ART-111-803 - PART 1 QUIZ Qs

Traditional binders used in paint include:

- Beeswax - egg yolk - vegetable oils - gums - water

Niagara Falls was a popular subject for North American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized _______________________.

- It's grandeur. - It symbolized America's territorial expansion and ambitions. - It marked the northern border.

In Dieric Bout's work, The Coronation of the Virgin, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary, even the Holy Trinity is present, by ____________________________.

- Mary being centered with the oval shape above her - The dove above her - Color used for Mary's atire - All eyes are directed at her

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________________.

- Wood - Stone - Papyrus

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

- relative size - overlapping - alternating value - relative position

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil number would be the darkest?

9B

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.

A Cartoon

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________________________.

A Woodcut

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger than life sculpture of this everyday item.

A book of matches

An empty space defined by its surroundings is known as __________________shape.

A negative shape

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ___________________ shape.

A positive shape

A pattern with regular intervals creates_____________________ rhythm.

A repetitive

The degree to which an image is altered from an easily recognizable subject is referred to as ____________________.

Abstraction

When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ___________ texture.

Actual Texture

How does the additive process of sculpting differ from the subtractive method?

Additive method is just that, material is added. Subtractive methods require tools to carve, drill, chisel, chip, whittle, or saw away unwanted material.

Artists who model forms using soft, pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.

An Armature

When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________________.

An Impression

Colors that are next to each other on the Color Wheel are

Analogous Colors

This twentieth century America painter chose tempera to describe his neighbor's "extraordinary conquest of life" in the work Christina's World.

Andrew Wyeth

If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting, _____________________would be a good method to use.

Aquatint

In The Legend of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________________.

Are evenly balanced

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called

Atmospheric Perspective

Suppressing conscious control to access subconscious sources of creativity and truth is called ___________________.

Automatic

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

Baroque

This type of relief does not imply great depth, but rises only slightly above the surface of the work.

Bas-Relief

Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with _____________________________.

Binder

In Leonardo da Vinci's design for a flying machine he used a _________ as his inspiration.

Bird Wing

Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from _________________, an alloy of copper and tin.

Bronze

The art of emotive or carefully descriptive hand lettering or handwriting

Calligraphy

This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.

Casting

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

Charcoal

Silkscreen printing uses a stencil process, and was first developed in ______________ during the Sung Dynasty.

China

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

China

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge sefl-portrait.

Chuck Close

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.

Close Up

This type of printmaking is achieved by "collaging" materials to a surface that will later be inked and printed to paper.

Collagraphy

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are

Complementary colors

_________________ art is a work in which the communication of an idea or group of ideas are most important to the work; meaning anyone could execute the work.

Conceptual Art

What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?

Construction

This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.

Contour

In the painting, The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that ______________________.

Contrast

The dark, printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of __________________.

Contrast

For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrect Durer hired expert craftsmen to _____________________.

Create the block and cut the lines into it

In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen, the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.

Daoism

Renaissance artists used a camera obscura to help them understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

Dark Room

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width and _____________________.

Depth

In James Allen's etching of Depression-era construction workers, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points or movement within the composition. Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as _______ lines.

Directional

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to __________________________.

Draw attention to Icarus's fall

The binding agent for tempera paint is ____________________.

Egg

This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.

Emil Nolde

When we ___________________________ something, we draw attention to it.

Emphasize

T/F - An artwork can only have one focal point.

FALSE

T/F - Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment.

FALSE

T/F - The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography, only paintings.

FALSE

T/F - A graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.

FALSE - Wide varied audience

T/F Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of a fish in a River.

False

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

Focal Point

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

______________ is the shape of an area an artist uses for making a two-dimensional artwork.

Format

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of _________________________ objects.

Found

In the artwork The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, this Spanish artist used differing visual rhythms to contrast "good" and "bad".

Francisco Goya

A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ______________ sculpture.

Freestanding

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

Fresco

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ______________ forms.

Geometric

__________________ was a very important patron of modern art; sitting for both the artists Picasso and Man Ray.

Gertrude Stein

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is __________________.

Gestalt

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of form.

Gesture

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618. What is it called?

Golden Section

Color can be used for healing and meditative purposes. The color ____________ has positive associations in Islamic art and supports the peacefulness of prayer.

Green

Medieval associations of artists, craftsmen or tradesmen was called__________________________.

Guilds

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating a(n) ___________________ design.

Harmonious

This female artist practiced monotype printmaking and was a member of a group of abstract painters called The Irascibles.

Hedda Sterne

A flat work of art has two dimensions: _________________ and width.

Height

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.

Hierarchical

A carved panel where the figures project with a great deal of depth from the background is called _________________.

High Relief

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

Highlight

California artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface.

Impasto

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

Implied Motion

Another name for freestanding sculpture is ___________________.

In the Round

This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists.

India Ink

This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian.

Intaglio

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ______________ rhythm.

Irregular Rhythm

What American artist (1960-1988) set a record in May 2017 when his painting Untitled (0.014) sold for $110.5 million.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Dutch artist who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. In Western culture, red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as these two: (this question requires you to select two of the following answers)

Love & Danger

The material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art is called the ______________________________.

Medium

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

Alexander Calder invented the ___________________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

Mobile

Work that only uses one color from the color wheel, plus a range of that color's value is called

Monochromatic Color Scheme

This type of print can be made using any print process, but with the intention of creating a unique image rather than an edition.

Monoprint

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________________ scale.

Monumental

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on the mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the _______________ of the chase.

Movement

Loongkoonan is an Aboriginal artist from Western Australia, who started painting in her ___________________________.

Nineties

Art that does not depict a recognizable subject.

Non-Objective

The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the ______________.

Outline

The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry, drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886.

Pastel

An organization or individual that sponsor a work of art.

Patron

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ___________________.

Pattern

Before African-American artist John Biggers installed his mural Night of the Poor in Burrows Hall at Pennsylvania State University, he did a large drawing in this medium.

Pencil

The Cirque du Soleil which relies on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech are what type of artists?

Performance artists

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

Pigment

The print process, used in lithography and silkscreen, where the inked image area and the non-inked image area are at the same height is referred to as ________________________.

Planography

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are __________ and ___________.

Plato and Arostotle

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as

Pointillism

Michelangelo planned a grand sculptural scheme for the tomb of _______________, although it was never completed.

Pope Julius II

Red, Yellow, and Blue are

Primary Colors

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

Proportions

Object found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ______________________,

Readymades

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

Red

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

The depiction of recognizable figures and objects in an artwork are referred to as ___________________.

Representational

The sculpture called Forever Free by Edmonia Lewis would be considered a/an __________________ artwork.

Representational

This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70..

Robert Smithson

The dry powdered resin that melts when heated, used in the aquatint process is called _____________________.

Rosin

This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.

Sanguine

The size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement is called __________________.

Scale

The undulating surface of Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain is meant to suggest the construction of _________________.

Ships

This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

Silkscreen

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

Silverpoint

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside one another to create an elegant ___________________________.

Spiral

The opposite of emphasis is __________________________.

Subordination

Meret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational, conscious thought. Her fur-lined teacup and saucer, Object, conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________________ texture.

Subversive

T/F - A German author named Alois Senefelder, out of money and looking for a cheaper method to print his newest play, devised the lithographic printing process in 1796.

TRUE

T/F - Even though Louise Bourgeois's Maman is made of bronze, the effect is one of lightness.

TRUE

T/F - If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with the negative star shape on the paper.

TRUE

T/F - Leonardo da Vinci's sketched studies of a fetus in the womb, c. 1510-13, were rare, because the Church banned all acts that desecrated the body, including dissection.

TRUE

T/F - The artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics, for "economic crimes".

TRUE

T/F - The oldest museum in our country is the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805 as a museum and an art school.

TRUE

T/F - if an artist were to depict five people each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi- point perspective.

TRUE

The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving Shah Jahan as a memorial to his third and beloved wife.

TRUE

"Color ___________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

Temperature

Blending a Primary Color with a Secondary Color will create

Tertiary Colors

The medium in Marc Quinn's Self is _______________.

The artists own blood

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ___________________.

The illusion of motion

What does D. J. Hall's rich use of colored pencil communicate to the viewer in her drawing Piece of Cake?

The intense light of a California afternoon

By depicting full, dark hair and thinning, grayed hair in her drawing in charcoal and graphite titled Life Strands, Zhang Chun Hong successfully creates a metaphor for:

The passage of time

Ancient Greek philosophers speculated that color was not a state of matter but a state of mind. What do you think is meant by this statement?

This statement reflects the line of thought that each of us have common social experiences as well as a set of uniquely personal experiences in life. These philosophers believed those experiences we each have are accompanied by colors. As such, colors can invoke particular feelings within us based on the experiences we've associated them with.

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.

Three Point

Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied ____________________.

Triangular Perspective

T/F - Agnolo Bronzino's painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art.

True

T/F - The ancient Egyptian depiction of The Journey of the Sun God Re was painted on a coffin.

True

There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.

Two

This style of printmaking means "pictures of the floating world" and was practiced by the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro.

Ukiyo-e

"The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called _________

Value

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to suggest ________ that create a greater sense of form and depth.

Values

This is the kind of diversity that can bring many different ideas, media or elements together in one composition.

Variety

This particular artist wanted to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area.

Vija Celmins

The elements of art form the basic ___________ of art.

Vocabulary

This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but does not necessarily imply weight.

Volume

Sonia Delaunay used this medium for her lively illustrations accompanying Blaise Cendrar's poetry in their "simultaneous" artist's book.

Water Color

This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey).

Water Color

Colored pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ________________.

Wax

Erasers can be used by artist as drawing tools. In 1953 Robert Raushenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.

Willem de Kooning

Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?

Wool

Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as ______________________.

funerary adornments