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13 Cards in this Set
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The Rubin Vase demostrates a figure-ground reversal. What does this mean?
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2-D work in which the relationship between form and background is reversed
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What kind of perspective is visible in Leonardo's Last Supper?
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Linear Perspective
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During what era were the rules for linear perspective codified?
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Renaissance
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Define picture plane
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The flat surface which something happens on (artwork)
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What is the diference between 2-D and 3-D?
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2-D is on a flat surface
3-D when the surface is manipulated |
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What is the difference between shape and mass?
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Shape- the quality of a distint object of body in hving an external surface or outline of specific form of figure
Mass- a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinity shape and often of considerable size |
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The Feast- making Spoon and Barbara Hepworth's sculpture are positive forms that employ______ Space.
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Negative
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If we draw a circle on a piece of paper, we have created a figure or shape. But what else have we created (spatially)?
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Spatial illusion
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Matisse's Harmony in Red uses flat, continuous color to eliminate any sense of _____space.
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3-D
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What is the purpose of utilizing pictorial or spatial devices in a painting?
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Devices include: overlapping, scale of diminishing size, linear perspective, aerial perspective, placement on the picture plan and forshortening
- add effects and reality to artwork |
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The end of the 20th C. has seen another kind of reality or space. What is it called?
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Virtual reality
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Do all cultures depict space in pictures the same way? If not, what differences exist?
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NO
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Define foreshortening. What work of art illustrates an extreme case of foreshortening in this chapter?
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The optical effect of diminishing length when an object is seen in perspective
- The Dead Christ |