Art Appreciation Test 2

Michelangelo

(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

Support

A material on which a painting is done

Binder/Medium

A substance that makes pigments adhere to objects

Fresco

A technique where the artist paints only freshly applied plaster

Giotto

An artist who led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body

Scholars believe that Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is meant to show the importance of?

Artists

The binding agent in encaustic painting is?

Beeswax

Genre

Categories of artistic subject matter, often with strongly influential histories and traditions

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

Conceptual

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

Detail

True or False? In traditional Africa art of the Yoruba tribe, human imagery follows the ideal proportions identified by the ancient Egyptians and hand measurements

False

True or False? An artist paints the US flag using the medium of watercolor, but forgets to do the white stars. To add them to the painting, the artist just needs to use the white watercolor pigment

False. There is no such thing as white watercolor pigment

Albrecht Durer

Famous Northern Renaissance artist, he often used woodcutting along with Italian Renaissance techniques like proportion, perspective and modeling. (Knight Death, and Devil; Four Apostles)

Recent findings, derived from studying the finger lengths from the handprints that surround the spotted horses, have caused researchers to believe that most of the paintings were done by?

Female artists

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

Gestalt

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618

Golden Section

Dry Media

Graphite / Pencil; Metal Point; Crayon, Pastel, Chalk

Glaze

In oil painting, adding a transparent layer of paint to achieve a richness in texture, volume, and form

New North American cities in the late eighteenth century chose Neoclassicism as their architectural style because:

It represented the ideals to which they aspired. Example: Thomas Jefferson

Raphael

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

Caravaggio

Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light. Famous artwork includes Judith Decapitating Holofernes

A woodcut allows an artist to do which of the following?

Make multiple prints of an image

The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life

Monumental

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

Pigment

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

Proportions

________ 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

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

Raphael

In Egypt, what does the measurement of a cubit equal?

Six palm widths

Seen in Grunewald's Isenhaim Altarpiece, what is St. Anthony the patron saint of?

Skin Disease

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiments

Surrealists

_________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same

Symmentrical

What Northern Renaissance painting may have served as a legal document, according to a 20th century art historian?

The Arolfini Portrait

Guernica

a Spanish town that was brutally bombed and was full of innocent civilians it was supposed to encourage fear, Picasso painted a famous painting capturing Guernica

Odalisque

a female slave in the harems of the East. It was a favorite subject of the 19th century artists in a reclining position

Encaustic

a painting medium that primarily uses wax, usually beeswax, as the binding agent

Renaissance

a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the 14th to the 17th century

Washes

a thin, transparent layer of paint or ink

Collage

a work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface. From the French coller, to glue

Tenebrism

dramatic use of intense darkness and light to heighten the impact of a painting

Symmetry

the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point that creates direct visual balance

Unity

the imposition of order and harmony on a design

Proportion

the relationship in size between a work's individual parts and the whole