Art History Exam 2

The clock work can be described as

24 hour long montage of film clips

What is name of a pictorial convention which shows a deformed image that appears true shape when in certain sngle

Anamorphosis

When did the first paper making process occur

Ancient china

What ancient culture did artists in renaissance admired and which legacy did they continue

Ancient greeks

What are the similarities between fine arts and graphic design

Both employ visual elements and principles of composition

What is a pinhole camera

Camera obscure with a sheet of photographic film

What features must be present in work that is symmetrically balanced

Central axis

Who developed tenets of semiotics

Charles Peirce Ferdinand de Saussure

When did Gutenberg invent the printing press?

Circa 1450

What is the term for organization of visual elements in 2 dimensional art?

Composition

What is name of scuptersul scheme invented by ancient greeks

Contrapposto

In a daguerreotype what surface is used to record light

Copper plate covered in silver iodine

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

Emphasis

According to jasper johns flag documentary the artist painted it in ancient tequniche called

Encaustic

Although artists create sketches for painting... never use medium of drawing. To create stand alones of art in own right

False

Based on the video we watched in class we can say the graphite pencils contain lead

False

Bibemus quarry employed atmospheric perspective

False

Artists in their composition strive for either unity or variety but never the two of them

Flase

Buon fresco (true fresco) allowed artists to paint very slowly and meticulously because plaster surface was dey

Flase

In oil painting thin veils of transluscent color applied over a layer of opaque paint are known as

Glazes

_________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding white pigment

Gouache

Photojournalists we're hired by FSA to record what historical event

Great depression

Leonardo devincis last supper has damage becusse

He experimented with the medium and his innovations led to problems

What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBT flag

Inclusion and acceptance

Which of these is not dry drawing media

Ink

What is term used to describe how text and images appear on image

Lauout

Which of the following iconic logics did Paul rand create

Logo for abc

So called vertical positioning was a pictorial convention designed by

Medieval

What drawing material was the predecessor of graphite pencil during renaissanxe

Metalpoint

What is perspective of painting "mystery of melancholy street"

Multi point perspective

Which of the following is an example of a non aqueous technique

Oil paint

One of the supports for tempera painting popular in European medieval period was

Parchment

Timothy O'Sullivan spent his later years

Participating in survey and geological expeditions and taking photographs of American west

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film empire

Passage of time

Which one of these dry drawing media allow for subtle changes in tone and color and gives the effect of paint

Pastel

The creation of photographic body of work around event is known as

Photojournalism

Identify two developments taht created graphic design

Printing press and industrial revolution

In camera obscura _______ light rays enter through apurature, _________ they pass through lense

Reflected, refracted

Unity can be created in a painting by

Repetition of given visual/ formal elements or similar elements

Where and when did the rainbow flag first appear

San Francisco 1978

The typeface that albrecht Durer designed is a form called

Serif

Which of the following photographers appropriated other photographers works to create his/ her own works

Sherrie levien

What features are not considered principles of design

Texture and color

What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?

The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image

What is the similarities between encaustic, fresco, and tempura

They all dry very fast

Why is graphite mixed with clay

To make graphite harder

Which of the following sentences about signs is correct

Two of these signs are indexes

How is scale defined

size in relation to a standard "normal" size

Mosaic is made of small closely spaced particles called

tesserae