Art Appreciation with Ms. Geary

A medium that uses found objects or images such as newspapers, illustrations, or photographs and incorporates them into new images is known as

collage

The element of art produced when a wavelength of light strikes an object and reflects back to the eyes.

color

These colors are directly opposite each other on the color wheel. When mixed together, they make a neutral gray or brown.

complementary

This analysis studies the atmosphere and ideas, often from a particular time and culture, that an artwork reflects. It can consider the artwork in relation to the religious, biographical, or social background in which it was made.

contextual

A large difference between two things: for example, rough and smooth or white and black.

contrast

How did George Eastman's invention of the hand held camera and its use of roll film advance photography for everyone?

easy access at afordable price

A subjective level of looking at art involves:

emotional reactions

The focal point in a composition is known as __

emphasis

When an artist needs to create a large-scale work of art, s/he hires:

fabricators and technicians

Artworks that give identity to the human experience are relatively modern and isolated to a few cultures

false

Cultural styles often change within short periods of time.

false

True/False. A freestanding sculpture can only be seen from one side.

false

True/False. In the Middle Ages, artists traditionally learned their craft through textbooks.

false

True/False: Drawing only uses dry media.

false

True/False: Peace can be represented in art and images only by using the peace symbol.

false

True/False: The only difference between vine charcoal and compressed charcoal is the name.

false

This analysis considers the role of women in an artwork as its subjects, creators, patrons, and viewers.

feminist

The visual relationship between a mark and the surface it's created on; this can also describe the relationship between the positive and negative spaces of an image.

figure/ground

The collective symbol of a nation is represented in its

flag

A shape or three-dimensional volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density or bulk is ___________.

form

In this type of analysis, the meaning is inherent in materials and process.

formalist

This critique style expands the considerations raised by feminist analysis to explore ways in which an artwork reflects experience based on a person's gender.

gender studies

Which of these cultures participates in a collaborative and social artwork known as the Totem?

haida

Modern skyscrapers of glass and steel characterize which architectural style?

international

A mark created by a point that moves across a surface, usually created by a drawing tool of some type.

line

Both additive and subtractive process where a soft material is successively built up and taken away to create a desired form is called _

modeling

Which of these is NOT required to become an artist?

money

A designed unit or pattern that is repeated often enough in the total composition to make it a significant or dominant feature is

motif

A sense of action or implied movement in static works or art is ___________

motion

Architecture from the lost city of Machu Picchu reflects the form of the surrounding

mountains

Kinetic sculpture is different from other forms because they:

move by way of ambient airflow or machanical means

Calabashes - dried and hollowed out gourds that serve as receptacles - contain complex imagery that vary from one culture to another in which part of the world?

nigeria

Three-dimensional works that incorporate the artist themselves (sometimes the artist is the work) are called

performance art

is a relative difference in size in parts or elements in an image.

perspective

The three basic ingredients of paint are

pigment, binder and solvent

The means by which the elements in a work are arranged :

principle

What does the carved figure of Lammasu signify?

protection and power

When using ______________ analysis, one considers the state of the artist's mind when creating an artwork.

psychological

The terra cotta army, discovered in 1974 and numbering more than 8,000 soldiers, were created to guard which Emperor in his afterlife?

qin shi huang

How does the aperture in a camera function

regulates light

sculpture has a surface raised from a solid backing material.

relief

Systematic arrangement of a repeated shape or form is called

repatition

is achieved by opposing, contrasting, or diversifying the elements to add individualism and interest.

rhythm

is two or more like elements or forms within a composition

rhythm

Two types of loads (gravitational forces) exert themselves on every architectural form. What are they?

sheer and compression

One traditional role of drawing is to

sketch a bigger drawing

identifies and interprets the symbolic meanings of objects and elements in artworks.

Iconography

Vanitas painting is defined by:

Issues of mortality and impermanence

Traditional Chinese painting uses:

water based ink

Name two historical learning models used in art education

Art school programs and apprenticeships

The definition of __________________ sculpture is an additive process using found objects or materials combined to create the desired form.

Construction/Assemblage

Ideas of 'good' and 'bad' art are not based on cultural information and beliefs

False

These are the 3 basic types of critique you can use to analyze meaning in a work of art:

Formal, Contextual, and Expressive

Content is defined as:

Meaning derived from a work of art

Form is defined as:

Physical and visible characteristics of a work of art

Which of the following is not an artistic medium?

Style

nstallation artworks are defined by:

a single or multiple objects often using various mediums that take up entire spaces

When a work of art is not made by an individual artist, but by many people, this is called art as ________________. The Pyramids at Giza are a famous example of this.

a social activity

The two processes involved with three-dimensional works of art are:

addative and subtractive

Artistic roles include:

all of the above

In the Australian Aboriginal tradition, what does Dreamtime represent?

all of the above

Painting mediums are extremely versatile because they

all of the above

The German teaching and learning center for modern industrial and architectural design was calle

bauhaus

This type of analysis takes into account whether the artist's personal experiences and opinions may have affected the making or meaning of the artwork.

biographical

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" depicts a scene from a war using what main color scheme?

black white grey

An extension or overhang without exterior bracing is called:

cantilever

This additive process uses liquid material poured into a mold, which then solidifies as it cools.

casting

The empty or open area between, around, above, below and within objects is called _______________.

space

This paint's main characteristic is that it has egg as a binder.

tempera

This element of art that refers to the surface quality or feel of an object, or how something looks as if it might feel.

texture

In painting, a glaze is a

thin layer of color

War memorials act as a remembrance for

those who died in war

Colors ranging from yellow to red on the color wheel are warm; colors ranging from blue to green are cool.

true

Definitions of art vary between different cultures.

true

The objective level focuses on the work's physical characteristics only.

true

True/False. Some artists don't actually make their own work.

true

True/False. Wood carving is a good example of subtractive sculpture.

true

True/False: One of the basic functions of architecture is to provide shelter.

true

True/False: Screenprinting is a planographic process.

true

True/False: You can use a variety of different types of analysis when looking at a piece of artwork in order to understand it.

true

is the result of bringing the elements and principles of art into an appropriate ratio between harmony and variety to give a sense of oneness.

unity

is an element of art that refers to the lightness or darkness of a color or of an object.

value

The use of diverse elements and principles in a composition is ___________

variety