Pre- Midterm Material (Intro to Visual Arts)

(Q004) This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.

André Masson

(Q003) Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?

Francesco de' Medici

(Q007) Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language?

German

(Q002) This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.

Great Sphinx of Giza

(Q008) Which of the following statements is untrue?

Katushika Hokusai carved and printed all of his artworks himself

(Q014) The Maya lintel showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc is a limestone relief sculpture that was probably created with stone hammers and wooden drills because:

Maya sculptors had no metal tools

(Q008) The designer and artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created poster designs for which Parisian nightspot?

Moulin Rouge

(Q001) These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by an overflying commercial aircraft.

Nazca Lines

(Q009) This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater.

Shepard Fairey

(Q001) In The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, by the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza, there are five figures. These five figures are:

St. Anthony (three times), a centaur, and St. Paul

(Q011) The Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates kinetic sculptures that appear to walk, through the use of wind power, plastic pipe, and hydraulics. What does Jansen call his walking artworks?

Strandbeests

(Q011) The artists Brancusi and Rodin both made sculptures in which the principle of mass played a role. Their artworks had the same title. What was the title?

The Kiss

(Q005) What is the oldest art museum in America?

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

(Q007) The illustrator James Montgomery brought this character to life, creating a memorable icon, in his poster I Want You for U.S. Army:

Uncle Sam

(Q009) Ai Weiwei created a series of photographs of himself dropping a 2,000-year-old object. What was it?

a Chinese urn

(Q008) This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.

a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool

(Q003) Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne implies motion. What kind of motion is being depicted?

a chase scene

(Q008) When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:

a scholarly journal article

(Q009) The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:

a stuffed goat

(Q012) Which of the following statements is true of "Chaos Machine" by Clive King?

abstraction allowed the artist to respond to a tragic accident from his childhood

(Q004) Color mixtures using light, for example those in digital displays, are called __________ color mixtures.

additive

(Q012) Design specifically created to sell a product or service is:

advertising design

(Q008) The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.

an egg

(Q007) The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as ________ representation of the human body.

an idealized

(Q006) Moving images created with a phenakistoscope were early forms of:

animation

(Q004) The Bauhaus school in Germany was originally conceived as a school of ________ by its founder, Walter Gropius.

architecture

(Q011) The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:

assemblage

(Q005) There are two kinds of relief sculpture: a pronounced surface treatment called high relief, and a shallow surface low relief called ________.

bas-relief

(Q006) When it tells about an artist's life, feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.

biographical

(Q005) Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. Which type of analysis does this statement relate to?

biographical context

(Q004) The earliest photographs were black and white because:

color processes were not invented until the 1880s

(Q002) This is a kind of color "map" that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other.

color wheel

(Q004) An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.

complement

(Q011) The African American artist Carrie Mae Weems adds drama to her photographic work using this principle of design that employs opposites:

contrast

(Q009) Commercial color printers use the following three primary colors, plus black:

cyan, magenta, yellow

(Q002) Line can be used as a tool to:

demarcate boundaries, imply direction, give a sense of surface, communicate an idea

(Q012) A representational work of art ________.

depicts objects or people so that we can recognize them

(Q008) A good example of variety in a work would be:

different shapes and colors

(Q006) In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer's attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building.

directional

(Q009) Psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tells us that the painter was:

expressing anxiety

(Q008) This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.

geometric

(Q006) The artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris believed that society should reject rampant industrialization and restore ________.

hand craftsmanship

(Q009) What did Yusaku Maezawa say was the reason he purchased Basquiat's work in 2017?

he felt a responsibility to preserve the work

(Q011) Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:

he wanted to develop his own individual style

(Q001) A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth.

high relief; bas-relief

(Q005) Michelangelo used this Italian term, which refers to nudity, to describe the figures he intended to use for the tomb of Pope Julius II:

ignudi

(Q005) Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It, by Sauerkids, are a good example of this kind of line.

implied

(Q013) Antony Gormley's Asian Field is a vast ________ artwork made up of small clay figures.

installation

(Q011) Web design is strongly connected to print publications, but allows designers to add: Group of answer choices

interactivity

(Q013) Allan Houser's work Reverie is representational because:

it includes two shapes that we recognize as faces

(Q006) Over the years, public opinion of the Watts Towers has varied, but people have never thought that:

it is a perfect example of the Neoclassical style

(Q011) Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because:

it offends people's religious beliefs, its sexual content seems pornographic, it carries a political message that worries the authorities, its moral values seem improper

(Q007) What is NOT true about James McNeil Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?

it was highly praised by the critic John Ruskin

(Q012) Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.

kinetic

(Q003) Which of these is NOT a geometric form?

leaf

(Q010) Marc Quinn's Self, a self-portrait made from frozen blood, is created in ________ scale.

life-sized

(Q010) Bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with creating artificial environments (such as the conditions suitable for life in outerspace) in which she grows plants. In Astroculture (Shelf Life), 2009, the plants appear to be what color?

magenta

(Q001) Though no original works of calligraphy by the ancient Chinese artist Wang Xizhi still exist, many students have been able to retrieve specimens of his writing style by:

making rubbings from a stone tablet

(Q007) This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of large boulders or the sculpture House by Rachel Whiteread.

mass

(Q001) Reflected light excites ________ that line the back of our eyes, and their signals are reprocessed and interpreted as color in our brains.

nerve cells

(Q007) Some people argued that Robert Mapplethorpe should not have been awarded public funding, because:

of his identity as a gay man and the sexual nature of his photographs

(Q004) The human figure communicates the rich experience of humanity, and artists emulate this experience using this kind of form:

organic

(Q009) Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of:

organic and geometric form

(Q002) An artist creates compositional unity by:

organizing all of the visual aspects of the work

(Q007) This type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist's body in the work.

performance art

(Q003) Examples of graphic art include:

posters, advertising, signage, social media

(Q001) Which of these is a form?

pyramid

(Q011) When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:

radial

(Q009) Like other contemporary photographers, Carrie Mae Weems returned to historic processes in her work. Which of the following statements describes her project From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried?

revisiting historic daguerreotypes of slaves in the U.S. by adding text and color

(Q003) When a typeface does not have any extra embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ________ font.

sans serif

(Q003) Barbara Hepworth used line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did she produce?

sculpture

(Q002) Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.

sculpture and painting

(Q003) Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as:

signs or symbols

(Q010) Naum Gabo's Constructed Head No. 2 investigates the sense of ________ and form implied by flat planes, in contrast to the solid mass of conventional sculpture.

space

(Q004) Which of the following is not a method of carving?

spooning

(Q007) Vertical lines tend to communicate:

strength

(Q001) Artists face a communication challenge: to find a ________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition.

structure

(Q010) Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.

subversive

(Q002) This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses.

tempo

(Q008) A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:

texture

(Q009) The Constructivist movement in art is associated with which historical European country?

the Soviet Union

(Q010) Noma Bar's illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:

the act of gun crime and its terrible result

(Q004) Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:

the appearance of multiple, repeated figures

(Q006) A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:

the elements have conceptual unity

(Q010) The symmetrical design of the building that we know as the Taj Mahal does NOT carry associations of:

the identical twins for which it was built

(Q004) What is referenced in El Anatsui's Old Man's Cloth?

the impact of consumerism, the colonial history of Africa, the enduring power of Ghanaian culture, the fragility of Ghanaian culture

(Q014) What can we NOT conclude from a formal analysis of David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)?

the man in the red jacket is the artist's ex-lover

(Q005) Op art of the 1960s relied on a physiological effect that creates an illusion of motion. This effect is:

the natural oscillations of the eye

(Q001) Katsushika Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated ________.

the sensations of a fall day by the river

(Q011) Garry Winogrand's practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance was known as:

the snapshot aesthetic

(Q003) Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?

the wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji, the shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work, textures are repeated throughout the work, the placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern

(Q002) A group of artists might share a style—an identifiable kind of visual expression—because:

they all used similar techniques, they all worked at the same time, they all studied in the same place

(Q006) The Hawaiian sculpture of a war god (2.4.9) is a composition that represents how many different gods?

two

(Q003) Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:

two primary colors

(Q001) The tools of formal analysis help us to:

understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork

(Q005) In her abstract works Electric Dress and Untitled, Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka created ________ through the repetition of lines and circular shapes in bold colors.

unity

(Q006) This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.

volume

(Q010) A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:

what was in the foreground and background

(Q002) Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?

with its back to a pillar or wall

(Q004) The artist Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board to create a piece of art made up of:

words