Art Appreciation
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Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called what?
One-point linear perspective
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
Gestural lines
Lines that are loose and free-form are called what?
Implied lines
Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called what?
Motion
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was not able to include what in photographs, such as Le Boulevard du Temple?
Aesthetic
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional, but they are called what?
Chiaroscuro
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is what?
Triptychs
Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin and his workshop of artists, are called what?
Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions
Sayre (the author of your textbook) states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
Expressive line
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's________.
To teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"
What was the mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967?
Photorealistic
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called what?
In Italy in the early renaissance
When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?
Camera obscura
Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?
Honoré Daumier
Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints, such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834?
Michelangelo
Which of these artists created a work titled Pietà?
Because Muhammed said that to depict a human is to claim that one can make that human image come to life.
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
Cooler and less distinct
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear to be what?
Subtractive Sculptural Processes
Wood and stone carvings are examples of doing what in art?
Tenebrism
Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called what?
In-the-round
Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?
Radial balance
Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates what?
Editing
D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?
Iconography
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called what?
Live flowering plants
Jeff Koons' Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials, _________.
Binders
Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?
Two-point linear perspective
Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?
Acrylic
Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?
Everyone in japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji
Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because of what?
Charcoal
In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium?
Last judgement, sin, redemption
In Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the woman depicts what?
What the work expresses or means
In a work of art, "content" refers to what?
Isaac Newton
In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
Encaustic
The Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using which medium?
Built in the memory of his wife
The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan for what reason?
Oil painting
The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called what?
Clay
The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is what?
Mudra
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called what?
Representational art
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe what?
Egyptian papyrus
The word paper is derived from what country?
Letters he wrote
We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from what?
They are both earthwork
What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?
It pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it
What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
It dries slower allowing more naturalistic development
What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?
African masks he saw at a paris museum
What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
