Art Mod 4 quiz
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.
conceptual art
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.
extreme performance pieces
Barbara Kruger's Belief + Doubt (=Sanity):
fills a room with graphic text in black, white, and red
Match the filmmaker with a description of his or her work:
-director of an experimental film based on dreams, recurring objects, and repeated image sequences (Maya Deren) -known for silent films with trick effects and humor, including one about astronomers launched from a cannon onto the moon (Georges Méliès) -animator who incorporates elements from Japanese mythology into his films (Hayao Miyazaki) -photographer who first captured sequences of still images of a horse and then made them appear to move (Eadweard Muybridge) -filmmaker renowned for an innovative and influential film that commented on a newspaper tycoon and the American Dream (Orson Welles) -Oscar-winning director who used cutting-edge visual effects, combining live action with computer-generated imagery (Peter Jackson)
Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane are:
-elaborate sets and moving camera shots -dramatic lighting, innovative editing, and natural sound -deep focus and low camera angles -fabricated newspaper headlines and character flashbacks (all of the other answers)
Auteur theory ________.
-includes study of films by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Jane Campion, and Wes Anderson -considers films to be art, as they represent a realization of the director's creative vision -focuses on the director or screenwriter rather than other contributors -highlights characteristic elements of a film or selection of films, including both appearance and content (all of the other answers)
Videos designed to be art can be made to be presented ________.
-on television screens -projected on walls -in art galleries or at art events -in such a way that they transform a space (all of the other answers)
In 1525, this German master printmaker wrote a manual establishing the first set of rules for the construction of letterforms.
Dürer
The earliest films featured elaborate sets and behind-the-scenes footage. True/False
False
The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark. True/False
False
What artist created the digital work Does It Make Sense?
Greiman
Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?
Johannes Gutenberg
The work of ________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.
Marcel Duchamp
Match the artwork with its medium:
Metal-Benvenuto Cellini, Salt Cellar Fiber-Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach Glass-The Portland Vase Ceramic-Peter Voulkos, Gallas Rock Wood-Captain Richard Carpenter
Ceramic artwork from this Chinese era is highly regarded for its multiple glaze layers.
Ming Dynasty
Which of the following artworks creates a space the viewer is invited to walk into?
Mobility by Yinka Shonibare, MBE
This twentieth-century American ceramist created large expressive works using the slab method of clay construction.
Peter Voulkos
James Montgomery Flagg created an illustration of this character, who the artist used for recruitment posters during World Wars I and II.
Uncle Sam
What is the difference between a historical drama and a biopic?
a biopic is based on an actual person's life with some details added to the facts
One of the earliest surviving photographs is an outdoor scene by Daguerre, featuring:
a busy Parisian street with only one man at a corner
This mythical creature from the folklore of the Tewa people is a water guardian serpent god.
an avanyu
The photographer of Fragility used a process called ________ .
autochrome to create painterly and romantic color photographs
Ed Kienholz's The Beanery includes sculptural replicas of ________.
bar inhabitants
What is the genre of the film Frida (2.9.14)?
historical: biopic
These simple, symbolic graphics are often used for products that people of many different cultures use, so that there is no need for language translation.
icons
Images that are created to inform as well as to embellish a written or printed text are called:
illustrations
When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?
in more recent times, long after photography was invented
Composer John Cage hoped that his innovative performances would:
inspire people to pay attention to the life (and art) happening all around them
A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.
it creates very detailed images
The South African wood turner Andrew Early creates his work using a power-driven spinning support called a ________.
lathe
Molly Gochman's Red Sand Project is designed to:
raise awareness and start discussions about human trafficking
When a metalwork artist works the back side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a design from behind it is called ________.
repoussé
The film The Artist, released in 2011, comments on "the good old days" of the film industry by using ________.
silence and black and white
This method of clay production is based on the creation of flat sheets of wet clay.
slab
What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?
snapshot aesthetic
Hyo-In Kim's To Be Modern #2 takes the form of a traditional Korean dress, but it is decorated with ________.
tiny versions of fashionable Western clothing
In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.
truthful
The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ________.
typography
This type of image is generated by math-based computer applications often used by designers who create illustrations in digital media.
vector
What does the word "photograph" mean?
writing with light