Generally a wealthy person who pays an artist

Generally a wealthy person who pays an artist

Aesthetics

 

·         the study of beauty or good taste; anything related to the study of beauty or good taste

 

composition

 

·         the way an artist organizes forms (lines, shapes, etc.) in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or by arranging forms in space

 

contour line

 

·         a continuous line defining the outer shape of an object

 

line

 

·         in art, a technique for defining shape, also used to create a sense of depth

 

oeuvre

 

·         (pronounced "uhvrr") — a work of art; the sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer

 

Patron

 

·         generally a wealthy person who pays an artist to create a work of art; throughout much of history artists could not have survived without "patronage"

 

personification

 

·         giving human characteristics to something that is not human

 

perspective

 

·         an object or word or gesture that represents something else

 

proportion

 

·         the relationship of one part of a person, building, or object to another; for example the size of a statue's head in relationship to the rest of the body

 

symbol

 

·         a method of presenting an illusion of the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface

 

We can agree that art is all of the following except _____.

 

·         objects created for payment

 

If you paid an artist to paint a picture of your dog for your living room wall, she might consider you her _____.

 

·         patron

 

When an art historian looks at the formal elements, he is examining _____.

 

·         the individual design elements of the work

 

According to the Web site on color that you visited, the more colors you put into light, the closer you get to which color?

 

·         white

 

Combining red and blue light makes what color?

 

·         magenta

 

The style of a particular work may tell us all of the following except _____.

 

·         what the symbols mean

 

When we look at objects in a painting for their symbolic values, we are using which approach?

 

·         an iconographic approach

 

If an artist were trying to represent the concept of "liberty" through personification, the artist would paint _____.

 

·         a robed woman with a torch

 

In School of Athens, Raphael creates an illusion of depth by all of the following except _____.

 

·         making the main figure's head out of proportion with the rest of his body