ART 100: Test 2

The word photography literally means

"light-writing."

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

Vincent van Gogh

A typical example of a low-relief sculpture is

a coin.

Sculpture generally falls into which of the following two categories?

additive and subtractive

The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is a good example of the _______ method of construction.

arch

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

beeswax

The Chinese regard painting as derived from the art of

calligraphy

The original meaning of the term ______________ is a type of preparatory drawing that is a 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.

Which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

charcoal

Graphic design is a creative process employing art and technology to

communicate ideas, sell products & delight our senses.

Charles White used the drawing technique of _______ to give the figure in Preacher a feeling of figural mass.

cross-hatching

One of the earliest forms of photographic images was a

daguerreotype

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

digital

During the 1940s, a new style of film focusing on the dark side of the American dream, called _______, originated in Hollywood.

film noir

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

flying buttresses

Drawing is considered to be the _______ of all other media.

foundation

Opaque watercolor is sometimes called

gouache.

Marjane Satrapi combined word and drawn image in Persepolis, a

graphic novel.

The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Longo is an excellent example of a _______ sculpture.

high-relief

Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett is an excellent example of a(n)

linoleum cut.

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 use of_______ to heighten the dramatic intensity.

montage

Eadweard Muybridge is best known for photographing people and animals in

motion

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

original

Pastel, charcoal, Conté crayon and _______ are types of dry drawing media.

pencil

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

people

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

Julia Margaret Cameron's Paul and Virginia is an example of how many nineteenth-century photographers were influenced by_____, in choosing to photograph her subject in a close-up shot and with carefully controlled lighting to enhance the atmosphere.

portrait painters

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

proofs

Throughout history, architects have always addressed and integrated three key issues: function, form, and

structure

A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

tempera

Although color photographic film was available to artists in the early twentieth century, many preferred black-and-white film because it was less expensive and less susceptible to technical problems, and because color prints

tended to fade over time.

Nicola López's Blighted is an example of a contemporary artwork that combines printmaking techniques to create an installation that expresses the artist's memories of

the attacks of September 11, 2001.

America's contribution to twentieth-century architecture was

the skyscraper.

Motion graphics—a relatively new field in which designers use visual effects, live action, and animation to create a two-dimensional product that moves—as a discipline began with

titles sequences for Hollywood movies

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.

The process of printing came to Europe from

China.

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

Diego Rivera

_______ was an early advocate of photography as an artform and opened a gallery in New York City in 1905.

Alfred Stieglitz

This early filmmaker pioneered many special effects, such as dissolves between scenes and time-lapse photography, as seen in his Voyage to the Moon.

George Méliès

The print The Letter, by American artist Mary Cassatt, illustrates the influence of _______ on her work.

Japanese woodblock prints

American artist _______ is known for his watercolors, such as Rio de Santa Maria Formosa, Venice.

John Singer Sargent

This photographer of Louisville Flood Victims introduced the concept of the photographic essay to tell a story using many photographs.

Margaret Bourke-White

The potter's wheel was invented in

Mesopotamia

Michelangelo made detailed drawings of A Reclining Male Nude as studies for which of the following finished works?

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

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

Pablo Picasso

Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe's credo "less is more" is associated with which style of twentieth-century architecture?

Prairie Style