ART Appreciation Final Exam UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Form - CORRECT ANSWER formal elements
I.e. Lines, shapes, color, texture, spatial qualities and composition
Medium - CORRECT ANSWER tool/material that an artist uses
Content - CORRECT ANSWER the message/subject matter/ideas in the artwork
Style - CORRECT ANSWER how the artist chooses to use the medium
The characteristics in an artwork's form and content that identifies a particular artist's or
group of artist's work (used to define a kind of work)
Artist's style: describes the consistent use of form and content
Line - CORRECT ANSWER a mark that is made on a 2D or 3D surface
More or less continuous that will define a shape or depict a motion
Can divide space and lead the eye into space
Lines have greater length than width and are NOT edges
Drafting - CORRECT ANSWER another word for drawing
Shading - CORRECT ANSWER used in drawing to build atmosphere or volume
,Crosshatched - CORRECT ANSWER a line also used to create atmosphere or volume
Contour line - CORRECT ANSWER outline or the edge of a figure or a volumetric
object.
Neither a line or an edge but is made up of one or the other
Implied line - CORRECT ANSWER describes the suggest lining up of juxtaposed (side
by side) objects
No actual line created by the artist
The compositional elements of an artwork allow the eye to see a directional suggestion and
move through the work
Shape - CORRECT ANSWER shows the external appearance of an object rather than
its skeleton structure (ex: restroom symbols)
Geometric shape - CORRECT ANSWER uses straight edges and make the form look
like a flattened 2D object
Can be constructed on 2D or 3D
Biomorphic shape - CORRECT ANSWER uses curving forms with thinning and
bulging shapes
References shapes of living beings
A symbol can be biomorphic rather than geometric!
, Can be constructed on 2D or 3D
Color - CORRECT ANSWER important formal element in artwork
Complex concept, can be understood in 3 categories:
1) hue
2) value
3) intensity
Hue - CORRECT ANSWER the word for the color itself (ex: blue, red, yellow, etc.)
The hue of both the primary (red, blue, yellow), secondary (green, orange, purple), and
tertiary (combo of one primary and one/two secondary colors like red-green) colors is their
name
Value - CORRECT ANSWER how much black or white has been added to the
hue/color
Ex: on a 1-10 scale, 1 is the lightest sky blue, 5 is pure blue, and 10 is dark blue-
black/midnight blue
Chroma/intensity - CORRECT ANSWER quantity or saturation of color/hue in the
paint/ink
How much of the color is in the medium of paint/ink
Ex: in pink, there is less red in the color and in apple red, there is more red
Opacity - CORRECT ANSWER When a color/object covers another and you're not
able to see through it
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Form - CORRECT ANSWER formal elements
I.e. Lines, shapes, color, texture, spatial qualities and composition
Medium - CORRECT ANSWER tool/material that an artist uses
Content - CORRECT ANSWER the message/subject matter/ideas in the artwork
Style - CORRECT ANSWER how the artist chooses to use the medium
The characteristics in an artwork's form and content that identifies a particular artist's or
group of artist's work (used to define a kind of work)
Artist's style: describes the consistent use of form and content
Line - CORRECT ANSWER a mark that is made on a 2D or 3D surface
More or less continuous that will define a shape or depict a motion
Can divide space and lead the eye into space
Lines have greater length than width and are NOT edges
Drafting - CORRECT ANSWER another word for drawing
Shading - CORRECT ANSWER used in drawing to build atmosphere or volume
,Crosshatched - CORRECT ANSWER a line also used to create atmosphere or volume
Contour line - CORRECT ANSWER outline or the edge of a figure or a volumetric
object.
Neither a line or an edge but is made up of one or the other
Implied line - CORRECT ANSWER describes the suggest lining up of juxtaposed (side
by side) objects
No actual line created by the artist
The compositional elements of an artwork allow the eye to see a directional suggestion and
move through the work
Shape - CORRECT ANSWER shows the external appearance of an object rather than
its skeleton structure (ex: restroom symbols)
Geometric shape - CORRECT ANSWER uses straight edges and make the form look
like a flattened 2D object
Can be constructed on 2D or 3D
Biomorphic shape - CORRECT ANSWER uses curving forms with thinning and
bulging shapes
References shapes of living beings
A symbol can be biomorphic rather than geometric!
, Can be constructed on 2D or 3D
Color - CORRECT ANSWER important formal element in artwork
Complex concept, can be understood in 3 categories:
1) hue
2) value
3) intensity
Hue - CORRECT ANSWER the word for the color itself (ex: blue, red, yellow, etc.)
The hue of both the primary (red, blue, yellow), secondary (green, orange, purple), and
tertiary (combo of one primary and one/two secondary colors like red-green) colors is their
name
Value - CORRECT ANSWER how much black or white has been added to the
hue/color
Ex: on a 1-10 scale, 1 is the lightest sky blue, 5 is pure blue, and 10 is dark blue-
black/midnight blue
Chroma/intensity - CORRECT ANSWER quantity or saturation of color/hue in the
paint/ink
How much of the color is in the medium of paint/ink
Ex: in pink, there is less red in the color and in apple red, there is more red
Opacity - CORRECT ANSWER When a color/object covers another and you're not
able to see through it
