Art Appreciation Chapter 6

Front 1

The Rubin Vase demostrates a figure-ground reversal. What does this mean?

Back 1

2-D work in which the relationship between form and background is reversed

Front 2

What kind of perspective is visible in Leonardo's Last Supper?

Back 2

Linear Perspective

Front 3

During what era were the rules for linear perspective codified?

Back 3

Renaissance

Front 4

Define picture plane

Back 4

The flat surface which something happens on (artwork)

Front 5

What is the diference between 2-D and 3-D?

Back 5

2-D is on a flat surface
3-D when the surface is manipulated

Front 6

What is the difference between shape and mass?

Back 6

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

Front 7

The Feast- making Spoon and Barbara Hepworth's sculpture are positive forms that employ______ Space.

Back 7

Negative

Front 8

If we draw a circle on a piece of paper, we have created a figure or shape. But what else have we created (spatially)?

Back 8

Spatial illusion

Front 9

Matisse's Harmony in Red uses flat, continuous color to eliminate any sense of _____space.

Back 9

3-D

Front 10

What is the purpose of utilizing pictorial or spatial devices in a painting?

Back 10

Devices include: overlapping, scale of diminishing size, linear perspective, aerial perspective, placement on the picture plan and forshortening
- add effects and reality to artwork

Front 11

The end of the 20th C. has seen another kind of reality or space. What is it called?

Back 11

Virtual reality

Front 12

Do all cultures depict space in pictures the same way? If not, what differences exist?

Back 12

NO

Front 13

Define foreshortening. What work of art illustrates an extreme case of foreshortening in this chapter?

Back 13

The optical effect of diminishing length when an object is seen in perspective
- The Dead Christ