ARTS 1510 Exam 1

Horizontal and vertical lines draw out notice because they appear more visually active than diagonal lines.

False

If Alexander Calder's Untitled mobile was powered by a small motor, rather than air currents, it would not be an example of actual motion.

False

When the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was completed in 1989, artists, scholars, and scientists throughout the world universally applauded the restorers' efforts.

False

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

Fauve

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by a continuous boundary. This type of shape, which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect, is termed ________ shape.

an implied

When an artist chooses to highlight the entire surface of their work, without regard for any particular area, this is called:

broad emphasis.

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

complementary colors.

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.

conceptual

The positive and negative shapes in M. C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are an example of ________.

figure-ground reversal

Kinetic sculpture is an object that physically moves, and the Dutch artist "Theo" Jansen likes to create his own type of mechanical "animal." He places these sculptures on beaches where there are strong winds, so the mechanism can walk across the sand. What does he call these objects?

Strandbeests

Which term best applies to these ceramic donuts made by Jae Yong Kim?

Subversive texture

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive:

a figure-ground reversal.

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

a repetitive

The definition "a mark that connects two points" describes which of the following elements?

line

A color that is almost gray has a ________ chroma.

low

Which of the following terms refers to the substance contained in an object, though it does not necessarily imply weight?

mass

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

movement

In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of ________.

movement

The Italian artist Raphael used __________ perspective in his painting The School of Athens.

one-point and two-point

What type of volume is a space enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid?

open

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.

organic

Miriam Schapiro's collage Baby Blocks combines two different kinds of shape. ________ is the term used to describe a shape that suggests the natural world, while the term geometric suggests mathematical regularity.

organic

The lines that create the image of the spider in the Nazca Lines define the ________ of a ________.

outline . . . shape

Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet uses actual motion by costumed dancers as an example of ________ art.

performance

What type of art can only exist in one place and time in history?

performance art

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

prism

The size relationships between the parts of an object, or its ________, affect how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions

Which kind of sculpture can be viewed from more than one side and occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects?

freestanding

What German word refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts?

gestalt

If a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is:

running forward.

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. What is a color darker than its basic hue called?

shade

If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is perpendicular to and in front of you is in your cone of vision.

true

________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

Asymmetrical

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

Bioartists

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line in Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to which point in her painting?

Blood spurting from Holofernes's neck.

The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate allows both the viewer and the surrounding city of ________ to become a part of the work, in its reflection.

Chicago

Which color scheme best matches this photograph by Carolyn Drake? (Image description: woman in a dark blue-black dress eating pizza with red sauce under a red-and-white-striped umbrella surrounded by green grass, with a child on a green swing in front of yellow and mint-green houses against a blue sky with a red balloon.)

Complementary

The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.

Córdoba

Who was the first doctor recognized for prescribing art therapy for his patients?

Dr. Adrian Hill

Which of the following works is an example of bioart?

Elizabeth Demaray's Home Is Where the Plastic Eating Stomach Is.

The principle of art most applicable to the description of this sculpture by Wade Kramm is:

Scale

Which of the following is an accurate definition of art?

Something that communicates an idea through visual means.

In her sculpture Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. To which twentieth-century art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind, did she belong?

Surrealist

In Jasper Johns's Flags (4.4.13), why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas a solid rectangle with a black dot in the middle?

The artist wanted the viewer to rest their eyes on this rectangle after looking at the one in the painting's top half.

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

True

Conservation studies of Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window revealed clues about the type of letter the young girl might be reading.

True

Representational artworks are also called objective.

True

When painters in the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza illustrated The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, they solved the problem of how to ________ in a single painting by merging a series of episodes into one picture.

tell a story

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing motion occurs as time passes, this is called:

the illusion of motion.

There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.

two