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In Mantegna's The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, the body of Jesus is portrayed at an extreme angle. This ________ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention.


A) bird's eye
B) foreshortened
C) isometric
D) obscured
E) far-away

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One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.


A) color
B) shape
C) vanishing point
D) medium
E) volume

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This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.


A) Albrecht Dürer
B) René Magritte
C) M. C. Escher
D) Edith Hayllar
E) Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

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This system, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth.


A) isometric perspective
B) linear perspective
C) chiaroscuro
D) multi-point perspective
E) relative position

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If an artist were to depict five people each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi-point perspective.

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A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.


A) orthogonals
B) highlights
C) palettes
One-Point Perspective
D) hatched lines
E) chiaroscuro

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The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.


A) value
B) space
C) line
D) shape
E) color

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When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.


A) alternating value
B) relative size
C) overlapping
Gateway to Art:
Hokusai, "The Great Wave off Shore at -Kanagawa:" Methods for Implying Depth
D) relative position
E) all of these answers

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The computer simulation game The Sims uses ________ perspective.


A) linear
B) two-point
C) multi-point
Linear perspective
Origins and History
D) isometric
E) one-point

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This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.


A) isometric
B) one point
C) two-point
Gateway to Art:
Raphael, The School of Athens: Perspective 
and the Illusion of Depth
D) atmospheric
E) foreshortening

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The medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera obscura, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?


A) sand container
B) celestial cylinder
C) dark room
D) pastry dish
E) computer drive

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In Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew, the artist used light and dark values to emphasize Christ's hand. Why did the artist draw our attention to the hand? What other features in the work are emphasized with light and darkness?

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The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called ________.


A) perspective
B) hatching
C) highlight
D) core shadow
E) palette

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Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.


A) vanishing point
B) holy spirit
C) camera obscura
Two-point perspective
D) patron
E) composition

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The painter Thomas Hart Benton varied the intensity of the color green in The Wreck of the Ole '97 to help the viewer feel a safe distance from the train wreck.

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In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.


A) atmospheric perspective
B) perspective
C) chiaroscuro
D) cross-hatching
E) highlight

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This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.


A) cone of vision
B) highlight
C) vanishing point
D) horizon line
E) orthogonal

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Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.


A) three-dimensional
B) colorful
C) actual
D) unexpected
E) textural

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This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional solid form is called ________.


A) film noir
B) value range
C) chiaroscuro
D) perspective
E) palette

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This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.


A) linear perspective
B) chiaroscuro
C) highlight
D) palette
E) atmospheric perspective

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