Exam 4: The Visual Elements

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

Discuss ways in which artists use composition to lead the viewer's eye to focus on particular areas of a work or to move about within a work. Select one or more works to illustrate your statements.

Select three of the visual elements of art, define each, and then discuss a work from another chapter in the text that illustrates the use of that element. Give the title and artist of each of the works that you discuss.

"Passive pink" refers to the color that

One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

Lines are used in art to indicate

Explain Calder's use of motion in Southern Cross.

Consider Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, and Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains. Discuss each artist's use of atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of depth. How does the sense of space conveyed in each work differ?

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________ light.

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?

Discuss the roles of the artist, the work, and the viewer in suggesting time and motion through a work of art. Support your statements by referring to at least one specific work and analyzing how it does so.

Select one two-dimensional artwork that suggests visual depth. Discuss at least three ways that the artist used visual elements to create the illusion of three-dimensionality.

Discuss the use of lines, both actual and implied, to direct the viewers' eyes and to create focal points in the following two works by Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper and The Virgin and St. Anne with the Christ Child and John the Baptist.

In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

Contrast the mixing of colors through additive and subtractive processes, indicating a specific material or media in which artists use each process.

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ________ of the colors.

Artists can portray _________ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted surface.

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.