Art Appreciation

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Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called what?

One-point linear perspective

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

Gestural lines

Lines that are loose and free-form are called what?

Implied lines

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called what?

Motion

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was not able to include what in photographs, such as Le Boulevard du Temple?

Aesthetic

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional, but they are called what?

Chiaroscuro

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is what?

Triptychs

Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin and his workshop of artists, are called what?

Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions

Sayre (the author of your textbook) states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

Expressive line

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's________.

To teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"

What was the mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967?

Photorealistic

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called what?

In Italy in the early renaissance

When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?

Camera obscura

Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?

Honoré Daumier

Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints, such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834?

Michelangelo

Which of these artists created a work titled Pietà?

Because Muhammed said that to depict a human is to claim that one can make that human image come to life.

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

Cooler and less distinct

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear to be what?

Subtractive Sculptural Processes

Wood and stone carvings are examples of doing what in art?

Tenebrism

Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called what?

In-the-round

Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?

Radial balance

Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates what?

Editing

D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?

Iconography

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called what?

Live flowering plants

Jeff Koons' Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials, _________.

Binders

Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?

Two-point linear perspective

Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?

Acrylic

Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?

Everyone in japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji

Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because of what?

Charcoal

In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium?

Last judgement, sin, redemption

In Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the woman depicts what?

What the work expresses or means

In a work of art, "content" refers to what?

Isaac Newton

In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

Encaustic

The Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using which medium?

Built in the memory of his wife

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan for what reason?

Oil painting

The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called what?

Clay

The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is what?

Mudra

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called what?

Representational art

The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe what?

Egyptian papyrus

The word paper is derived from what country?

Letters he wrote

We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from what?

They are both earthwork

What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?

It pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?

It dries slower allowing more naturalistic development

What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?

African masks he saw at a paris museum

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?