Art 100 Exam 1

Part of the 1960's, large-scale out-of-doors environments. Works such as Robert Smithson's spiral Jetty are generally referred to as:

Earthworks

A monochromatic color scheme consists of?

A single color

Marisol's Baby Girl illustrates a type of art called:

Abstract

Jackson Pollock's painting style was called:

Action Painting

A pair of colors such as yellow and orange that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel is which color scheme?

Analogous

The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

A Hue is:

Color

Colors across from each other on the color wheel like red and green are called what?

Complimentary

This form of art involves distortions that usually go beyond the point of believablity:

Expressionism

Henri Matisse was the central figure to what art movement?

Fauvism

Michelangelo's David was commissioned by this city-state:

Florence

The artist utilizes the technique of _________ in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view.

Foreshortening

The content of the painting by Frida Kahlo titled "The two Fridas" is:

Frida's personal identity and heartbreak

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is located in:

Great Salt Lake, Utah

The study of images and symbols conventionally associated with a specific culture is:

Iconography

A color's brightness or dullness is called:

Intensity or saturation

The Vietnam War memorial was controversial when it was first built because:

It was not a realistic sculpture It did not glorify war it was designed by a student the names are not alphabetical

Art that moves is called:

Kinetic art

The person responsible for formulation of the rules of atmospheric perspective is?

Leonardo da Vinci

Jack Mackie began his career as a creator and promoter of public art in what city:

Los Angeles

In a work of art "content" refers to the:

Message that is communicated

When a number of important artists are working in a similar style, it gives rise to a:

Movement

The color of an object or subject as seen in nature is its:

Naturalistic color

The Last Supper painting is based primarily on what type of perspective:

One-point linear perspective

The way to depict the illusion of three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface is:

Overlapping Linear Perspective Atmospheric perspective Decreasing size or scale

The range of colors that an artist tends to favor in painting is referred to as the artist's:

Palette

In axonometric projection, all lines indicating height, width, and depth, remain:

Perpendicular

A color composition consisting of a variety of colors is:

Polychromatic

The Giant Trowel by Claes Oldenburg is an example of which art movement?

Pop

The most common form of representational art is:

Realism

One traditional role of artists is to:

Record the world

Naturalistic or figurative art is sometimes used to describe:

Representational art

Guest Lecturer Casey Doyle Creates textiles our of what material:

Ribbons

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?

Richard Serra

Frederic Church's In the Heart of the Andes is an example of this style of painting:

Romantic

The French artist, Duchamp, exhibited a urinal and titled it The Fountain, in New York to:

Shock the viewer, Challenge tradition in the spirit of fun, demonstrate his contempt for the Bourgeois art world, question the idea of what is art

This historical work of public art was created to commemorate:

The Roman conquest of Dacia by Trajan presidency

The X portfolio by Robert Mapplethorpe was to be seen in conjunction with?

The Y Portfolio

Folk art is different from fine art because:

The artist is untrained, It is functional, It is decorative, it is often ceremonial,

To abstract means to extract _________ of an idea or an object.

The essence

An Oeuvre is:

The life work of an artist

Aesthetics is defined as an urge to respond:

To that which we find beautiful

The relative lightness or darkness of a picture is the:

Value

The place all picture plane points end is the:

Vanishing point

The ability to communicate using the language of art and to make informed observations is called:

Visual literacy

In a work of art, texture, that appears to be actual but is not is called:

Visual or implied texture

Artists sometimes choose to paint something in colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. When this occurs it is an example of the expressive use of:

arbitrary color

The meaning of the painting, Three Flags, by Jasper Johns is:

based on personal perception

The overall structure of a work of art is its:

form

The primary colors in a color wheel are?

red, yellow, blue