ARH 151 Final Exam (UofA)

Printing with inks was first used in which country in the third century CE?

China

Andy Warhol produced silkscreen prints depicting many celebrities, including which singer/actor who was shown in a double portrait?

Elvis Presley

Michelangelo used which Italian term, which refers to a manner of dress, to describe the figures he would use on the tomb of Pope Julius II?

Ignudi

Which German author devised the lithographic printing process because he wanted to use a cheaper printing method?

Senefelder

Where is the "Hall of Mirrors"?

Versailles

What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint "Slave Ship"?

a book

A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called ______________.

a linocut

When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, ________ image is formed.

a negative

Color processes can be used to make photographs that are ________________.

realistic, surreal, expressive and socially conscious

When creating a multi-color print, the alignment of blocks or plates to ensure that the colors will appear in the correct location is called ______________.

registration

artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be _______________.

representational, abstract and non-objective

Because the camera appears to capture an image of an event as it exactly occurred, viewers often believe that the resulting photograph is ___________ record of events.

an absolutely accurate

The massive earthwork Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ___________.

an egg

Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kauffmann, _______________.

are inspired by the Ancient Greece and Rome, convey a moral message, place an emphasis on civic duty and are serious in tone

Unlike photo collage, a photomontage is made to be ___________.

reproduced

Which of the following influenced art made from 1700-1865?

revolutions in France and America, the enlightenment, the age of reason and industrialization

This material, derived from tree sap, is important to aquatint, a printmaking process that emulates the appearance of water-based media.

rosin

Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow":

shows a view of the Connecticut River, exemplifies the idea of the sublime and includes an image of the artist

Which of the following is not a method of carving?

spooning

Three important photographic genres are portraiture, landscape and ______________: images of inanimate objects, such as fruit.

still life

Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from ______________.

the middle ages

The subject of Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" is ___________.

the sacrifices of an ancient roman family

Garry Winogrand's practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance were known as ___________.

the snapshot aesthetic

Hokusai and Albrecht Durer were printmakers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:

they both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions

True or False: If the intention of Giambologna's Rape of a Sabine was to show odd Florentine political might, then a large-scale sculpture in the round was a good choice as it can be displayed to many people.

true

The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as _____________ representation of the human body.

idealized

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because:

it was not a naturalistic recreation of the way we see the world, it includes simplified forms and bodies in geometric shapes, the space of the back-group melds together and it shows frontal and prolific views at the same time

At one point in the lithography process, the artist must wipe the stone clean with which solvent to prepare for the inking?

kerosene

Donald Judd's Untitled (1967) is part of which movement?

minimalism

Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Oath of Horatii" is about:

none of the answers (it's about three brothers making an oath to fight)

Photographs were only recently collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ___________.

true forms of art

Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?

with its back to a pillar or wall

The German artist Albrecht Durer created the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief printmaking method?

woodcut

The Hudson River School painted _____________.

American landscapes

A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are ______________, which is deeply cut, and _____________, which has little depth.

bas-relief; high relief

The technique used by Roy Lichtenstein to show gradations in color in his "Girl With Mirror" was _________.

borrowed from comics

Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculpture from ____________, an alloy of copper and tin.

bronze

The _____________ was an early form of camera.

camera obscura

Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?

casting

The earliest photographs were black and white because _______________.

color processes were complicated, color photography was impossible, the chemistry used to capture grey tones and they were more expensive

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

Sculptures created using this method often require the movement of large amounts of soil from location to another.

earthworks

The most important difference between the photographic process invented by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre and the process devised by William Henry Fox Talbot was that Talbot's images could be ___________.

easily reproduced

Max Beckmann exploited the irregular character of drypoint for his version of Adam and Eve because it fit the style of which group with whom he was affiliated?

expressionist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Street Berlin" is part of the ___________ movement as seen ___________.

expressionist; in the painting's intentionally raw and aggressive intensity