Deck 4: Implied Depth: Value and Space

Question 1

This system, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth.

A) isometric perspective
B) linear perspective
C) chiaroscuro
D) multi-point perspective
E) relative position

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ________ to give a sense of the vastness of the American landscape.

A) pencil drawing
B) atmospheric perspective
C) geometry
D) foreshortening
E) color

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The painter Thomas Hart Benton varied the intensity of the color green in The Wreck of the Ole '97 to help the viewer feel a safe distance from the train wreck.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

A) atmospheric perspective
B) perspective
C) chiaroscuro
D) cross-hatching
E) highlight

Question 5

In Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew, the artist used light and dark values to emphasize Christ's hand. Why did the artist draw our attention to the hand? What other features in the work are emphasized with light and darkness?

Question 6

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

A) orthogonals
B) highlights
C) palettes
One-Point Perspective
D) hatched lines
E) chiaroscuro

Question 7

This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.

A) linear perspective
B) chiaroscuro
C) highlight
D) palette
E) atmospheric perspective

Question 8

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a ________.

A) value range
B) palette
C) highlight
D) value sampler
E) film noir

Question 9

An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is ________ than the tree.

A) more important
B) much closer
C) smaller
D) further away
E) older

Question 10

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional solid form is called ________.

A) film noir
B) value range
C) chiaroscuro
D) perspective
E) palette

Question 11

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

A) tension
B) humor
C) fear
D) depth
E) height

Question 12

The computer simulation game The Sims uses ________ perspective.

A) linear
B) two-point
C) multi-point
Linear perspective
Origins and History
D) isometric
E) one-point

Question 13

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ________ mood of the movies.

A) playful
B) humorous
C) serious
D) light-hearted
E) romantic

Question 14

The medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera obscura, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

A) sand container
B) celestial cylinder
C) dark room
D) pastry dish
E) computer drive

Question 15

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called ________.

A) perspective
B) hatching
C) highlight
D) core shadow
E) palette

Question 16

Triangular planes make up the surface of a geodesic sphere. Planes that are closer to and facing toward the light source tend to be lighter than planes that are further from it and facing away.

Question 17

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

A) three-dimensional
B) colorful
C) actual
D) unexpected
E) textural

Question 18

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ________.

A) darker
B) further
C) closer
D) lighter
E) flatter

Question 19

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

A) value
B) space
C) line
D) shape
E) color

Question 20

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

A) alternating value
B) relative size
C) overlapping
Gateway to Art:
Hokusai, "The Great Wave off Shore at -Kanagawa:" Methods for Implying Depth
D) relative position
E) all of these answers

Question 21

This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.

A) Albrecht Dürer
B) René Magritte
C) M. C. Escher
D) Edith Hayllar
E) Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Question 22

Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.

A) vanishing point
B) holy spirit
C) camera obscura
Two-point perspective
D) patron
E) composition

Question 23

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

A) isometric
B) one point
C) two-point
Gateway to Art:
Raphael, The School of Athens: Perspective 
and the Illusion of Depth
D) atmospheric
E) foreshortening

Question 24

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.

A) atmospheric
B) two-point
C) isometric
(c) one-point
(d) three-point

Question 25

In Mantegna's The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, the body of Jesus is portrayed at an extreme angle. This ________ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention.

A) bird's eye
B) foreshortened
C) isometric
D) obscured
E) far-away

Question 26

If an artist were to depict five people each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi-point perspective.

Question 27

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this ________.

A) overlapping
B) chiaroscuro
C) highlight
D) convergence
E) foreshortening

Question 28

This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens.

A) Raphael
B) Brunelleschi
C) Michelangelo
Multi-point perspective
D) Alberti
E) Caravaggio

Question 29

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

A) foreshortening
B) highlight
C) chiaroscuro
D) cross-hatching
E) surrealism

Question 30

This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.

A) cone of vision
B) highlight
C) vanishing point
D) horizon line
E) orthogonal

Question 31

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

A) color
B) shape
C) vanishing point
D) medium
E) volume