Art 1113 Final Exam 2023

To help us see the world in the same way we view it

According to the textbook, which one of the following is NOT a role typically played by art that makes artwork distinct?

Primer

Before painting on a canvas or panel, an artist generally applies a(n) ______________to improve adhesion of paints.

Mosaics

Byzantine churches, such as San Vitale, had much of their interiors decorated with___

An ancient Native American petroglyph

Human actions and nature regularly damage and demolish art. In Utah at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument close to the Escalante River, someone tried to saw out a portion of what object with tremendous historical and spiritual value?

Destruction

Iconoclasm means the ________________of images

Sketches

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called:

Representational

If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its approach is said to be:

Focal Point

If our attention is drawn to a proportionately small, clearly defined part of an artwork, this is known as a what?_____________

Albrecht Durer

In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, _______________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.

Spiral Jetty

In 1970, Robert Smithson arranged rock and earth in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, for an earthwork entitled___________

Icon

In Byzantine art, a(n) ______________is a specific kind of image, either a portrait of a sacred person or a portrayal of a sacred event.

Asymmetrical

In a two-dimensional work with ________________ balance, two sides do not match. It may seem to be balanced, though, by having visual weights in its two halves that are comparable

The physical appearance of a work

In art, what is form?

Cartoon

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ______________is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigmen

Pen, Brush, and Ink

In his work, Cottage among Trees, what medium does Rembrandt use to create a rich and varied drawing?

Chiaroscuro

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of _________________to describe the way shadows and light define the shape of forms.

Clay

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

Serifs

In typography, what are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters?

Warp

In weaving, the set of fibers that is held taut on a loom or frame is called the:

Coiling

Pueblo potter María Martínez used what method to create her striking blackware?

Triangle

Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using what implied shape?_____________

In the round

Sculpture that is freestanding and completely finished on all sides is called:

The devastation of a Spanish city by Nazi bombers

What event prompted Pablo Picasso to create the painting Guernica? ______________

Flying buttresses

What feature is an important aspect of Gothic architecture?

Installation

What genre conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

Printing press

What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?

Repetition

What is a necessary feature of pattern? __________

ink

What is an example of a liquid medium?

Terra Cotta

What is another term used to describe fired clay?

Furniture

What is the most common product of woodworking art?

Blowing

What is the most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel?

Stonehenge

What is the most notable example of Neolithic architecture in Europe?

Animals

What is the primary subject matter of the cave paintings at Chauvet?

Context

What is the term for the personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which a work of art was created, received, and interpreted?

Clay

What material is added to graphite to produce pencils that range from very hard to very soft?

Acrylic

What medium, invented in the twentieth century, resembles oil paint, but dries very quickly and is far more durable?

Modeling

What method of sculpture illustrates the additive process?

Tapestries

What object was the most treasured of medieval possessions for royal and noble households, as well as wealthy merchant families?

Artemisia Gentileschi

What painter produced Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, whose subject is taken from the biblical story of Judith?

The Raising of Lazarus

What painting, by the artist Giotto, shows his pioneering use of a "window" effect in painting?

Symmetry

What principle is used in the Mandala of Jnanadakini to suggest that there is a logic and order to the universe?______________

Gianlorenzo Bernini

What sculptor, famous for his work in the Cornaro Chapel, was also a painter, dramatist, and composer?

Female nude figures

What subject matter informs the abstract artworks of the Cycladic culture?

Binder

What substance allows drawing media to be shaped into sticks (for dry media) or suspended in fluid (for liquid media), and to adhere to the drawing surface?

Pointillism

What technique uses dots of color to create a specific optical effect? ________________

Layout

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

Low relief

What term is used to describe sculpture in which figures project only slightly from the background?

Contrapposto

What term is used to describe the pose used by Greek artists that expresses the potential for motion inherent in a standing human?

Visual

What type of literacy better enables us to engage with the images we view from a critical and analytical perspective?

Equestrian

What type of statues were common in Classical Rome?

Memes

What types of works are humorous and sometimes harsh doctoring digital images with supplementary text?

The Medici

What wealthy banking family in Italy commissioned the David sculpture, created about 1440?

Metalpoint

Which medium involves drawing with a fine wire onto a coated surface?

Texture and Color

Which of the following are not among the principles of design? ___________

Mixing pigment with egg yolk

Which of the following is NOT a technical challenge related to the process of fresco?

Stories and Histories

Which theme is best represented by Frank Henderson's drawing Off to War? _________

generating ideas and analyzing ideas

Which two traits are often linked with creativity?

Line

Which visual element can best be described as "the path of a moving point"? _____________

Laocoön Group

Which work is a prime example of art from the Hellenistic era?

Frank Gehry

Who was the architect of the transformative Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?

It is abundant and relatively easy to work.

Why is wood such a popular craft material?

Forging

_ involves heating a chunk of metal over a fire, then beating and shaping it with hammers.

Contrapposto

__ was developed by ancient Greeks as a naturalistic pose for sculptures of the human figure.

Symbols

___, such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.

Assemblage

_____ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

Iconography

________ involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art.

Theme

___________are broad areas of content reflected in the arts of many cultures.

a dry-media drawing, a part of Degas's visual inventory, a pastel drawing, and a 19th-century artwork.

Degas's The Singer In Green is

Murals

Diego Rivera is known for his:

Emphasis and Subordination

Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating_____________

The Reformation

During the 16th century, Martin Luther began a movement known as _____________that would see Europe divided into Catholic countries and Protestant countries.

Aesthetics

During the Enlightenment, the branch of philosophy that examined the nature of art and beauty that came into being was:

Ancient Greece and Rome

During the European Renaissance, ideas from ______________ were rekindled—such as perfect human proportions reflecting a divine order

Venice

During the Renaissance in Italy, what was the third exceptional artistic hub behind Rome and Florence?

Tradespeople to intellectuals

How did the role of artists change from pre-Renaissance to after?

As a hero and a common person

How does Charles Wilson Peale's portray George Washington in the portrait George Washington at the Battle of Princeton?

It is more playful and lighthearted.

How does the Rococo style compare to that of the Baroque?

Logo

A ___________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

Values

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors but captures the_____________ of the colors.

Pyramidal

A favored device employed by Renaissance artists of Italy—such as Masaccio with Trinity with the Virgin, St. Johnthe Evangelist, and Donors and Raphael with The Madonna of the Meadows—was__________ organization.

Neo-Babylonian

A true arch was developed by _____________ architects long before the Romans came up with the idea.

A triptych

A work of art that is made in three panels is called ___________

Constructivist

Alexsandr Rodchenko worked in the _____________style, his works marked by abstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture.

Rembrandt

Among the following artists, whose innovation was it to create group portraits in the setting of an activity, rather than posing the subjects formally?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Among the most famous of all 19th-century posters are those created by

An icon

An image of a sacred subject painted on a wood panel during the Byzantine era is referred to as __

Nonrepresentational

Art that does not refer to or represent the world outside itself, creating meaning and expressive power from the elements of art itself, is:

Kinetic

Art that physically moves is called ____________ art

Federal Express

As a demonstration of how art affects our lives, a graphic designer in 1994 created a two-color logo for which transportation or shipping company that was so successful it has endured decades later? The logo is seen on packaging, planes, and trucks.

Basillica

As a model for Christian churches, Roman architects used the standard __________plan.

illuminations

As they copied important texts, medieval monks often created ____________, illustration sand decorations that embellished the words

Sensuality

As with much Venetian Renaissance art, Titian's Venus of Urbino demonstrates what quality?

Property

Copyright refers to the legal right to publish, reproduce, or perform a work (a painting, a play, a song) of original intellectual:

Time and Motion

During the twentieth century, _____________ were added to the visual elements used by artists.

the French Revolution of 1830.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People commemorated ____________

Hot wax

For encaustic, the medium or binder is made of

Conte Crayon

Georges Seurat used what medium in his pointillist work, Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La GrandeJatte)?

An inert white pigment

Gouache is a watercolor medium into which ________ has been added

Mughal Emperor

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the St. Petersburg Album, from the early 17th century, features the____________ as the biggest and most significant figure in the painting.

Parthenon

Marble sculptures from what ancient Greek structure were removed and sent to England in the hopes of preservation?

Pharaohs

Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu are the names of ___________

Secondary

Mixing two primary colors produces a ___________ color.

A glaze

Oil paint applied in very thin translucent layers is called

Genre

Paintings depicting scenes of everyday life are known as ____________ paintings

China

Paper was invented in

Sculpture

St. Teresa in Ecstasy is a fine example of Bernini's talent in

The Industrial Revolution

The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to what event?

Reflecting on the self

The Codman Silver Dressing Table and Stool from 1899 best represents what theme of art? _____________

A group of bronze plaque sculptures looted by British soldiers

The Kingdom of Benin, which is now part of current-day Nigeria, wants what from the art world returned?

Stained glass

The Life of Saint Nicholas is what type of work?

Golden Rectangles

The National Parks Preserve Wildlife poster was designed according to what feature?

Louis XIV of France

The Palace of Versailles was home to what monarch?

Ancient Greek and Roman culture

The Renaissance pertains to a period of renewed fascination with which culture?

A young college student

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed by

A bit before 1500 to about 1520

The brief but celebrated art period known as the High Renaissance lasted for how long?

Subtractive

The carving method is what type of sculptural process?

Rhythm

The design principle that is based on repetition is called

Casting

The lost-wax process is what type of sculptural method?

Mexico

The most celebrated frescoes of the 20th century were from

Linseed oil

The most common medium for oil paint is

Composition

The organization of visual elements in two-dimensional art is called __________

Sand

The principal ingredient of glass is

Porcelain

The secret of _____________was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it

Medium

The substance that holds the pigments together without dissolving them is the

Lake George by John Frederick Kensett

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work? ______________

"Rebirth"

The word "renaissance" means what?

Proportion

This term refers to size relationships between two or more items considered as a unit, or between parts of a whole.

Enlightenment

To better understand the statue Amida Buddha, what does the protuberance or ushnisha on top of the figure's head represent? _

A flattened, abstracted style of art

Unlike their Greek and Roman predecessors, Byzantine artists preferred what type of aesthetic?

The printing press

What 15th-century invention led to the gradual elimination of the practice of illumination by hand?

Bull

What animal is repeatedly found in the art of ancient Mesopotamia?

Chalk

What are soft, finely textured stones that can be used for drawing?

Caravaggio

What artist is especially known for a theatrical treatment of light and shadow, as seen in the magnificent Supper at Emmaus?

Andy Warhol

What artist often blurred the line between commercial design and fine art?

The Balinese necklace

What artwork from your textbook is an example of an artist creating an extraordinary version of an ordinary object?

Virgin and Child Enthroned, and Prophets (Santa Trinita Maestà)

What artwork illustrates a spiritual theme, serving as an image for worship? _________

Congregational worship

What aspect of Christianity required a fundamental change in the architecture of religious buildings?

Interactivity

What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?

Dramatic play of light and shadow

What characteristics of the Baroque style can be seen in Peter Paul Rubens's Presentation of the Portrait of Mariede' Medici?

Cuneiform

What early writing system, marked by wedge-shaped marks, was used in Mesopotamia?