Mapeh - Arts

Question 1

a painting technique for softening the transition between colors.

Answer 1

Sfumato

Question 2

Painting technique- the use of strong contrast between light and Dark. Italian for Light and Dark.

Answer 2

Chiaroscuro

Question 3

Painting technique- characterized by change in color (Darkness and Lightness Limitation)

Answer 3

Cangiante

Question 4

Painting technique- is similar to sfumato but is more useful for the edges of chiaroscuro, where vibrant colors are involved. It is a softer chiaroscuro.

Answer 4

Unione

Question 5

Painting technique- common in Baroque Painting. Dramatic Illumination, where darkness become a dominant features of the image.

Answer 5

Tenebrism

Question 6

Painting technique- Illusionistic Architecture, paintings on walls, ceiling usually in frescoes in which architectural details are painted to give the illusion of reality which includes the technique of perspective.

Answer 6

Quadratura

Question 7

Painting technique- creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface.

Answer 7

Perspective

Question 8

Painting technique- a perspective technique in which the artist can create an illusion of an object receding into a distance.

Answer 8

Foreshortening

Question 9

Painting technique- balance, relative size of the object. Ex. dog and a person.

Answer 9

Perspective

Question 10

Artist- Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime.

Answer 10

Michelangelo

Question 11

the only sculpture signed by Michelangelo

Answer 11

Pieta