Chapter 2: The Visual Elements

Question 1

Elizabeth Catlett’s Sharecropper uses ___________ to create depth and texture through modeling, which on a two-dimensional surface is the creation of the illusion of roundness or three dimensions through the use of light and shadow

a. shape
b. line
c. color

Answer 1

b. line

Question 2

The _______ of a color of a surface is its lightness or darkness.

a. hue
b. saturation
c. value

Answer 2

c. value

Question 3

What is the name given to the technique of gradual shifting from light to dark through a successive gradation of tones across a curved surface–a technique often used to create the illusion of three dimensions in two-dimensional media?

a. stippling
b. chiaroscuro
c. cross-hatching

Answer 3

b. chiaroscuro

Question 4

The word texture derives from the Latin for ____________

a. weaving
b. rough
c. smooth

Answer 4

a. weaving

Question 5

In one-point perspective, parallel lines converge at a single ____________ on the horizon.

a. contour line
b. vanishing point
c. shape

Answer 5

b. vanishing point

Question 6

Artists, in their self-expression, use the elements of art to design compositions of a certain style, form, and ________

Answer 6

content

Question 7

The vocabulary of art includes line, shape, light, value, color, texture, space, _____, and motion.

Answer 7

time

Question 8

Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, 1887 uses a display of optical and psychological color through harsh, textured swirls of ______, which is the thick buildup of paint on the surface of the canvas.

Answer 8

impasto

Question 9

Implied motion and implied time are found in Baroque sculptor _______________________’s Apollo and Daphne through the use of diagonal lines of force that help simulate movement from left to right.

a. Edward Hopper
b. Eugene Delacroix
c. Grant Wood
d. Gianlorenzo Bernini

Answer 9

d. Gianlorenzo Bernini