Exam 6: Light and Color

By the 19th century,the type of perspective used in paintings such as J.M.W.Turner's Rain,Steam,and Speed-The Great Western Railway had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters.What type is it?

In the 1660s,who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

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 the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin?

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is

Discuss the emotional effects of warm and cool colors by citing examples from the chapter.

How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo's palette? Do you think Michelangelo used color to help define form?

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the

Is Jane Hammond's Fallen an overall warm or cool "composition"?

How can an artist decrease a hue's intensity or saturation?

The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as

What is yellow's complementary color?

With atmospheric perspective,objects further from the viewer appear

Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces,sewn together as a whole.What is it made of?

In the history of art,the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by

The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called

The artist that painted Le Chahut (The Can-Can)was interested in harmonizing complementary colors.The resulting process came to be known as