Art Appreciation Exam 1

height

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ____ and width

an actual line

A line that is a continuous mark is _______________

Phenakistoscope

A spinning disk allowing the viewer to look through a slit and see the image reflected in a mirror

open

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

closer

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

close-up

Artichoke halved is a photograpgh that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object

a blinking pharmaceutical sign

Atsuko Tanaka- who was a 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?

Planes

By looking at the flat triangular surfaces of Disneys Spaceship Earth, the effect of light and shadow can be observed. What are those flat surfaces?

a complementary

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

All of the answers (aggression, passion, eroticism, vitality)

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

red

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

serious

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

supernatural

Dorothea Tannings work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberatley disorted scale to create an abnormal or _____ effect

Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo painted The two Fridas shortly after she was divorced from which famous Mexican painter?

asymmetrical

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

phosphors

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

A figure-ground reversal

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________.

negative

In her painting Music- Pink and Blue 11, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue_____ space in order to attract the viewers attention into a deep interior.

negative

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

An organic

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

Raphael

Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

disorts

Jean auguste dominique ingres's portrayal of the women in grande obalique ______ her body.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message boeard in this new york museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Compositional Unity

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

Mass

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.

a community in harlem, new york

Palmer haydens Midsummer night in Harlem is about:

yellow

Paul Gauguins use of the color, ______ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the works connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

absorb

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

grid

Romare Beardens work The Dove uses an underlying_______ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order

The Gleaners

Scale can change the way a work is perceived by a viewer. By choosing to make his paintings very large, the french artist Jean Francois Millet elevated the importance of a group of old women working in a feild. What is the name of this work?

Prayer figures

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

Valadon

The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this 20th century french painter

smooth

The ______ texture of Anish Kapoors sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

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 ______

Brunelleschi

The 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 dee the actual building. Who was this artist and innovator?

anxiety

The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's the Bedroom creates an atmosphere of ______

contrast

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 the principle _______

Gestalt

The german word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is _______

monumental

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

proportions

The size of different parts into comparison to each other.

dynamism

The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlins Monument to the third International was intended to give the design a feeling of _______

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

The three kinds of unity are:

tiles

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

Frank Gehry

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?

William Faulkner

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Gregory Barsamain

This american sculptor creates spinning sculptures that are intended to be viewed while a strobe light is flashing to create an impression of motion.

Color

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

actual motion

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

Picasso

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"?

organic

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

foreground

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

chroma

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

broad emphasis

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

Josef Albers

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

All of the answers (alternating value, relative size, overlapping, relative position)

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

asymmetrical

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

An open

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

shade

a color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a unit. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a _______

intimacy

an artist might use small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies______

Elements

any of the ____ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art

complementary colors

colors opposite each other on the color wheel

conceptual

disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ______ unity.

a focal point in the network

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 ________

water

in the indian painting featuring the Mugal Emperor Babur in his agrden, the garden is punctuated by a specifif feature that points to the four cardinal directions. what is this feature?

Subordination

in the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plumging to his doom; a fine example of _______

Plato...Aristotle

in the school of athens, raphael focused our attention on two greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ______ and _______

format

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

a symbol of morality

memento mori refers to _____

Bioartists

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.

a harmonious

the ancient greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of porportion for the human body, creating ______ design

Cordoba

the great mosque in this spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers

hierarchial scale

the use of scale to indicate relative importance

kinetic

this type of sculpture can move and change its visual form

all of the answers (memento mori, iconography, anamorphosis)

which of these terms relates to hans holbein the youngers painting the Ambassadors?