ART 200 MIDTERM

Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?

camera obscura

In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium?

charcoal

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is what?

chiaroscuro

The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is what?

clay

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear to be what?

cooler and less distinct

Sayre (the author of your textbook) states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

critical thinkers

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator"

What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?

dries slower allowing for a more naturalistic development

When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?

early renaissance

D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?

editing

The Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using which medium?

encaustic

Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because of what?

everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's?

expressive line

Lines that are loose and free-form are called what?

gestural lines

Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints, such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834?

honore Daumier

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called what?

iconography

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called what?

implied lines

Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?

in-the-round

In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

isaac newton

We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from what?

letters he wrote to his brother

Jeff Koons' Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials?

live flowering plants

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was not able to include what in photographs, such as Le Boulevard du Temple?

motion

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called what?

mudras

The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called what?

oil painting

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

one-point linear perspective

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called what?

photorealistic

Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates what?

radical balance

The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe what?

representational art

Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called what?

tenebrism

In a work of art, "content" refers to what?

what the image means

Which of these artists created a work titled Pietà?

Michelangelo

What is the Function of the noise blonde figure?

Pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it.

Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called what?

a cartoon

Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?

acrylic

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan for what reason?

as a mausoleum for his favorite wife

Wood and stone carvings are examples of doing what in art?

assemblage

Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?

binders

What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?

both earthwork

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional, but they are called what?

Aesthetic

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

African mask he saw at a Paris museum.

The word paper is derived from what country?

Egyptian papyrus

In Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the woman depicts what?

the last judgment

What was the mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967?

to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"

Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin and his workshop of artists, are called what?

triptchs

Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?

two-point perspective