Exam 4: Color

The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion.Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow,green,and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.

The traditional primary colors are ________.

The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ________.

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal.Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings,such as these three:

In Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis,the artist used color to communicate his idealistic vision of the perfectibility of humankind.What does the perfectibility of humankind mean in this context? What does the artist's use of color have to do with this?

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock,Jerusalem,use green as one of the main colors?

Ancient Greek philosophers speculated that color was not a state of matter but a state of mind.What do you think is meant by this statement?

Physicists have explained that when we see a color,it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

The sculptor Kane Kwei's Coffin in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod is painted a brilliant orange hue.Why might the artist have exaggerated the brightness of a cocoa pod's natural color for use in this context?

________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition,they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast.This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other,and which are similar in wavelength,are ________ colors.

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

When ________ colors are mixed,they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus.This type of painting,made up of small dots of color,is known as ________.

Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement,a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.