Midterm- 1.3;1.4 Practice Test

Question 1

When complimentary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to __________ along the boundary where two colors meet.

Answer 1

Vibrate

Question 2

One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz’s Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called _________.

Answer 2

Relative placement

Question 3

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge towards a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

Answer 3

Orthogonals

Question 4

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ___________ mood of the movies.

Answer 4

Serious

Question 5

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses __________ perspective.

Answer 5

Three-point

Question 6

The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created ____________ in his work Travelers amount the Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values.

Answer 6

Depth

Question 7

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ___________.

Answer 7

Value

Question 8

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a _________.

Answer 8

Value Range

Question 9

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

Answer 9

Foreshortening

Question 10

The Belgian Surrealist artist _________ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.

Answer 10

Rene Magritte

Question 11

An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is __________ than the tree.

Answer 11

Further Away

Question 12

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers towards a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt’s The Boating Party used yellow, green, and blue hues to create a __________ and ___________ composition.

Answer 12

Harmonious… relaxed

Question 13

A color that is lighter that its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than it’s basic hue is called a _________.

Answer 13

Shade

Question 14

The video game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. The units are called __________.

Answer 14

Tiles

Question 15

We generally associate a color with a purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

Answer 15

Saturation

Question 16

This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.

Answer 16

Albrecht Dürer

Question 17

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate _________ depth.

Answer 17

Three-dimensional

Question 18

Color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed the looking at the color ________ had beneficial effects.

Answer 18

Blue

Question 19

By using __________ color scheme in his painting Twilight bin the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

Answer 19

A complimentary

Question 20

The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ____________.

Answer 20

Music

Question 21

___________ is the use of non-overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness in a drawing.

Answer 21

Perpendicular Shading

Question 22

____________ is the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness and lightness.

Answer 22

Cross hatching

Question 23

__________ is a method of applying value to a two-dimensional piece of artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form.

Answer 23

Chiaroscuro

Question 24

One the drawing below, which shadow is the Cast Shadow? (Ball in the dark)

Answer 24

B

Question 25

In the drawing below, the shadow of the woman’s left cheek is called a _________ shadow. (Framed picture of a lady)

Answer 25

Form Shadow

Question 26

The use of shadows of color and clarity to create the illusion of depth. Closer objects have warmer tones and clear outlines, which objects set further away are cooler and become hazy. This is referred to as __________ perspective. (Pictures of the mountains)

Answer 26

Atmospheric

Question 27

Which colors on the color wheel are referred to as the primary colors?

Answer 27

Red, Yellow, and Blue

Question 28

Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet both used ___________ colors to create the visual illusion of vibrating movement and intensity in each of these paintings. (Picture of the city in Paris)

Answer 28

Complimentary

Question 29

This painting is an example of the _________ color scheme. (Picture of the flowers)

Answer 29

Analogous

Question 30

In Grant Reddens painting titled Morning Gathering, we see the _____________ of color which is an important element in the success of any painting. (Lady with chickens)

Answer 30

Repetition