Art 100 Test 3-Jeff State
Movies were being showed all over Europe and the United States as early as
1896
When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?
1980s
A piece of thrown pottery is made using this potter's tool
A wheel
The binding agent in encaustic pain is
Beeswax
Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment and ___________.
Binder
Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?
Casting
The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture
China
Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?
Chiseling
This type of arched span was first used in ancient Babylonian and Mycenae
Corbeled Arch
In 1525, this German master printmaker wrote a manual establishing the first set of rules for the construction of letterforms
Durer
When were the first successful photographs made?
Early 1800's
The binding agent for tempera paint is
Egg
Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face):
Employs her background as a graphic designer in its use of text and image
This is a group of letter forms designed to have a uniform appearance
Font
This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.
Fresco
Egyptian picture symbols are called
Hieroglyphs
Which of the following is a printmaking process?
Intaglio
Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?
Johannes Gutenburg
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
What unconventional medium does Jean Tinguely use in homage to New York?
Mechanized Junk
The first people (c. 3400 BCE) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the
Mesopotamians
Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the burn fresco method.
Michelangelo
This component of paint has traditionally been minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal bi-products.
Pigment
This architectural construction consists of two uprights and a crossbeam
Post and Lintel
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 free-standing sculpture, this type of sculpture is designed to only be viewed from one side
Relief
The division between art and craft began during this period
Renaissance
The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture
Rounded
This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.
Silverpoint
This kind of stress pulls on the structure and must be countered by a pushing stress
Tension
One of the first popular films to use color imagery was
The Wizard of Oz
Architects consider this when designing a building:
The site, engineering, materials, the needs of the user
If an artist were to create a print with three different colors, how many separate relief blocks would they need?
Three
Color pencil is much like a graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ___________.
Wax
What is the process that a ceramicists uses to knead and remove pockets of air from wet clay?
Wedging
In Joseph Beuys Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me
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
The sculptural process in which the artist carves in only shallow depth is called:
bas relief
Using a sequence of specially generated drawings to create scenes in a movie is called
cel animation
An art work that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would be best described as
conceptual art
The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the _______ and __________ of the vegetable.
form and texture
The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called
glaze
Another name for a free-standing sculpture is
in the round
Paint in its most basic form is composed of __________ and a liquid binder.
pigment
Daguerreotypes are made on
polished metal plates
Clay that has a great deal of water mixed into it, making it very thin, is known as
slip
AS Eadweard Muybridge's experiment with motion showed:
the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see
The difference between film and video is:
the way it is recorded
A relief print created out of a solid woodblock is called a
woodcut