Art Appreciation – Study Guide Quiz #1
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What is Art? Art is any material or visual thing that is made by a person or persons; and is
invested with social, political, spiritual, and/or aesthetic value by the creator, user, viewer,
and/or patron.
4 Traditional Roles of an artist
a. Help us see the world in a new or innovative way
b. To record the world, make a visual record
c. To give visible or tangible form to ideas, philosophies or feelings
d. To reveal hidden or Universal truths
Understanding Color & Light
a. Reflected light/Refracted light/tint/shade
b. Hatching vs. cross-hatching
Principles of Design
a. Balance: symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical
b. Focal point
c. Proportion and Rhythm
VOCABULARY
1-Point Perspective
A form of linear perspective where there is only one vanishing point in the
composition
2-Point Perspective
Abstract
Work that is recognizable but further from what our eyes see, rendered in a stylized
or simplified way
Aesthetic
Analytical Line
Atmospheric Perspective
Calligraphy
Chiaroscuro
Composition
Content
Contour Line
Encaustic
Ethnocentric
Expressive Line
Foreshortening
Form
Iconography
Implied Line
Kinetic Art
Line Of Sight
Linear Perspective
Negative Space
Nonobjective
Outline
Picture Plane
Realism
Representational
Subject Matter
Subjective
Sublime
Texture
Precise, controlled, mathematically rigorous, logical, and rationally organized; a
product of the mind
What a work of art means
The belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture
Imprecise, emotionally charged, almost chaotic, a product of the heart
The modification of perspective to decrease distortion
Overall structure of a work of art
Art that moves or at least seems to move
A complex method of creating the illusion of actual space on a flat picture plane
Work that has no relationship to the real world
Work that represents what our eyes see
Portrays natural objects in recognizable form
What is actually depicted in a work of art
Imagery that exists in the mind of the artist, not the world as we know it