Art Appreciation Chapter 2 Quiz Pt 1

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Formal Elements are...

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The basic elements of visual arts.

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What are lines?

Back 2

An element in art with length but negligible width.

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What are actual lines?

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Physical lines made with materials that have more length than depth.
They physically exist and can be broad, thin, straight, jagged and so on.

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What are implied lines?

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A drawn line having missing areas that are visually completed by the viewer. Ex: Dotted, broken, pointing action.

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Direction

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The course of movement, as in horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or meandering.

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What do horizontal lines signify?

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Sleep, quite, inactivity.

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What do vertical lines signify?

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Aspiration, yearning, defying gravity.

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What do curved lines signify?

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Flowing movement.

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What is Line Quality?

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Lines that convey emotional attributes (characteristics) or a range of emotions such as precision, vigor and so on.
Can be jagged, flowing, rough, angular, and so on.

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Line Quality can convey emotional attributes and a range of emotions. True or False?

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True! Line Quality can convey emotional attributes and a range of emotions.

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What is a gesture?

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A quickly sketched image that captures the essence of the form of the subject.

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What is an outline?

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A line that strictly attaches to the perimeter of a shape, without variation in line thickness.

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What are contour lines?

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The outline of a shape, that make objects identifiable.
They mark the edges of a 3D object, but with varying line thickness and with some internal detail.

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What are cross-contour lines?

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Repeated lines that go around an object or a form to express its three-dimensionality.

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What is hatching?

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The placing of lines side by side in parallel groups to create values and tones.

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What is cross-hatching?

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Crossing lines that illustrate shadows and volume.

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Not everything in space can function as a line. True or False?

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False. Anything in space can function as a line. Ex: Staffs, columns, beams, thick cable steels.

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What are the principles in art?

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Balance, rhythm, proportion, scale, emphasis, unity, variety.

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What is the name of this painting and who is it by?

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"Shoki the Demon Queller" by Utagawa Kunisada

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What is the name of this painting and who is it by?

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"They're Biting" by Paul Klee

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What is the name of this painting and who is it by?

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"Artist drawing a model in foreshortening through a frame using a grid system" by Albrecht Durer

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List the formal elements of art.

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Line, light, value, color, texture, pattern, shape, volume, space, time, motion.

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What do diagonal lines signify?

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Movement. They occur in the posture of running animals and blowing trees.

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What are values(or tones)?

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Different areas of gray. The lights and dark's in a composition.

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What is a shape?

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A flat, 2D element with a defined outline usually without interior detail.