The Language of Art Flashcards
How does Georgia O’Keeffe use two colors that generally clash to create harmony in her painting “Two Calla Lilies on Pink?
She adds white to the colors to create pastel versions.
What are the visual elements that all artists use?
Space, line, shape, light, texture color
In the Middle Ages in the Western world, most art was ______ in character
religious
Unlike a two-dimensional artist, such as John Constable, a three-dimensional artist, such as Tony Smith, must consider
spatial issues from every possible viewing point.
What is a component of every great work of art?
An original vision of the world
You would not normally expect to see images from nature when viewing the works of
Ellsworth Kelly
An artist can direct the viewer’s attention to a particular area of a painting by using
crossed lines that converge on one location.
On a color wheel, colors that are directly across from each other are called ______ colors.
complementary
______ creates movement in a piece.
Line
The naturalistic representations of wild animals and humans created by Ice Age hunters on the walls of caves in what is now France and Spain
were most likely used by their creators in magical rites.
Which twentieth-century artist believed in a philosophy of art that stressed expressiveness, used colors to communicate emotion, and maintained that art should hint rather than be dogmatic?
Willem de Kooning
What is the fist simple step in learning to appreciate art?
Learning to look
Outside of Western culture, ________ saw art as priceless during the Middle ages.
Japenese
In Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the technique of ________ lighting was used.
sfumato
What significant compositional feature do Bramante’s Tempietto and a Buddhist mandala have in common?
Both are ordered around a central point
