Chapter 4 Flashcards
Saturation
intensity of a color.
Which are types of space?
Implied
Actual
Stippling
use of dots to create values.
hatching
drawing parallel lines that are close together to create the illusion of shading or shadow
What are negative shapes in a work of art?
They make up the visual space surrounding figures.
A flat surface used to create a work of art without creating visual depth is called:
picture plane
What kind of texture does Mona Hatoum uses in her work Dormiente?
actal
What interacts with other visual elements of an artwork to give them definition?
space
What Gestalt theory explains why the viewer sees a triangle?
Reification
The shape that is visually detached from a background is known as:
figure
In what ways are the palette for an artist considered?
a select set of colors an artist is using
the surface used to mix colors
Tonal colors
colors muted with gray
technique to recreate natural textures on a flat painted surface?
trompe l’oeil
What does space do?
It defines other visual elements.
Dormiente
cheese grater bed