Art 100 Questions

Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?

A blog about a painting

When using a sense of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by______.

Alternating value, relative position, relative size, overlapping *all of the above

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

Bas Relief

When an artist want to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called _______.

Broad Emphasis

In the funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of _______ to create emphasis and focal point.

Contrast

By orienting line so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using___________.

Directional line

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?

Foreshortening

A two dimensional object is called a shape and a three dimentional object is known as a

Form

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.

Geometric

these handwritten, illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages.

Illuminated Manuscripts

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ______.

Implied movement

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a liver because ut implies_______.

Intimacy

our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.

Keramos

this architectural term describes a structure created from a pile of material.

Load Bearing

the work of __________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement:

Marcel Duchamp

In ancient Egypt, this part if the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Palm

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called______.

Pattern

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its _______, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

Proportions

the division between art and craft began during this period .

Renaissance

The opposite if emphasis is _________.

Subordination

One of the first popular films to use color imagery was _________.

The Wizard of Oz

As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ________.

The camera can capture what the human eye cannot see

this visual from printed letters, words, and text is called_______.

Typography

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony of a design?

Unity

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anormally called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ______ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

Vibrate

Memento mori refers to:

a symbol of mortality

the binding agent in encaustic paint is __________.

beeswax

When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.

cartoon

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

charcoal

the earliest existing printed artwork on paper were created in this culture.

china

The three kinds of Unity are?

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

Most commercial color printing is achieved using three primary colors and black. Theses primaries are_________.

cyan, magenta, yellow

when were the first successful photographs made?

early 1800s

the binding agent of tempera paint is________.

egg

The area covered by a pattern is called_______.

field

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the view's eye is drawn

focal point

If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of _________.

hatching

Another name for a free- standing sculpture is

in the round

Which of the following is a printmaking process?

intaglio

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

motif

An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best described as________.

performance art

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.

pigment

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

polished metal plates

This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.

post and lintel

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

prayer figures

This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.

relief

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is designed to only be viewed form one side

relief

All sculptures have this characteristic in common:

they exist in three-dimensional space

in Joseph Beuys's Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist:

wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote

what does the word "photograph" mean?

writing with light