Topic Test Answers

Choose the words to fill in the blank, which best complete the sentence. The painting above is called The Holy Family, by ______(1)_______, who is considered a master of ______(2)_______.

Which of the following is not a visual element of art?

If you place a sheet of drawing paper over an object, securing it with tape to hold it in place, and color with the side of a pencil or crayon over the surface, what will you create?

Examine this piece of art by Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, entitled, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne. All of the following examples display Ingres’ use of texture, except which?

The two most important components in creating implied texture are _______________.

Depth is the ________________

In Van Gogh’s Starry Night, he incorporated symbolic expression, using the visual elements of art, through all of the following actions, except which?

Impasto is ______________

Above is an image of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian Landscape. Which of the following is not true about this piece?

Choose the words to fill in the blank, which best complete the sentence. Cross-hatching provides an illusion of various ______(1)_______, while impasto provides an illusion of ______(2)_______.

How has texture proved essential to many cultural art forms?

Who created the piece of art above entitled, Study of a Woman’s Back?

Many cultures have incorporated texture in all of the following mediums, except which?

Choose the word to fill in the blank, which best completes the sentence.By adding white to a color to make it lighter, a new _________ of the original color can be created.

Choose the words to fill in the blank, which best complete the sentence. The piece above is called, The Portuguese, by Georges Braque. Braque used zigzag lines as his primary element in this piece, in order to suggest _____(1)_____ and _____(2)_____.

_____________ is the area of dark created when an object blocks light.