art appreciation unit 2 test
This Swiss artist, who drew the work The City Square, captures the moment by focusing on and quickly recording the scene in front of himself/herself.
Alberto Giacometti
This Twentieth-century American painter chose tempera to reflect his neighbor's "extraordinary conquest of life" in the work Christina's World.
Andrew Wyeth
The wooden statue of the Hawaiian war god Ku-ka'ili-moku (2.4.9) was created using this method of sculpting:
Carving
The oldest pottery wheels we know of belongs to this ancient culture.
China
The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.
Chinese
Styles of art and architecture that were inspired by the Greeks and Romans are referred to as ________.
Classical
This French artist created a sense of depth in the work The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South using thoughtful brushstrokes and ink wash.
Claude Lorrain
In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen, the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.
Daoism
It is estimated that 25 percent of American households may have owned a copy of this illustration by Maxfield Parrish in the 1920's. What is the title of this popular work?
Daybreak
The African American artist Dox Thrash wanted to use dark, rich tones to reflect the somber mood of the nation during World War II in this mezzotint from c. 1941.
Defense Worker
This Austrian artist focused on the contoured outline of two people in his/her drawing Mother and Child.
Egon Schiele
This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.
Emil Nolde
________ films often include innovative technology, unexpected subject matter, and/or manipulated images.
Experimental
Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.
F
If a sculptor wanted to create a relief that was visible from more than one angle, bas-relief would be a good method to use.
F
If an artist wanted to create an artwork sure to last for many thousands of years, wood would be a good material to use.
F
If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.
F
If an artist wants to create a print with very fine detail and precise, even lines, drypoint would be a good method to use
F
If you wanted to create a colorful drawing that could be easily erased or altered, gall ink would be a good medium to use
F
If you wanted to create a poster that displayed exactly the same information, and could be reproduced in thousands of copies, monoprinting would be a good process to use.
F
Pastels are limited to black and white because color cannot be added to a pastel binder
F
The Egyptians were the only ancient civilization to create load-bearing constructions.
F
The natural world is simply the "canvas" on which an artist creates their earthwork. Nature has no effect on the earthwork, even after the artist has finished the artwork.
F
The only way an artist can work with metal is to heat it to a liquid state.
F
The significance of the figures on the sumptuous gold Salt Cellar of Francis I has nothing to do with the function of the object.
F
The techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can be used only in dry media.
F
When an artist is using the subtractive method of carving in stone, it makes no difference whether or not the intended final shape extends beyond the dimensions of the original stone.
F
White space is always a bad thing in layout design.
F
The Chinese literati painter Guo Xi developed a visual form that he called "the angle of totality." This is a kind of perspective that allows a viewer to see more than one angle at a time and is most often referred to as _________ perspective. a. aerial d
Floating
This artist was most associated with the development of collagraphy, and was a longtime member of the faculty at the University of Washington.
Glen Alpes
The Crystal Palace inspired other architects, including ________, who created a tower in Paris that was originally intended to be temporary.
Gustave Eiffel
Egyptian picture symbols are called ________.
Hieroglyphs
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many masters of woodblock printing in this country, whose work reflected the lifestyle of an urban cultural class.
Japan
Who was the director of Amélie?
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
This Ethiopian American artist used acrylic paint to integrate multiple media quickly and create crisp edges.
Julie Mehretu
Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.
Keramos
This architect, who pioneered the use of steel in architecture, is sometimes called the "father of Modernism".
Louis Sullivan
The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of_________ to a painting.
Luminosity
This Hungarian artist created works of art that were motorized, even featuring one as a character in a film.
Lázló Moholy-Nagy
Melanie Yazzie is a Native American artist who uses silkscreen printmaking in an energetic and spontaneous way. With what Native American nation is she associated?
Navajo
_________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.
Oil Paint
The New Wave design style, a counter-cultural movement against slick commercial design, was closely aligned with what anti-style movement?
Punk
This artist used oil paint, pencil, a pillow, a quilt and a sheet on a support to create the mixed-media painting titled Bed. Who was this artist?
Robert Raushenberg
This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70.
Robert Smithson
The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture.
Rounded
If an artist wanted to create a relief in which a tree appeared farther away than a park bench, carving the park bench more deeply (in high relief) would achieve this effect.
T
If an artist wanted to create an image of a bright moon in the night sky using mezzotint, he or she should smooth the burrs on the surface of the plate for the area of the moon.
T
If an artist wanted to draw a dynamic scene of a storm at night, charcoal would be a good medium to use.
T
If an artist wanted to make an object that was simple in shape and very durable, stoneware would be a good clay to use.
T
The carving technique Michelangelo used for his sculpture Awakening Slave makes the figure appear to be permanently trapped within the stone.
T
Conrad Garner, a Canadian American artist, designer, and illustrator, created a visually-stunning season ticket package for the 100th anniversary of what National Hockey League franchise in 2016?
Toronto Maple Leafs
The exterior of the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, reflects the elements of this architectural form.
a column
The juxtaposition of different buildings and styles of architecture in New York City creates a composition like ________ painting.
a cubist
A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called ________.
a linocut
A piece of thrown pottery is created using this potter's tool.
a wheel
Architects consider this when designing a building.
all of the other answers
Artists draw for many reasons, including:
all of the other answers
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:
all of the other answers
Skyline Art Editions, a commercial printing service, provides craftsmen who __________.
all of the other answers
Which of the following statements is true of the Caffenol process?
all of the other answers
The Pont du Gard is a Roman construction used for conveying water, called ________.
an aqueduct
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 ________.
an impression
A brush called a Filbert is best used for________.
applying color: its short bristles offer more control and softened edges
The photographer of Fragility used a process called ________ .
autochrome to create painterly and romantic color photographs
This nineteenth-century North American construction method uses lightweight wooden frames, instead of heavy timbers, to support a building.
balloon framing
Japanese wooden architecture uses a series of cross- and counter-________ to support the elaborate curved roofs of early temples.
beams
The binding agent in encaustic painting is_______.
beeswax
East Asia artists have traditionally applied ink using a ________.
brush
When a metalwork artist works the front side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a texture from below it is called ________.
chasing
The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to ________.
commemorate and entomb his third wife
An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.
diluting with water
Barbara Kruger's Belief + Doubt (=Sanity):
fills a room with graphic text in black, white, and red
This feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built.
flying buttresses
The architect Le Corbusier's International Style favors a strongly ________ organization of forms.
geometric
Islamic and Renaissance artists often used tempera in conjunction with oil and this material, which adds a rich appearance to work.
gold leafs
The album of ink brush painting of bamboo by the Chinese artist Wu Zhen was created as an instructional model to help this person learn the art of brushwork.
his son
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
This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of the paper to which it is commonly applied. Usually there is a small amount of gum Arabic in this medium, and it most often uses only black pigment.
ink
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
This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other physical objects.
life drawing
Landscape photographs, such as those taken by Ansel Adams, help raise awareness about:
nature's grandeur and the wilderness of the American West
This is the large central space of a Romanesque or Gothic cathedral
nave
In his photograph The Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.
painting
To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall, Raphael _______ a large drawing, then used powered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.
perforated
In her self-portrait, how did Ilka Gedo used pencil and varied the________in order to suggest texture, create emphasis, and to produce darker values.
pressure
The binding agent in the spotted-horse paintings at Pech Merle is________.
saliva
Commercial printing uses an area of patterned dots called a ________. The dots vary in size depending on the level of color needed.
screen
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, by Damien Hirst, is an example of the broad range of materials that can be used in a work of art. It presents a ________ suspended in a tank of formaldehyde.
shark
The Renaissance architect Donato Bramante designed a centrally planned church with a dome called the Tempietto, which is Italian for ________.
small temple
What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?
snapshot aesthetic
Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________.
stop-motion animation
The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ________.
typography
John Singer Sargent was a master of which portable and brilliant painting medium?
watercolor
This Postmodernist building was designed by Michael Graves and is located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
the Humana Building
D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda
the Ku Klux Klan
As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ________.
the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see
The art of typography came into existence with the introduction of this invention.
the printing press
Why did Zaha Hadid decide to use glass as the primary building material for the ground level of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio?
to give the building a weightless quality
"Untitled #7," from Sally Mann's Battlefields series uses a vintage process for what purpose?
to take current photos of Civil War battlefields using technology from that time
