Deck 5: Color

Question 1

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

A) orange
B) white
C) red
D) green
E) blue

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

A) tint
B) shade
C) neutral
D) monochrome
E) shadow

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

A) value
B) saturation
C) intensity
D) contrast
E) form

Answer 3

A

Question 4

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

A) color wheel
B) prism
C) electromagnet
D) color chart
E) microscope

Question 5

The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

A) a neutral
B) a complementary
C) an analogous
D) a monochromatic
E) a vivid

Question 6

If the artist had used a different color palette for his scene Interior with Figures, how might the emotional response of the viewer change?

Question 7

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

Question 8

The use of highly saturated color in The Turning Road, L'Estaque by André Derain gives the work a feeling of ________.

A) calm
B) depression
C) energy
Gateway to Art:
Matisse, Icarus: The Artist's Fascination 
with Color
D) languor
E) frailty

Question 9

Ancient Greek philosophers speculated that color was not a state of matter but a state of mind. What do you think is meant by this statement? Light and Color
6) The traditional primary colors are ________.
[MC L1]

A) red, yellow, blue
B) blue, green, yellow
C) green, orange, violet
D) red and blue
E) green and yellow

Question 10

The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

A) complementary
B) secondary
C) hue
9) The sculptor Kane Kwei's Coffin in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod is painted with a brilliant orange hue. Why might the artist have exaggerated the brightness of a cocoa pod's natural color for use in this context? 
[DR L3]
Value
D) optical color
E) analogous

Question 11

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

A) absorb
B) reflect
C) subtract
D) neutralize
E) lighten

Question 12

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

A) value
B) tint
C) contrast
D) saturation
E) grayscale

Question 13

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

A) vibrate
B) neutralize
C) disappear
D) darken
E) lighten

Question 14

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.

A) strange . . . uneasy
B) jarring . . . stressful
C) harmonious . . . relaxed
D) tense . . . angry
E) hot . . . erotic

Question 15

This British artist used both analogous and complementary color in his work Interior with Figures.

A) Howard Hodgkin
B) Frederic Edwin Church
C) Henri Matisse
D) Charles Csuri
E) Vincent van Gogh

Question 16

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.

A) analogous
B) complementary
C) neutral
D) primary
E) grayscale

Question 17

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

A) optical
B) additive
C) grayscale Dimensions of Color
Hue
D) warm
E) subtractive

Question 18

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

A) high
B) low
C) medium
D) valuable
E) monochrome

Question 19

When Matisse executed the work Icarus, he could no longer hold a brush for long periods of time. Instead he created it using this process:

A) paper cutouts
B) ceramic
C) watercolor
Color Schemes
Complementary Color
D) stamping
E) prints

Question 20

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

A) tints
B) analogous colors
C) neutrals
D) hues
E) complementary colors

Question 21

If you were to choose the color scheme for a health retreat, red would be a good color to pick.

Question 22

Most commercial color printing is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix ________.

A) rybg
B) rgb
C) cmyk Color in Electronic Displays
D) ogp
E) ygb

Question 23

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

A) pointillism
B) Impressionism
C) Fauvism Color in Design
Color in Print
D) Luminism
E) Pop art

Question 24

In a digital display, color is created when light cells called ________ illuminate.

A) phosphors
B) bulbs
C) LEDs
D) fluoros
E) diodes

Question 25

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

A) green is the best color to use for depicting grass
B) green has positive associations in Islamic art
C) green is the only color permitted for use in Islamic ceramic art
D) the Dome of the Rock has a green-colored theme
E) none of the other answers

Question 26

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

A) temperature
B) value
C) tint
D) personality
E) harmony

Question 27

In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh wrote about The Night Café: "I have tried to express with red and green the terrible passions of human nature." Discuss what van Gogh meant by this statement, and how color helps communicate this idea.

Question 28

We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.

A) tint
B) complementary color
C) analogous color
D) neutral color
E) optical color

Question 29

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

A) personality
B) value
C) tint
D) temperature
E) harmony