Visual Literacy Test 1

Question 1

Form

Answer 1

all aspects of life

Question 2

Style

Answer 2

appearance of art which includes the particular manner of presentation

Question 3

Composition

Answer 3

how elements are arranged in a work

Question 4

Content

Answer 4

an idea communicated through the form. it comprises of the subject matter

Question 5

Representational (naturalistic)

Answer 5

when the figures and objects are close to life

Question 6

Stylized

Answer 6

any time the work seems more or less close to life, but fails to meet all of the representational criteria, then it’s stylized

Question 7

Abstract

Answer 7

art where the forms are distorted

Question 8

Nonrepresentational

Answer 8

art made up of geometric shapes or lines, and you cannot identify any forms, such as figures or objects in it

Question 9

Religious

Answer 9

deals with the religion or sacred, made to teach about religion

Question 10

Political

Answer 10

any art that deals with political or social events

Question 11

Daily Life

Answer 11

everyday life scene

Question 12

Portrait

Answer 12

focuses on a person

Question 13

Nature

Answer 13

beauty of nature

Question 14

Fantasy

Answer 14

art is a dream, out of world experience

Question 15

Shape

Answer 15

a 2-dimensional shape any and 2-dimensional image

Question 16

Implied shape

Answer 16

what our mind perceives the visual information as a whole

Question 17

Mass

Answer 17

a 3-dimensional form that occupies a volume of space

Question 18

Actual texture

Answer 18

tactile, a quality we can experience through touch

Question 19

Visual texture

Answer 19

the texture that is seen

Question 20

3-dimensional space

Answer 20

3-dimensional artwork that stands in the actual space in which our bodies stand

Question 21

Implied Space

Answer 21

suggests depth in two dimensions

Question 22

Linear perspective

Answer 22

forms diminishing in size as they recede from parallel lines to a vanishing point on a horizon line

Question 23

Foreshortening

Answer 23

the visual phenomena whereby an elongated object projecting toward or away from a viewer appears shorter than its actual length

Question 24

atmospheric perspective

Answer 24

when distant objects appear less distinct, paler, and bluer than nearby objects

Question 25

Isometric perspective

Answer 25

use of diagonal lines to convey recession without parallel lines converging

Question 26

Time and motion

Answer 26

signs that remind us of motion or the passage of time

Question 27

Color theory

Answer 27

the study of white light separated into spectral colors by a prism and colors of the visible spectrum

Question 28

Color properties

Answer 28

Color, value, intensity

Question 29

Primary colors

Answer 29

blue, yellow, red

Question 30

Secondary colors

Answer 30

purple, green, orange

Question 31

Complementary colors

Answer 31

colors opposite on the color wheel, (red/green, yellow/green, yellow/purple)

Question 32

Analogous colors

Answer 32

colors next to each other

Question 33

High value

Answer 33

everything facing towards the light source

Question 34

low value

Answer 34

everything opposite of the light source

Question 35

Chiaroscuro

Answer 35

putting shadows to create illusion of mass

Question 36

Hatching

Answer 36

rows of parallel lines to create a shadow areas to produce illusion of mass

Question 37

Stippling

Answer 37

lots of dots

Question 38

Unity

Answer 38

a sense of oneness

Question 39

Variety

Answer 39

difference

Question 40

Balance

Answer 40

distribution of visual weight, symmetrical and asymmetrical

Question 41

Emphasis

Answer 41

manipulating various visual elements to bring attention to one major subject in the work

Question 42

Scale and proportion

Answer 42

size in relation to a standard or “normal” size