MIDTERM ART HISTORY STUDY GUIDE

Graphic design is a creative process employing art and technology to ______.

ALL THREE

_____ 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

Julio Gonzales was the first sculptor who used the chisel.

FALSE

The Tree at Jesse, in Chartres Cathedral in France, illustrates the genealogy of Christ and is an example of Art for Commemoration

FALSE

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

GLASS

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V reflects the typical style and content of its artist,

Georgia O'keefe

Identify the most prominent musical influence on Romare Bearden's art.

JAZZ

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

LOGO

The word photography literally means ___________.

Light writing

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

Louis Sullivan

In the art world, a ____ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique.

MEDIUM

Art made with a combination of materials, such as photomontage, is referred to as ______.

MIXED MEDIA

__________ made detailed drawings of a reclining male nude as studies for his finished work on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

Michaelangelo

When a work of art, such as Theo van Doesburg's Composition (The Cow), shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called_____.

NONEREPRESENTATIONAL

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

OPEN PLANNING

Sabatino "Simon" Rodia, the artist who created Nuestro Pueblo (Our Town; commonly known as the Watts Towers), did not have any professional art training. This type of artist is commonly known as a folk or _____ artist.

OUTSIDER

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

Pablo Picasso

To create Guernica, a monumental painting depicting the horrors of war, this artist made many preliminary sketches

Pablo Picasso

Figurative art is a type of _____ art.

REPRESENTATIONAL

_____, the artist who made Rocket to the Moon, paid tribute to the richness of the African American experience through photomontage.

Romare Bearden

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

SHOT

Architects are primarily concerned with the qualities of

SPACE

An Andalusian Dog was created by Surrealists Luis Bunuel and

Salvado Dali

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

Chiaroscuro is the technique used by two-dimensional artist to create the illusion of volume with light and shading techniques.

TRUE

Large Reclining Nude is the final result of Matisse's long process of planning and rearranging the design of the composition.

TRUE

Ogata Korin's Cranes is a good example of the principle of rhythm and repetition.

TRUE

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

TRUE

The term "art criticism" refers to making judgments of art, both favorable and unfavorable.

TRUE

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

Tar Beach

The drawing, Carpenter, was made at the beginning of this artist's career, yet it reveals his careful observation and attention to detail. The artist of this drawing is _______.

Vincent van Gogh

A typical example of low-relief sculpture is

a coin

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

aesthetics

The first century sculpture, Augustus of Prima Porta, and the fourteenth century painting, Effects of Good Government in the City, exemplify which function of art?

art for persuasion

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 balance of Jockey's Before the Race, by Edgar Degas, is

asymmetrical

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 original meaning of the term _____ is a type of preparatory drawing that is full-sized drawing made as a guide for a larger work in another medium.

cartoon

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

ceramics

In painting media, the pigment provides the____.

color

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use ____ theories.

contextual

The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements is referred to as______.

contrast

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

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

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

flying buttresses

____ art theories focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it.

formal

Drawing is considered the _____ of all other media.

foundation

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

freestanding

Shape refers to the expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area or within the outer boundaries of a three-dimensional object. The wide variety of shapes can be grouped into two general categories:

geometric and organic

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

Which of the following refers to the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art?

iconography

______ is the term for the purity or saturation of a color.

intensity

Value in the sense of art refers to

lightness and darkness of surfaces

Raphael's, The School of Athens, provides the viewer with the illusion of the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface by the use of

linear perspective

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

lithography

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

montage

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

original

Pastel, charcoal, conte crayon, and ____ are types of dry drawing media.

pencil

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

_____refers to size relationships between parts of a whole.

proportion

Any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

rhythm

Claus Oldenburg's and Coosje van Bruggen's art, as seen in Shuttlecocks, affects us immediately through its_______.

scale

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

Global Warming, the graphic design poster by Chaz Maviyane-DAvies, presents an issue of concern for the artist as well as the global population. This work is an example of art as a vehicle for ______.

social causes

Zimbabwe, as in the Great Zimbabwe, means

stone house

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

structure

In _____ balance, the two sides of a composition on either side of an imaginary vertical dividing line correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form.

symmetricaL

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of

the society that produced it

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's Painting, A Smoke Backstage, is

trompe l'oiel

The art of composing printed material from letterforms is called

typography

_____ is the appearance or condition of oneness in a work of art.

unity

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