Art

A performance like James Luna's The Artifact Piece, in which the artist placed himself in a case in the Museum of Man in San Diego, California, rejects what kind of expertise associated with artistic skill? -Manipulating materials and techniques -Creating an emotional response -Depicting the natural world -A and C

A and C

Piet Mondrian's Tree (Study for The Gray Tree) is a good example of ways that artists use the drawing medium to take notes because it:

A and D

What does the mother carry?

A dead child

Since graphite is a drawing material made from a form of carbon, it is which of the following:

A dry medium

What technique do the uniforms of the Japanese Americans show? (Judy Baca's The Great Wall of Los Angeles)

A flat base color and two tones layered above

What does Gupta's Line of Control depict?

A mushroom cloud correct

Because it was made prior to the eighteenth century, Annibale Carracci likely thought of his Head of a Woman Looking to Upper Left as:

A preparation for a work of art in another medium

A segment of film in which the camera runs continuously is referred to by which of the following terms?

A shot

Who designed the Veteran's memorial? -A famous architect -A student -A veteran -Jan Scruggs

A student (Maya Lin)

What is going on in the scene with Dodger Stadium? (Judy Baca's The Great Wall of Los Angeles)

A woman is being evicted from her home

The interior of the church Hagia Sophia (later turned into a mosque) Fulfills a religious and spiritual function of art by providing

A wondrous space

Helen Frankenthaler's The Bay is an example of which type of art? -Abstract -Nonobjective -Representational -Mixed media

Abstract

Because Odili Donald Odita's Accelerator features flat, opaque areas of color, we might think it was painted with gouache. It could also be painted with:

Acrylic or oil paint

This work including a cup, saucer, etc. is an example of what type of texture?

Actual

If a color is too vibrant, what does this artist do? (oil painting)

Add the color that is opposite on the color wheel

Sonia Delaunay's court shoes are an example of decorated art because they

Adorn people

In the mid-1980s while studying art in London, Shonibare was questioned about why he wasn't creating art that was authentically __ (blank).

African

Adrian Piper's Vote/Emote immersed viewers in her art by asking them to express their thoughts when looking at photos of people of African descent behind windows. What elements of meaning are incorporated into this work of art? -Cultural perception impacts meaning -The way it looks makes us think about different concepts and con -Both the artist and viewer need to communicate -All of these

All of these

Art as a physical object made from artistic materials: -Is displayed in a museum or other setting -Is a tangible object -Can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional -All of these

All of these

How did Matisse distort one couple in the painting?

All of these

Margaret Bourke-White's Flood Victims, Louisville, Kentucky, which shows African Americans standing in a relief line under a billboard of smiling white faces after a disastrous flood during the Great Depression, could be associated with which theme or themes? -Power, servitude, and ambition -Suffering, health, and survival -Identity, discrimination, and social ties -All of these

All of these

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, in which the artist positioned four hundred stainless steel poles in a grid, over a one-mile-by-one-kilometer area in a New Mexico desert, is an earthwork because it:

All of these

What happens in the kiln?

All of these

When color mixing, what is the objective? -To allow you to notice comparisons -To graduate along smoothly between colors -To create secondary colors that are in between primaries -All of these

All of these

Which of the following is a value of art? -Financial -Functional -Emotional -All of these

All of these

Why did many Canadians not think Voice of Fire qualified as art? -They didn't think it was made with any skill -They didn't think it was creative -They didn't think it had any financial value -All of these

All of these

Who did Shonibare place in the flying machine?

An alien correct

Tim Hawkinson's Lophophore is made from Bondo, a material that, like clay, is soft and pliable before it dries. Knowing that, Hawkinson likely needed to use what while making this seven-foot-tall sculpture?

An armature

What inspired Picasso to create his painting for the 1937 World's Fair?

An attack on a village

What is a grid?

An underlying structure in a design

What possible forms do we see in Picasso's first sketch?

Animals

Chris Drury's Ponderosa Whirlpool is made from beetle-eaten trees. Beetles have attacked whole forests in recent years, because milder winters have allowed the beetle population to explode. What type of Postmodern art is Drury likely creating?

Art that protests environmental concerns

Sandy Skoglund's radioactive cats is a reminder that it is important to question what we see because

Art that records is highly believable, depictions can be manipulated to convey false information

The problem with focusing on the canon is which of the following are omitted? -Artists of color -Painters -Men -All artists

Artists of color

To make The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, Betye Saar mostly used found objects. That means this sculpture is a/an:

Assemblage

Marcel Duchamp submitted Fountain, a real urinal turned on its side, to an art exhibit in 1917. It is a good example of Dada because it:

Attacks traditional values correct

The term auteur refers to the person who is the _______ of a film.

Author

An ______ film is a type that purposely challenges expectations.

Avant-garde

The Great Serpent Mound is almost thirteen-hundred-feet-long, and it was built from stones and dirt. The earthwork challenges some definitions of art because it: -B and C -Is made of non-art materials -Cannot be placed in a museum -It looks like a serpent

B and C

The artist of this dramatic painting belonged to what artistic movement?

Baroque

Eve Sussman's 89 Seconds at Alcázar is a video projection. Why might we consider it a digital painting?

Because of the final appearances of the images

Gum arabic is a _________ in watercolor paints.

Binder correct

Based on what you know about liquid drawing media, Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop was most likely made using:

Brush and wash

A _______ is a dark box with a pinhole through which reflected light shines and creates an upside-down image on the opposite wall.

Camera obscura

Robert Mapplethorpe is known for which of the following?

Causing a controversy involving a government arts agency

Which of the following demonstrates how art is a basis of power?

Censorship

Name the artist of this work

Cindy Sherman

They were transitory correct

Confusion in diminishing size correct

Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living manipulates materials associated with fear and death, which allows the sculpture to:

Convey a message

Postmodern architects do all of the following EXCEPT:

Create plain, stripped-down buildings

Who is in the photos on the floor?

Cubans

Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and Gray was created in the same style as Schröeder House. The style was ____________ (blank) and promoted a better world by _____________ (blank).

De Stijl / forming a definitive artistic language in simple works correct

South African artist Berni Searle created her innovative image On Either Side by cutting out a silhouette from reddish orange crêpe paper, submerging the paper in water, and photographing the results. Her work shows how contemporary art is created by diverse people in that Searle is:

Defying stereotypes that her work will have a look that is traditionally African correct

What do the color photos on the panels represent?

Deities

Which of the following are NOT a type of graphic design?

Digital marks

______ is a type of image that provides a factual record.

Documentary

Given what you know about drawing media, Piet Mondrian's Apple Tree, which has lines and smudges in different grades of black, was most likely made with:

Dry Media

Art therapy has been used for all of the following except

Education Is used for treatment, assessment, diagnosis

Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus is a tempera painting. That means:

Egg yolk is the binder, and water is the thinner

An analog video camera transforms light into _______.

Electrical charges

Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George features a fresh and direct appearance as well as vibrant and luminous colors. It is most likely made using:

Encaustic

When artists see intensely, they:

Experience what they are drawing through all of their senses

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street, Berlin distorts forms, shows irrational space, and has unrealistic color. It is most likely:

Expressionist

A light color formed from mixing a hue with white is called a shade

False

Rembrandt was the artist of this painting

False

The artist that created this work wanted to convey her love of nature in this painting.

False

The artist was interested in using colors in this painting in a realistic and calming way.

False

Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima combines which two kinds of art?

Feminist and African American protest correct

Artists who appropriate do all of the following EXCEPT:

Focus on future work

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs is typical of Conceptual art because it:

Focuses on the creative process

Name the title of this work

Fountain

What does this artist do after the painting is dry? (oil painting)

Freshen up the colors correct

We can speculate that this tea bowl by Sasaki Chôjirô, which would have been used in a Japanese tea ceremony, could be classified as which of the following sources of value? -Emotional -Functional -Sentimental -Financial

Functional

Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute for Figuring's Toxic Reef represent our connected world by:

Giving voice to a global issue

Yinka Shonibare MBE's Victorian Philanthropist's Parlor incorporates cross-cultural identities, pluralism, and multiculturalism. This is likely a reflection of:

Globalization

Because it features flat areas of color and white paint, Sultan Muhammad's Rustam Sleeps While Rakhsh Fights Off a Lion was most likely made with:

Gouache

The punt du guard was built by workers directed by the Roman empire. This might be an example of which kind of entities support for art

Government support

How does graphic design differ from traditional art?

Graphic design must be interpreted by everyone in the same way

Depicting the natural world means: -Focusing on abstraction exclusively -Removing any figures -Having a believable space -Having only organic shapes

Having a believable space

How did Fukase lose details in the shadow areas?

He under exposed the film

What was so upsetting about Matisse's painting Blue Nude? -He painted the woman naked -He exhibited the painting without a frame -He used crude brushstrokes -He painted his wife

He used crude brushstrokes

Man Ray's Gift is made from a solid metal iron and some carpet tacks. This would mean that the durability is ______ (blank), the value of the materials is ______ (blank), and the appearance is ________ (blank).

High / low / dull correct

The main figure of this stone sculpture of the Boar incarnation of Vishnu is what kind of sculpture?

High relief

What is the priest doing?

Holding a knife

These earrings are made from gold, a very expensive material. Given that information, they were likely formed using:

Hollow casting

Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship uses thick, built up opaque paint. What is that technique called?

Impasto

In this painting, where the two gaze at each other, these lines are called _____________________________ lines

Implied

Where did Mendieta stand when she covered herself in mud?

In front of a tree

Where is the bronze poured?

Into the plaster mold

Eugène Delacroix probably chose graphite for his Studies of Lions because graphite:

Is versatile and can create a wide range of effects

African American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat includes the names of stereotypical roles given to African Americans in Hollywood in Hollywood Africans. The painting can be considered diverse because:

It addresses social issues that are tied to the artist's identity

Why is Anselm Kiefer's Dein Goldenes Haar, Margarethe Neo-Expressionist?

It conveys an emotional content and explores a troubling past period correct

How does Mark Rothko's No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth/Violet and Yellow in Rose) fit into Color Field painting themes?

It conveys feeling using color and simple shapes

Why is it necessary to look at Camille Claudel's The Waltz from multiple views in order to understand it fully?

It is a freestanding sculpture

Daniel Libeskind's extension to the Denver Art Museum is Deconstructivist architecture because:

It is asymmetrical

Masaccio likely used buon fresco to paint The Tribute Money because:

It is lusterless and has no glare

What is wrong with an underexposed image? (How a Camera Works)

It is too dark

Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition Drawing, which she submitted to a competition for the memorial design, can be used to understand her creative process because:

It lets us see her visual responses to an idea

How does Vincent van Gogh's five Persons at a Meal, which is a sketch of a peasant family he visited one evening, illustrate how artists see differently when they draw?

It records things that the rest of us might not see in a quick look

What is one possible interpretation of the work Mendieta set on fire?

It represents persecuted Catholics

Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral blurred the boundary between art and life because:

It used random objects found in the streets

Why is the night attack on Sanjo Palace not trustworthy

It was painted 100 years after the event

What emphasizes the train in the picture?

Its dark value

Ann Hamilton's The Event of a Thread, in which the artist suspended a curtain across the Park Avenue Armory in New York, features swings that viewers are able to use. This makes the work both:

Kinetic and an installation

Which of the following terms include only type and no image?

Logo

Some protest artists ____________ (blank).

Look at how words establish power correct

Name the artist pictured here

Marla Olmstead

Agnes Martin's Leaf, which consists of a plain background on which she drew a grid of evenly spaced lines, is one of a number of similar works. It is most likely:

Minimalist

Because Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Sources of Strength uses one medium to create the color and another to create the black lines, her work is formed from:

Mixed media

Crayons do which of the following:

None of these

Another name for nonobjective art is: -Abstract -Nonrepresentational -Hierarchical -Canonical

Nonrepresentational

Which of the following is a step you can use to judge a work's meaning? -Obtain -Write -Think -Persuade

Obtain

Because it features tonal depth, richness, and internal glow, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Napoleon Enthroned was likely made using:

Oil paint

Michelangelo's David is a carved sculpture with limbs that do not stick out very far. This is because:

Outstretched extremities often lead to structural problems

What type of works did Neo-Expressionists create?

Paintings

What is wrong with the technique of fresco secco?

Paintings can peel

Because this detail from Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition Drawing features smudged areas of bright color, we can assume it was made with:

Pastels

Because it uses clear, precise lines and hatching, Leonardo da Vinci's Proportion of the Human Figure, after Vitruvius was probably made using which liquid drawing material?

Pen and ink

Filmmakers express themselves artistically by manipulating all of the following EXCEPT:

Photogenics

How did Campos-Pons create the large panels?

Photography

The process of recording images on a photosensitive surface with light is referred to as which of the following?

Photography

__ (blank) is the trend in contemporary art in which diverse artists take a number of approaches, create a variety of forms, and work in multiple media, all of which are seen as valid and compelling.

Pluralism correct

Protesting the social order means

Pointing out social injustice, objecting to the status quo, criticizing governments

__ (blank) is the movement in art from roughly 1980 to the present characterized by rejection of a story of art; reference to prior work; abandonment of a set style; diversity of media; complex, personal form that mirrors our complicated world; and deconstruction.

Postmodernism correct

What do artists' notes contain?

Preparations for works completed in another medium

What does fixative do for a charcoal drawing?

Prevents the pigment from rubbing off

Colors that theoretically cannot be made by mixing other colors and that can be used to make all of the other colors

Primary

The sculpture of a pharaoh khafre from ancient Egypt, in which the pharaoh appears useful and strong, could be contributing to his basis of power by being a work of

Propaganda

Cassandre's Nord Express promotes a ______company.

Railway

Yinka Shonibare MBE's The Swing (After Fragonard) is a good example of Postmodernism because it combines the following:

Reference to prior work, diversity of media, and complex, personal form that mirrors our complicated world correct

In our global world, a number of artists show their interconnectedness by all of the following EXCEPT:

Referencing prior work

What creates rhythm in the relief?

Repeating geometric forms correct

Pictographs are images that communicate an idea by ________.

Representing an object in a simplified way

Name the artist of this sculpture

Richard Serra

Name the artist of this work that created controversy betweet the NEA and Congress

Robert Mapplethorpe

What is poured around the original object?

Rubber

The components of graphic design do NOT include which of the following:

Seals

Publications include all of the following EXCEPT:

Signs

Digital drawings can be drawn on all of the following EXCEPT for:

Skeleton-and-skin systems

Why does the artist start with a toned ground? (oil painting)

So that colors appear more accurate correct

What did Matisse do to simplify figures?

Some figures have no modeling

Mise en scène refers to all of the following EXCEPT:

Sounds that the actors say

This work was attacked and badly damaged in 1914, it was fully restored and returned to display. What movement did the attacker belong to?

Suffragette movement

Because Pablo Picasso's Bottle of Suze uses collage and questions the relationship between reality and illusion, it is most likely:

Synthetic Cubist correct

Nam June Paik's Video Flag Z creates different images of the American flag on _______________.

Televisions

Giotto di Bondone's Madonna Enthroned was painted on a wood board, on which Giotto used short, parallel, closely lying strokes. It was likely made with:

Tempera

The roughness of a surface creates a ______ in a work.

Texture

Ester Hernandez used the Sun-Maid raisin box in her screenprint Sun Mad. Enraged over the exposure of grape pickers to pesticides, the artist transformed the woman on the original box into a skeleton. Hernandez's work supports which Postmodern idea?

That all art is based on former precedents

Panel #4, from the series "Harriet Tubman," depicts the abolitionist Harriet Tubman as a slave child. Jacob Lawrence, an African American artist who lived in Harlem, painted the work in 1939-40. Given these facts, which style would this work likely fall into?

The Harlem Renaissance correct

What is the value of a color? - The degree of pureness - The degree of lightness - The degree of saturation - The degree of intensity

The degree of lightness

The client gets to decide all of the following EXCEPT:

The design solution

What suggests the speed of the train?

The diagonal shapes

When did drawings come to be appreciated as legitimate works of art?

The eighteenth century

What is different about the figures from the background?

The figures project

How did Fukase remove all color?

The film

What made the image appear grainy?

The film

What led Newman to paint stripes? -The hard times he was living in -His lack of artistic training -His interest in verticality -His interest in figures

The hard times he was living in

Which of the following is NOT true? (Judy Baca's The Great Wall of Los Angeles)

The mural was created over the course of 20 years

Which aspect of the design has been copied by other designers? -A sculpture of a dying soldier -A sculpture of three patriotic soldiers -The names of the dead -The carvings of roses

The names of the dead

Tom Thomson's The Jack Pine depicts a pine tree that symbolizes ______.

The national pride of Canada

Form refers to: -The physical appearance -The meaning or mood -The way of representing objects -The symbols

The physical appearance

Jeff Koons' Puppy uses diverse media that reference mass culture to explore:

The relationship between kitsch and high culture

What creates the rhythm in the image?

The repeating shapes

Why does the Victorian Philanthropist's Parlor not look like a room from that period?

The room is decorated with African cloth correct

What controls the blurriness of the action? (How a Camera Works)

The shutters

What does the center stripe in the painting likely represent? -The voice of God -The voice of a fire -The voice of a woman -The voice of the artist

The voice of God

Why can we see the link between the artist's mind and her hand in Kollwitz's Self-Portrait?

There is a line

Why are the men around the table in Scramble for Africa unidentifiable?

They are headless correct

Why do bandolier bags often contain no pockets

They are not used to carry things

Acrylics have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

They are soluble once dry correct

Why do serious photographers use a single-lens reflex camera? (How a Camera Works)

They can have more control correct

Which of the following is NOT true of encaustic paintings?

They have colors that fade quickly correct

Why do Mendieta's artworks reflect the idea of loss?

They were transitory correct

Postmodern artists working in craft media have changed how craft was used previously. These artists employ craft materials:

To create specific messages correct

Art allows viewers or artists to look inwards

To explore themselves*, to imagine another world, to express their imagination

How did Mary Beth Heffernan use photography?

To help during the Ebola crisis

This poster was created to

To highlight the lack of opportunity for women artists in the museum environment

To create a drawing an artist runs a ______ across a two-dimensional surface leaving a descriptive mark.

Tool

A presentation of the divine does which of the following

Transforms abstract concepts of God into concrete images

Because John Sylvester's Portrait of Maori Chief Te Pehi Kupe Wearing European Clothes features a matte look with a bright, clear, and light-filled color, it was most likely made using:

Transparent watercolor

Studies have shown that most people view an individual piece of art in a museum for less than 30 seconds.

True

The artist of this painting is Jackson Pollock

True

The material used by an artist to create a work of art is called medium

True

Which of the following are NOT ways that type conveys a visual message?

Vaults

Name the artist of this somewhat visually distorted work

Vincent Van Gogh

This is an example of a ____________________ color scheme

Warm

A thin transparent layer of ink diluted with water defines which of the following terms:

Wash

Gouache is most similar to the medium of _______.

Watercolor

Jan van Eyck's painting of The Annunciation, in which Gabriel appears to Mary, takes place in:

a church

The Vietnam veterans memorial

a war memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the veterans of Vietnam Creates a space for quiet reflection

Art in which objects from the real world are purposely distorted or changed

abstract

Defining art by its beauty is based in the branch of philosophy called

aesthetics

This is an example of what type of color scheme?

analagous

This work is an example of a type of work called

assemblage

This artist use of line is so recognizable it is called

autographic

Works of art that the art world deems as important make up the ____________________

canon

What is a common ingredient in tempera paint?

egg

Which of the following is often a layer of a painting?

ground

This work has symbols that have meaning specific to a particular culture and time period. What is the term for this?

iconography

This painting is an example of work that is

non objective

art that does not depict anything representational from the real world is called

non-objective

This is an example of a painting that is

representational

This is an example of what type of sculpture?

site-specific

Which of the following is NOT an ingredient in paint?

size

Both of these works are based on

stories from the bible

The person(s), object(s), or event(s) that a work of art portrays

subject matter

This work was controversial to many people. What was one of the main reasons this work was shocking to some?

the medium used by the artist

What is the term that means "eye fooling"

trompe-l'oeil

What is on the outside of a color wheel? -The different values of the hues -The different intensities of the hues -The pure hues -All of these

The pure hues

What is different about Schapiro's Barcelona Fan? -The shape -The color -The size -The folds

The size

Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl uses a melodramatic scene and a comic-book style because: - The subject matter and the form help create its content - The subject matter is dictated by the content - The form requires a specific content - The subject matter is representational

The subject matter and the form help create its content

In the background of this painting we see an example of what technique? This is used to make it appear that objects that are farther in the distance appear blurrier, lighter, and duller

atmospheric perspective

The use of contrasting light and dark tones to render the illusion of 3d forms on a flat surface is called

chiarocscuro

The meaning, message, mood, or feeling conveyed in a work is its ______________________.

content

The association that a work has with the world around it (culturally, historically, socially, economically, politically, and religiously) is its _______ .

context

What type of perspective is used in this famous painting?

one-point linear

A type of shape that is irregular that resembles those shapes found in nature

organic

A person who supports an artist by commissioning works of art

patron

Käeth Kollwitz's Die Witwe I (The Widow I), in which the artist used with cut to depict a distraught woman, shows aty being used for expression because

It is capturing an emotion

Krzysztof Wodiczko's homeless projection 2, which project an image of a homeless man onto an existing monument in Boston, is likely an example of art being Employed for social action because

It is championing a social issue

Why was the memorial controversial? -It was designed by a woman with Asian ancestry -It was black -It was believed to be anti-war -All of these

All of these

Seeing a photo of an Asante woman carrying an akua'ba culture like a child reminds us that art is a central part of our lives because

Art is a characteristically human endeavor

Why is art characteristically human?

Art is found in all cultures

The colors green, orange and violet are primary colors

False

The design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was extremely popular from the design stage at the beginning. There was nothing controversial about it.

False

This artist was interested in using this painting to call others to social action.

False

The problem with a focus on appearance is which of the following? -Ignoring the work's form -Ignoring the work's style -Ignoring the work's meaning -Ignoring voussoir

Ignoring the work's meaning

Donatello's Mary Magdalene, with her sunken cheeks and emaciated body, seems to give a sense of the ravages of a life of self-denial. The wooden sculpture challenges the identification of art with beauty because: -It is made of a non-traditional material -It is more concerned with its meaning than a pleasing appearance -It is a religious work -It was meant to be placed against a plain wall

It is more concerned with its meaning than a pleasing appearance

Why would this Aztec sculpture (the Aztecs were nomadic raiders who settled in Mexico in the fourteenth century CE) of Coatlicue, mother of the gods, have been excluded from the traditional canon of art? -It depicts a woman -It is made from a non-traditional material -It is not a Western work of art -It was a religious work

It is not a Western work of art

Ester Hernandez created sun mad to express her discontent over the exposure of grape pickers to pesticides. Is it a work of political art because

It protests the social order

A community protest like the green wall of Los Angeles, which depicts a history of California, shows that art is a benefit to society because

It provides art education

Knowing more about Matthew Barney's Cremaster films, in which part-human, part-fictional creatures perbizarre actions, could be useful because: - Knowing information about the films helps us appreciate this difficult work of art more fully - We can place a financial value on the films - Knowing more might help us figure out whether the films are art or not - We can find out what materials he used to make his costumes

Knowing information about the films helps us appreciate this difficult work of art more fully

Name the artist of this painting

Leonardo DaVinci

A style of painting in which thick, built up paint stands away from the surface in textured brushstrokes.

impasto

Blue Nude was controversial because:

it used unnatural colors