A World of Art
The Valuable
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Light and Color
100
The organization of the formal elements in a work of art.
What is composition?
100
Something happened to the artist today that immediately increased the value of his artwork. What happened?
What is the death of the artist?
100
The type of line that is perceived to marks the boundaries of an object in space, including curvature.
What is contour line?
100
The modification of perspective to decrease distortion resulting from apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backward from the picture plane at an angle approaching the perpendicular.
What is foreshortening?
100
In this color mixing process, light rays overlap to form other colors.
What is additive process?
200
The study or description of images and symbols.
What is iconography?
200
Apart from an artwork's monetary value, what other types of value might a work of art have?
Multiple answers.
200
A pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that cross each other to make uniform squares or rectangles.
What is a grid?
200
A version of perspective where there is one vanishing point established in a composition.
What is one-point perspective?
200
Red, Yellow, and Blue are examples of this type of color.
What is a primary color?
300
Art that makes no reference to the natural world, and explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements.
What is non-objective or abstract art.
300
Besides monetary value, what types of value might a work of art hold?
Multiple Answers
300
A perceived line that is created by subjects in images looking or pointing in distinct directions.
What is a psychological line?
300
The point in the horizon to which parallel lines appear to converge.
What is vanishing point?
300
Orange-Red, Green-blue, and Yellow-Green are examples of this type of color.
What are tertiary colors.
400
Any work of art that tries to resemble the world of natural appearance.
What is representational art?
400
If a current art student throws paint at a canvass and calls the work art they are unlikely to make a name for themselves in the art market (or sell works of great value.) Jackson Pollock, the famous abstract expressionist artist threw paint at a canvass and claims millions of dollars per painting. Why are Pollock's works famous, but not the art student's?
Pollock was the first artist to become known for that style of painting.
400
In linear perspective, the point where the viewer is positioned.
What is vantage point?
400
Chiarascuro, or the building up of light and dark values to create the illusion of three dimensional form, can also be called this.
What is modeling?
500
The literal, visible image in a work of art, as distinguished from its content, which includes the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.
What is subject matter?
500
Which is more likely to be more valuable, a series of 6 prints by an artist, or a series of 6 paintings by the same artist?
What are 6 paintings.
500
The edge of a shape or figure drawn by an actual line drawn or painted.
What is an outline.
500
Any solid that occupies a three dimensional volume.
What is mass?
500
A mixture of a color with white.
What is a tint.
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