Art Appreciation Final Exam

Objects which are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be.......rather then functional.

Aesthetic

Impasto is

All of the above

On the color wheel, colors next to each other are known as?

Analogous

What does animism depict in representational art?

Animals

List one role of an artist found in text

Artist make functional objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate them with meaning.

The artisit's relation to the public quite often depends on ?

Artist trying to portray something

This type of line is considered to be the most dynamic and suggestive of movement

Diagonal

What is a word that is used to describe an artists attempt to draw our eyes to one area of composition?

Emphasis

The starry night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artists......?.....line

Expressive

Found near Willendorf, Austria, the Venus of Willendorf is most likely a:

Fertility doll

In art, a two dimensional area is usually refereed to as shape. A three dimensional area is?

Mass

Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance, in a large part due to:

Meddici family

Neolithic culture developed quickly in the world's fertile valleys. By the year 4000 B.C. E., urban societies had developed in:

Mesopotamia Egypt

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to the specific states of mind or events in life of buddha are called?

Mudra

The subject of this painting by French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres is

Odalesque

One of the prime subjects of neoclassical art is?

Ordinary existence

Pattern results from?

Our recognition of any formal element that repeats itself.

. The Acropolis in Athens, begun in 480 B.C. E. was inspired by the leadership of:

Pericles

Two artist's associated with cubism

Picasso and Braque

To evaluate a work of art properly we must deal with it in the context of?

Society

The word neolithic means?

Stone age

The Votive figures represent worshippers from the complex society of

Sumer

What objects form the dominant focal point in David's Oath of the Horatii?

Swords and outstretched arms

The purpose of an aesthetic object is?

To stimulate a sense of beauty.

Aesthetics is defined as the urge to respond.....

To what we find beautiful

Repetition often implies monotony, yet is also creates a sense of?

Unity

The relative level of lightness and darkness is refered to as?

Value

When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a?

Wash

What was used on Egyptian scrolls?

water color

When each side of composition is exactly the same it is called?

Absolute Balance

The two artists that were concerned with post impressionism are

Seurat and Cezanne

Andy Warhol created many art works useing this commercial process

Silk Screen

In a work of art, "content" refers to?

A message communicated

According to Sayre the process of "seeing" is

Both physical and mental

What is the preparatory drawing for a fresco ?

Cartoon

The Great Hall of Bulls is located in southern France at:

Cheuvet Cave

Artist of the Renaissance found their chief source of inspiration in:

Classic art of Greek and Rome.

Which of the following is not a quality of texture?

Content

On the color wheel blues and greens are usually thought of as?

Cool Colors

An artist who rejected modern society and painted images of "primitive" island culture.

Gauguin

The Nike of Samothrace is an excellent example of

Helenistic Realism

The Palette of King Narmer illustrates the sizing of figures as determined by social rank. This type of compositional organization is called:

Hieraarchic Seate

Jan Van Eyck's painting "The marriage of Giovanni Arnolfi" depicts mamy objects that have meaning. The use or study of these objects is called?

Iconography

In Romanticism, regardless of the subject matter, paintings revealed the artist's.....?

Individuality

On Newtons color wheel, color that lie directly between a secondary and a primary is called?

Intermediate

Michelangelo's "David" came under attack at first viewing because?

It symbolized the hand of God

What was Van Gogh most enthusiastic about?

Japanese Prints

Printing process in which the printing surface is completely flat.

Lithography

Seurat's technique for applying color in small dots is called?

Pointillism

In work of art, visual rhythm is a result of

Recognition

What are the three primary colors?

Red, Yellow and Green

A common rubber stamp is an example of the print making process of?

Relief

Naturalistic or figurative art is sometimes used to describe?

Representation

Albert Bierstadt "Rocky Mountains" illustrates a type of art called ____ art

Representational art

The 19th century style of art that attempted to express all feelings and passion is called?

Romantic

Gericault's famous raft of the Medusa helped fuel

Romanticism

Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the annual salon exhibition in Paris in 1863. Where was it exhibited?

Salon of Refuses