

The balance and shade in a picture especially it’s skillful use by the artist in representing the gradual transition around a curved surface from light to dark

Question 5

Modeling

Answer 5

The use of chiaroscuro to represent light falling across a curved or round surface

Question 6

Highlights

Answer 6

Directly reflect a light source, are indicated by white and the various degrees of shadow are notated by darker areas

Question 7

Core of the shadow

Answer 7

The darkest area on the object itself

Question 8

Cast shadow

Answer 8

The darkest area of all

Question 9

Tenebrism

Answer 9

“Hidden in the shadows” makes use of large areas of dark contrasting sharply with smaller brightly illuminated areas

Question 10

Hatching

Answer 10

An area of closely spaced parallel lines

Question 11

Cross-hatching

Answer 11

One set of hatches is crossed at an angle by a second and sometimes third set

Question 12

Shade

Answer 12

Whenever black is added to a hue

Question 13

Tint

Answer 13

Whenever white is added to a hue

Question 14

Value

Answer 14

Relative degree of lightness or darkness

Question 15

Hue

Answer 15

Each primary or secondary color

Question 16

Spectrum

Answer 16

Bands of different colors created by sunlight passing through a prism

Question 17

Primary colors

Answer 17

Red yellow and blue

Question 18

Secondary colors

Answer 18

Orange green and violet

Question 19

Intermediate colors

Answer 19

Mixtures of a primary and neighboring secondary color (yellow-orange)

Question 20

Subtractive process

Answer 20

Adding all of the colors together resulting in black

Question 21

Additive process

Answer 21

Mixing light, as more and more colors are combined more light is added to the mixture and colors that result are brighter than either taken alone (ex: computer screen)

Question 22

Intensity

Answer 22

A function of the colors relative brightness or dullness

Question 23

Medium

Answer 23

A liquid that makes paint easier to manipulate

Question 24

Palette

Answer 24

Range of colors used by an artist

Question 25

Analogous color schemes

Answer 25

Those composed of hues that neighbor each other on the color wheel

Question 26

Open palette

Answer 26

Employing the entire range of hues in a wide variety of keys and intensities, polychromatic

Question 27

Restricted/closed palette

Answer 27

Limiting the range of color selection

Question 28

Local color

Answer 28

The color of objects viewed up close in even lighting conditions (expected, i.e. banana= yellow)

Question 29

Perceptual color

Answer 29

The changing of a color depending on the light (i.e. distant hill covered in trees looks blueish)

Question 30

Plein-air

Answer 30

French word meaning open air, painting landscapes outdoors to be true to the optical colors of the scene before you (i.e. Monet haystacks)

Question 31

Texture

Answer 31

Surface quality of the work

Question 32

Pattern

Answer 32

Repetitive motifs or design

Question 33

Kinetic art

Answer 33

To that moves or seems to move

Question 34

Impasto

Answer 34

Paint applied in a thick heavy manner

Question 35

Frottage

Answer 35

Invented by Max Ernst, painting technique by putting a sheet of paper over textured surfaces, especially floorboards and other wooden services and then rubbing a soft pencil across the paper

Question 36

Grattage

Answer 36

Also invented by Max Ernst, the campus is prepared with one or more layers of paint, placed over textured objects, then scraped over

Question 37

Plastic arts

Answer 37

Painting and sculpture- spatial

Question 38

Written arts

Answer 38

Music and literature- temporal

Question 39

Optical art

Answer 39

Giving the illusion of movement

Question 40

Bilateral symmetry

Answer 40

When there are minor discrepancies between one side and the other though the overall effect is still one of symmetry