Chapter 4: Painting Flashcards
Which of the following is pigment bound by egg yolk?
tempera
Which of the following media produces the greatest range, richness, and subtlety of color?
oil
Which of the following has NOT dominated painting in the West?
ink
Which of the following refers to the purity, vividness, or intensity of a color?
saturation
The basic elements of painting are
line, color, texture, and composition
In abstract painting, sensa are
dissociated from specific objects or events
In representational painting, sensa are
associated with specific objects or events
Which of the following refers to the emphasis achieved by the scaling of sizes or shapes?
proportion
The “all-at-onceness” of a painting refers to
all of a painting being present at one time
A painting by which of the following artists lent its name to the entire Impressionist movement?
Monet
The gradual variations in shape, color value, and shadowing in Siqueiros’s Echo of a Scream refer to
gradation
A painting is abstract if
definite objects and events are not part of the content
Frankenthaler’s The Bay or The Flood is
both
Rothko’s Earth Greens is an exceptional example of
timelessness and the sensuous
