Module 1: The Creative Impulse

Question 1

Humans are drawn to the drama, the devastation, the spectacular beauty of ____. We swoon over the sunsets,
marvel at purple mountains’ majesty, meditate on oak leaves. As a student of art, the observation of ____ is a
point of departure that you share with artists across cultures and time. _____ can serve as a subject or as a source. It can serve as the springs of art.

Answer 1

Nature

Question 2

Describes the native physical world that surrounds and the biochemical world within our physical selves

Answer 2

Nature

Question 3

with manners, good taste
and a refined way of thinking, speaking, and behaving, ____ is also describing as society’s images, its ideas and attitudes, its customs, its skills, and its arts – things to which we are exposed every day, things that shape our _____, things that are passed along from generation to generation.

Answer 3

Culture

Question 4

Artists throughout history, some we now consider the greatest of innovators, have diligently studied the works of their predecessors and contemporaries, even if only to reject their styles in pursuit of their own copying works of art in museums or reproductions – enables the developing artists to learn by observing and replicating technical
means, including design elements and mediums, pictorial devices,
composition, and perspective.

Studying the history of art puts the
student of art in a position to
recognize the relationships among
artists and the host of influences
that impact their work – historical
events, religious beliefs, social
circumstances, political
maneuvering, idiosyncratic
patronage, “art for art’s sake,” to
name only some.

Answer 4

Art History

Question 5

For artists, Sophocles’ advice “Know thyself” seems almost a universal mantra. For regardless of
the genre into which an artist settles – landscape, still – life, historical or
mythological art, even nonobjective art – this artist most likely
so indulged, at some point, in self –
portraiture.

Answer 5

Yourself

Question 6

a tool with which
we, as artists, can attempt to
unlock our visions of ourselves or
come to decipher who we are and
how we think and feel.

Answer 6

Self-Portraiture

Question 7

The ingredients of art

Answer 7

the subject, the form, the content

Question 8

The ability to \_\_\_\_\_, or to
perceive the value or worth of
something from a discriminating
perspective, then, is the
consummate reward of
understanding

Answer 8

appreciate

Question 9

Seeking inspiration in art:

Answer 9

Nature, culture, history and yourself

Question 10

The ____ is what of a work art –
people, places. Things, themes,
processes, ideas

Answer 10

subject

Question 11

May makes no reference whatsoever
to the natural world, no pretext to
representing it, but even non-objective
works are not without subject, from
one perspective

Answer 11

Non-objective art

Question 12

If subject matter is the what in a work
of art, \_\_\_\_\_ is the how. Think of \_\_\_\_as
the all-encompassing framework of
artistic expression. It is the general
structure and overall organization of a
composition.
It signifies the totality of technical
means and materials employed by
the artist, as well as all of the visual
strategies and pictorial devices used
to express and communicate.

Answer 12

Form

Question 13

the why of a work of art in that it
includes what we might consider
the reasons behind its appearance.

Answer 13

Content

Question 14

are a key
component of its content, even if
they are unapparent to many even the most, viewers. Are images that stand for ideas underlying that which is actually seen

Answer 14

Symbols

Question 15

“Writing of images”

Answer 15

Iconography

Question 16

Is the study of themes and symbols in
the visual arts – figures and images
that lend works their underlying
meanings.

Answer 16

Iconography

Question 17

serves as an essential building block of art, but it can also serve as the
content itself of a work of art, or be manipulated to evoke an emotional or
intellectual response from the viewer.

Answer 17

Line

Question 18

in two – dimensional art, are distinct areas within a composition that
have boundaries separating them from what surrounds them.

Answer 18

Shapes

Question 19

refers to the blacks and whites and grays in a work of art, as well as the
contrasts between lights and darks.

Answer 19

Value

Question 20

helps define images or areas in a work of art. It can be used to replicate
that which is seen by the human eye or to suggest the artist’s emotional
response to a subject. ____charges our senses, our intellect, and our
emotions.

Answer 20

Color

Question 21

is often used to heighten the sense of realism in a work. It describes the
surface of an artform.

Answer 21

Texture

Question 22

of art consist of line of line, shape, value, color, texture,
space, time and motion.

Answer 22

Visual Elements

Question 23

Refers to the visual strategies used by artists, in conjunction with the elements
of art, for expressive purposes

Answer 23

Principles of Design

Question 24

has the effect of gathering parts of a composition into a harmonious
whole.

Answer 24

Unity

Question 25

the counterpoint of unity, adds visual interest to a composition.

Answer 25

Variety

Question 26

to draw and hold the viewer’s eye on

certain parts of a work.

Answer 26

Emphasis and focal point

Question 27

have a calming effect, while sudden changes in rhythm

can be disconcerting.

Answer 27

Rhythms

Question 28

of work is its size in relation to
us – the viewers.
\_\_\_ within the work refers to size
relationships of images and objects
represented therein.

Answer 28

Scale

Question 29

of work is how parts

relate to the whole.

Answer 29

Proportion

Question 30

refers to the
physical components of art. We
usually speak of two-dimensional
mediums such as drawing and
painting and three-dimensional
mediums such as sculpture and
architecture.

Answer 30

Medium

Question 31

Plural of medium

Answer 31

medium/media

Question 32

is the most concrete and
intangible of all components of an
artwork. It is a signature look of an
artist’s work

Answer 32

Style

Question 33

a style of art characterized by a predominant emphasis on line,
including outline and pronounced contour line.

Answer 33

Linear style

Question 34

– a style characterized by a loose and gestural handling of paint,
including broad brushstrokes, irregular and uneven, applied rapidly to the
canvas surface. The opposite of painterly is linear.

Answer 34

Painterly style

Question 35

a style of art in which the world is represented as it is; subjects
are accurately and truthfully rendered.

Answer 35

Realistic style

Question 36

a style of art in which characterized by simplified or distorted
rendering of an object that has the essential form or nature of that object
(abstract art); a style of art in

Answer 36

Abstract style