Unit-3 colour & Unit-4 space & volume

Zuriñe Viñegra

Unit-3

COLOUR

1.-Why does the rainbow show seven colours?

2.-What is the reason why we perceive the tomato as

red?

3.-What colours are used to transmit a sense of happiness and joy?

4.-Find a portrait by Renoir that express a sad character by using pale colours, and one that express a happy or vivid character.

Unit-4

SPACE & VOLUME

1.- Name the three dimensions of an

object:

2.- What is height?

3.- Define volume.

4.- Look at "Horses in a Meadow", by Edgar Degas

and explain how the painter creates a sense of depth in

this painting.

5.- What is the technique of "overlapping" and why

is it used?

6.- Look at "The Magdalen Reading, by Ambrosious Benson and explain the

relationships between different planes.

7.- Look at "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by John Singer Sargent. How does the

painter create the sense of depth?