Art Appreciation Midterm Exam!

create the block and cut the lines into it.

For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrect Durer hired expert craftsmen to _____________________.

geometric

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ______________ forms.

foreshortening

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

True

If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with the negative star shape on the paper.

Red

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

directional

In Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific pints within the composition. Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as _______ lines.

Plato.....Aristotle

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are __________ and ___________.

found

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of _________________________ objects.

subversive

Meret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational, conscious thought. Her fur-lined teacup and saucer, Object, conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________________ texture.

automatic

Suppressing conscious control to access subconscious sources of creativity and truth is called ___________________.

gestalt

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is __________________.

True

The Taj Mahal was commisioned by the grieving Shah Jahan as a memorial to his third and beloved wife.

harmonious

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating a(n) ___________________ design.

highlight

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

contrast

The dark, printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of __________________.

rosin

The dry powdered resin that melts when heated, used in the aquatint process is called _____________________.

China

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

vocabulary

The elements of art form the basic ___________ of art.

monumental

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________________ scale.

value

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called _________

contour

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ______________.

planography

The print process, used in lithography and silkscreen, where the inked image area and the non-inked image area are at the same height is referred to as ________________________.

proportions

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

ships

The undulating surface of Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain is meant to suggest the construction of _________________.

Robert Smithson

This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70..

Hedda Sterne

This female artist practiced monotype printmaking and was a member of a group of abstract painters called The Irascibles.

variety

This is the kind of diversity that can bring many different ideas, media or elements together in one composition.

Golden Section

This proportional system uses a ration of 1:1.618. What is it called?

casting

This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.

ukiyo-e

This style of printmaking means "pictures of the floating world" and was practiced by the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro.

intaglio

This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian.

mass

This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but does not necessarily imply weight.

Emil Nolde

This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.

monoprint

This type of print can be made using any print process, but with the intention of creating a unique image rather than an edition.

collagraphy

This type of printmaking is achieved by "collaging" materials to a surface that will later be inked and printed to paper.

relief

This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.

bas-relief

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

hierarchical

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.

an impression

When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________________.

the illusion of motion

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ___________________.

implied motion

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as _______________________.

atmospheric perspective

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called:

all of the answers are correct.

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

actual

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ___________ texture.

all of the other answers combined

Which of the following can be used to create a sculpture?

chiseling

Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?

silkscreen

Which process of printmaking was used to create this image by Andy Warhol?

Format

______________ is the shape of an area an artist uses for making a two-dimensional artwork.

Conceptual

_________________ art is a work in which the communication of an idea or group of ideas are most important to the work; meaning anyone could execute the work.

True

Performance artists like the Blue Man Group rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.

sprial

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside one another to create an elegant ___________________________.

dark room

Renaissance artists used a camera obscura to help them understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

triangular

Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied ____________________.

China

Silkscreen printing uses a stencil process, and was first developed in ______________ during the Sung Dynasty.

Pointillism

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

False

True or false: because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment.

True

True or false: if an artist were to depict five people each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi- point perspective.

construction

What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?

Francisco Goya

Who created this print?

three-dimensional

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

aquatint

If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting, _____________________would be a good method to use. (Choose the best option)

Pope Julius II

Michelangelo planned a grand sculptural scheme for the tomb of _______________, although it was never completed.

readymades

Object found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ______________________,

True

A German author named Alois Senefelder, out of money and looking for a cheaper method to print his newest play, devised the lithographic printing process in 1796.

high relief

A carved panel where the figures project with a great deal of depth from the background is called _________________.

height

A flat work of art has two dimensions: _________________ and width.

a book of matches

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger than life sculpture of this everyday item.

tempature

Color ___________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

aggression passion eroticism

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as these three: (this question requires you to select three of the following answers)

blue

Color can be used for healing purposes. The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed that looking at the color __________ had beneficial effects.

True

Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume of space.

True

Even though Louise Bourgeois's Maman is made of bronze, the effect is one of lightness.

Silkscreen

This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

Three Point

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.

depth

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width and _____________________.

movement

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on the mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the _______________ of the chase.

a woodcut

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________________________.

freestanding

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ______________ sculpture.

a positive

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ___________________ shape.

mobile

Alexander Calder invented the ___________________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

a negative

An empty space defined by its surroundings is known as __________________shape.

I think this statement means that since everyone sees colors differently then that color is a state of mind therefore not a state of matter.

Ancient Greek philosophers speculated that color was not a state of matter but a state of mind. What do you think is meant by this statement?

bronze

Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from _________________, an alloy of copper and tin.

in the round

Another name for freestanding sculpture is ___________________.

an armature

Artists who model forms using soft, pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.