VISUAL ARTS 2TTO TEST 2 (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
Worm's Eye View If you stand next to an apartment building and you look up, you see the flat from a worm's eye perspective. Because your eye level relative to your subject is low, the horizon is also low.
bird's eye view If you are standing on the roof of a house and you see a dog walking in the garden of that house, you see that dog from a bird's eye view. Because your eye level is high, the horizon is also high.
Cool-warm contrast a contrast between cool (blue-ish) and warm (red-ish) colours. Warm colours come towards you and cool colours go to the background.
picture plane The flat surface that the artist organizes the picture in. 1 / 2
detail a small part of something
2-dimensional
(2D) flat. The shape has two dimensions: e.g. length and width
or height and width. Organic shapes are curved and flowing.Organic shapes are curved and flowing.
3-dimensional
(3D) spatial. The shape has three dimensions: length, width
and height (depth).
Design of a painting This concerns what the artist has done with the design aspects (form, color, light, space, composition) and the material.
Design aspects also called visual aspects, parts that make up a work of art.
The most important image aspects are: form, color,
composition, light and space.
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