Art Quiz 2

What was the name of the inventor who co-created the film "Fred Ott's Sneeze", one of the 1st American films?

Thomas Edison

Abstract Art

Abstract art is art imagery that departs form recognizable images from the natural world.

What is acrylic paint composed of?

Acrylic paint is composed of pigments suspended in an acrylic polymer resin.

Name 3 modes of analysis as outlined in Chapter 1.10 and briefly define them.

1. Iconographic analysis 2. Biographical analysis 3. Feminist analysis

What's the difference between asymmetrical and symmetrical balance?

1. Symmetrical balance is when a work can be cut in half and each side would look exactly (or nearly exactly) the same 2. Asymmetrical balance is when the elements on the left and right sides are not the same, but the combination of elements counters each other

Briefly define: unity, variety and balance as it refers to visual arts.

1. Unity is the imposition of order and harmony on a design. 2. Variety is the diversity of different ideas, media, and elements in a work. 3. A balance is a principle of art in which elements are used to create a symmetrical or asymmetrical sense of visual weight in an artwork.

What is a color field painting?

A color field painting is a painting with large flat areas of color and simple shapes.

What is a fresco?

A fresco is a technique in which the artist paints onto freshly applied plaster.

What is a mobile and who invented it?

A mobile is a suspended moving sculpture, usually impelled by natural air currents. It was invented by Alexander Calder.

Who invented paper? What country was the inventor from? What time period/year was paper invented?

Cai Lun, around the end of the first century CE, invented paper in China.

Feminist analysis

Considers the role of women in an artwork as its subjects, creators, patrons, and viewers; it explores ways in which the work reflects the experience of women.

Biographical analysis

Considers whether the artist's personal experiences and opinions may have affected the making or meaning of the artwork in some way.

The binding agent for tempera paint is

Egg Yolk

Compare and contrast emphasis and focal point.

Emphasis and focal point both draw the viewer's attention to a particular part of the artwork, however, emphasis is the principle of drawing attention to particular content in a work whereas focal point is the center of interest or activity in a work of art, often drawing the viewer's attention to the most important element.

Define hierarchical scaling

Hierarchical scaling is when an artist uses size to indicate the relative importance of figures or objects in a composition. Larger means more important, and smaller means less important

If someone asks you about the Dada movement in art what would you say?

I would say that the Dada movement was an anarchic anti-art and anti-war movement, dating back to World War I, that revealed in absurdity and irrationality.

Iconographic analysis

Interprets objects and figures in the artwork as signs or symbols, often based on religious or historical contexts that would have been understood at the time when it was made.

An artwork that has actual movement is called

Kinetic art

Non-Representational Art

Non-representational art is art that does not depict a recognizable subject.

Define radial balance

Radial balance is when all elements in a work are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom

Representational Art

Representational art is art that depicts figures and objects so that we recognize what is represented.

Compare and contrast Pattern and Rhythm

Rhythm and pattern both have to do with the repetition of elements, however, rhythm is the regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work whereas pattern is an arrangement of predictably repeated elements.

Compare and contrast scale and proportion

Scale is the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement, whereas, proportion is the relationship in size between a work's individual parts and the whole.

The opposite of emphasis is

Subordination