MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1)One of the most dramatically lit spaces in modern architecture, the church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut was created by the French architect: 1) _____ 
A)Mies van der Rohe. B) Le Corbusier. 
C)Charles Eames. D) Walter Gropius. 

2)The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of this scene by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning, “murky.” This technique is called: 2) _____ 
A)hatching. B) cross-hatching. 
C)tenebrism. D) simultaneous contrast. 

3)The artist that painted this work was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as: 3) _____ 
A)chromaticism. B) pointillism. C) orphism. D) constructivism. 

4)Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in this painting to emphasize: 
A)the division between male and female spaces. 4) _____ 
B)the passive role of a female spectator. 
C)the prison-like opera box. 
D)the significance of opera in the late 19th century. 

5)This artist has chosen primarily ________ colors for this painting. 
A)complementary B) warm C) cool D) tertiary 5) _____ 

6)By the 19th century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam, and SpeedThe Great Western Railway had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters. What type is it? 6) _____ 
A)luminous perspective B) aerial or atmospheric perspective 
C)two-point linear perspective D) axonometric projection 

7)Michelangelo’s Head of a Satyr shows the use of: 
A)linear perspective. B) cross-hatching. 7) _____ 
C)axonometric projection. D) achromatism. 

8)The author describes Chuck Close’s painting, Stanley, as: 
A)“layered pointillism.” B) “lusterless” and “murky.” 8) _____ 
C)“polychromism as its best.” D) All of the above. 

9)Charles Searles’s painting, Filas for Sale, uses a color scheme called: 
A)complementary. B) tertiary. 9) _____ 
C)analogous. D) polychromation. 

10)One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is: 
A)chiaroscuro. B) perspective. C) key. D) perceptual key. 10) _____ 

11)In 1905, Albert Munsell came up with a different color wheel from Newton’s. Munsell’s wheel was based on: 11) _____ 
A)subtractive color mixing. B) five primaries. 
C)one single color. D) color perspective. 

12)A color’s brightness or dullness is called: 
A)relative key. B) tint or shade. 12) _____ 
C)intensity or saturation. D) hue. 

13)On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as: 
A)opposite each other. B) complementary colors. 13) _____ 
C)intermediate colors. D) cool colors. 

14)On Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called: 
A)intermediate colors. B) complementary colors. 14) _____ 
C)secondary colors. D) primary colors. 

15)The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the: 
A)composition. B) style. C) palette. D) spectrum. 15) _____ 

16)Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not “true” to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of: 16) _____ 
A)arbitrary color. B) artistic color. C) secondary color. D) oblique color. 

SHORT ANSWER.  Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
17)What are the three basic areas of shadow? 17)  _________ 

18)The act of painting outdoors, often practiced by Claude Monet and other impressionists, is known by what technical term? 18)  _________ 

19)What happens when all the different spectrum colors of light are mixed together? 19)  _________ 

20)How can an artist decrease a hue’s intensity or saturation? 20)  _________ 

21)Name the three primary colors. 21)  _________ 

22)Give an example of complementary colors. 22)  _________ 

ESSAY.  Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper.
23)How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo’s palette? Do you think Michelangelo used color to help define form? 

24)Discuss the emotional effects of warm and cool colors by citing examples from the chapter. 

25)Explain Artemisia Gentileschi’s use of tenebrism and modeling in her painting, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, and discuss the effects these techniques produce. 



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