Art Quiz
Chapter 5 – Space
VOCABULARY | DEFINITION ACCORDING TO CHAPTER FIVE | EXAMPLE : WORK OF ART THAT EXEMPLIFIES VOCABULARY WORD AND EXPLANATION OF HOW IT IS USED | OVERLAP | Overlapping images also create the illusion that one object is in front of the other in space. | Donald Sultan’s “Lemons” An image of three lemons overlapping in space, but it consists of a flat yellow shape on a black ground 8 feet square | NEGATIVE SPACE | Empty space, surrounded and shaped so that it acquires a sense of volume and form by means of the outline or frame that surrounds them. | Martin Puryear’s “Self” a sculptural mass that stands nearly six feet high. Made of wood, it looms out of the floor like giant basalt outcropping, and it seems to satisfy the other implied meaning of mass that is, seems to possess weight and density as well as volume. | VANISHING POINT | To present parallel lines receding to a single point on the viewer’s horizon. | Perspective analysis of “Leonardo da Vinci”, The Last Super, c. 1495-98. The focus our attention on Christ, since the perspective lines appear almost as rays of light radiating from Christ Head. | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE | It consists of two standing vertical masses that occupy three-dimensional space in a manner similar to standing human forms | Barbara Hepworth “Two Figures” The sculpture similarity to the standing forms of King Menkaure and his Queen. | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE | Even though the image is highly abstract and decorative, we are still able to read it as representing objects in three-dimensional. | Steve DiBenedetto “Deliverance” Object closer to us appear larger than objects farther away, so that juxtaposition of a large and a small helicopter suggest deep space between them. | SCALE | Is used for height and width, while depth is reduced. | “The Three Sacred Shrines at Kumano”; Kumano Mandala, Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) | LINEAR PERSPECTIVE | Lines are drawn on the picture plane in such a way as to
VOCABULARY | DEFINITION ACCORDING TO CHAPTER FIVE | EXAMPLE : WORK OF ART THAT EXEMPLIFIES VOCABULARY WORD AND EXPLANATION OF HOW IT IS USED | OVERLAP | Overlapping images also create the illusion that one object is in front of the other in space. | Donald Sultan’s “Lemons” An image of three lemons overlapping in space, but it consists of a flat yellow shape on a black ground 8 feet square | NEGATIVE SPACE | Empty space, surrounded and shaped so that it acquires a sense of volume and form by means of the outline or frame that surrounds them. | Martin Puryear’s “Self” a sculptural mass that stands nearly six feet high. Made of wood, it looms out of the floor like giant basalt outcropping, and it seems to satisfy the other implied meaning of mass that is, seems to possess weight and density as well as volume. | VANISHING POINT | To present parallel lines receding to a single point on the viewer’s horizon. | Perspective analysis of “Leonardo da Vinci”, The Last Super, c. 1495-98. The focus our attention on Christ, since the perspective lines appear almost as rays of light radiating from Christ Head. | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE | It consists of two standing vertical masses that occupy three-dimensional space in a manner similar to standing human forms | Barbara Hepworth “Two Figures” The sculpture similarity to the standing forms of King Menkaure and his Queen. | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE | Even though the image is highly abstract and decorative, we are still able to read it as representing objects in three-dimensional. | Steve DiBenedetto “Deliverance” Object closer to us appear larger than objects farther away, so that juxtaposition of a large and a small helicopter suggest deep space between them. | SCALE | Is used for height and width, while depth is reduced. | “The Three Sacred Shrines at Kumano”; Kumano Mandala, Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) | LINEAR PERSPECTIVE | Lines are drawn on the picture plane in such a way as to