Line
Shape and Space
Light and Color
The Principles of Design
Vocabulary
100
This type of line indicates a two dimensional shape. An exmple can be found in Yoshitomo Nara's, Dead Flower
What is an outline
100
A defined two dimensional area that can be measured in terms of height and width
What is a shape
100
Michelangelo’s Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of
What is cross-hatching
100
Chartres Cathedral’s rose window best illustrates
What is radial balance
100
These lines form the outer edge of a three dimensional shape and suggest its volume
What is contour line
200
This style of line shows no continuous mark, but is rather visually suggested. Example: Titian, Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin 1516-18
What is an implied line
200
Ellsworth Kelly's, Three Panels... show both __________ and ___________ in terms of space
What are positive and negative
200
J. M. W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway. What are they?
What are atmospheric and one-point
200
In the kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana, pattern is associated with
What are social prestige and wealth
200
With this technique an artist adjusts the dimensions of a figure's extremities in order to make up for the distortion caused by the viewer's point of view
What is foreshortening
300
An almost sculptural application of paint.
What is impasto
300
In one point linear perspective all lines recede to a single
What is a vanishing point
300
A color’s brightness or dullness is called its
What is intensity or saturation
300
The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of
What is symmetrical balance
300
Leonardo da Vinci employs what technique to show greater depth in the picture plane
What is atmospheric perspective
400
Which artist did we discuss that made conceptual art. Meaning his hand never truly 'touched' the works on exhibit
Who is Sol LeWitt
400
Umberto Boccionio's art was inspired by what movement
What is the Futurism
400
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is
What is chiaroscuro
400
Jan Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of
What is an asymmetrically balanced composition
400
The way in which the picture plane (flat surface) functions as a window through which a specific scene is presented to the viewer
What is perspective
500
List three different qualities a line may possess
Lines can be: intellectual, expressive, emotional
500
Gustave Caillebotte’s Place de l’Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?
What is two-point linear perspective
500
Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not “true” to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of
What is arbitrary color
500
What idea was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion?
What is the canon
500
In color the fact that, when different hues of colored pigment are combined, the resulting mixture is lower in key than the original hues and duller as well... The more hues are added the darker the resulting mixture will appear
What is the subtractive process
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