Art and Experience Final

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

Copper plate covered with silver iodine

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

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

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

Lenses

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

Lithography

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

Load-bearing construction

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

Motion

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?

Passage of time

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

Pont du Gard at Nîmes

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Scale

What term is used to describe "silk writing"?

Serigraphy

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

chiaroscuro

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

A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.

For what purpose was color photography first widely used?

Advertising

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

Cantilever

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

Distribute visual weight accordingly

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

Dome

Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?

Earthworks

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gothic

What features are NOT considered principles of design?

Texture and color

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

The golden section

What is the primary characteristic of watercolors?

Transparency

What aspect is manipulated to affect the balance of the composition?

Visual weight

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

Wainwright Building

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

Wet plaster

A(n) _________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script.

auteur

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

cartoon

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

hypostyle hall

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

logo

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

logotype

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.

matrix

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

natural

Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.

variety