Chapter 01 Flashcards
Who said it?
“He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.”
William Blake, English artist and poet
A rough preliminary version of a work or part of a work.
Sketch
The material on or form which an artist chooses to make a work of art.
Medium
Name the sketch.
Drawing for a wing of a flying machine
Leonardo da Vinci
1478-1480
Watercolor is sometimes classified as?
As a drawing because it is executed on heavy paper.
Pastel is sometimes classified as?
As a painting drawn on a rough panel.
Categorization of drawings is dictated by?
Surface on which the drawing is executed.
Leonardo da Vinci engaged in which activity—banned by the Church—in order to get detailed drawings of the human anatomy?
a. cremation
b. embalming
c. dissection
c. dissection
For Raphael’s drawing “ The School of Athens” to the wall, what substance did he use to mark the wall?
a. paint
b. ink
c. charcoal dust
c. charcoal dust
When and where was paper invented?
China - Han Dynasty - First Century
Cai Lun, a court official
He used macerated vegetable fibers in water.
What metals did the Renaissance use to draw images?
Lead, tin, copper, and silver.
What did Raphael use to draw “Head of the Virgin and Child” and with techniques?
He used silverpoint and used hatching with cross-hatching to create strong dark values.
The use of non-overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness.
Hatching
The use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness.
Cross-hatching
The surface quality of work, for example fine/coarse, detailed/lacking in detail.
Texture
When artists used silverpoint for a drawing on wood, what was the thin coating used?
a. ink
b. bone ash
c. chalk
b. bone ash
What type of binders are used to combine pigment for sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayons?
Oil, wax, gum arabic, and glues.
The softer the penicil the _____ the mark.
darker
The ____ or black graphite pencils are softer and darker than the _____ series.
The B is darker than the H series.
Why is ink a favorite among artists?
It’s permanence, precision, and strong dark color.
This ink is made by mixing soot with water and gum.
Carbon ink
Carbon ink was used when and where?
Around 2500 BCE
China
India
This ink would discolor over time and become smudged in humid environments.
Carbon ink
Comic-book artists use a contemporary version of carbon ink called?
India (Indian) ink
An edge or profile of an object but is not a complete outline of shape.
Contour
What do contour lines suggest?
Volume and space
How does contour suggest volume and space?
By showing clues of changing character of a surface.
What are the types of lines?
Contour and implied
What are the functions of line?
direct the viewer’s gaze
communicate an idea
What are the different feelings and ideas that can be expressed by line?
Lines regulate + control
Lines express freedom + passion
Lines can be regular or irregular
Pablo Picasso is often associated with what style of technique?
Cubist style
Twentieth-century movement and style in art, mostly painting, which the perspective of a single viewpoint is abandoned and use of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes creating a collage of three-dimensions on a flat surface.
Cubism
Word or piece of text that is laid out so that is creates a visual image related to the meaning of the word or piece of text.
Calligram
This mangaka group of artists used strong diagonals to add intense feeling of movement on the page.
CLAMP
What do the communicative lines suggest in Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “The Bedroom”
Most lines are strong verticals indicating an energy anxiety or strength.
Possibly that the room was not a calm restful space. Horizontal lines would imply peace.
Floor changes color and value sporadically throughout.
Vertical line width communicates anxiety.
This piece was done just before Van Gogh committed suicide and possibly a reflection of how he felt.
Lines can be a tool to:
a. demarcate boundaries
b. imply direction
c. define shapes
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Barbara Hepworth used line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did she create?
a. sculpture
b. fibers
c. video
d. performance
a. sculpture
This artist used a process called automatic drawing to create spontaneous and free lines. He’d go days without food or sleep to explore deep-rooted sources of truth and creativity.
a. George Bellows
b. Canaletto
c. Andre Masson
d. CLAMP
c. Andre Masson
Dashes and grids in the “The Devil Made Me Do it” by Sauerkids is an example of what kind of line?
a. directional
b. implied
c. actual
d. organic
b. implied
In the work “The Connectors” by artist James Allen, what kind of line is used to draw the view’s attention to the builders facing the height of the Empire State Building?
a. directional
b. organic
c. implied
d. irregular
a. directional
The strong diagonals direct the viewer attention downward.
Vertical lines tend to communicate:
a. calmness
b. passivity
c. action
d. strength
d. strength
Think columns, trunks of trees they represent strength.
In the painting The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo uses __________ line to connect two figures, symbolizing two parts of her life.
a. regulated
b. directional
c. grid
d. implied
b. directional
Directional lines can be used to bring attention to specific elements within the work.
A two-dimensional area where the boundaries are defined by lines or suggested by changes in color or value.
Shape
Two-dimensional figures can be defined by:
a. height, width, depth
b. height, width
b. height, width
How is depth made in three-dimensional work?
Artistic devices such as shading.
A circle shape is two-dimensional and to draw a sphere we can add the needed depth by shading.
Two-dimensional element that can be used to define space.
Shape
What are the two types of shapes?
Geometric
Organic
These shapes are composed of regular lines and curves.
Geometric
These shapes are composed of unpredictable, irregular lines that suggest the natural world.
Organic
These shapes seem unrestrained or chaotic and at times reflect constant change in living things.
Organic
What shapes are in section A and section B?
A. Geometric
B. Organic
What does “femmage” reference?
Homages to the work of women.
An area of the lightest value in a work.
Highlight
What shape is mathematically regular and precise?
a. geometric
b. organic
c. implied
d. negative
a. geometric
Geometric shapes are made up of regular predictable lines.
A shape defined by its surrounding empty space.
Positive shape
An unoccupied or empty space that is created after positive shapes are positioned in a work of art.
Negative space
The reversal of the relationship between one shape (the figure) and its background (the ground), so that the figure becomes background and the ground becomes the figure.
Figure-ground reversal
What technique is used in M.C. Escher’s “Sky and Water I” woodcut?
Figure-ground reversal
This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge poster, an expression that symbolizes the victory of the Bolshevik Red Army over the anti-Communist Russians.
a. M.C. Escher
b. Noma Bar
c. El Lissitzky
d. Georgia O’Keeffe
c. El Lissitzky
Lissitzky artist was a designer who created images to support the Communist Revolution in Russia.
Noma Bar’s illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:
a.
b. the act of gun crime and its terrible result
“Gun Crime” refers to both the act and its result.
What are the elements of art?
Line, shape, form, volume, mass, texture, value (lightness/darkness), space, color, motion, and time
An object that can be defined in three dimensions (height, width, and depth)
Form
The space filled or enclosed by a three-dimensional figure or object.
Volume
A volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density, and bulk.
Mass
The surface quality of a work, for example fine/coarse, detailed/lacking in detail
Texture
A two-dimensional object such as a triangle is called?
a shape
These are flat and do not have depth, mass, or volume although they can be made to give an illusion of actual depth.
Shape
An actual three-dimensional object, such as a pyramid is called?
a form
What are the two fundamental attributes of form?
volume and mass
The amount of actual space a form occupies.
Volume
The concept that volume is solid and occupies space.
Mass
What are the two types of form?
Geometric and organic
Form that is regular and readily expressed in words or mathematics such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and pyramids.
Geometric form
What type of form is the Pyramid of Khafre which is guarded by the Great Sphinx of Giza?
Geometric form because of it’s straight, controlled planes that articulate four sides.
A flat, two-dimensional surface onto which an artist can create a drawing or painting.
Plane
Form that is of most things in the natural world that is irregular and unpredictable.
Organic form