Quiz#2

Quiz 2, available on Blackboard now, is due to be completed no later than this Thursday (Feb 16) at 10pm. A preview of questions appears for your preparatory pleasure below :-). The password to take the quiz is: blue12
If you are in the evening class, you are encouraged to take the quiz before 7:30 this evening so you can go straight to the lecture in the School of Business by photographer Sally Mann (I have rsvp-ed for you; if you are asked, tell them you are with Prof. Hanger's class). I will not be taking attendance.
If you are in the afternoon section and wish to attend the lecture you should rsvp for yourself, and you may also take the quiz early if you wish not to attend class today (just be sure you  have Assignment #3 completed by Monday (I'm giving you another extension) and emailed to me as a JPG with your "statement of intent" (see the assignment 3 guidelines in the tab above for details). FOR TUESDAY'S CRITIQUE YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRINTED COPY OF  YOUR ABSTRACTION TO SHOW AT THE START OF CLASS.

ART109 QUIZ 2 PREVIEW


The password to take the quiz on Blackboard (under "Assignments") is: blue12

THE SECOND QUIZ COVERS PART 2 OF THE PHOTOSHOP MODULE and is worth another 3% of your final grade. Materials included are: Chapters 11, 12, 14, 15 / Online Readings on the Golden Ratio in Composition / Skill Set 2 Training Videos / plus Powerpoint Lectures on Abstraction and Balance (Advanced Composition)* 

There will be 20 multiple choice questions, and you will have 25 minutes to complete the quiz on Blackboard once you begin. You may only take the quiz once, but the test is Open-Book/Open-Notes and you may refer to the course website and related materials that are housed there (including links, study guides, and Powerpoints) while taking the exam. 

The questions will include the topics below but questions will be produced one at a time on Blackboard (in random order) with multiple-answer choices:

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1. Identify a term that describes a form of persuasion that appeals to an audience by echoing familiar meanings in new combinations (e.g., puns, word play, the double entendre, or the headline-graphic linkage in an ad).

2. When framing a photo, appropriate headroom refers to…(what)_______?

3. A guideline used in design balance that is adapted from a recurring number (called phi) and that appears throughout nature, is called the…_____?

4. After copying an image and pasting it into a Photoshop layer, this new object can be resized by using what keyboard command?

5. We tend to respond to designs that simulate which concept(s) and/or shapes from nature?

6. Identify the artist and mathematician who first coined the term "Golden Ratio" (previously known as the golden or divine section) and applied it as a technique of composition to many of his famous works.

7. The irrational mathematical constant known as Phi is usually defined as the number(s)...

8. The spot in a composition (or on the horizon line in landscape) where lines of linear perspective appear to converge is called the.....____?

9. Know the design elements a designer can manipulate to move the viewer's gaze in a controlled direction toward the crucial information in a composition (ie. into the eye path).

10. In Photoshop, when using a mask to reveal part of the layer below an image layer, one paints the transparent area in what color?

11. To create a highlight or lighten a part of an image in Photoshop it would probably be most useful to use which tool?

12. Define an abstraction according to your textbook.

13. Name some ways your textbook suggests that artists might apply abstraction to an image.

14. The proper number of dots per inch (dpi or ppi) to specify in your file when printing an image file in CYMK is typically…______?

15. Combining two or more photographic images to create something new using layers in Photoshop is called…_____?

16. Which design elements used in a composition can help create implied depth?

17. A way of looking at images as a systematic form of symbolic language with latent connotations is called…_____?

18. An area around which the rest of the design should "hang" or be balanced is called its…____?

19. An evocative form of art whereby an artist uses visual elements based on a common idea (as in FIVE--the fingers of one hand, five circles, the numeral 5, the printed word five) versus realistic representations of a scene or object is considered what type of art…_____?

20. "Trapped space" in your design means you have committed what error?