Art Appreciation exam 1

Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem is about:

A community in Harlem, New York

This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.

Albrecht Dürer

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

Bioartists

This American architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain with an emphasis on the variety of forms and tactile surfaces. Who was this architect?

Frank Gehry

This American sculptor creates spinning sculptures that are intended to be viewed while a strobe light is flashing to create an impression of motion. His/her work Drum 52 features an illusion that green liquid spheres rise up into a hand and the illusion repeats as long as the spinning and strobe lighting continues. What is this sculptor's name?

Gregory Barsamian

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, ________ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color.

Josef Albers

This painting, titled the Old Guitarist, relies on values of blue, brown, and gray. What was the name of the artist who did this work during his or her "Blue Period"?

Picasso

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.

Plato and Aristotle

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

Rahael

Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board in this New York museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

This American novelist noted that the "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

William Faulkner

Atsuko Tanaka—who was part of the Gutai group, a collective of Japanese experimental artists—created a piece of wearable art with many colored lights. She made this Electric Dress inspired by what kind of commercial sign?

a blinking pharmaceutical sign

By using ________ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background becomes the figure, we perceive_______.

a figure-ground reversal

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ________.

a focal point in the artwork

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating ________ design.

a harmonious

Memento mori refers to:

a symbol of mortality

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

absorb

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.

actual motion

A line that is a continuous mark is ________.

an actual line

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

an open

To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more.

foreground

the media of painting and collage

formal analysis

In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

format

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is________.

gestalt

Romare Bearden's work The Dove uses an underlying ________ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order.

grid

A flat work of art has two dimensions______ and width

height

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

hierarchical scale

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

intimacy

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

kinetic

Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.

mass

Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors?

memento mori, iconography, and anamorphosis

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

monumental

In her painting Music—Pink and Blue II, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue ________ space in order attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

negative

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ______ shapes to attract the attention of the public.

negative

Color associations vary by culture. For example, an American bride would probably wear white, while her Chinese counterpart might wear ________.

red

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ________ mood of the movies.

serious

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

shade

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

smooth

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

subordination

Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or ________ effect.

supernatural

The video game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. These units are called ________.

tiles

(T/F) Holbein's The Ambassadors has several references to religious content.

true

(T/F) If an artist were to depict five people, each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi-point perspective.

true

(T/F) If the clothing of the saint was the only light area in The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the viewer's eye would not be easily drawn to any other areas of the composition.

true

(T/F) Performance artists in the Cirque du Soleil rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.

true

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

value, position, size, overlapping

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as:

vitality

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.9), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water

Paul Gauguin's use of the color ________ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

yellow

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called.

complementary colors

Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.

compositional unity

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

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

conceptual

biographical analysis

considers the artists personal experiences

feminist analysis

considers the role of women presented in an artwork

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of ________.

contrast

the issue of black women as exploited by or left out of art history

critical race theory

The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended to give the design a feeling of ________.

dynamism

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

elements

(T/F) An artist would probably use distorted scale if he or she wanted to create a lifelike scene that the viewer could relate to.

false

(T/F) An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

false

(T/F) Artists started depicting time in art only in the twentieth century, and no other artwork that implied movement was made before 1900.

false

(T/F) Edvard Munch's The Scream depicts a suicide witnessed by the artist.

false

(T/F) Hieronymus Bosch worked closely with and was deeply influenced by the Surrealist artists of the twentieth century.

false

(T/F) Horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.

false

(T/F) Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.

false

(T/F) Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past.

false

(T/F) The neighborhood shown in Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem could represent any neighborhood in America in the 1930s.

false

(T/F) The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.

false

This artist proved that his system for creating depth was effective through an elaborate process that involved a painting with a hole, a mirror, and the Florence Baptistery. The viewer would look through the back of the painting of the Florence Baptistery while the mirror reflected it, then, when the mirror was removed, the viewer could see the actual building. Who was this artist and innovator?

Brunelleschi

The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.

Cordoba

Frida Kahlo painted "The Two Fridas" shortly after show was discovered from which famous Mexican painter?

Diego Rivera

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

Distorts

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ________.

closer

Scale can change the way a work is perceived by a viewer. By choosing to make his painting very large, the French artist Jean-François Millet elevated the importance of a group of old women working in a field. What is the name of this work?

The Gleaner

The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this twentieth-century French painter.

Valadon

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany, the shrunken, twisted body of Jesus and the oversized, anguished head of Mary are accentuated for expressive effect. This distortion of the human body, ________ form that we can all understand, makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

an organic

The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's "The Bedroom" creates an atmosphere of _________.

anxiety

If an artist painted a street scene with one large building on the left-hand side, and two smaller buildings on the right-hand side, this would be an example of ________ balance.

asymmetrical

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

asymmetrical

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

broad emphasis

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

chroma

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.

close-up

American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest) to imply the presence of water. The work's many empty spaces, which were created using irregular horizontal members, are an example of ________ volume.

open

The type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

organic

This spinning disc (spindle viewer) with images on it gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in a second disc at the changing pictures.

phenakistoscope

In a digital display, color is created when light cells called __________ illuminate.

phosphors

By looking at the flat triangular surfaces of Disney's Spaceship Earth, the effect of light and shadow can be observed. What are these flat surfaces?

planes

The artist Dosio, in his drawing of the Church of Saint Spirito, created an impression of three dimensions by using line to show the division between__________.

planes

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

prayer figures

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions