ART 160 - 2.9 and 2.10

Movies were being shown all over Europe and the United States as early as ________.

1896

________ films often include innovative technology, unexpected subject matter, and/or manipulated images.

Experimental

An artwork can only fit into one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.

False

Vito Acconci is the artist who created ________.

Following Piece

Nam June Paik's ________ combines recognizable and distorted images made using a synthesizer to modulate video signals.

Global Groove

Who was the director of Amélie?

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

How are the locations in The Wizard of Oz distinguished?

Kansas is shown in black and white and the Land of Oz is in color

The work of ________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.

Marcel Duchamp

Which of the following artworks creates a space the viewer is invited to walk into?

Mobility by Yinka Shonibare, MBE

The traditional Western idea of "fine art" was challenged in the twentieth-century with new modes of creation, such as actions, texts, and environments.

True

The way that images appear to be moving in films and videos is actually an optical illusion.

True

What is the difference between a historical drama and a biopic?

a biopic is based on an actual person's life with some details added to the facts

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss's Game of Thrones is known especially for being ________.

a mini-series with a full season's episodes released simultaneously

Which of the following artworks creates a space the viewer is invited to walk into? a. Mobility by Yinka Shonibare, MBE b. Taualuga: The Last Dance by Yuki Kihara c. Vision After the Sermon by Paul Gauguin d. all of the other answers e. none of the other answers

a. Mobility by Yinka Shonibare, MBE

Barbara Kruger's Belief + Doubt (=Sanity): a. fills a room with graphic text in black, white, and red b. references her early career as a baker in the reproduced pastries and confections c. ignores the rules of good design in order to make an anti-feminist statement d. agrees with the idea that women artists are not as good as male artists e. all of the other answers

a. fills a room with graphic text in black, white, and red

Ed Kienholz's The Beanery includes sculptural replicas of ________.

bar inhabitants

Using a sequence of specially generated drawings to create scenes in a movie is called ________.

cel animation

An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.

conceptual art

In Mobility Yinka Shonibare, MBE, refers to _____. a. social status b. colonialism c. physical ability d. all of the other answers e. none of the other answers

d. all of the other answers

Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________. a. break down categories of traditional artworks b. break down the traditional boundaries between art and life c. focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook d. answers a, b, and c are correct e. answers a, b, and c are incorrect

d. answers a, b, and c are correct

Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane are: a. dramatic lighting, innovative editing, and natural sound b. elaborate sets and moving camera shots c. fabricated newspaper headlines and character flashbacks d. deep focus and low camera angles e. all of the other answers

e. all of the other answers

Auteur theory ________. a. considers films to be art, as they represent a realization of the director's creative vision b. focuses on the director or screenwriter rather than other contributors c. includes study of films by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Jane Campion, and Wes Anderson d. highlights characteristic elements of a film or selection of films, including both appearance and content e. all of the other answers

e. all of the other answers

Videos designed to be art can be made to be presented ________. a. on television screens b. in art galleries or at art events c. in such a way that they transform a space d. projected on walls e. all of the other answers

e. all of the other answers

Which of the following were used to create the visual effects in The Lord of the Rings? a. live action b. computer-generated imagery c. motion capture d. key-frame animation e. all of the other answers

e. all of the other answers

As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.

extreme performance pieces

What is the genre of the film Frida (2.9.14)?

historical: biopic

What genre might a filmmaker be working in if he or she used ominous music, fake blood, and shot many of the scenes at night?

horror

Composer John Cage hoped that his innovative performances would:

inspire people to pay attention to the life (and art) happening all around them

Yoko Ono often utilizes ________ in order to complete her artworks, such as Wish Tree.

instructions for viewers to perform or imagine

John Cage's concert for the opening of the National Arts Foundation can be seen as a happening because:

it expanded the scope of art to include the lived moment

An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________.

performance art

Films such as Amélie combine realistic and fantastical elements in order to:

point out the magical qualities of ordinary life

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is an example of _____.

puppets and dolls playing characters

Molly Gochman's Red Sand Project is designed to:

raise awareness and start discussions about human trafficking

The film The Artist, released in 2011, comments on "the good old days" of the film industry by using ________.

silence and black and white

Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines:

silhouette drawings and projections

Jackson Pollock is known for:

splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor

Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________.

stop-motion animation

The theory that describes the way separate images viewed at regular intervals create the appearance of a continuous or single movement is called ________.

stroboscopic motion

In full gallop, a horse's legs are ________ when all of them are off the ground.

underneath its body

Which of the following is a medium in Ai Weiwei's installation called "According to What?"

vases by Han Dynasty artisans

D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda tool by ________.

the Ku Klux Klan

Composer John Cage's Theater Piece No. 1 is influential because of:

the performance itself and discussions of it

The difference between film and video is:

the way that the images are recorded

Marina Abramovic's The Artist Is Present took ________ to complete.

three months