Grossmont College Practice Equations for Art Questions
Which of the following are the basic visual elements?Group of answer choicesSubject matter, content, and contextStill life, figure, and landscapeRepetition, variation, and balanceShape, line, and valueFine art, folk art, and popular art Question 2What do you get when you combine the three light primaries red-orange, green, and blue-violet in an additive color mixture?Group of answer choicesAchromatic colorsWhite lightPrimary colorsBrownMiddle-grayQuestion 3What type of color mixtures are produced when pigments of different hues are mixed together?Group of answer choicesAdditive color mixturesWhite lightSecondary colorsAchromatic colorsSubtractive color mixturesQuestion 4What is the name of the position in the Linear perspective system from which the entire picture is constructed?Group of answer choicesThe vanishing pointThe focal pointThe vantage pointThe horizon lineThe negative spaceQuestion 5What are background areas of a composition commonly referred to as?Group of answer choicesNegative spaceHorizon lineAtmospherePositive spaceLandscapeQuestion 6What is another name for the achievement of equilibrium in a visual composition?Group of answer choicesBalanceSaturationPatternEmphasisContrastQuestion 7What types of color mixture do artists use when dots of pure hues are placed together so that they blend in the eye and mind.Group of answer choicesOptical color mixturesAdditive color mixturesIntermediate color mixturesSecondary color mixturesSubtractive color mixturesQuestion 8What are the three basic variables which are used to identify colors?Group of answer choicesTint, tone, and shadeLight, contrast, and spaceShape, line, and textureTexture, translucency, and contourHue, value, and intensityQuestion 9What is hierarchical scale?Group of answer choicesThe use of unnatural figural proportions to reveal social rankA device used to weigh ancient parchmentThe use of natural proportions in a figural compositionThe range of emotion in a figural work of artThe range of value from light to dark.Question 10Michelangelo, Pieta, 1501In the text box below, briefly explain, in 100 words or less, how Michelangelo altered proportion to create a serene composition in his famous Pieta (1501).Question 11What are the three ways of creating implied depth in a composition?Group of answer choicesDiminishing size, vertical placement, overlappingRepetition, variation, motionVolume, mass, contourShading, cross-hatching, modelingColor, value, detailQuestion 12What type of colors are white, black and gray?Group of answer choicesComplementary colorsAnalogous colorsLocal colorsPrimary colorsAchromatic colorsQuestion 13Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Shuttlecocks, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (1992)What principle of design is represented in the image above?Group of answer choicesScaleDirectional ForcesRhythmBalanceProportionQuestion 14Diagram that represents one of the principles that controls the visual weight of form.What principle that controls the visual weight and balance of form is represented in the diagram above?Group of answer choicesA large form is heavier than a small form.Intense colors are heavier than pale colors.A complex form is heavier than a simple formA form gathers visual weight as it nears the edge.Warm colors are heavier than cool colorsQuestion 15Francisco Goya, Taormaquia (1816) Visual Balance diagramIn the text box below, clearly state the type of balance represented in the two images above. Then, briefly explain what that means.Question 16How do artists keep us from being distracted from areas of emphasis in a composition?Group of answer choicesThrough the use of balance.Through the use of linear perspective.Through the use of closed form.Through the use of subordination.Through the use of repetition.Question 17Fernando Botero, 'Caballo con bridas', Bilbao, (2009)In the text box below, clearly state the type of 3D form represented in the image above. Then, briefly explain what that means.Question 18What Italian Renaissance technique is used to create the illusion that objects depicted on a flat surface are three-dimensional?Group of answer choicesIconographyNegative shapeChiaroscuroOpen formContrappostoQuestion 19Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, Whitney Museum of American Art (1930)The image above is a good example of the use of repetition to unify a painting.In the text box below, state (in 50 words or less) how this artist avoided the boredom of too much sameness in his composition? Please be clear and concise.