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Language
What was the initial function of art?
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Fool/Trick the Eye.
What is the translation of the term "trompe l'oeil"?
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Texture
The tactile quality of a surface of a work of art refers to what element of art?
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Symmetrical
What type of balance provides a sense of formality in government buildings, that represents stability and power expected by the people?
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Line, Shape/Form, Texture, Space, Value, Color and Time/Motion.
What are the seven elements of art?
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False
Fine Art cannot be purely about personal expression.
True or False |
Representational
What style depicts things with an altered or distorted perception?
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True
Figure/Ground Shapes are the same as Positive/Negative Shapes.
True or False |
False
The principle of contrast relates to the lightness or darkness of an object.
True or False |
White; Black
In additive color system, all colors mixed together make? In subtractive color system, all colors mixed together make?
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Religon
What was the most prominent purpose/function of art, prior to modern art?
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Symbolic storytelling or meaning. Using themes and symbols to communicate and underlying meaning.
What is Iconography?
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Vanishing Point
In linear perspective, all parallels converge to what on a horizon line?
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Yes. Repetition is utilized as a key concept in both principles.
Harmony and Rhythm, both principles, but do they relate to one another beyond that? Why?
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The height of the artist eye level parallel to the ground plane; which extends to the horizon; the horizon line.
What is eye level in linear perspective?
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Experience & Memory
What was the initial purpose of photography when it was first invented?
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Pure visual forms/information with no specific reference to anything in nature or reality.
What is Non-Representation Art or Non- Objective Art?
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Hue, Value and Intensity
What are the three properties of color?
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Movement / Directional Forces
Visual pathways in a work of art relate to what principle of design?
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Color, Value and Definition
In atmospheric perspective, as distance increase, clarity decreases in what three categories?
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The appreciation/expression of beauty.
What does the study of aesthetics relate to specifically in art?
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Form is what we see - the visual qualities, style and media;
Content is what is depicted - the meaning or message; Content and Form are inseparable and determine one another.
What is form in art? What is content in art? What is their relationship?
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Overlap, Diminishing Size (relative size), Vertical Placement and Perspective
What are the four vehicles in creating space?
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Scale refers to size of one whole object to another whole object. Proportion is the size relationship or ratio of one part to the whole in a single object.
Define the difference between Scale and Proportion.
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The placement/organization/arrangement of the elements or art and principles of design to create a whole.
What is composition in art?
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