WorksheetsModule 2 art appreciation | 2 out 5 of the module midterm exam
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?
motion
time
mass
line
light
During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?
shape
line
color
texture
motion
Lines are used in art to indicate
boundaries between forms.
direction and motion.
shadows and highlights.
spatial depth on flat surfaces.
All these answers are correct.
In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.
organic
geometric
environmental
three-dimensional
Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a
trapezoid
square
triangle
circle
Introduced at the beginning of Chapter 4, an artist that creates work that successfully utilizes multiple elements in her playful and colorful work The Sun and the Moon is:
Mona Hatoum
Sarah Sze
Emmi Whitehorse
Elizabeth Murray
A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ________ of the colors.
pigments
chromas
harmonies
values
All these answers are correct.
In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.
graphite; ink
visual elements; principles of design
outlines; contour lines
thick lines; thin lines
actual lines; implied lines
In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.
refraction
spatial organization
isometric perspective
chiaroscuro
Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of _______________ to create the illusion of shadows and lights in a portrait.
cross-hatching.
atmospheric perspective.
impasto
foreshortening
This contemporary video artist created Dervish, a projection of digital images of trees onto walls that change seasons as they spin in time:
Robert Smithson
Sarah Sze
Jennifer Steinkamp
Elizabeth Murray
In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________ light.
yellow
black
white
grayish brown
Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.
secondary
complementary
tertiary
monochromatic
Using a multitude of patterns to create visual texture, this African photographer created a self-portrait called The Chief parodying an African tribal leader dressed in white shades, red suede shoes, leopard skin pants and holding fake sunflowers:
Chris Offilli
Samuel Fosso
Jacob Lawrence
Olowe of Ise
In her linear-influenced sculptures, this contemporary artist creates intricately complex structures using ordinary objects such as yardsticks, bottle caps, string, plastic tubes, toothpicks, etc, as in her work Hidden Relief:
Maya Lin
Emmi Whitehorse
Janine Antoni
Sarah Sze
Leonardo da Vinci uses what type of perspective in his famous painting The Last Supper?
One-point
Two-point
Three-point
Atmospheric
None of these answers is correct.
In his painting Sunday on La Grande Jatte, this 19th century French painter used pointillism to created an entire park scene on a ten-foot-long canvas, covering it with tiny dots of color:
Georges Seurat
Claude Monet
Vincent Van Gogh
Edvard Munch
Demonstrating the use of line as a means of creating direction and movement, this American painter from Pennsylvania created a dynamic painting of a ‘sculling’ or rowing competition called, The Biglin Brothers Racing:
Georges Seurat
Thomas Cole
Thomas Eakins
Bill Reid
The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?
The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse
Lake George by John Frederick Kensett
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
A master at the art of ‘figure/ground reversal’, this Dutch artist/mathematician created fantastic and impossible optical effects such as ducks turning into fish and interlocking white and black bizarre animals:
M.C. Marshal
M.C. Escher
M.C. Hammer
M.C. Donald
The colored wavelengths that comprise white light when shown through a prism are called:
Tertiary Colors
Rainbows
Prisms
The Spectrum
Alexander Calder is famous for his balanced sculptures that move with the wind which he referred to as:
Gyroscopes
Combines
Collages
Mobiles
The use of 'implied lines' to guide the viewer’s eye around the page by the placement of the subjects can be seen in the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by the French Rococo painter:
Watteau
Fragonard
Gericault
Rubens
The Canadian Sculptor who carves massive sculptures in the Haida Indian style made of wood such as The Raven and the First Men is:
Alexander Calder
Jeff Wall
Bill Reid
Emmi Whitehorse
The artist Mona Hatoum's piece Dormiente relies heavily on which element to communicate her concept?
Color
Actual Texture
Value
Time and Motion
An example of the emotional and psychological effects of color can be seen in the eerily painted reds of Edvard Munch’s painting:
The Scream
The Dream
Starry Night
Saturn Devouring His Children
Lines creating animal forms and geometric patterns from the first millennium can be found etched into the earth by the inhabitants of Peru in which city?
Iquitos
Cusco
Trujillo
Nasca
What is so impressive about Claude Mellan's portrait of Christ called Sudarium of St. Veronica (1649)?
It is an early example of foreshortening
It is comprised of tiny dots of color
It was drawn on paper the size of a postage stamp
It is drawn with one continuous line
An example of the 'illusionistic' use of light is well demonstrated in the painting Boys on the Beach by artist:
Peter Paul Rubens
Thomas Kinkade
Charles White
Joaquin Sorolla
The painting Chanter by Emmi Whitehorse is an example of a __________________ color scheme.
Monochromatic
Analagous
Complementary
Tertiary
Louis Comfort Tiffany's stained glass Magnolias and Irises demonstrates __________________ color scheme.
a monochromatic
an analogous
a complementary
a congruous
Artist Devorah Sperber uses what media to create optical color mixing as in her work Hendrix?
Oil Paint
Colored Beads
Spools of colored thread
Stained Glass
Affectionately called The Bean by the locals, the contemporary artist Anish Kapoor is famous for his polished mirror-surfaced large-scale sculpture located in Chicago actually titled:
Skyline
Reflection
Cloud Gate
Mobiles
