Art Appreciation Midterm

Diluting with water

How can artists working in brush and ink control the value of the ink?

Prayer figures

How were Sumerian votive figures used?

Pastels

If you wanted to create a colorful drawing which medium would be a good choice?

Adobe brick

In Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, what construction material might an architect opt for in order to keep the aesthetic appearance of the new building consistent with the surrounding architecture?

Truthful

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

Readymades

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_________.

Water

One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.

Patina

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

Pigment

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ______ and a liquid binder.

Icons

Products like smart phones are often used for people of many different cultures to use. What is the term for the simple, symbolic graphics often used in these products so that there is no need for language translation?

Bird feathers

Quills are a common tool for ink drawing originally made from ______.

Female artists

Recent studies of the handprints in European cave art indicate that paintings were done by whom?

Biographical

Relating Magdalena Abakanowicz's 80 Backs to her experiences living in Communist Poland is an example of what kind of analysis?

Classical

Styles of art and architecture that were inspired by the Greeks and Romans are referred to as _________.

Stained glass

The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called _______.

Loneliness

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one 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 of

Vocabulary

The elements of art form the basic ______ of art.

Value

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called:

Outline

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the:

China

The oldest pottery wheels we know of belonged to this ancient culture.

Hatching

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called:

Proportions

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

Luminosity

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.

Dale Chihuly

This American artist uses glass to create dramatic and colorful interior installations, such as the one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Lost-wax casting

This bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material. What is this method called?

Relief block

To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai's Great Wave, a printed must produce a new ______ for each separate color.

False

True of false: the techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can only be used with dry media.

False

True or false: Hieronymous Bosch worked closely with and was deeply influenced by the Surrealist artists of the twentieth century.

False

True or false: an artwork can have only one focal point.

False

True or false: formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.

True

True or false: photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor.

True

True or false: the rarity of an artwork, and its value, are often closely related.

False

True or false: when artists are censored it usually stops them from producing any further work.

Relief

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

25,000

We have discovered paintings at Peche Merle in France that were made by artists dating back _____ years.

Post-and-lintel

What architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam?

Cyan, magenta, yellow

What are the colors that make up the basis for commercial printing?

Illuminated manuscripts

What are the handwritten, illustrated books produced during the Middle Ages called?

Clerestory windows

What are the windows set high in the nave walls above the aisles called?

They all exist in three-dimensional space

What do all sculptures have in common?

Writing with light

What does the word "photograph" mean?

Pastel

What drawing medium is associated with Edgar Degas?

Silverpoint

What drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder?

Flying buttresses

What feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built?

A community in New York

What is Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem about?

A symbol of mortality

What is a memento mori?

Hypostyle hall

What is a room that uses multiple columns to support a flat ceiling called?

Kinetic

What is a sculpture that is designed to move called?

Snapshot aesthetic

What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?

How human activity impacts the environment

What is photographer Edward Burtynsky's Manufacturing series trying to make people think about?

Coiling

What is the ancient process of forming pots from long ropes of clay called?

Egg

What is the binding agent for tempera paint?

A still life of plaster casts

What is the earliest surviving Daguerrotype a picture of?

Glaze

What is the glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object called?

Span

What is the interior space between two or more supports called?

Aperture

What is the name of the opening in a camera that lets light in?

A kiln

What is the name of the oven used to fire clay objects so that they become ceramics?

Life drawing

What is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects called?

Bas-relief

What is the sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth called?

Font

What is the term for a group of letterforms designed to have a uniform appearance?

Tension

What kind of stress pulls on the structure of a building and must be countered by a pushing stress?

Hatching

What technique would an artist use if he/she wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint?

Typography

What term refers to the visual form of printed letters, words, and text?

Corbeled

What type of arched span was first used in ancient Babylon and Mycenae?

The negatives can be readily reproduced

What was a major benefit of the calotype process?

Commemorate and entomb his wife

What was the purpose of the Taj Mahal?

Metal plates

What were Daguerrotypes made on?

Cartoon

When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called a ______ to help place the design on the wall

Repousse

When a metalwork artist works the back side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a design from behind it is called ______.

Illusion of motion

When an artist creates a work of art that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called:

Hierarchical scale

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

Color

When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art, you would probably want to consider the artist's use of:

3400 BCE

When were picture symbols first used as a consistent language system?

1800s

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

Treasury of Atreus

Which ancient Mycenaean building has a corbeled vault?

Charcoal

Which drawing medium has been in use since 30,000 BCE?

Stone

Which material is suitable for carving?

Iconographic

Which method of analysis interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols?

Ink

Which of the following is a wet drawing medium?

Egg

Which of the following is used as a paint binder?

Carving

Which of these is a subtractive method of sculpting?

Fresco

Which painting process relies on freshly applied plaster for the painting surface?

Capital

Which term refers to a part of a Greek column?

Relief

Which type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed?

Henry Fox Talbot

Who invented the calotype photographic process?

Johannes Gutenberg

Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?

Mesopotamians

Who were the first people to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system?

Shade

A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a:

Nearly every angle

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from:

Form

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a:

Hieroglyphics

Ancient Egyptians developed a picture writing systems. What is it called?

Elements

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

World Trade Center

Architect Fumihiko Maki began the process of designing a building for this New York City site by making a simple drawing.

Depth

Artists can create a sense of _____ by using light and dark values.

Variety

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

Binder

For drawing media like pastel and crayon, pigments are combined with what?

Organic

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as:

Balance

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of _____ in creating a work of art.

Intaglio

Etchings and engravings are both examples of which type of print?