Art 1301 FINAL

logo

A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

values

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors but captures the ________ of the colors.

Gothic

A flying buttress is an arched exterior support system found on what style of building?

Relief

A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

A special kind of attention called disinterested contemplation

Aesthetic philosophers determined that the pleasure of art was an intellectual pleasure and was perceived through what practice?

The Starry Night

Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as ________.

Landscape

American Romantic art expressed itself most clearly through what subject?

Rembrandt

Among the following artists, whose innovation was it to create group portraits in the setting of an activity, rather than posing the subjects formally?

natural

Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral.

ambulatories

Architects of Romanesque churches began installing ________ around the apse, which allowed the overflow of pilgrims to circulate freely around the interior of the church.

kinetic

Art that moves is called ________ art.

emphasis

Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating ________.

The Age of Kings

Due to the near-dictatorial power of European monarchs, how is the period of the 17th and 18th centuries often referred?

Italian Renaissance

During what time period did experiments with the camera obscura first begin?

Painting

Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre?

Romantic

Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the ________ style.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of what designer?

Self-portraits

For what genre is artist Frida Kahlo well-known?

Advertising

For what purpose was color photography first widely used?

Renaissance works of art

From where did Edouard Manet get inspiration for his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)?

Conté crayon

Georges Seurat used what medium in his pointillist work, Café-concert?

Exploded drawing

How can Mia Pearlman's installation Inrush, best be described?

It is more playful and lighthearted.

How does the Rococo style compare to that of the Baroque?

destruction

Iconoclasm means the ________ of images based on religious beliefs.

sketches

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called ________.

Albrecht Dürer

In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.

Pen, ink, and watercolor

In Howling Wolf's ledger drawing from your text, Ute Indian, what mediums are used?

photograph; print

Jeff Wall's A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) is a ________ that refers to a ________.

portraits

Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her ________.

installation

Kara Walker's A Subtlety is an example of a(n) ________.

secondary

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

tesserae

Mosaic is made of small, closely spaced particles called ________.

ephemeral

Much Internet Art shares the quality of being ________.

Christianity

Neo-Platonic thought reconciled the Classical beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome with what disparate culture?

The Great Depression

Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event?

conceptual

Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create ________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art.

Collage

Romare Bearden's Mysteries can be considered what type of work?

Earthworks

Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?

The horrors of World War I

The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening?

proportional

The Mandala of Jnanadakini shows what kind of balance?

Charlemagne

The Palace Chapel at Aachen was built for ________ as his personal place of worship.

Louis XIV of France

The Palace of Versailles was home to what monarch?

The golden section

The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to what feature?

As a tomb for his wife

The Taj Mahal was built by the 17th-century Moslem emperor for what purpose?

What makes art beautiful?

The field of philosophy called aesthetics is concerned with what question?

oculus

The round opening in the dome of the Pantheon is called a(n) ________.

Pure and timeless

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life attempting to create what kind of forms?The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life attempting to create what kind of forms?

Yoruba

The sculptor Olowe of Ise is associated with what culture?

charcoal

Vonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of ________.

Interactivity

What are some elements of J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speak to its design?

Inventing the first workable film projector

What are the Lumière brothers known for?

A photograph's meaning should refuse to make sense in traditional ways.

What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?

Classic simplicity

What characteristic is NOT typical of Italian Baroque art?

Realistic portrayals of individuals

What characteristic of Hellenistic Roman art can be seen in the Funerary Portrait of Gratidia M. L. Chrite and M. Gratidius Libanus?

Museums

What common feature of today's art world was absent from that of the Renaissance?

Metalpoint

What drawing material was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance?

Cuneiform

What early writing system, marked by wedge-shaped marks, was used in Mesopotamia?

Contour lines

What element is most often used to indicate boundaries between forms?

Color

What element of art was the focus of Fauvism?

Light

What element was a primary concern of Impressionist art?

Furniture

What is the most common product of woodworking art?

Blowing

What is the most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel?

Transparency

What is the primary characteristic of watercolors?

Installations are temporary and transitory.

What qualities are common in the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude?

The miraculous lifelike portrait

What quality of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries?

plastic

When clay is wet, it becomes moldable and cohesive, or ________.

The artist intended the work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption.

Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly body of work?

Laocoön Group

Which work is a prime example of art from the Hellenistic era?

The Death of Marat

Which work of art tragically depicts the murder of an important figure of the French Revolution?

Registration

________ is the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper.

Censorship

________ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.

Gouache

________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.

Contrapposto

________ was developed by ancient Greeks as a naturalistic pose for sculptures of the human figure.

Load-bearing construction

"Stacking and piling" is another term for what structural system?

They were both felt to provide pleasure.

During the eighteenth century, why were beauty and art discussed together?

Comics

On what source material did Roy Lichtenstein often base his imagery?

Romanesque; Gothic

The art and architecture of the high Middle Ages is generally divided into two periods, the ________ and the ________.

porcelain

The secret of ________ was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it.

clerestory

The walled, upward extension of the nave that is pierced with windows is called the ________.

powdered

What is pigment in paint?

Tree of Jesse

What work illustrates the pinnacle of stained-glass art?

Louise Nevelson

Which Abstract Expressionist artist was NOT a painter?

Georges Seurat

Which artist developed the Pointillist technique?

R. Buckminster Fuller

________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.

Anthony Caro

"All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone"

Neo-Babylonian

A true arch was developed by ________ architects long before the Romans came up with the idea.

The interpretation of each viewer

According to the author, what is the most important meaning of an artwork?

primer

After building a canvas and before painting it, an artist generally applies a(n) ________ to improve adhesion of paints.

constructivist

Alexsandr Rodchenko worked in the ________ style, his works marked by abstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture.

nonrepresentational

Art that does not refer to the world outside itself, creating meaning and expressive power from the elements of art itself, is called ________.

Giorgione

As seen in Adoration of the Shepherds, by ________, Renaissance Venetian artists took advantage of oil paint's glazes to build luminous layers of color.

Sensuality

As with much Venetian Renaissance art, Titian's Venus of Urbinodemonstrates what quality?

Picasso

Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.

Pont du Gard at Nîmes

Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.

Eiffel Tower

Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.

Asymmetrical balance

By positioning the dark, dense image of death next to the billowing, light form representing life, Gustav Klimt's painting Death and Life demonstrates artistic use of what design principle?

Central axis

By what method did the ancient Egyptians govern the "correct" proportions of their drawn human figures?

indirect

Casting is known as a(n) ________ method.

Pencil

Chris Ofili used what medium in his work, Prince among Thieves with Flowers?

Holocaust; Altar to the Chases High School

Christian Boltanski draws upon the ________ to create his work ________.

Motion

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?

Renaissance

During the ________, there began to be a separation between "art" and "craft"; painting, sculpture, and architecture, came to be thought of as more elevated forms of art.

monotypes

Except in the case of ________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

The Old Testament

From where does the theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes come?

caricatures

Honoré Daumier used the lithographic process for his masterly work in ________.

Art can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid.

How can the idea of pluralism in Postmodernism be described?

Conservative

How can the nature of the academies best be described?

It creates a space for contemplation and remembrance.

How can the purpose of Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial be described?

Dramatic lighting

How did Baroque painters depict figures that seemed to project forward, out of the picture plane?

Skilled crafts workers to intellectuals

How did the role of artists change, from pre-Renaissance to after?

Location and time

How is Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology organized, in order to effectively display its subject?

Elements of high-relief may be in the round, unattached to the background.

How is high-relief sculpture different from low-relief sculpture?

Size in relation to a standard or "normal" size

How is scale defined?

Distribute visual weight accordingly

How may the appearance of balance be achieved in a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance?

The printing press and the Industrial Revolution

Identify the two developments that created graphic design, as we know it today.

representational

If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is said to be ________.

Woodcut

Images from the world's earliest known printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was made using what process?

Claude Monet

Impressionism got its name from a painting called Impression, Sunrise, by the artist ________.

foreshortening

In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of ________.

narrative

In Judith Baca's work, Great Wall of Los Angeles, images cover over a half-mile of length to tell a(n) ________ of the area.

To call upon spirit powers to heal and bless someone who is ill

In Navajo culture, what is the purpose of sand painting, ceremonially created by ahataali?

Copper plate covered with silver iodine

In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?

Robert Rauschenberg

In addition to paintings, prints, and combination pieces, what artist has done extensive set and costume design for Merce Cunningham, as well as graphic design for magazines and books?

Advertising

In addressing political or social issues, many artists incorporated words into works, such as Protect Me From What I Want, by borrowing principles from what field?

The destruction and rebirth of the universe

In an effort to give tangible form to the unknown, the tenth-century sculpture Shiva Nataraja represents what mystery?

organic

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

The physical appearance of a work

In art, what is form?

Wet plaster

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to what surface?

outlines; contour lines

In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.

cartoon

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.

Rapidograph

In her work, Untitled from 2011, what medium does Julie Mehretu use to intentionally evoke architectural drafting?

Willem de Kooning

In his notorious Women series, the painter ________ mutated images of beautiful women into grimacing monsters.

wire

In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ onto a surface coated with a preliminary coating of paint.

binder

In oil painting, linseed oil acts as a ________.

glazes

In oil painting, thin veils of translucent color applied over a layer of opaque paint are known as ________.

chiaroscuro

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the shape of forms.

matrix

In printmaking, a(n) ________ is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper.

It will be canceled so that no more prints can be made from it.

In printmaking, when an edition is complete, what will typically happen to the matrix?

Clay

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

white

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________ light.

Serifs

In typography, what are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters?

Business

In what area did Leonardo da Vinci NOT show his talents?

Neoclassical

In what style is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis?

Street art

In what way does Caledonia Curry, better known as Swoon, use linocuts and woodcuts in a modern way?

carpets

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on ________.

abstract

Louise Bourgeois's work, Woman with Packages, is an example of ________ art, which simplifies, fragments, or otherwise distorts forms of the visual world.

Pantheon

Marble sculptures from what ancient Greek structure were removed and sent to England in the hopes of preservation?

Ready-mades

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of what art form?Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of what art form?

Ready-made

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is known as what type of art?

lies below

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink ________ the surface of the printing plate.

Marina Abramović

One of the names most closely associated with Performance art is ________, who is known for the performance piece Imponderabilia.

genre

Paintings depicting scenes of everyday life are known as ________ paintings.

Michelangelo and Raphael

Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?

Coiling

Pueblo potter María Martínez used what method to create her striking blackware?

Paleolithic Period

Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to what period?

Triangle

Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using what implied shape?

earthwork

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of a(n) ________, which uses natural materials in its construction.

clay

Sculptors will often create a "sketch" out of ________ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice.

Baroque sculpture

St. Teresa in Ecstasy is an excellent example of what genre?

Romanesque

The Abbey Church of Saint-Foy is one of the earliest ________ churches ever built.

The Industrial Revolution

The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to what event?

Post-and-lintel

The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of what structural system?

Greek orders

The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as what architectural style?

lion

The Great Sphinx at Giza, in Egypt, has the head of a man and the body of a ________.

high-relief

The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of ________ sculpture.

Stained glass

The Tree of Jesse is what type of work?

Chinese

The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.

narthex

The ________ is the walkway directly in front of a church that serves as the entry porch.

Romans

The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors.

jade

The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.

Subtractive

The carving method is what type of process?

pigment

The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as ________.

photojournalism

The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as ________.

transept

The cross-shaped floor plan of a church is formed by the combined shapes of the nave and the ________.

Learn language

The human ability that seems as deeply ingrained as the impulse to make and respond to art

Casting

The lost-wax process is what type of sculptural method?

Awareness of the process of looking itself

The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is what?

Pieter Brugel the Elder

The painting The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by ________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.

Joseph Paxton

The skeleton-and-skin structure the Crystal Palace was designed by ________ in 1851.

Impressionist

The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors—made possible with portable oil colors—is evident in works by ________ artists.

Conceptual

The tautological conceit of Joseph Kosuth's Five Words in White Neon identify it as ________ art.

Dada

The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?

Kara Walker

The work of artist ________ explores historical and personal questions of blackness.

entasis

To compensate for the natural visual distortion in which tall columns appear to bend inward, the Greeks gave them a slight bulge, which is known as ________.

The many letters he wrote to friends and relatives

To what do we owe our knowledge of Vincent van Gogh's thoughts about his own paintings?

Jacob van Ruisdael

Typical of Dutch landscape painting was the work of which artist?

Amenhotep IV

Under the reign of ________, a new, more naturalistic style of Egyptian art developed.

All of these

Unlike Baroque art from Catholic countries, Dutch Baroque art focused upon ________.

A flattened, abstracted style of art

Unlike their Greek and Roman predecessors, Byzantine artists preferred what type of aesthetic?

Wainwright Building

Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building.

The fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

Vanitas paintings meditate on what subject?

Land

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field is an example of ________ art.

Lenses

What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?

Roman arches

What Carolingian feature can be found in the chapel of Charlemagne?

Bull

What animal is repeatedly found in the art of ancient Mesopotamia?

Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.

What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?

Installation

What art form creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience?

Caravaggio

What artist is especially known for a theatrical treatment of light and shadow, as seen in the magnificent Entombment of Christ?

Robert Rauschenberg

What artist made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form a "combine?"

Andy Warhol

What artist often blurred the line between commercial design and fine art?

Käthe Kollwitz

What artist used traditional woodcut printing to create art with modern subject matter?

To record and commemorate

What artistic purpose is illustrated in the text by the painting, Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau?

Realism

What artistic style avoided sentimentality?

Identical iconography

What aspect is NOT similar between Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South?

Congregational worship

What aspect of Christianity required a fundamental change in the architecture of religious buildings?

Interactivity

What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?

Contrapposto

What characteristic can be seen in the sculpture, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)?

Emphasis on sensuality

What characteristic in Grünewald's depiction of the Crucifixion in theIsenheim Altarpiece demonstrated the way Northern European artists treated this subject matter?

Planographic process

What characteristic is associated with lithography?

Impermanence

What characteristic is fundamental to a happening, exemplified in Saburo Murakami's Laceration of Paper?

Dramatic play of light and shadow

What characteristics of the Baroque style can be seen in Peter Paul Rubens's Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici?

Passage of time

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?

Octagon

What design form—unique to Byzantinian architecture—is seen in the church of San Vitale?

Rhythm

What design principle is based on repetition?

Symmetrical balance

What design principle is exemplified in Haruka Kojin's reflectwo?

Eternity

What did gold signify in ancient Egyptian culture and art?

Inclusion and acceptance

What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBT flag?

Rebirth

What does the word renaissance mean?

The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image

What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?

Rhythm

What element is created through repetition in Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire?

The excavations of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum

What event helped spark the Neoclassical style?

Large windows of stained glass

What feature is NOT typical of Romanesque architecture?

Flying buttresses

What feature is an important aspect of Gothic architecture?

Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.

What feature of video appeals to many artists?

Texture and color

What features are NOT considered principles of design?

Installation

What genre conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

Minimalism

What genre of art sought to explore the possibilities of pure form?

The canvas was placed on the floor.

What innovation, as practiced by Jackson Pollock, helped move painting away from the easel?

Printing press

What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?

It attempts to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves.

What is a characteristic of Minimalist art?

It is often used to decorate architecture.

What is a characteristic of relief sculpture?

Repetition

What is a necessary feature of pattern?

Ink

What is an example of a liquid medium?

Informal balance

What is another term for asymmetrical balance?

Terra cotta

What is another term used to describe fired clay?

Excavation of native graves or sacred sites was prohibited.

What is one result from the passage of NAGPRA, in 1990?

Context

What is term for the personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which a work of art was created, received, and interpreted?

Potter's wheel

What is the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form?

Order

What is the focus of Tawaraya Sotatsu's The Zen Priest Choka, emphasized by the artist's daring use of asymmetrical balance?

Today, multiples can be created from the process.

What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?

Stonehenge

What is the most notable example of Neolithic architecture in Europe?

Animals

What is the primary subject matter of the cave paintings at Chauvet?

Sand

What is the principal ingredient in glass?

Japanese manga

What is the source material for Thomas Ruff's work, Substratum 12 III?

Composition

What is the term for the organization of visual elements in two-dimensional art?

Conceptual

What kind of unity helps to give Annette Messager's Mes Voeux meaning?

Duccio

What late-medieval artist used architecture to define space and direct movement in his paintings?

Fiberglass

What material did Shigeru Ban use in his Centre Pompidou-Metz, that updated the ancient idea of fabric architecture?

Lacquer

What material is made from the sap of a tree?

Sun-dried brick

What material was the basis for most ancient Sumerian buildings?

Love is eternal.

What meaning can be inferred by the use of marble in Rodin's The Kiss?

Acrylic

What medium, invented in the twentieth century, resembles oil paint, but dries very quickly and is far more durable?

Hope

What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign?

Modeling

What method of sculpture illustrates the additive process?

The Reformation

What movement divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps?

Flemish

What nationality was Peter Paul Rubens?

Male human form

What object did the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius relate to the perfect geometry of a circle and square?

Tapestries

What object was the most treasured of medieval possessions for royal and noble households, as well as wealthy merchant families?

Artemisia Gentileschi

What painter produced Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, whose subject is taken from the biblical story of Judith?

Encaustic

What painting technique, used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, involves the use of wax?

The Lamentation

What painting, by the artist Giotto, shows his pioneering use of a "window" effect in painting?

Nib

What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)?

Appropriation

What postmodern practice takes existing images and recycles them, challenging traditional ideas about authenticity?

Democracy

What principle is idealized in Eugène Delacroix's painting, Liberty Leading the People?

Symmetry

What principle is used in the Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala to suggest that there is a logic and order to the universe?

Lithography

What printing process is considered the most direct and effortless, features that lead to its use in daily newspapers?

Lithography

What printing technique uses a grease-based crayon, known by its German name,tusche?

Reminders of the sacred space within

What purpose is served by the carved figures that adorn the entryways at Chartres Cathedral?

Portability

What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?

Young British Artists

What recent art group is known for their shocking images, as well as their skill at marketing and self-promotion?

To give tangible form to the unknown

What role best describes the artist's intention when creating the Shiva Nataraja statue?

Gianlorenzo Bernini

What sculptor, famous for his work in the Cornaro Chapel, was also a painter, dramatist, and composer?

The pyramids at Giza

What space served as tombs, helping rulers to become fully diving upon death?

Cantilever

What structure is a horizontal form supported at only one end?

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

What structure used digital fabrication in its construction?

Abstract Expressionism

What style of art is associated with the New York School?

Lives of the middle and lower classes

What subject did Realist artists seek to depict?

Female nude figures

What subject matter informs the abstract artworks of the Cycladic culture?

Motion

What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments?

Binder

What substance allows drawing media to be shaped into sticks (for dry media) or suspended in fluid (for liquid media), and to adhere to the drawing surface?

Sunken relief

What technique is illustrated in the sculpture Akhenaten and His Family?

Forging

What technique shapes metal through hammer blows?

Pointillism

What technique uses dots of color to create a specific optical effect?

Mosaic

What technique was used to complete the work, Empress Theodora and Retinue?

Hatching

What technique, illustrated in Charles White's Untitled, uses parallel lines to suggest value?

Inkjet printers

What technology has changed printmaking, making the traditional use of a matrix increasingly obsolete?

Model

What term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work?

Serigraphy

What term is used to describe "silk writing"?

Tint

What term is used to describe a color lighter than a hue's normal value?

Layout

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

Tensile strength

What term is used to describe the ability of a material to withstand tension?

Hierarchical scale

What term is used to describe the convention of representing social importance by size, often found in Egyptian art?

Contrapposto

What term is used to describe the pose used by Greek artists that expresses the potential for motion inherent in a standing human?

Low relief

What term is used to described sculpture in which figures project only slightly from the background?

Style

What term is used to refer to the recurring pattern of choices—characteristic subject matter or materials, distinctive ways of drawing or of applying paint, preferences for certain colors or color combinations—in an artist's work?

The natural world

What theme best describes the content of Wang Jain's painting, White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang?

Spirituality and art are linked.

What theme permeates the work of Vasili Kandinsky?

The images were used in rituals conducted by shamans.

What theory explains the purpose of the drawings and paintings found in the Chauvet cave?

Rug weaving

What traditional craft does contemporary artist Faig Ahmed incorporate into his art?

Diego Rivera

What twentieth-century master of the fresco technique created the work Mixtec Culture?

Encaustic and fresco

What two ancient painting media are still in use today?

Position and overlap

What two basic visual cues are used to imply depth in the 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats?

Mosaics

What type of art decorates the interior of San Vitale?

Avant-garde

What type of art was called "degenerate" by Adolf Hitler?

Conceptual

What type of balance gives Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror meaning, using variety carefully to depict the subject's conscious and unconscious sides?

Aztecs making clothing

What type of daily life is depicted in the Florentine Codex?

Brush and ink

What type of drawing medium is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends?

Digital software

What type of medium is frequently used in post-Internet art?

Action

What type of painting reveals the traces of an act, the painter's dance of creation?

Equestrian

What type of statues were common in Classical Rome?

Dome

What type of structure is generated by rotating an arch 360 degrees about a vertical central axis?

Vanitas painting

What type of work is Audrey Flack's, Wheel of Fortune?

Assemblage

What type of work is Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces?

The bombing of a civilian population

What was Pablo Picasso's Guernica a protest against?

Apprenticeships

What was an important part of an artist's path in past eras?

Redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral

What was one of Michelangelo's major achievements?

To invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface

What was the initial aim of Cubism?

The American landscape in the nineteenth century

What was the subject matter of Thomas Cole's work, The Oxbow?

Scenes of leisure involving the middle class

What was the subject matter of much Impressionist art?

Color and light

What were Venetian artists of the Renaissance, such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Giorgione, especially known for?

Kente cloth

What work from your text is an example of an artist creating an extraordinary version of an ordinary object?

Madonna Enthroned

What work illustrates a spiritual theme, serving as an image for worship?

Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim

What work is a good example of a Surrealist work?

Standard Station by Ed Ruscha

What work is a good example of how screenprinting may be used to produce broad areas of flat, uniform color?

The Garden of Earthly Delights

What work of fantasy is by the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch?

hypostyle hall

When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ________.

About 75 years after it was first developed

When did Northern European Renaissance artists begin using the system of linear perspective?

logotype

When the name of a company, institution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as a ________.

Colosseum

Where could Romans watch gladiators fight to the death, along with other sporting events?

Just behind the head of the figure of Jesus

Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?

The printing press

Which 15th-century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?

Surrealism

Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious?

Diego Velázquez

Which artist, known for a more subtle approach to Baroque theatricality, was court painter to King Philip IV?

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Which artist, known for exquisite portraiture, had to flee France due to the political revolution?

Gouache

Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes?

Gustave Courbet

Which of the following artists was a Realist?

Linocut

Which of the following is NOT one of the techniques of intaglio printing?

Oil paint

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?

The natural world

Which of the following is an example of a theme in art?

Line

Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

The Medici family

Who was a patron for Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli?

Robert Campin

Who was an early master of oil painting?

Leon Battista Alberti

Who was known as an eminent architect in the early Renaissance?

Artist brothers

Who were the Limbourgs?

They were melted down to make weapons and other objects.

Why have most ancient Greek bronze statues not survived, even though bronze was the favored material for freestanding sculpture?

Different binders are used.

Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels?

It is abundant and relatively easy to work.

Why is wood such a popular craft material?

Architecture

With what artistic medium was the term Postmodern first used?

Scale

With what principle of design does sculptor Claes Oldenburg often experiment?

triadic

Works that use a(n) ________ harmony feature any three colors equidistant from each other on the color wheel.

Themes

________ are broad areas of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many cultures.

Iconography

________ helps describe why the sculptor of the Amida Buddha depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head.

Interlace

________ is a pattern or patterns formed by intricately interwoven ribbons or bands.

Assemblage

________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

Triangular

________ organization, as seen in Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, was a popular device among Renaissance artists of Italy.

Alfred Steiglitz

________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with Pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting.

Symbols

________, such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.

Stonehenge

the famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles