Chapter 3, 4, and 5 Quiz (Art Appreciation)

In Kay Sage's I Saw Three Cities, most of the visual weight in the composition occurs in the lower half but is balanced in the upper reaches of the sky by __________.

a flowing column of drapery

Claudio Bravo's Package is an excellently executed trompe l'oeil drawing that presents the illusion of a package wrapped in __________.

crumpled brown paper and string

The compositional unity in Thomas Hart Benton's Palisades derives primarily from __________.

curvilinear shapes and lines

Content can be a powerful focal point in a work of art. In Edgar Degas' Woman Leaning near a Vase of Flowers, the focal point of the composition is the __________.

daydreaming woman

From the Latin for "blood," __________ is the name associated with an earthy red chalk color.

sanguine E .brick

Count de Montizon's photograph The Hippopotamus at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park is trying to communicate the __________ of the exotic animal by comparing it to the nine onlookers behind it.

scale

The unforgiving medium of __________ was widely used for drawing from the late Middle Ages to the early 1500s, when it was largely replaced by the lead pencil.

silverpoint

__________ refers to a distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school or movement, or a specific culture or period.

style

With a drawing, the quality of line and the nature of shading are very much affected by the __________ of the support.

texture

In Welcome the World Famous Brand, the Luo Brothers portray an overcrowded composition which emphasizes __________.

the convergence of consumerism and globalism

Context has a profound influence on style. Artworks are very much a product of __________.

their culture at a moment in time

The setting of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's The Two Girlfriends takes place in ______

turn-of-the-century Paris

_____________chose the medium of drawing to render her dramatic Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features (Fig. 5-6).

Adrian Piper

The ancient Greeks developed the concept of the __________ because they believed that it created ideal proportions in architecture.

Golden Mean

__________ is both a very realistic portrait of rural life in America and an icon of American art due to its many commercial reproductions on cereal boxes, greeting cards, posters, and the like.

Grant Wood's American Gothic

Pictorial balance can be found in which of the following?

Leonardo da Vinci's Proportion of the Human Figure

Whether conscious of the mathematical basis of ancient Greek architectural designs or not, Michelangelo utilized their components when he painted the __________.

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Which of the following statements about the patriarchal figure in Viola Frey's Family Portrait does not indicate his influential status within the family?

Toys can be seen in the composition.

Although there is much variety amongst the characters in Archibald Motley Jr.'s Saturday Night, the overall composition is unified by __________.

a glowing red color field

Unlike two-dimensional compositions, three-dimensional objects such as sculptures often have __________.

actual balance

Unlike pure, bilateral symmetry, __________ provides variety within an overall unified composition.

approximate symmetry

Variations such as the use of complementary colors and the hazy double of the clear, detailed face of the dog contribute to make William Wegman's Ethiopia an example of __________.

approximate symmetry

Michelangelo's Studies for the Libyan Sybil is a good example of a drawing that was meant to be used __________.

as a preparatory study for another project

In art, __________ refers to the distribution of the actual or apparent weight of the compositional elements.

balance

Leonardo da Vinci's Proportion of the Human Figure can best be considered an example of __________

bilateral symmetry

In silverpoint drawings, the drawing surface must be coated with a ground of __________.

bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment

A form of charcoal was used by our primitive ancestors to create images on __________.

cave walls

Käthe Koll- witz's Self Portrait (Fig. 5-8) reveals one aspect of the character of the________________.

charcoal medium

The effects of __________ when each is drawn against a paper surface are very similar.

charcoal, chalk, and pastel

Roy Lichtenstein's Forget It, Forget Me! is an example of Pop Art that has the visual appearance of a __________.

comic strip

Palmer Hayden's The Subway represents a demographic and ethnic cross-section of the strap-hanging riders of 1930s New York City and thus demonstrates __________.

conceptual unity

When artists focus on the unity of ideas and meaning in their work rather than the visual and compositional elements, they are pursuing __________.

conceptual unity

The device of __________ to create unity is reflected in the ages of the youth, their ethnicity, and their suggested bond of friendship in Delilah Montoya's Los Jovenes (Youth).

continuity

The process of organizing the visual elements to achieve a desired aesthetic in a work of art is known as __________.

design

Broadly defined, __________ is the art of running an implement that leaves a mark over a surface.

drawing

We can discern the proper size of which of the following objects in Magritte's Personal Values? NONE OF THESE CHOICES

goblet matchstick comb NONE OF THESE CHOICES bed

In expressionistic art, the artist intentionally distorts colors and forms in the composition in order to achieve a(n) __________.

heightened emotional impact

Oskar Kokoschka's frenzied brushstrokes in The Tempest are thought to mirror his own __________.

inner torment

In Family of Saltimbanques, Picasso places visual emphasis on the seated woman in the painting through __________.

isolation

If you superimpose a diagram of a __________ over a photograph of the East façade of the Parthenon, it is a perfect fit.

root five rectangle

As in Robert Capa's photograph Death of a Loyalist Soldier, imbalance in a work of art can be used to capture a sense of __________.

movement

According to Polykleitos, the head of an ideal human body should be __________ of the total height of the body.

one eighth

Donna Rosenthal's male and female figures in He Said...She Said are implied by a suit and party dress made from __________.

pages of discarded books and newspapers

_____________ is often a major design element in art forms such as ceramics, basketry, jewelry, and stained glass

radial balance

__________ refers to the portrayal of people and things as they actually are, with no idealization or distortion.

realism

The artist Jacques Lipchitz said "Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist." Based on this comment, Lipchitz was probably not a(n) __________ artist.

realistic

The couple in Lichtenstein's Forget It, Forget Me! are not very realistic but they are clearly recognizable. The painting is therefore a good example of __________.

representational art

Andy Warhol's grid-based composition, Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times, exhibits __________ due to the multidimensional and varied views of Scull's personality and expressions.

variety within unity

In Wu Jide's River Dwellers, patches of white and well placed touches of color are responsible for the overall __________in an asymmetrical and essentially monochromatic composition.

visual balance

The classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos was the first known artist to apply the principle of __________ in order to achieve overall naturalistic balance in the human body's stance.

weight shift