Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Les bêtes de la mer by Henri Matisse
B)   The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt
C)   Untitled by Keith Haring
D)   A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
E)   The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci B

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary depending on the selection of the artwork. Visual elements such as line, shape, and color are employed as devices to focus the viewer's attention on specific areas.

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary depending on the artwork selections.

Question 4

"Passive pink" refers to the color that

Accepted Answer

A)   recedes in a monochromatic color scheme where pure red dominates.
B)   results from combining a warm red with a cooler hue.
C)   seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body.
D)   is the normal value of red.
E)   None of these answers is correct.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)   the effect of light.
B)   the work of earlier restorers.
C)   changing levels of heat and humidity.
D)   pollution.
E)   All these answers are correct.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)   organic
B)   real
C)   geometric
D)   environmental
E)   three-dimensional

Question 7

Lines are used in art to indicate

Accepted Answer

A)   boundaries between forms.
B)   direction and motion.
C)   shadows and highlights.
D)   spatial depth on flat surfaces.
E)   All these answers are correct.

Question 8

Explain Calder's use of motion in Southern Cross.

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Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)   yellow
B)   black
C)   white
D)   grayish brown
E)   green

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)   motion
B)   texture
C)   color
D)   line
E)   shape

Question 12

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.

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Question 13

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.

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Question 14

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.

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)   foreshortening.
B)   chiaroscuro.
C)   a restricted palette.
D)   the illusion of motion.
E)   simultaneous contrast.

Question 16

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

Accepted Answer

A)   secondary
B)   passive
C)   complementary
D)   triad
E)   monochromatic

Question 17

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

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Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)   pigments
B)   chromas
C)   harmonies
D)   values
E)   All these answers are correct.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)   actual
B)   hatching
C)   chroma
D)   visual
E)   None of these answers is correct.

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A)   refraction
B)   spatial organization
C)   isometric perspective
D)   simultaneous contrast
E)   chiaroscuro

Exam 4: The Visual Elements