Art Appreciation exam 1
A mixed-media artwork is made
with different materials
In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith Haring creates a bold and dynamic effect by using
complementary colors.
According to the authors of the book Innovator's DNA, all of the following are traits that define creativity EXCEPT
criticizing.
In Her Secret Is Patience, Janet Echelman used
fiber, steel, and lights.
The first-century sculpture Augustus of Prima Porta and the fourteenth-century painting Effects of Good Government in the City both exemplify the function of art
for persuasion
Which artist is known for making a modified Citroen DS car?
gabriel orozco
The purity or saturation of a color is its
intensity
Which artist wanted viewers to see the natural rhythms present in a flower?
Georgia O'Keeffe
Which work makes use of light as a medium?
Keith Sonnier's Motordom
Figure-ground reversal can best be seen in
M.C. Escher's Sky and Water I.
Jazz provided a notable influence on the work of
Romare Bearden.
Romare Bearden's Rocket to the Moon is an example of
a photomontage.
Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?
aesthetics
Two-dimensional artists create the illusion of volume with light by using
chiaroscuro
Yong Soon Min's Dwelling is an assemblage that attempts to express the artist's
feelings of a divided self
In an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the
form.
The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as
iconography
Sabatino "Simon" Rodia could be classified as an outsider artist because of his
lack of awareness of art history.
In art, the term "value" refers to the
lightness and darkness of surfaces.
Raphael's The School of Athens provides the viewer with the illusion of the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface by the use of
linear perspective.
Alexander Calder's mobiles are examples of "kinetic art," because they
move in space
Background shapes are referred to as
negative shapes.
When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called
nonrepresentational.
Figurative art is a type of
representational art.
Chaz Maviyane-Davies's Global Warning is an example of art as a vehicle for
social causes
Architects are generally most concerned with qualities of
space
The Taj Mahal was intended to function as a
tomb
The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is
trompe l'oeil.
Francisco Goya's print I Saw This was intended as a commentary on
war