understanding art 10th edition

1. Examining a work of art in its historical, social, and political __________ enables you to better understand it.

A. design
B. context
C. element
D. genre
E. ideology

2. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished __________.

A. genre scenes
B. self-portraits
C. landscapes
D. still lifes
E. assemblages

3. Until modern times, art works have been primarily devoted to __________ themes.

A. war
B. religious
C. secular
D. rural
E. political

4. An anti-commercial movement begun in the 1960s in which works of art are conceived and executed in the mind of the artist is known as __________.

A. Expressionism
B. Pop art
C. Conceptual art
D. Op art
E. Post-modernism

5. Picasso protested the horror and brutality of the Spanish civil war in his 1937 masterpiece painting known as __________.

A. The Horse Fair
B. The Rape of the Sabine Women
C. Hall of Bulls
D. Entombment
E. Guernica

1. In art, a __________ is usually defined as a moving dot and is both the simplest and most complex of the visual elements.

A. space
B. shape
C. mass
D. line
E. contour

2. In works with ___________, the lines are completed by the viewer.

A. actual line
B. outline
C. implied line
D. curved line
E. heavy line

3. ___________ creates the illusion of roundness or three dimensionality through the use of light and shadow on a two-dimensional surface.

A. linear perspective
B. shape
C. color
D. value
E. modeling

4. _____________ are formed when intersecting or connected lines enclose space.

A. textures
B. compositions
C. horizons
D. volumes
E. shapes

5. Light against dark or dark against light create visual differences in ___________.

A. scale
B. shape
C. hue
D. wavelength
E. value

6. The colors opposite each other on the color wheel are ____________.

A. tints
B. analogous
C. warm
D. complementary
E. agitated

7. When an artist places one object in front of another to create the illusion of depth, it is called __________.

A.