ART 111 FINAL

Architect Louis Sullivan used this famous phrase to express his design philosophy.

"form follows function"

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:

. using materials chiefly from the surrounding countryside b. coloring the concrete to match the rocks c. mimicking the layers of the rocks in his design d. letting the underlying rock jut into the living space ALL OF THE ABOVE

The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.

Jan Van Eyck

The work of ________ was directly influential on the conceptual art movement.

Marcel Duchamp

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

An 'earthwork' is a type of sculpture that uses the natural world as a "canvas." Natural processes will modify the earthwork over time, even after the artist's input is finished.

TRUE

If an artist wanted to draw a dynamic scene of a storm at night, charcoal would be a good medium to use.

TRUE

Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made.

TRUE

if an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, tempera would be a good medium to use.

TRUE

Architects consider this when designing a building

The site, engineering, materials, the needs of the user

When Dorothea Lange took this photograph she was working for

US government

In Audrey Flack's Marilyn Monroe, the burning candle, the flower, and the hourglass are typical of a kind of symbolism in art that reminds us of death. This kind of symbolism is known as ________.

Vanitas

Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.

a. break down categories of traditional artworks b. break down the traditional boundaries between art and life c. focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook ALL OF THE ABOVE

This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.

acrylic

A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________

an edition

An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.

an installation

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on

animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood

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

armature

________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

asymmetrical

The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.

bas-relief

The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.

beeswax

Buon fresco requires no

binder

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

bronze

The difference between buon fresco and fresco secco is:

buon fresco is painting on wet plaster and fresco secco is painting on dry plaster

The sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a metal printing plate in intaglio printmaking is called a ____________.

burin

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

casting

What is not subtractive sculpting?

casting

What is not an additive process?

chiseling

the three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.

conceptual

This building material is a mixture of cement and ground stone.

concrete

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

construction

or his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________.

create the block and cut the lines into it

In Mining the Museum Fred Wilson reorganized objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society, essentially taking on the role of a ________ in addition to that of an artist.

curator

Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.

detail

This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect.

drypoint

When were the first successful photographs?

early 1800s

The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.

egg

This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate.

engraving

This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate.

etching

As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her

extreme performance art pieces

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

In the nineteenth century, this material became both less costly and more widely available for construction.

glass, iron, concrete, steel

When a printmaking rolls ink on a printing plate and then presses paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as an ______________.

impression

Another name for freestanding sculpture is

in the round

This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space

installation

When the design on a printing plate is cut into the surface of the plate, this is known as ________ printmaking.

intaglio

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that

it creates very detailed images

A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called ________ sculpture.

kinetic

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

kinetic

This printmaking process means 'stone writing' in Greek: _____________.

lithography

The name of this bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material. This method is known as ________.

lost-wax casting

A color that is muddy or grayish has a ________ chroma, or saturation.

low

This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rocking tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away.

mezzotint

A ______________ can be created using any printmaking method, but the plate is changed between each impression, creating an edition in which each print is unique.

monoprint

____________ is the process when an artist makes no permanent marks on a plate. Instead he makes an image on it in ink and then wipes away the ink in places where he wants the paper to show through. The image is then printed; only one impression is possible.

monotype

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

China

An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.

Conceptual art

The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of ________, date to c. 1600-1500 bce.

Crete

The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.

motion

Over time, exposure to the elements can add this surface coloration to metals. It can also be created with the use of chemical preparations.

patina

n which of the following mediums is actual motion employed?

performance art

Daguerrotypes are made on

polished metal plates

This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.

post and lintel

________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.

radial

Objects 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 ________.

readymades

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.

relief

When the design on a printing plate is raised above the surface of the plate, this is known as _______ printmaking.

relief

The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture.

rounded

Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.

sculpture

This printmaking process creates a stencil, or perforated template, which allows ink or paint to pass through

serigraphy (silkscreen)

Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines:

silhouette drawings and projections

In order to create an interior space, and architect must design a distance between two supports called

span

Jackson Pollock is known for:

splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor

In the medieval period, most painters used which type material?

tempera

The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________.

the aperture

All sculptures have this characteristic in common

they exist in three-dimensional space

In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.

truthful

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is ________.

unrecognizable

Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.

variety

this is a ceiling based on the structural properties of the arch

vault

Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.

wax

What materials can be used to create a sculpture?

wax, stone, plastic, ice

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

woodcut

In Joseph Beuys's coyote, I like America and America Likes Me, the artist:

wrapped himself in felt and lived for 5 days alone in an art gallery with a coyote

What does the word "photograph" mean?

writing with light

An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.

FALSE

An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.

FALSE

Color photographs could be made from the time that the first photographic processes were invented.

FALSE

Formal analysis cannot be used to study a film

FALSE

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.

FALSE

Oil paint dries very quickly

FALSE

Reinforced concrete is a raw material that has always been available, architects just did not like the look of it until the nineteenth century.

FALSE

The best surface to paint the medium of encaustic on is fabric.

FALSE

The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark.

FALSE

When an artist is using the subtractive method of carving a material that shatters easily would be a good choice.

FALSE

The Crystal Palace inspired other architects including ________, who created a tower in Paris that was originally intended to be temporary.

Gustave Eiffel

____ pencils are hard and dull slowly, while ____ pencils are soft and dull quickly

H/B