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_____ used photographs of National Parks to increase public awareness of the beauty of nature.

Ansel Adams

____, who created Detroit Industry, is considered a leader in the revival of fresco mural painting in the 1920's and 1930's.

Diego Rivera

The word photography literally means ___________.

Light writing

The Chicago school of architecture was led by _____, the first great modern American architect.

Louis Sullivan

From a bicycle seat and handlebars, the artist ____ formed a sculpture and titled it Bull's Head.

Pablo Picasso

An Andalusian Dog was created by Surrealists Luis Bunuel and

Salvado Dali

Faith Ringgold's story quilt, called _______, tells about an eight year old's dream of overcoming obstacles.

Tar Beach

A typical example of low-relief sculpture is

a coin

Graphic design is a creative process employing art and technology to ___

all 3

A subcategory of constructed sculpture- seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield, that lets artists us familiar objects in new ways is called

assemblage

The device invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world whose name means "dark room" is the _____

camera obscura

The art and science of making objects from clay is called _____.

ceramics

In painting media, the pigment provides the____.

color

Many contemporary photographers use new_____ technology, exemplified by Jeff Wall's, Boy Falls from a Tree.

digital

Director Ridley Scott, first trained as a visual artist, states that ____ play(s) a strong role in the creative process.

drawing and storyboarding

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make editions to check on the developing image.

false

Julio Gonzales was the first sculptor who used the chisel.

false

Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows because of the use of the pointed arch and

flying buttresses

Sculpture that is meant to be seen from all sides and is called in-the-round or ____

freestanding

Dale Chihuly is noted for his intricate and colorful works in ______, as seen in his work Mauve Seaform Set with Black Lip Wraps.

glass

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already painted surface is called_____.

glaze

Heidi Cody's American Alphabet is a set of light boxes, which feature the isolated first letters of American _____ products.

grocery

In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

lithography

An identifying mark or trademark is referred to as a(n)____.

logo

One of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's major contributions to film was his skilled us of ____ to heighten dramatic intensity.

montage

Frank Lloyd Wright's Kauffman House, also known as Fallingwater, was a standout of the twentieth century because of it's _____ design.

open planning

A(n) ___ print is one in which the artist is physically involved with its production.

original

Film depends on a phenomenon called ____, in which the human brain retains a visual image for a fraction of a second longer than the human eye records it, making everything we see continuous and uninterrupted.

persistence of vision

In filmmaking, each unbroken sequence of movie frames, with the camera still rolling, is called a

shot

This type of printing, as seen in Ester Hernandez's Sun Mad, has lent itself to poster production and the many social movements that have allied themselves with printmakers to help spread the word about their causes

silkscreen

Zimbabwe, as in the Great Zimbabwe, means

stone house

throughout history, architects have always addressed and integrated three key issues: form, function, and _____.

structure

A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is ______.

tempera

After perfecting the photographic process, Louis Daguerre was able to include people in his photographs, as seen in his 1839 photo, Le Boulevard du Temple.

true

Alexander Calder was one of the first artist to explore the possibilities of kinetic sculpture in his mobiles.

true

America's contribution to twentieth century architecture was the skyscraper.

true

The print, The Letter, by artist Mary Cassatt, illustrates the influence of Japanese woodblock prints on her work.

true

The art of composing printed material from letterforms is called

typography

Weaving combines and interlaces lengthwise and cross fibers, called _____

warp and weft

In buon fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to _____.

wet plaster