Art Appreciation Mid Term

Renaissance

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

Tint

(n.) a delicate color or hue; a slight trace of something; (v.) to give color to something; to dye

When was paper invented?

105 AD

Pieter Bruegel Hunters in the Snow

1565

Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits

1849

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

1942

Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France ________ years ago.

25,000

Taoism

A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature.

linear perspective

A monocular cue for perceiving depth; the more parallel lines converge, the greater their perceived distance.

Collagraph

A print made from an image built up with glue and sometimes other materials.

Motif

A recurring theme, subject or idea

sketch

A rough representation of the main features of an object or scene and often made as a preliminary study.

Pointillism

A school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye

Shape

A shape is created when a line is enclosed

Rhythm

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Acrylic

A synthetic polymer used in high-performance latex or water-based paints.

Tempera

A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein; also, the medium itself.

Assemblage

A three-dimensional composition in which a collection of objects is unified in a sculptural work.

Rib Vaults

A vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them.

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as

Pointillism

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum

Prism

This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens

Raphael

One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz's Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called

Relative Placement

The Belgian Surrealist artist created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to

René Magritte

Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?

Romanesque

Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808

Romanticism

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of

Saturation

Bas-relief

Sculpture whose ornament or figures are somewhat raised above the background

emphasis

Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color

Temperature

Maya pyramids primarily served as platforms for

Temples

Mary Cassatt

The Boating Party

Caravaggio

The Calling of St. Matthew

Vincent Van Gogh

The Night Cafe

Artist's book

a book produced by an artist, usually an expensive limited edition, often using specialized printing processes

High-relief

a carved panel where the figures project with a great deal of depth from the background

By using what color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

rosin

a dry powdered resin that melts when heated, used in the aquatint process

hypostyle hall

a hall with a roof supported by columns

Dome

a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.

Graphite

a shiny, black substance that is used in pencils

Post-and-lintel

a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)

This is the most vivid element of art and design

color

analogous colors

colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called

complementary colors

Line

considered to be a moving dot. It has an endless number of uses in the creation of art

Value

deals with the lightness or darkness of a color

In the DC Comics image of Superman, the figure is portrayed at an extreme angle. This what view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention

foreshortened

Honroe Daumier, Rue Transnonian

graphic satire

Ignudi

nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

secondary colors

orange, green, violet

oil paint

paint made of pigment floating in oil

Cave Paintings from Pech Merle Cave

pigment with saliva

life drawing

practice of drawing from a live model

The traditional primary colors are

red, yellow, blue

support

refers to any material onto which paint is applied

Form

refers to objects that are 3-Dimensional, or have length, width, and height

Texture

refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched

What did Michelangelo believe to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts?

sculpture

How did artist D. J. Hall use color pencil to achieve rich color and intense light effects in her work Piece of Cake?

she pressed the pencil aggressively into the paper

When what colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

Naturalistic

term refers to observations made of individual's behavior in an everyday life setting

architecture

the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

relief

the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area

pattern

the geometric arrangement of objects in space

Chiaroscuro

the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

cross-hatching

the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness

Formal Analysis

the visual analysis of artistic form

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses what perspective

three-point

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a

value range

Artists can create a sense of by using light and dark values

Depth

The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created in his work Travelers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values

Depth

Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment. True or False?

False

Henri Matisse was a member of the what movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could

Fauve

Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?

Francesco de Medici

Henri Matisse

French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

Green has positive associations in Islamic art

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called

Hatching

What did René Magritte express to his viewers when he wrote "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") on his work The Treachery of Images?

He wants us to recognize that what appears to be a pipe is not really a pipe; it is and illusion, nothing more than paint of a flat surface

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and

Highlight

Bone ash

Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is

Hue

What is the name of the artist that painted The Yellow Christ?

Paul Gauguin

The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing

Pink polka-dots trash bags

background

Plane in a composition furthest from the viewer

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called

Chiaroscuro

What culture first reproduced and printed artworks on paper

China

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be

Closer

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

Cross-hatching

Where is the Great Serpent Mound located

Adams County, Ohio

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as

Aggression

Where is Shah Jahan, The Taj Mahal located

Agra

Ready-mades

An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.

Colors fall adjacent (side by side) to each other on a color wheel

Analogous

engraving

Art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints

When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called

Atmospheric perspective

Principles of Art

Balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, rhythm, unity, and variety

Where is Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House located

Bennelong Point, Sydney Australia

Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972

Berkely art musuem

Stained Glass

In Gothic architecture, the colored glass used for windows

registration

In art and archaeology, in sculpture as well as in painting, a register is a horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines

Editions

In printmaking, the total number of prints made from a given plate or block. Each print is numbered in the order that it was printed. For example, edition 32 of a print would indicate that the print was the 32nd print printed.

Art

Is the making of objects such as paintings, buildings, drawings, pottery, weaving, sculptures and prints.

content

It mainly focuses on the physical aspects of the artwork, such as medium, color, value, space, etc., rather than on what it communicates

California artist/impasto (Joan Brown)

Joan Brown (February 13, 1938 - October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, what showed that the human eye can be deceived by color

Josef Albers

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Decapitating Holofernes

Colossal Head

La Venta, Mexico 900-400 BCE Olmec

Peiter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the fall of Icarus. Oil paint

Impressionists

Late 19th century artistic movement characterized by visible brush strokes, softer colors, unusual angles, and ordinary subject matter.

Thutmosis, Bust of Queen Nefertiti

Limestone

This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines

Linear perspective

What architect was called the father of Modernism

Luis Sullivan

Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water

Mill Run, Pennsylvania

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

Oil Paint

Suzanne Valadon- The Blue Room

Oil paint

Monotype

One of a kind print made from painted or inked surface.

Raphael, School of Athens

Paint, plaster

Artemisia Gentileschi used what medium in , Allegory of Painting?

Painting

Rene Magritte

The Treachery of Images

focal point

The center of interest on a page or set of facing pages, created by using color, contrast and proportion.

Which does the following painting by Spanish artist Francisco De Zurbaran, depicts?

The dead body of St. Bonaventure

Jacob Lawrence

The life of John Brown

In what year was the Suleimaniye mosque designed and who designed it.

The mosque was ordered by the sultan Suleyman, and architect Sinan built it in 7 years, between 1550-1557 AD.

foreground

The panel closest to the viewer

In the ground

The part of a pattern that does not command attention; the background.

Edvard Much, The Scream

The pictures are tied together in terms of subject matter and form, and focus on existential topics such as love, pain, anxiety, jealousy and death.

contrast

The state of being noticeably different from something else when put or considered together.

What does the lion in Memorial to king leopold of the Belgians symbolize.

The stone blocks are a reference to King Leopold II's nickname, the 'King-Builder'The elephant and the lion symbolise Congo's magnificent nature and the abundant natural wealth beneath its soil

Emil Nolde

This artist was a member of the Nazi party and had to paint in secret

The painter Thomas Hart Benton varied the intensity of the color green in The Wreck of the Ole '97 to help the viewer feel at a safe distance from the train wreck? True or False

True

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as

Value

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called

Value

Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.

Vanishing Point

Contrapposto

an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs.

The German artist Albrecht Durer created Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief Printmaking method.

aquatint printmaking

kinetic

art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect

The French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon created chiaroscuro by using chalk on paper.

black and white

Kathe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait

charcoal

Casting

involves making a mould and then pouring a liquid material, such as molten metal, plastic, rubber or fibreglass into the mould

impressionism

is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities

Space

is the area around, above, and within an object

Color

is the element of art that refers to reflected light

This system, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

isometric perspective

What are the elements of art

line, shape, form, space, color, value, texture

Fresco

work of wall or ceiling art created by applying pigment onto intonaco, or a thin layer of plaster.