Art Appreciation 1-8, 11 & 13 Fill in the blank

Chapter 4: A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the _______ of the colors

values

Chapter 5: _______ relates to the size of objects in a work in relation to their actual size

Scale

Chapter 4: A hue darker than the hue's normal value is called a ________

Shade

Chapter 13: The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are ______ ______ and Skeleton and Skin

Shell system

Chapter 11: The additive process of sculpture includes both ________ and assembling

modeling

Chapter 1-3: The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its _______ characteristics

recurring

Chapter 5: Through repetition, any of the visual elements can take on a _______ within a work of art

rhythm

Chapter 4: Textures we experience through the sense of touch are called actual texture or ________ textures

tactile

Chapter 8: The earliest surviving woodcut image, dated 868 C.E., has a representation of the _________ preaching

Buhdda

Chapter 8: One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink lays ______ the surface of the printing plate

Below

Chapter 8: The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing music is ____________

Lithography

Chapter 11: If a work has been created by replacing a wax model with molten metal, then the material used for the completed work probably was _________

Bronze

Chapter 8: Serigraphy means, literally, "_____ ______"

"Silk writing"

Chapter 1-3: During the Middle Ages the term "art" was used roughly in the same sense as "_______"

"craft"

Chapter 1-3: Our modern ideas about art carry with them idea about the 1) ______ and the 2) ________

1) artist & 2) audience

Chapter 13: The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles of columns were developed by the Ancient Greeks in the ___, 6th, and 4th centuries B.C.E respectively

7th

Chapter 7: ___________ painting medium, developed after chemists created strong, weatherproof, industrial paints, has challenged the supremacy of oil painting

Acrylic

Chapter 8: In 1515, ________ ______ was appointed court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian 1

Albercht Durer

Chapter 6: The close association between writing and painting is evident in ________ cultures where the brush has long been the preferred drawing tool as well as writing instrument

Asian

Chapter 11: __________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture

Assembling

The _____-____, in Kyoto, Japan is an elegant example of post-and-lintel architecture

Byodo-in

Chapter 13: A __________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end

Cantilever

Chapter 7: In fresco painting, a drawing called a _________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment

Cartoon

Chapter 11: Wood and stone are the principal materials for ________

Carving

Chapter 6: _______ remains after wood is burned

Charcoal

Chapter 6: The _________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.

Chinese

Chapter 11: Sculptors will often create a "sketch" out of _______ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice

Clay

Chapter 5: Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create _________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art

Conceptual

Chapter 13: The ________ column order of architecture has a capital consisting of stylized, carved acanthus leaves

Corinthian

The ____-_______ process dates back to the 3rd millennium B.C.E

Lost-wax

Chapter 13: The Crystal Palace and the ________ _______ were constructed in the 19th century using iron and steel as building materials

Eiffel Tower

Chapter 7: The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is ________

Encaustic

Chapter 5: When an artist uses directional lines, color, sizes, or shapes to draw the viewer's eye to a certain area of a work, that artist is using the emphasis or _______ _______ principle

Focal point

Chapter 13: Falling Water is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of _______ ______ _______

Frank Lloyd Wright

Chapter 13: ________ _______ _______ believed that a home should should blend with its environment and the interior and exterior of the home should be visually and physically integrated

Frank Lloyd Wright

Chapter 1-3: The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors

French

Chapter 6: The artist _______ _________ is often associated with conte crayon drawings

George Straut

Chapter 5: _______ ________ began an association with the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1917 that lasted until his death in 1946

Georgia O'Keelf

Chapter 7: ______ is a mixture of white pigment and glue that seals support and can be sanded and rubbed to a smooth, ivory like finish

Gesso

Chapter 6: The use of pen and ink to make expressive thick and think lines is referred to as calligraphic or _______ lines

Gestural

Chapter 6: __________ constitutes the marking materials of a common pencil

Graphite

Chapter 6: The media of ______ _______ is the most forgiving of mistakes and changes of decision

Graphite pencil

Chapter 4: _________ relates to the visual information surrounding a shape that we detach and focus on

Ground

Chapter 6: The traditional metalpoint _______ recipe calls for a mixture of bone ash, glue, and white pigment in water

Ground

Chapter 7: Encaustic painting requires the application of a ______ source close to the surface to fuse the colors on a completed painting

Heat

Chapter 5: A work of art which bases scale on the relative importance of the people depicted is using ______________ scale

Heirarchical

Chapter 13: When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ________ _______

Hypostyle Hall

Chapter 1-3: __________ is the term that relates to a study of the symbols and story in a work of art

Iconography

Chapter 7: The technique of thickly applying layers of paint is known as _________

Impasto

Chapter 4: Artists can portray _________ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted surface

Implied

Chapter 8: In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called an ____________

Impression

Chapter 11: The concept __________, conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art

Installation

Chapter 4: _________ perspective is the viewpoint form above and parallel lines do not converge in the distance

Isometric

Chapter 4: __________ can best be described as "the path traced by a moving point"

Line

Chapter 13: Post and ________ structural system was used in most ancient Greek and Egyptian temples

Lintel

Chapter 6: Ink is an example of a ________ medium in drawing

Liquid

Chapter 13: A structure, which is created from sun-dried brick and coated with mud plaster, such as the Great Friday Mosque in Mali, have ________ - _______ _________ type walls

Low-bearing Structure

Chapter 8: In the 17th Century, an amateur artist from the Netherlands boasted to his king that he had created a method for printing shadings of gray without using lines. The printing technique was __________ which is part of the intaglio family of processes

Mezzotint

Chapter 8: The printing technique of __________ is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray

Mezzotint

Chapter 11: __________ do not believe in trying to influence people rough images; they favored industrial and construction materials, and they attempted to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves

Minimalist

Chapter 8: Except in the case of __________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking

Monotype

Chapter 7: A __________ paint is one that dissolves in something other than water

Nonaqueous

Chapter 1-3: All of these methods: animal fats and pigments mixed together, the use of reed brushes, and powdered pigments blown through hollow reeds used by ____________ painters

Nonrepesentational

Chapter 8: An artist who is directly engaged in creating an edition of prints from an original master usually makes a limited number of prints, ___________ and signs them

Numbers

Chapter 13: The opening in the top of the Pantheon's dome is called an _________

Occulous

Chapter 7: _______ paint dries so slowly that the finished painting may not be completely dry for months

Oil

Chapter 4: The term _______ refers to the board on which artists mix colors or the artist's range of color

Palette

Chapter 4: In a two-dimensional art form, the actual flat surface on which the work is executed is called the ________ _____

Picture plane

Chapter 7: The substance which provides the color in paint is known as _________

Pigment

Chapter 5: The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through size and __________ of the figures

Placement

Chapter 5: __________ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole

Proportion

Chapter 13: __ __________ ______ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome

R. Buckminster Fuller

Chapter 6: Pen and ink was the favorite sketching medium of _____________, one of the greatest draftsmen of the 17th century

Rambrandt

Chapter 4: __________ describes the process of sunlight being broken up into a spectrum or rainbow band

Refraction

Chapter 8: A rubber stamp creates a ______ type print

Relief

Chapter 5: The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfect male form with the perfect geometry of the circle and ________

Square

Chapter 13: Gothic builders developed buttresses, piers, and flying buttresses to _______ cathedral walls from the outside

Stabilize

Chapter 13: East Asian roofs usually present a distinctive curving profile, which is made possible by ________ trusses

Stepped

Chapter 4: Artist who use tiny dots in varying concentrations to indicate light and shadow are using the ________ drawing technique

Stippling

Chapter 13: Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are tensile strength and ________ _______

Structural Weight

Chapter 1-3: When the author uses the term ______, he identifies it as constant, recurring, and coherent

Style

Chapter 1-3: Iconography involves identifying, describing, and interpreting the ______ ______ in a work of art

Subject matter

Chapter 1-3: The objects or events that a work depicts are known as

Subject matter

Chapter 11: The carving method is more aggressive than modeling, more direct than casting, and is a __________ process

Subtractive

Chapter 5: In a two-dimensional work with __________ balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by distributing visual weight accordingly

Symmetrical

Chapter 13: ________ ______ designates, in architecture, the ability of a material to span horizontal distances with minimum support from below

Tensile Strength

Chapter 4: During the 20th century, ______ and _____ became a recognized element of art

Time and Motion

Chapter 13: The Taj Mahal was built in the 17th century by the Muslim emperor of India for serving as a _____ for his wife

Tomb

Chapter 7: Watercolor's primary characteristic is its

Transparency

Chapter 13: Aqueducts were constructed by the Romans to _______ water

Transport

Chapter 5: Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art

Variety

Chapter 1-3: According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is what it means to the ________

Viewers

Chapter 1-3: __________ paintings meditate on the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

Vitaias

Chapter 5: Pablo Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" is based in symmetrical balance, but the two sides are not identical mirror images. This composition allows him to explore the traditional theme of _________

Vitias

Chapter 13: Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, ________ ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building

Wainwright Building

Chapter 7: In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to _____ plaster

Wet

Chapter 6: Historically in silverpoint, lines were drawn with a silver _______ onto a surface coated with bone dust

Wire

Chapter 11: The term ____ = ________ may be used to refer to the depth of the forms in a coin

bas - relief

Chapter 4: In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of _________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms

chicros

Chapter 13: The stresses in a ______ are much like those of an arch, except that they are spread in a circle around the perimeter

dome

Chapter 11: Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are known as _________

earthworks

Chapter 7: Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are _______ and fresco

encritic (could be spelled wrong)

Chapter 4: Parallel lines receding into the distance, in linear perspective, seem to converge at a vanishing point which is located on the __________

horizon

Chapter 11: Casting is known as an _________ method

indirect

Chapter 5: Another term for asymmetrical balance is ________ balance

informal

Chapter 11: Artists looking for a new direction in thought processes related to artwork created a new art form, called _________, in which space is presented as a work of art that can be entered, explored and experienced

installation

Chapter 8: The two main differences between prints and most other forms of art are: prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in _________ of the same image

multiple

Chapter 4: In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called _________ shapes.

organic

Chapter 13: Built almost 2000 years ago, the _____ __ ____ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch

pont du gard

Chapter 8: The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of an artist-quality ___________ to make prints

printer