Complete Test Bank Chapter 4 The Visual Elements

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 4 The Visual Elements

1) Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

A) Motion

B) Time

C) Line

D) Light

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

A) Motion

B) Texture

C) Color

D) Line

3) What element is most often used to indicate boundaries between forms?

A) Contour lines

B) Ground

C) Intensity

D) Foreshortening

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

A) organic

B) real

C) geometric

D) environmental

5) Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using what implied shape?

A) Trapezoid

B) Square

C) Triangle

D) Circle

6) What two basic visual cues are used to imply depth in the 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats?

A) Chiaroscuro and hatching

B) Atmospheric perspective and foreshortening

C) Implied line and a vanishing point

D) Position and overlap

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

A) pigments

B) chromas

C) harmonies

D) values

8) In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.

A) visual elements; principles of design

B) outlines; contour lines

C) thick lines; thin lines

D) actual lines; implied lines

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

A) refraction

B) isometric perspective

C) simultaneous contrast

D) chiaroscuro

10) What technique, illustrated in Charles White's Untitled, uses parallel lines to suggest value?

A) Hatching

B) Atmospheric perspective

C) Impasto

D) Foreshortening

11) What term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work?

A) Pointillism

B) Figure

C) Ground

D) Model

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

A) yellow

B) black

C) white

D) green

13) Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

A) secondary

B) passive

C) complementary

D) triad

14) What term is used to describe a color lighter than a hue's normal value?

A) Tint

B) Shade

C) Chroma

D) Palette 

15) In the subtractive color process, what are the secondary colors?

A) Orange

B) Green

C) Violet

D) Blue-green

E) Yellow

F) Blue

16) Works that use a(n) ________ harmony feature any three colors equidistant from each other on the color wheel.

A) analogous

B) complementary 

C) triadic

D) open

17) What technique uses dots of color to create a specific optical effect?

A) Stippling

B) Modeling

C) Pointillism

D) Chiaroscuro

18) What are some expressive characteristics associated with the color blue?

A) Freedom

B) Calm

C) Passion

D) Anxiety

E) Quiet

F) Love

19) What is a necessary feature of pattern?

A) Texture

B) Color

C) Modeling

D) Repetition

20) Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?

A) In the upper left corner of the image

B) Just behind the head of the figure of Jesus

C) Below the horizon line

D) At the top center of the image

21) Art that moves is called ________ art.

A) kinetic

B) trompe l'oeil

C) directional

D) modeled

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

A) foreshortening

B) chiaroscuro

C) the illusion of motion

D) simultaneous contrast

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

A) Hidden Relief by Sarah Sze

B) Lake George by John Frederick Kensett

C) Chanter by Emmi Whitehorse

D) The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists by Samuel Fosso

24) Many still-life works attempt to capture what artistic element?

A) Actual texture

B) Isometric perspective

C) Linear perspective

D) Visual texture

25) Choose two works from your text that illustrates two different color harmonies: monochromatic, analogous, complementary, or triadic. How do the artists use the properties of color in concert with the harmonic schemes? Do the works use an open or restricted palette?

26) 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.

27) 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.

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

29) Discuss the role of line in Albrecht Dürer's work. Why was line so important in creating a sense of space and depth, features that artists of his time were intently exploring?

30) Select three of the visual elements of art, define each, and then discuss three separate works from other chapters in the text that illustrates the use of each element. Give the title and artist of each of the works that you discuss. 

31) 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.

32) Consider Eakins' The Biglin Brothers Racing and Cartier-Bresson's Aquila, Abruzzi, Italy. Describe each artist's use of line (both actual and implied) to emphasize the content of each work. 

33) How does Alexander Calder use motion in his work, Carmen? How does he use color in this work? How do these two elements interact and what effect do they have? 

34) Consider Kensett's Lake George and Shen Zhou's Autumn Colors among Streams and 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? 

35) Select two works from the text that are two-dimensional and discuss the concept of visual texture, giving examples of how it is employed.