ART 111 FINAL
Architect Louis Sullivan used this famous phrase to express his design philosophy.
"form follows function"
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:
. using materials chiefly from the surrounding countryside b. coloring the concrete to match the rocks c. mimicking the layers of the rocks in his design d. letting the underlying rock jut into the living space ALL OF THE ABOVE
The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.
Jan Van Eyck
The work of ________ was directly influential on the conceptual art movement.
Marcel Duchamp
Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.
Michelangelo
An 'earthwork' is a type of sculpture that uses the natural world as a "canvas." Natural processes will modify the earthwork over time, even after the artist's input is finished.
TRUE
If an artist wanted to draw a dynamic scene of a storm at night, charcoal would be a good medium to use.
TRUE
Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made.
TRUE
if an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, tempera would be a good medium to use.
TRUE
Architects consider this when designing a building
The site, engineering, materials, the needs of the user
When Dorothea Lange took this photograph she was working for
US government
In Audrey Flack's Marilyn Monroe, the burning candle, the flower, and the hourglass are typical of a kind of symbolism in art that reminds us of death. This kind of symbolism is known as ________.
Vanitas
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.
a. break down categories of traditional artworks b. break down the traditional boundaries between art and life c. focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook ALL OF THE ABOVE
This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.
acrylic
A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________
an edition
An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.
an installation
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on
animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood
Artists who model forms using soft pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.
armature
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
asymmetrical
The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.
bas-relief
The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.
beeswax
Buon fresco requires no
binder
Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from ________, an alloy of copper and tin.
bronze
The difference between buon fresco and fresco secco is:
buon fresco is painting on wet plaster and fresco secco is painting on dry plaster
The sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a metal printing plate in intaglio printmaking is called a ____________.
burin
This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.
casting
What is not subtractive sculpting?
casting
What is not an additive process?
chiseling
the three kinds of unity are:
compositional, conceptual, gestalt
Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.
conceptual
This building material is a mixture of cement and ground stone.
concrete
What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?
construction
or his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________.
create the block and cut the lines into it
In Mining the Museum Fred Wilson reorganized objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society, essentially taking on the role of a ________ in addition to that of an artist.
curator
Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.
detail
This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect.
drypoint
When were the first successful photographs?
early 1800s
The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.
egg
This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate.
engraving
This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate.
etching
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her
extreme performance art pieces
This feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built.
flying buttresses
The architect Le Corbusier's International Style favors a strongly ________ organization of forms.
geometric
In the nineteenth century, this material became both less costly and more widely available for construction.
glass, iron, concrete, steel
When a printmaking rolls ink on a printing plate and then presses paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as an ______________.
impression
Another name for freestanding sculpture is
in the round
This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space
installation
When the design on a printing plate is cut into the surface of the plate, this is known as ________ printmaking.
intaglio
A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that
it creates very detailed images
A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called ________ sculpture.
kinetic
This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.
kinetic
This printmaking process means 'stone writing' in Greek: _____________.
lithography
The name of this bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material. This method is known as ________.
lost-wax casting
A color that is muddy or grayish has a ________ chroma, or saturation.
low
This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rocking tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away.
mezzotint
A ______________ can be created using any printmaking method, but the plate is changed between each impression, creating an edition in which each print is unique.
monoprint
____________ is the process when an artist makes no permanent marks on a plate. Instead he makes an image on it in ink and then wipes away the ink in places where he wants the paper to show through. The image is then printed; only one impression is possible.
monotype
Silkscreen printing uses a stencil process, and was first developed in ________ during the Sung Dynasty
China
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.
Conceptual art
The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of ________, date to c. 1600-1500 bce.
Crete
The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.
motion
Over time, exposure to the elements can add this surface coloration to metals. It can also be created with the use of chemical preparations.
patina
n which of the following mediums is actual motion employed?
performance art
Daguerrotypes are made on
polished metal plates
This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.
post and lintel
________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.
radial
Objects 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
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.
relief
When the design on a printing plate is raised above the surface of the plate, this is known as _______ printmaking.
relief
The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture.
rounded
Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.
sculpture
This printmaking process creates a stencil, or perforated template, which allows ink or paint to pass through
serigraphy (silkscreen)
Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines:
silhouette drawings and projections
In order to create an interior space, and architect must design a distance between two supports called
span
Jackson Pollock is known for:
splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
In the medieval period, most painters used which type material?
tempera
The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________.
the aperture
All sculptures have this characteristic in common
they exist in three-dimensional space
In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.
truthful
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
unity
An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is ________.
unrecognizable
Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.
variety
this is a ceiling based on the structural properties of the arch
vault
Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.
wax
What materials can be used to create a sculpture?
wax, stone, plastic, ice
A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.
woodcut
In Joseph Beuys's coyote, I like America and America Likes Me, the artist:
wrapped himself in felt and lived for 5 days alone in an art gallery with a coyote
What does the word "photograph" mean?
writing with light
An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.
FALSE
An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
FALSE
Color photographs could be made from the time that the first photographic processes were invented.
FALSE
Formal analysis cannot be used to study a film
FALSE
If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.
FALSE
Oil paint dries very quickly
FALSE
Reinforced concrete is a raw material that has always been available, architects just did not like the look of it until the nineteenth century.
FALSE
The best surface to paint the medium of encaustic on is fabric.
FALSE
The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark.
FALSE
When an artist is using the subtractive method of carving a material that shatters easily would be a good choice.
FALSE
The Crystal Palace inspired other architects including ________, who created a tower in Paris that was originally intended to be temporary.
Gustave Eiffel
____ pencils are hard and dull slowly, while ____ pencils are soft and dull quickly
H/B