Art Midterm

To understand and receive communication from a work of art, you must train yourself to:

The part of a picture that seems to be the closest to the viewer is the _______.

The place where lines appear to meet on the horizon is the ___________.

An ___________________ creates the visual images that complement written words.

The binder is the material used to thin the pigment.

Olmec culture was a part of what civilization?

A vertical line does not lean at all.

Artists used to use egg yolks as a binder for their paints.

What are stepped mountains made of brick-covered earth called?

You can create the primary colors by mixing together the secondary colors.

This is the area that surround a three dimensional object:

All prints made from the same plate or set of plates

A copy of a work of art

A system that processes words and images directly as numbers or digits

The viewers were attracted to what on the dark dress which made the material seem to shine?

Artists get ideas from nature, literature, world events, and other artists and more.

What precious metal was worn by Asante kings?

the type of color created when white is added to a hue

What ended the Greek empire?

If you mix two complementary colors together, the resulting color is always a shade of gray

the part of paint that gives it color; usually a finely ground powder

The ________________ of the painting was clearly the last battle of the revolution.

The landscape painting had many dark __________________ that created a somber mood.

The location of the work of art names the museum or collection in which the work is housed.

Where was the Mayan Empire?

used to stain objects that cannot be easily painted/ pigments dissolved in water

a painting that contains a lot of shades of a hue

The elements of art include rhythm, movement, balance, line, shape, and color.

Paint can be applied to a variety of surfaces including paper, wood, and canvas.

The doll in the painting was a _______ that stood for the artist’s early childhood.

By drawing the square on his paper, the young artist created an easily recognized ____________.

What is the printmaking process in which ink is forced into lines etched on a hard surface?

The sculpting technique that is a subtractive process is:

An element of art that is the path of a moving point through space is a ________________.

Pencils are a popular sculpting media.

The impression created on a surface by the printing plate

The third ____________ of the freestanding sculpture, depth, seemed out of proportion.

The use of _______ to arrange light and shadow on a canvas was introduced by Italian artists.

1. Color is the most ________________ element of art

Sketching should be done before you begin to paint or sculpt.

What is the complement of yellow-green?

The Chinese artist used _________________ to create characters that represented complete ideas.

Freestanding sculpture projects from a flat background and can only be viewed from the front.

Diagonal lines always slant.

Which of the following did the Chinese NOT invent?

The science exhibit had a cool _______________ of a human hand that projected from the ceiling.

What is a color scheme that uses tints and shades of a single color?

What includes information about the year the painting was created, collection, artist and more?

The student used the ___________ of the circle, triangle, and square when designing his poster.

Studying a work of art will affect the way you react to other visual images.

What is the complement of violet?

a painting that contains a lot of tints of a hue

Water is a good solvent for acrylic paint.

Another word for color is _________________.

The architect used simple ______________ for his building.

What is reincarnation?

Who is the most famous Cubist painter?

A row of dots in the nonobjective painting created an _______ that the viewer’s eyes connected.

The look of the work is affected by how the artist arranges the elements using the principles.

red, blue, yellow

What was the first type of printing to be invented?

bands of color created when light passes through a prism

The printmaker writes his or her name in pencil on the credit line.

Baroque artists emphasize _____________________ in their work.

colors that are located next to each other on the color wheel and share a common hue

color opposites

What is the complement of red-orange?

The angle from which you see an object is your ____________.

The use of light and dark values to create the illusion of form

The photographer was interested by the ____________ of the stones at the edge of the beach.

What art style is characterized by rich colors and flat, stiff figures?

a substance used in paint to hold together the grains of pigment; historically, they used egg

A sculpting technique that is an additive process is:

Buildings that are well-constructed, aesthetically-pleasing, and functional are designed by:

Why do Native Americans carve totem poles?

a substance used to control the thickness or thinness of paint

Many objects found in nature, including trees, are ______________.

Lines showing __________________ are drawn quickly and freely in order to capture movement.

What is the complement of orange?

The ________________ art of the Muslim world is extremely decorative.

the lightness or darkness of an object

What is the complement of blue-violet?

The artist used one point __________________ to create the illusion of depth in his drawing.

The artist uses the ____________________ as the visual building blocks to create a painting.

violet, orange, green

_________________ color refers to how a viewer sees color in a particular light.

Shapes and forms are defined by the ________________ around them.

What are beehive shaped Indian places of worship?

The subject of a painting may be subjective or non-objective.

the type of color created when black is added to a hue

The art student drew the _________ of the figure in one movement without lifting her charcoal.

You always list the names of intermediate colors with the name of the primary color first.

Minerals are used to make:

The graphic artist used a heavy black _______________ around the picture she was creating.

__________________ color refers to using colors without regard for their realistic appearance.

Art began as a way to illustrate written language many years after people created alphabets.

The shading technique in which dark values are created by means of a dot pattern is:

the colors located on either side of a color’s complement

What are Japanese buildings with curved roofs?

The portrait artist used his pen to ___________________ lines to create shading in his image.