Art Module 4

_______ was an early advocate of photography as an artform and opened a gallery in New York City in 1905.

Alfred Stieglitz

This artist, who created Detroit Industry, is considered a leader in the revival of fresco mural painting in the 1920s and 1930s.

Diego rivera

Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant a poster created using the lithographic process, was made by this artist.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

One of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's major contributions to film was his skilled use of_______ to heighten the dramatic intensity.

montage

In filmmaking, each unbroken sequence of movie frames, with the camera still rolling, is called a

shot

The process of printing came to Europe from

China

Oskar Fischinger's Circles is considered to be the first

Experimental film

The print The Letter, by American artist Mary Cassatt, illustrates the influence of _______ on her work.

Japanese woodblock prints

Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett is an excellent example of a(n)

Lionleum cut

An Andalusian Dog was created by Surrealists Luis Bunuel and

Salvador Dali

"Looking at paintings" select four of the five answers below

Video

The Chinese regard painting as derived from the art of

calligraphy

The device invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world whose name means "dark room" is the

camera obscura

In painting media, the pigment provides

color

One of the earliest forms of photographic images was a

daguerreotype

In buon fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to

damp line plaster surface

Many contemporary photographers use new _______ technology, exemplified by Jeff Wall's Boy Falls from a Tree.

digital

Director Ridley Scott, first trained as a visual artist, states that _______ play(s) a strong role in his creative process.

drawing and storyboarding

intaglio

edition

During the 1940s, a new style of film focusing on the dark side of the American dream, called _______, originated in Hollywood.

film noir

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

glaze

Opaque watercolor is sometimes called

gouache

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

hot beeswax

The word photography literally means

light writing

in which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

lithography

Eadweard Muybridge is best known for photographing people and animals in

motion.

In the video Binh Danh : Reconstructing Memories how did the artist discover his passion for photography?

moving a garden hose

Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin, by Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, is an excellent example of a(n) _______ painting.

oil

A(n) _______ print is one in which an artist is physically involved with its production.

original

After perfecting the photographic process, Louis Daguerre was able to include _______ in his photographs, as seen in his 1839 photo Le Boulevard du Temple

people

Film depends on a phenomenon called _______, in which the human brain retains a visual image for a fraction of a second longer than the human eye records it, making everything we see continuous and uninterrupted.

persistence of vision

Julia Margaret Cameron's Paul and Virginia is an example of how many nineteenth-century photographers were influenced by_____, in choosing to photograph her subject in a close-up shot and with carefully controlled lighting to enhance the atmosphere.

portrait painters

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make _______ to check on the developing image.

proofs

This type of printing, as seen in Ester Hernandez's Sun Mad, has lent itself to poster production and the many social movements that have allied themselves with printmakers to help spread the word about their causes.

silkscreen

A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

tempera

Nicola López's Blighted is an example of a contemporary artwork that combines printmaking techniques to create an installation that expresses the artist's memories of

the attacks on September 11, 2001

_______ used photographs of national parks to increase public awareness of the beauty of nature

Ansel Adams

This early filmmaker pioneered many special effects, such as dissolves between scenes and time-lapse photography, as seen in his Voyage to the Moon

George Méliès

This artist created Light Rain at Shono, and is considered one of the most famous Japanese woodblock printmakers.

Hiroshige

American artist _______ is known for his watercolors, such as Rio de Santa Maria Formosa, Venice.

John singer sargent

This photographer of Louisville Flood Victims introduced the concept of the photographic essay to tell a story using many photographs.

Margaret Bourke-White

Although color photographic film was available to artists in the early twentieth century, many preferred black-and-white film because it was less expensive and less susceptible to technical problems, and because color prints

Tended to fade over time

This artist is best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media by incorporating video and electronic media into his or her artwork, as can be seen in Video Flag Z.

Nam June Paik