Name Art Appreciation Spring 2011 Exam #2 Study Guide Chapters 5-9 You will receive 5 points extra credit on your exam if you complete this guide and submit before the test. You should also study slide summaries, you notes, chapter readings and I suggest taking advantage of the online study tools associated with your MyArtsLab website. Chapter 5: Space What is the difference in something that is a shape and something that has mass? What is figure ground reversal? What is negative space or negative shape? What is the difference in a work of art that is called two-dimensional and a work that is called threedimensional? What different illusions do 2-D artists use in their works to create a sense of 3-D space? Discuss one point linear perspective. Where is the horizon line? What is the vanishing point? What is the vantage point? Give an example from the text/notes of an artwork that uses one-point perspective. Now give an example of an artwork that uses two-point or multiple point perspective. What is oblique projection? Which artwork is an example of this technique? What is the difference in monocular and binocular? Which does a camera use? Which do humans use? What is foreshortening? What techniques do photographers use to create an unusual sense of space or perspective for the viewer?
Chapter 6: Light and Color What is atmospheric perspective? Who came up with the rules to using this technique? What is chiaroscuro? What is modeling? What is the difference in a highlight and a cast shadow? What is a gray scale? What is tenebrism? Which artwork uses this technique? What is hatching? What is crosshatching? What work uses both techniques to create light and shadow? What is heightening? What are the different associations do people have of white/light and black/dark throughout history? What is a color wheel? What are the primary colors? What are the secondary colors? Intermediate colors? What is the intensity of a color? What is a palette? What is the difference in an open palette and a closed palette? What are warm temperature colors? What are cool colors?
What are the four ways colors can be used in representational artwork? Describe each and give an example of artwork for each color technique. What is symbolic color? What artwork is an example of this technique? Chapter 7: Other Formal Elements: What is texture? What is the difference is actual texture and visual texture? What is frottage? What is pattern? How do artists capture time and motion in an artwork? Give an example. What is optical painting? Chapter 8: Principles of Design What is absolute symmetry? What is bilateral symmetry? What is asymmetrical balance? What is radial symmetry?
What is emphasis? What is focal point? What techniques do artists use to show the viewer what the focal point of a work is? What is afocal? What is the difference in scale and proportion? How did the ancient Greeks use proportion in sculpture? How did the ancient Greeks use proportion in architecture? What was the golden section? What is repetition? How does it create rhythm in an artwork? Give an example What is unity in an artwork? What is variety? Chapter 9: Drawing What is media or medium? What purpose did drawing served before it became considered a fine art? What are the dry drawing media? Define each and give an example.
What are the liquid drawing media? Define each and give and example. Describe the process of metal point. Discuss the history of graphite and the conte crayon. What is a fixative? What is a tooth in regards to paper? What is sinopie? What is a cartoon in regards to fresco painting? What is a pigment? What is a binder? What is a pastel? What are oil sticks? Discuss the various innovative drawing media we saw in this chapter: How is drawing used in Popular Culture?
Label each work with its corresponding vocabulary term or method of creation. Word Bank: Actual Texture, Visual Texture, Crosshatching, Negative Space, Asymmetrical Balance, Radial Balance, Absolute Balance, Chiaroscuro, Pattern, Focal Point, Afocal, Contrapposto, Dry Drawing Media, Liquid Drawing Media, Scale, Proportion, Figure-Ground Reversal, One-Point Perspective, Foreshortening, Tenebrism, Color Wheel, Op-Art