Art 105 Midterm

Garry Winogrand's practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance was known as:

The snapshot aesthetic

Hokusai and Albrecht Dürer were printmakers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:

They both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions

Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life with her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:

Through the use of multiple, repeated figures

Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers." Which rivers does this phrase reference?

Tigris and Euphrates

Photographs have only recently been collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ________.

True forms of art

The Hawaiian sculpture of a war god (Figure 2.4.7) is a composition that represents how many different gods?

Two

The tools of formal analysis help us to:

Understand how the artists applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork

The light-skinned figures in the Minoan fresco Bull-Leapers are:

Women

The German artist Albrecht Dürer created Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief printmaking method?

Woodcut

Ando Hiroshige created the work "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyōbashi" in this medium:

Woodcut Print

What is religious pluralism

the acceptance of beliefs from different religions and philosophies

What do the lamassi, the human-headed winged lions that protected Ashurnasirpal II's palace, represent?

the power and divinity of the Assyrian ruler

A group of artists might share a style-an identifiable kind of visual expression-because:

they all used similar techniques they all worked at the same time they all studied in the same place

How did photographer Steve McCurry decide to mark the end of the production of Kodachrome film?

By using the final roll to produce a series of portraits

Which two architectural orders are visible at the Parthenon?

Doric and Ionic

The earliest photographs were black and white because:

Color processes were complicated Color photography was impossible The chemistry used captured gray tones They were more expensive

Which Roman emperor aligned himself with both the pagan gods and with Christianity?

Constantine

Where did the Minoan civilization thrive?

Crete

This kind of line tends to be more visually active, so it can draw the viewer's attention.

Diagonal

In which work of art is the figure portrayed in a "contrapposto" stance?

Doryphoros by Polykleitos

This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that.

Distorted scale

What achievements characterize the beginning of civilization?

Each answer shown is correct

What does the fowling scene from the tomb of Nebamun, painted c. 1350 BCE, teach us about life in ancient Egypt?

Each answer shown is correct

What is true of the terra-cotta army of soldiers found in the tomb of the first emperor of China?

Each answer shown is correct

Early photographer William Henry Fox Talbot discovered how to make positive prints that could be:

Easily reproduced

Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?

Francesco de' Medici

Antony Gormley's Asian Field is a vast ________ artwork made up of small clay figures.

Installation

A work that is created in small scale can communicate:

Intimacy

How is traditional tsumugi thread different from cotton thread?

It is waterproof

Nearly all printmaking is done in editions, but some artists will opt to create unique prints. These are called:

Monotype prints and monoprints

The Constructivist movement in art is associated with which historical European country?

Soviet Union

Naum Gabo's Constructed Head No. 2 investigates the sense of ________ and form implied by flat planes, in contrast to the solid mass of conventional sculpture.

Space

Which of the following is not a method of carving?

Spooning

Three important photographic genres are portraiture, landscape, and ________ (images of inanimate objects, such as fruit).

Still life

In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, the viewer is directed away from Icarus plunging into the sea, through the use of:

Subordination

When an artist wants to draw attention away from a particular part of a composition, he or she uses:

Subordination

Which civilization developed cuneiform writing?

Sumerians

The painting Starlight by Agnes Martin uses broad emphasis to draw attention to this part of the work:

The composition as a whole

This is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art.

Focal Point

Italian Renaissance painter Raphael's The School of Athens depicts ________.

A gathering of great scholars

Why do many contemporary printmakers prefer linocut to woodblock printing?

Because it is softer than wood and does not show the grain

Feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.

Biographical

When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, ________ image is formed.

A negative

Thomas Struth's photograph Museo del Prado 7 is:

A portrait of art appreciation

When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:

A scholarly journal article

Because the camera appears to capture an image of an event exactly as it occurred, viewers often believe that the resulting photograph is ________ record of events.

A totally accurate

Robert Lostutter creates his work with a particular scale in mind. That scale relates to these animals:

Birds

The earliest known painting in China dates back:

Some 10,000 years ago

Of the twelve figures in Jacob Lawrence's print from his series The Life of John Brown, this figure is emphasized the most:

All of the figures are emphasized in different ways

The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.

An egg

The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as ________ representation of the human body.

An idealized

Constantine's victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge is commemorated by which famous Roman monument?

Arch of Constantine

In ancient Egyptian art, the pharaoh was almost always depicted in this way:

As the largest of all the figures

The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:

Assemblage

The ________ was an early form of camera.

Camera obscura

Exceptional large-scale stained-glass windows were featured in the construction of which Gothic cathedral in northern France?

Chartres

Printing with inks was first practiced in which country in the third century CE?

China

Psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tells us that the painter was:

Expressing anxiety

Max Beckmann exploited the irregular character of drypoint for his print Adam and Eve because it matched the style of the ________ group with whom he was affiliated.

Expressionist

In Artemisia Gentileschi's work Judith Decapitating Holofernes, the viewer is directed to the __________ that is indicated by directional lines.

Focal Point

What purpose are kouros sculptures believed to have served?

Grave makers

Which emperor rebuilt the Pantheon to enhance his status?

Hadrian

Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:

He wanted to develop his own individual style

When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large:

Head

A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth.

High relief... bas relief

Which religion refers to its temples as "cosmic mountains?"

Hinduism

Michelangelo used this Italian term, which refers to nudity, to describe the figures he intended to use for the tomb of Pope Julius II:

Ignudi

Which symbol represents bi, or heaven, in the painted banner from Lady Dai Hou Fu-ren's tomb?

Jade circles with twisting dragons

At one point in the lithography process, the artist must wipe the stone clean with which solvent to prepare for the inking?

Kerosene

Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.

Kinetic

Andy Warhol produced silkscreen prints depicting many celebrities, including a work titled Four ________.

Marilyns

Some people argued that Robert Mapplethorpe should not have been awarded public funding, because:

Of his identity as a gay man and the sexual nature of his photographs

The garden design of the Taj Mahal represents the paradise of the afterlife for Muslims. Channels of water are symbolic of the four rivers of paradise. Which of the following is not a river of paradise?

Olive Oil

We perceive scale in relation to:

Our own size

What word means "Temple of all the Gods"?

Pantheon

Clay used to make earthenware has a good ________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation.

Plasticity

This Greek sculptor wrote a treatise on how to create a statue of a human being with perfect proportions.

Polykleitos

Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. It is located in:

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as:

Signs or symbols

What aspect of ukiyo-e printing style did nineteenth-century Impressionist artists adopt?

Slanted viewpoints

Color processes can be used to make photographs that are:

Realistic, surreal, expressive, socially conscious

When creating a multi-color print, aligning the blocks or plates to ensure that the colors will appear in the correct location is called ________.

Registration

Unlike a photocollage, a photomontage is made to be ________.

Reproduced

Placement of elements in a composition controls ________ and creates multiple focal points.

Rhythm

This material, derived from tree sap, is used in aquatint printmaking: a process that emulates the appearance of water-based media.

Rosin

What is the emotional undercurrent of the Tale of Genji?

Sadness

Henry Peach Robinson created his photographic work Fading Away by using a Golden ________ for the format dimensions.

Section

Which German author devised the lithographic printing process because he wanted to use a cheaper printing method?

Senefelder

"And There Is No Remedy" was part of a horrifying print series created by Francisco Goya, titled ________.

The Disasters of War

Collagraph printing is different to relief or intaglio methods, because:

The artist builds up rather than cuts into the surface that is to be inked

A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:

What was in the foreground and background

Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?

With its back to a pillar or wall

Which type of Greek vase painting was invented first?

black figure

Which of the following can be used to create emphasis?

direction contrast placement

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Roman sculpture?

elderly members of society depicted only rarely

Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:

epic virtues heroism bravery admiration

Which organ was believed by the ancient Egyptians to be the organ of thought?

heart

Wall paintings in tomb chambers tell us that Etruscan women held a ________ status than women in many other ancient cultures.

higher

The Sumerians were a ________ society.

polytheistic

The subject matter of prehistoric art concentrates on sources of food and ________.

procreation