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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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What do artist do?

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  1. create places for some human purpose.
  2. create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
  3. record and commemorate
  4. give tangible form to the unknown
  5. give tangible form to feelings and ideas
  6. to refresh our vision and help use see the world in new ways
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What is an art piece that shows the artists ability to give tangible form to feelings and ideas?

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The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh 1889

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What is an art piece that shows the artist ability to create places for some human purpose?

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC 1982 by Maya Lin

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What are the two different kinds of art?

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Representational and Abstract

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What is representational art?

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an image that represent the visible world in such a way that we recognize a likeness.

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What is abstract art?

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a simplification or exaggeration of what we see.

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What is an example of representational art?

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Pablo Picasso’s First Communion

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What is an example of abstract art?

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Pablo Picasso’s Seated Woman Holding a Fan

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What is an example of pleasure in art?

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Edward Weston’s Cabbage Leaf

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What is an example of pain?

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Francisco de Goya’s Saturn Devouring One of His Children

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What are the themes of art?

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  • The Sacred Realm
  • Politics and the Social Order
  • Stories and Histories
  • Invention and Fantasy
  • The Natural World
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What does Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People works theme?

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Politics and the Social Order

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What are the 3 major lines?

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contour
actual
implied
-psychological

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What are contour lines?

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created by the edge of things

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What are actual lines?

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are connected and continious

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What are implied lines?

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completed by the viewer

17
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What are psychological lines?

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a line created by a mental or perceptual connection

18
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What is shape?

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it is a two-dimensional form

19
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What is figure?

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the shape we detach and focus on

20
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What is ground?

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the surrounding visual information the figure stands out from the background

21
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What is an example of implied shapes?

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Raphael’s The Madonna of the Meadows

22
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What is the value of color? Value Contrast?

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  • The value of color of a surface is its lightness or darkness
  • the degrees of difference between shades of gray
23
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What are the primary colors?

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red, yellow, and blue

24
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What are the secondary colors

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orange, green, and violet

25
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What are the intermediate colors? (aka tertiary colors)

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they are the product of a primary color and a adjacent secondary color.

26
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What is an example that models light and shadow?

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s The Visit

Black-and-White film has transposed the colors of the original scene into their relative values, shades of light and dark.

27
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What is texture? What is the 3 types?

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it refers to surface quality; actual, visual, and pattern

28
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What is an example of texture?

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Meret Oppenheim’s Object

the fur covered cup

29
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What is an example of pattern?

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Samuel Fosso’s The Chief

30
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What is actual space?

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real tangible space

31
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What is implied space?

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linear perspective
isometric perspective
atmospheric perspective

32
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What is an example of space and perspective?

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Do Ho Suh’s Reflection

33
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What does linear perspective have?

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vanishing point

34
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What is an example of atmospheric perspective?

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Albert Bierstadt’s The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak

35
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The principles of design most often identified are:

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  • unity and variety
  • balance
  • emphasis and subordination
  • proportion and scale
  • rhythm
36
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What is an example of asymmetrical balance?

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Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life

37
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What is an example of scale and proportion?

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Claes Oldenburg’s and Coosje van Bruggen’s Plantoir

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What is an example of rhythm?

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Paul Klee’s Landscape with Yellow Birds

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