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
When an artists adds a hue to white to get a lighter color, the value created is known as:
tint
Value is related to what color property?
lightness and darkness
complementary color
opposites on the color wheel (yellow and purple)
analogous harmony
uses adjacent colors on the color wheel. Ex. cool colors being used
Space displaced by a mass is considered as:
ground
monochromatic
composed of a single hue in different values and intensity
Because analogous colors are adjacent one another on the color wheel, the colors can create what kind of emotion?
Tranquil
A shape that is emphasized due to its complementary shape is known as:
positive
What happens when gray is added to a hue?
Intensity lowers.
Discussing shape as a background is also known as:
ground
To create the appearance of three-dimensional space, visual cues can give a flat surface the appearance of:
depth
