chapter 5

Question 1

___, also known as aerial perspective creates the illusion of depth through the use of light and color. foreground is sharper, brighter, warmer; background is hazy, cooler, duller

Answer 1

atmospheric perspective

Question 2

which artist developed most of the guidelines for atmospheric/aerial perspective

Answer 2

leonardo da vinci

Question 3

__ is the relative level of lightness or darkness of an area

Answer 3

relative value

Question 4

__ is when white is added to the basic hue

Answer 4

tint

Question 5

__ is when black is added to the basic hue

Answer 5

shade

Question 6

___ is the balance of light and shade in a work most often exhibited when the artist transitions from light ti dark around a curved surface

Answer 6

chiaroscuro

Question 7

__ is the use of chiaroscuro to represent light falling across a curved surface

Answer 7

modeling

Question 8

___ is a technique separate from modeling in which areas of dark contrast sharply with smaller brightly illuminated areas

Answer 8

tenebrism

Question 9

__ is an area of closely spaced parallel lines

Answer 9

hatching

Question 10

___ in hatching, when one set of hatches is crossed at an angle by a second or third set

Answer 10

cross-hatching

Question 11

How does Mary Cassatt use the play of light and dark in “The Loge”

Answer 11

she divides the work into two zones, the hat strap and her collar heavily contrast with her neck. her face and hand are in light area

Question 12

Sir Isaac Newton discovered that as sunlight passes through a prism it breaks into bands of colors in what is known as the spectrum. By organizing the visible spectrum into a circle, we have what is recognized as the ___ ___

Answer 12

color wheel

Question 13

____: any of the 12 colors on the color wheel

Answer 13

hue

Question 14

restorers of the sistine chapel discovered that the original colors used by Michaelangelo were much more ___ and intense than originally believed

Answer 14

saturated

Question 15

__ color schemes are composed of neighboring hues on the color wheel, which are often organized on the basis of color ___

Answer 15

analogous, temperature

Question 16

__- color schemes include hues opposite each other on the color wheel

Answer 16

complementary

Question 17

___ occurs when two complementary colors appear brighter when places next to each other without any mixing

Answer 17

simultaneous contrast

Question 18

Seurat painted his canvas with thousands of tiny dots, or points, of pure color in a process that cam to be known as

Answer 18

pointillism

Question 19

artists working with either analogous or complementary color schemes choose to limit the range of their color selection, this is called a closed or ___ palette

Answer 19

restricted

Question 20

open palette is when the artist uses a wide range of hues in a wide variety of values and intensities. such paintings are __

Answer 20

polychromatic

Question 21

__ works feature a single color from a closed or restricted palette

Answer 21

monochromatic

Question 22

___ color is the color w “know” the object to be, such as bananas being yellow

Answer 22

local

Question 23

___ color is exemplified in atmospheric perspective

Answer 23

perceptual

Question 24

___ color is used by artists to render subjects in hues that are true to neither their optical nor local color

Answer 24

arbitrary