Art and Experience Final
In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?
Copper plate covered with silver iodine
What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In printmaking, when an edition is complete, what will typically happen to the matrix?
It will be canceled so that no more prints can be made from it.
What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?
Lenses
What printing process is considered the most direct and effortless, features that lead to its use in daily newspapers?
Lithography
"Stacking and piling" is another term for what structural system?
Load-bearing construction
What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments?
Motion
What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?
Passage of time
Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.
Pont du Gard at Nîmes
________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.
R. Buckminster Fuller
With what principle of design does sculptor Claes Oldenburg often experiment?
Scale
What term is used to describe "silk writing"?
Serigraphy
In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the shape of forms.
chiaroscuro
What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?
A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.
For what purpose was color photography first widely used?
Advertising
What structure is a horizontal form supported at only one end?
Cantilever
How may the appearance of balance be achieved in a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance?
Distribute visual weight accordingly
What type of structure is generated by rotating an arch 360 degrees about a vertical central axis?
Dome
Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?
Earthworks
Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of what designer?
Frank Lloyd Wright
A flying buttress is an arched exterior support system found on what style of building?
Gothic
What features are NOT considered principles of design?
Texture and color
The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to what feature?
The golden section
What is the primary characteristic of watercolors?
Transparency
What aspect is manipulated to affect the balance of the composition?
Visual weight
Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building.
Wainwright Building
In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to what surface?
Wet plaster
A(n) _________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script.
auteur
In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.
cartoon
When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ______.
hypostyle hall
A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.
logo
When the name of a company, institution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as a ______.
logotype
In printmaking, a(n) ______ is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper.
matrix
Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral.
natural
Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.
variety