Art
These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by overflying commercial aircraft.
Nazca Lines
In web design, text that when clicked will immediately link to another web page is called ________.
a hyperlink
Which African-American artist created the fiber artwork Tar Beach as an autobiographical work about her own experiences growing up in New York?
Faith Ringgold
Commercial color printers use the following three primary colors, plus black:
cyan, magenta, yellow
Line can be used as a tool to:
define outlines, connect points, define boundaries between planes, define shapes, direct our gaze, and convey a sense of movement and energy.
A representational work of art ________.
depicts objects or people so that we can recognize them
This kind of line tends to be more visually active, so it can draw the viewer's attention. Group of answer choices
diagonal
A musical tells a story using ______.
dialog, dance, and songs
A good example of variety in a work would be:
different shapes and colors
This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that. Group of answer choices
distorted scale
The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ________.
dome
Life drawing is the process of: Group of answer choices
drawing from a live model
What colors did Vincent van Gogh use in his painting The Potato Eater?
earth tones
Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:
epic virtues heroism admiration bravery
Vincent van Gogh associated both the stars that fill the sky and the cypress trees in The Starry Night with:
eternity
Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with?
it dries almost immediately
Which of the following is NOT a true description of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
it illustrates limited activity and progress
Allan Houser's work Reverie is representational because:
it includes two shapes that we recognize as faces
Why might an architect choose a simple, repetitive rhythm for his or her building?
it suggests stability
Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.
kinetic
Stolen art loses much of its value because:
lacking good title and proper provenance prevents its resale
Which of these is NOT a geometric form?
leaf
Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is a good reflection of the Futurist Manifesto of 1909, which was written by:
Filippo Marinetti
Which Japanese woodblock print gave Van Gogh the idea for the sky in Starry Night?
Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa"
Feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.
biographical
These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range.
black and white
Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of ________. Group of answer choices
bone ash
Constantin Brancusi worked with Auguste Rodin, but he decided to leave his studio because:
both Rodin had other artists carve his work for him and there were too many studio apprentices
Which parts of the composition of The Starry Night did Vincent van Gogh paint from his imagination or memory?
both moon and steeple
This is a kind of color "map" that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other. Group of answer choices
color wheel
Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?
graphite
Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:
he wanted to develop his own individual style
When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large
head
A work that is created in small scale can communicate:
intimacy
In Francisco Goya's print The Third of May, 1808, the Spanish citizens are arranged in a(n) ________ rhythm, whereas the French soldiers have ________ rhythm.
irregular...regular
We perceive scale in relation to:
our own size
This type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist's body in the work
performance art
José Clemente Orozco, a Mexican muralist, worked in fresco. He wrote about the medium of painting, and called it "a ________ and nothing else."
poem
Artists intersperse value and texture to create a sense of:
rhythm
Placement of elements in a composition controls ________ and creates multiple focal points.
rhythm
This principle of design arises from repetition of a pattern.
rhythm
A color that is almost gray has a low chroma, or __________.
saturation
Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is work in which medium?
sculpture
Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.
sculpture and painting
The artist Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board to create a piece of art made up of:
words
The ________ was an early form of camera.
camera obscura
Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France ________ years ago.
25,000
This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.
André Masson
This Italian artist was the first to define a formal system of linear perspective.
Brunelleschi
The polished surface of Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi had a great impact on the sculptures of this Minimalist artist:
Donald Judd
Which artwork by Constantin Brancusi started as a pedestal, but later became an architectural sculpture?
Endless Column
Linseed oil came into general use as a painting binder in the fifteenth century, particularly in the following country:
Flanders
Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is a work in which style?
Futurist
In which art movement do we categorize the works of Vincent van Gogh?
Post-Impressionist
Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?
Romanesque
The Starry Night is a scene from which place in France, where Vincent van Gogh was for a time resident in an asylum?
Saint-Rémy
Which of the following is not a method of carving?
Spooning
The lead architect of the Taj Mahal complex borrowed design elements from:
Turkey India Persia
Where was the first Surrealist exhibition held in the United Sates?
Wadsworth Athenaeum
This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.
a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool
The subject matter detailed in The Persistence of Memoryincludes:
a carcass landscape melting clocks ants
One of the first moving subjects to be captured on camera was ________.
a horse
Thomas Struth's photograph Museo del Prado 7 is:
a portrait of art appreciatio
When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:
a scholarly journal article
Sometimes artists use this kind of changing pattern to make a work more lively.
alternating pattern
The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.
an egg
By using this kind of color combination, artists avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood.
analogous
Moving images created with a zoetrope were early forms of:
animation
The Bauhaus school in Germany was originally conceived as a school of ________ by its founder, Walter Gropius.
architecture
The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:
assemblage
Why do many contemporary printmakers prefer linocut to woodblock printing?
because it is softer than wood and does not show the grain
What were the Futurist artists and Umberto Boccioni most interested in achieving?
breaking free from traditional subjects in art
What aspect of dynamism did Boccioni express in his paintings and sculptures?
breaking free with form and expressing motion
Architects must consider the availability and cost of ________ when they plan their projects.
building material
Installation artworks:
can take place inside or outside transform the traditional space of an exhibition immerse viewers in the artwork consider how the viewer will move through the space
The deep landscape seen in The Persistence of Memory is typical of which region of Spain?
catalonia
When an artist is making pottery by hand-throwing, the first step when forming the clay on a potter's wheel is to ________.
center a mound of clay on the wheel
Printing with inks was first practiced in which country in the third century CE?
china
An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.
complement
Which of the following can be used to create emphasis?
contrast direction placement
The technique in which an artist creates a series of closely arranged parallel lines that is overlapped by another set of parallel strokes to create a sense of value is called:
cross-hatching
A studio visit from which person inspired Willem de Kooning to re-stretch the canvas for Woman I and begin to rework it?
eyer Shapiro
The golden sculpture Bird in Space from 1928 is highly textured.
false
The title of The Persistence of Memory helps the viewer to understand the artwork.
false
Umberto Boccioni and his peers wanted to paint traditional nude forms.
false
Umberto Boccioni wrote his manifesto of Futurist sculpture in 1909; it was published in the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro.
false
Willem de Kooning's Woman I was a very spontaneous painting.
false
Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession, but she was supported by her ________, who was also an artist. Group of answer choices
father
This is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art.
focal point
This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.
geometric
Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?
glue oil gum arabic wax
Which of these is not used to make the bristles for a brush with a bamboo shaft, for example those used by Asian artists?
goat hair horse hair wolf hair ox hair
4 / 4 pts The metalworking process called repoussé, used to create the death mask from Mycenae, involves what kind of craftsmanship?
hammering
Which of the following is true of Willem de Kooning's painting technique in Woman I?
he scraped off paint with a palette knife he used gestured strokes he rubbed off paint with a rag and turpentine he combined slow and fast application of paint
This type of perspective is used by computer- and video-game designers because it allows them to create depth using parallel diagonal lines.
isometric
Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night was most likely an early morning sky and not a night sky, because:
he was an he was an insomniac
A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth.
high relief . . . bas-relief
This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of the colossal Olmec heads
mass
What did Salvador Dalí say he had seen at a party that inspired the composition of The Persistence of Memory?
melting camembert cheese
Digital color displays are illuminated by three different colored light cells: red, green, and blue. These can result in:
millions of color possibilities
Constantin Brancusi's sculptures broke from the traditional practice of:
modeling in clay before casting in bronze
Nearly all printmaking is done in editions, but some artists will opt to create unique prints. These are called: Group of answer choices
monotype prints and monoprints
When online television streaming services, such as Netflix, choose to release all episodes of a series simultaneously, this gives viewers:
more control over their viewing experience than with traditional television
Among artistic media, one that developed relatively recently is ________.
moving imagery
The earliest films did not feature ________.
ongoing dialog
An artist creates compositional unity by:
organizing all the visual elements of the work
The traditional, and narrow, definition of "fine art" includes ________.
paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals
The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ________.
performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments
Willem de Kooning was influenced by Cubist artists George Braque and Pablo Picasso in developing what aspect of Woman I?
pictorial space
Clay used to make earthenware has a good ________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation.
plasticity
Unlike a photocollage, a photomontage is made to be ________.
reproduced
When there are at least two points of reference in an artwork, __________ is present.
rhythm
This is a way in which artists divide visual space into different kinds of sections to achieve different rhythmic effects.
rhythmic design structure
When a typeface does not have any extra embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ________ font.
sans serif
Willem de Kooning had previously worked as what type of artist?
sign painter
This material allowed for the construction of huge, glass-fronted skyscrapers.
steel
Vertical lines tend to communicate:
strength
When an artist wants to draw attention away from a particular part of a composition, he or she uses:
subordination
Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.
subversive
Color processes can be used to make photographs that are:
surreal socially conscious expressive realistic
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí is done in an illusionistic style, typical of Old Master painting. With which artistic movement is Dalí associated?
surrealism
This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses.
tempo
A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:
texture
Performance art differs from theater because ________.
the actions usually take place in an art context
What activates the figure-ground relationship in Woman I?
the aluminum band of paint
Collagraph printing is different to relief or intaglio methods, because:
the artist builds up rather than cuts into the surface that is to be inked
The earliest photographs were black and white because:
the chemistry used captured gray tones they were more expensive color photography was impossible color processes were complicated
The painting Starlight by Agnes Martin uses broad emphasis to draw attention to this part of the work:
the composition as a whole
A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:
the elements have conceptual unity
The wings on Unique Forms of Continuity in Space remind us of what motif from Classical mythology?
the horse Pegasus
The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ________.
the idea behind the artwork
What is the most energized aspect of the composition of The Starry Night?
the sky
Van Gogh's composition for The Starry Night is similar to some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the way that:
the sky dominates two-thirds of the canvas
Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave Off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?
the wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji the shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work textures are repeated throughout the work the placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern
A group of artists might share a style - an identifiable kind of visual expression - because:
they all worked at the same time they all used similar techniques they all studied in the same place
Hokusai and Albrecht Dürer were printmakers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:
they both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions
Processing plant fibers begins with separating the fiber from the plant, then preparing it for use by spinning the fiber into a long ________.
thread
Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life with her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:
through the use of multiple, repeated figures
A color that is lighter than its basic hue is called a:
tint
After the death of Surrealism in Europe, Salvador Dalí had a "second life" in the United States.
true
Art critics Thomas Hess and Harold Rosenberg viewed Willem de Kooning's Woman I as an "action painting."
true
Constantin Brancusi polished the surface of Bird in Space to have a mirror-like appearance, suggesting infinity.
true
Constantin Brancusi preferred to cast his sculptures from wood and stone models rather than clay or plaster.
true
Constantin Brancusi was a Persian-born sculptor who worked in Paris.
true
In 1927 Brancusi won a court case against the US government, ruling that his sculpture Bird in Space was in fact a work of art and therefore should not be taxed.
true
Salvador Dalí called his works "hand-painted dream photographs."
true
Similar to the art of the Cubist movement, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space allows us to see how the form interacts with the space around it.
true
We can physically relate to the figure in Willem de Kooning's Woman I because of the scale of the painting.
true
We can tell that Willem de Kooning struggled with the painting Woman I because of the long period of time he worked on it in his studio (from 1950 to 1952).
true
Willem de Kooning struggled bridging abstraction and figuration in the painting Woman I.
true
Photographs have only recently been collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ________.
true forms of art
Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:
two primary colors
The tools of formal analysis help us to:
understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork
This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.
volume
A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:
what was in the foreground and background
Vincent van Gogh was influenced by these Japanese artworks:
woodblock prints