Deck 6: Light and Color

Question 1

Which of these elements does not help to create space in art?

A)perspective
B)light
C)color
D)palette

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A color's brightness or dullness is called its

A)relative key.
B)tint or shade.
C)intensity or saturation.
D)hue.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

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

A)composition.
B)style.
C)palette.
D)spectrum.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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?

A)luminous perspective
B)aerial or atmospheric perspective
C)two-point linear perspective
D)axonometric projection

Question 5

Figure of a Woman by Paul Colin probably derives from his____________.

A)association with Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre
B)time spent traveling while in the Navy
C)studies at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
D)travels in the southern United States

Question 6

J.M.W.Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain,Steam,and Speed-The Great Western Railway.What are they?

A)atmospheric and two-point
B)atmospheric and multiple view
C)stacked and two-point
D)atmospheric and one-point

Question 7

On the color wheel,blues and greens are usually thought of as

A)opposite each other.
B)complementary colors.
C)intermediate colors.
D)cool colors.

Question 8

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

A)hatching.
B)cross-hatching.
C)tenebrism.
D)simultaneous contrast.

Question 9

What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Flavin?

A)oil paint
B)human ashes
C)fluorescent lighting
D)dirt

Question 10

Nikolai Buglaj's "Race"ing Sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of

A)associating blackness with negative qualities
B)associating blackness with positive qualities
C)associating whiteness with negative qualities
D)none of the above

Question 11

On Newton's color wheel,colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called

A)intermediate colors.
B)complementary colors.
C)secondary colors.
D)primary colors.

Question 12

Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr shows the use of

A)linear perspective.
B)cross-hatching.
C)axonometric projection.
D)achromatism.

Question 13

What is the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin?

A)light and color
B)stories from the bible
C)surrealistic landscapes
D)nude figures

Question 14

With atmospheric perspective,objects further from the viewer appear

A)warmer and more detailed
B)cooler and less distinct
C)warmer and less distinct
D)cooler and more detailed

Question 15

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

A)chiaroscuro.
B)perspective.
C)key.
D)perceptual key.

Question 16

The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as

A)"layered" pointillism.
B)"lusterless" and "murky."
C)"polychromism as its best."
D)All of the above.

Question 17

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

A)arbitrary color.
B)artistic color.
C)secondary color.
D)oblique color.

Question 18

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize the

A)division between male and female spaces.
B)passive role of a female spectator.
C)prison-like opera box.
D)significance of opera in the late 19th century.

Question 19

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

A)chromaticism.
B)pointillism.
C)orphism.
D)constructivism.

Question 20

DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape,called

A)linear perspective.
B)stacked perspective.
C)hieratic perspective.
D)atmospheric perspective.

Question 21

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

A)fallen autumn leaves
B)cut-out paintings of leaves
C)digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
D)fabric made to look like leaves

Question 22

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?

Question 23

Explain Artemisia Gentileschi's use of tenebrism and modeling in her painting,Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes,and discuss the effects these techniques produce.

Question 24

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

A)Leonardo DaVinci.
B)Michelangelo.
C)Artemesia Gentileschi.
D)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Question 25

What is the content of Jane Hammond's Fallen?

Question 26

The act of painting outdoors,often practiced by Claude Monet and other impressionists,is known by what technical term?

Question 27

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

Question 28

What is yellow's complementary color?

A)blue
B)red
C)orange
D)violet

Question 29

What happens when all the different spectrum colors of light are mixed together?

Question 30

Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into what?

A)color
B)volume
C)actual texture
D)a & b

Question 31

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

Question 32

Give an example of complementary colors.

Question 33

The background mountains in DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of

A)linear perspective.
B)stacked perspective.
C)hieratic perspective.
D)atmospheric perspective.

Question 34

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?

A)Rembrandt van Rijn
B)Isaac Newton
C)Gianlorenzo Bernini
D)Jacob van Ruisdael

Question 35

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

A)warm
B)cool
C)both
D)neither

Question 36

What are the three basic areas of shadow?

Question 37

Name the three primary colors.