Visual Art Final Exam 1

True or False. A naive artist is someone who has never been formally trained in the techniques of art.

True

True or False. A work of art can be judged from very different points of view.

True

True or False. Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate employs reflected light to capture the viewer's attention

True

When two-dimensional images are made to look three-dimensional it is called

abstraction surrealism illusion* stylization

The word "pastel" is usually associated with ________ tones.

dark and smoky pale* brilliant jewel-like primary color

When a single scene in a film continues for several minutes with no break it is called

deep focus shot extended take* illusion montage

Atmospheric perspective is a way to

depict clouds in different ways paint natural forces focus the light in a room on a painting show deep space by making distant things hazy*

Graphic designers are people who

design two-dimensional images for commercial convey information to public use words and imagery together all of the above*

For his huge murals of Mexican political history, Diego Rivera __________.

designed the entire scene did mural during the summer worked in short burst's of activity sketched directly onto the wall with red chalk*

The implied triangle is a common formula for unifying compositional lines because it is

equilateral shape made by Christ on cross highly stable shape* easy for artists to draw

Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, is an example of _____________ photography.

essential cropped perspective documentary*

Frank demonstrates how Chuck Close creates monumental photorealistic human heads with flawless gradations in value by using

finely sharpened graphite penciles acrylic paint applied with airbrush* oil paint tempera, to get matte finish

In a film, the splicing together of a variety of shots at the editing stage is called a

flashback zoetrope avant-garde montage*

The typeface serif ____.

gives elegant, calligraphic flourishes leads our eye through a word originally based on Roman alphabet all of the above*

When the figure and ground are about equal in area an artist can create a _____, in which either color can be interpreted as lying on top of the other.

grounding digures figure-ground dispersal figure-ground reversal* figures on grounds

Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings are examples of

natural-looking landscapes non-objective paintings* a Rococo painting style dramatic use of light and shadow

Ludwig Hohlwein's poster is an example of

propaganda* portraiture spiritual purpose individualism

There are no absolute guidelines for judging __________ in art.

quality* meaning value content

Idealization in art is a form of

realism* abstraction hero worship deep thinking

Edward Steichen's photograph Rodin: The Thinker is a good example of the use of

reflections texture bronze casting value and contrast*

The purpose of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's photograph of Jane Morris was to

serve a study of drawing* illustrate posture to anatomy create formal photographic portrait experiment with flash photography

the FIRST purpose of the applied arts is to

serve some useful function* enable the artist to get a job create artworks for museums maintain traditional art forms

For Paul Klee, the act of artistic creation seemed to be a way of approaching

the unseen* fame the perfect lifestyle political awareness

The packaging designed by Mihoko Hachiuma for Soleil foods __________.

was chosen by a public contest uses the woodcut technique for printing labels gives an elegant handmade look* all of the above

In the 1920s __________ formed the "straight photography" movement

Elizabeth Sunday Alfred Stieglitz Edward Weston* Olivia Parker

True or False. In 1976, Peter Good designed the "I Love New York" slogan of a red heart between black, block letters that was designed to promote tourism to the city.

False

True or False. The Futurists were most interested in capturing a single moment in time in a static image

False

True or False. The camera can capture only as much as the human eye can perceive.

False

True or False. Collage was introduced as an art form in the early twentieth century

True

True or False. Colors that are described as warm have the optical effect of receding in space

True

True or False. Digital imaging can build up lushly detailed works; simultaneously, it can delete details so that the focus falls upon a single object.

True

True or False. In Western society, the acceptance of art by women and artists of color has been subject to racial and gender stereotyping.

True

True or False. In the rock garden of Ryoan-ji Temple (fig. 3-42) the relationship of sand to rocks and rock to rock formed out of meditation on the universe, not on adherence to a human system

True

True or False. Rhythm in art can be compared with rhythm in music

True

True or False. The best artist's papers are made with rags.

True

True or False. There are special crayons made of grease for use in lithographic printing.

True

This film uses 4 separate and conflicting points of view to make a statement about truth.

Ttriumph of the Will Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Rashomon* Amelie

For The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones created a special Gothic __________

book cover kind of paper story line typeface*

Pen and ink is essentially a __________ medium.

color tone line shade*

One problem with the daguerreotype is _____.

colors are not true to life lengthy time needed for exposures* images are neither precise nor accurate does not work in sunlight

The filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known for _____.

disaster films that tell story of India animated films documentaries films that capture lives of ordinary people*

From the time of the Renaissance, some artists used a camera obscura, which was a _____.

hidden camera mechanical drawing device device for keeping unwanted light dark room/box that used light to show images*

The photographs of Ansel Adams have played a major role in

landscape paintings locating parcels of land for commercial land conservation efforts* pictorialist photograpjy

Typical of __________ is the medium's liquid transparent airiness as seen in Joseph Mallord William Turner's.

oil tempera watercolor* encaustic

Mosaic is (are) __________ whose subtle effects can be viewed in The Battle of Issus.

only seen in secular works from antiquity today done by single master who works alone ancient technique of embedding small tiles* both A and B

In early tempera paintings that used gold leaf, the gold was applied

over a surface of red gilder's clay, then burnished* directly to sticky surface of animal glue top of gold paint only on frame, never on painting

Although graphic design is for commercial purposes, some designs, like Toulouse-Lautrec's poster, have been treated like __________.

packing material fine art* wallpaper drawing paper

The Young Woman with a Gold Pectoral is an example of the early method of painting known as __________ in which pigment is suspended in hot wax.

photorealism encaustic* spectrum of color airbrushing

At the end of the nineteenth century the ____________ movement sought to make photographs look like paintings.

pictorialist* photogenic reverie posterity

Pen and ink drawings like Picasso's "Three Female Nudes Dancing" are difficult to execute because

point of pen may catch in paper and splatter ink* it's difficult to control the pen width of lines the pen produces are unpredictable there is no variation to pen points

Leonardo da Vinci's "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist" is a full-sized chalk drawing done as a model for a painting. This work is, thus, called a

presentation drawing sketch cartoon* illustration

Conte crayon is

produced in range of pastel colors versatile and used for softness or sharp lines* difficult to sharpen greasy and gives shine to work

The computer-generated images used in realistic movies to show things like alien invasions, explosions, or tornadoes are called

special effects* imitations of life rashomon effects cinematography

Linear perspective is a mathematical system used to show

the ratio of horizontal and vertical lines recession in space* ideal length of picture plan distance to stand away from painting

A mark or area that is significantly longer than it is wide may be perceived as

three-dimensional linear perspective a picture plan a line*

Real-world objects taken from trash heaps and used in art are called

treasures life's waste found objects* land art

When a visual effect is so realistic it fools our perception it is called

trompe l'oeil* stylization non-objective vantage point

The advertisement for the Chicago Spire shown in Wallpaper Magazine relies on __________

typeface of logo sparse illustration* specific words used to describe clothing celebrity shows in ad

The art of designing letter forms is called

typewriting lettering typography* posting

Ideals of beauty are

universal culturally influenced* only found in Classical Greek art impossible to paint

An artist who uses abstraction as an approach is

using mathematical formulas to figure out composition. extracting the essence of the real object.* faithfully representing the physical appearance of an object. painting on a very small scale.

Michael Heizer's City Complex I, which has an enduring, monumental effect, is an example of a __________ sculpture.

void dynamic two-dimensional static*

The sculptor Henry Moore was interested in the interplay between

wood and marble animals and landscapes positive form and negative space* viewers and critics

The work, Ancestors of the Passage: A Healing Journey through the Middle Passage by __________ treats the subject of slavery and its effects on women.

Chris Ofili Susumu Kinoshita Diego Rivera Imna Arroyo*

The word photography is Greek for _____.

"light in a box" "writing with light"* "pictures without words" "images on paper"

Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is a good example of the use of

Encaustic oil* watercolor tempera

True or False. All works of art have a focal point

False

True or False. Charcoal can only be used in quick, sketchy manner

False

True or False. Drawing and painting are two separate things, with no similarities between them.

False

True or False. Encaustic must always be kept cool while it is being applied.

False

True or False. Georgia O'Keeffe wanted to paint an exact representation of what she saw in nature.

False

True or False. Toulouse-Lautrec used color lithography for his poster in order to create a one-of-a-kind portrait of his client.

False

True or False. Variety is expressed through transitions which are defined as rapid changes from one state to another.

False

Maya Ying Lin said she wanted her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial to be

a dark world, like the war itself a reminder to visitors of the government's role honest about the reality of war* none of the above

Vera Mukhina's Machine Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl is an example of

a genre scene sociopolitical content* abstraction capitalism

Alexander Calder's Cow uses _________ lines to create a sense of three-dimensionality and to emphasize the overall form of the image.

angled variegated contour* static

If an artist is drawing the human figure in proportion

arms and legs must be visible drawing must be of real person head is most important part each body part should be relative size*

The use of silverpoint for drawing diminished because

artists began using graphite pencils* silver holder hurt the hands of artist silver turned dark when exposed to air it couldn't be used to show shadows/textures

In the formalist approach the chief emphasis to judging quality in art is on

attending high-quality art auctions. following the rules set forth by the Academy being a recognized art critic. how the artist manipulates elements of design*

Artist's often use graphite pencils for drawing

b/c they have lead in them b/c they can get different effects due to many grades of hardness* when they run out of pen and ink if they ware working outdoors

Jose Orozco used repetition in his painting "Zapatistas" to give the sense of

beats in single movement unified whole mass of figures, moving forward all of the above*

Kathe Kollwitz's "Self-Portrait with a Pencil" shows that charcoal is often used because

can be used for fie, delicate lines smudges easily allows artist's to exploit effects in toning image* artist's like broad range of colors it comes in it never comes off the paper

In Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, Christ is the most important figure, and his place in the composition is as the

center of gravity horizon line focal point* keystone

A way of using the principle of variety so that two dissimilar things are compared is commonly called

coherence contrast* disorientation chiaroscuro

Instead of using mathematical devices to unify the image in The Boating Party, Pierre-Auguste Renoir employed

color and the objects in the scene to link groups of people* linear perspective to organize the space vertical and horizontal lines to form a grid high realism to clarify the forms

Wanting to stop art from being shown because of moral beliefs is called

commissioning authorship funding censorship*

The use of multiple similar torsos by Magdalena Abakanowicz in her piece Backs is an example of the organizing principle of

conceptual art anonymity repetition* political content

The use of multiple triangles by Lucy Pettway in her artwork Birds in the Air exemplifies the organizing principle of

conceptual art anonymity repetition* political content

A good graphic design will _______.

consider taste and interest of public elicit certain feelings toward a product lure the public into wanting to know more all of the above*

During its history in China, brush and ink painting was

considered spiritually expressive* commercial enterprise, painting on commission hidden from the emperor none of the above

Paul Rand, who designed the IBM logo, believed that corporate logos should _____.

consist of simple, universal, & timeless shapes* include image of company president spell out whole name of company stay fresh by using images that change public

When someone pays an artist to create a work of art it is called

context political patronage* unity

In 1525, Albrecht Durer published an influential book about _____.

designing advertisements using geometry for designing letters correct pens to use for letting spelling

In Essence Mulberry, Helen Frankenthaler's use of gray paint the same color as the ground creates a

disharmony local color transition* incoherence

Typefaces are often chosen according to the _____ messages they convey.

economical economical and psychological psychological* all of the above

The ___________ was (were) critical to Frank Gehry in designing the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

environmental setting* materials of structure open spaces of city all of the above

Three-dimensional art in the full round is designed to be seen

from one vantage point from all sides* from a distance up close

The image by Alberto Seveso used for the cover of a magazine about computer arts includes elements suggesting the ___________,

gender of computer artist limitations of digital medium unraveled strands of comp circuitry* wasteful use of electricity

Of the tools for drawing that are classified as "dry" the most commonly used is

graphite pencil* pen and ink pastel charcoal

The edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer published by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones is a good example of __________.

harmony of design* quality of modern machine printing mass-produced book illustration all of the above

The shapes in Matisse's painting The Snail are called hard-edged because

he used a ruler their boundaries are clearly distinguished* they represent brick walls the colors look like steel

The golden rectangle is a way of establishing the

ideal proportion of space* focal point of religious building size of picture frame to painting relative size of building to outside enviornment

Repetition can be used in decorative works to create an all-over

interpretive value spectrum pattern* perspective

The chest from the Haida culture is an example of symmety because

it uses organic forms it has major figure right int he middle it uses a lot of vertical lines the left side and the right side are identical*

Because __________ there is visual tension created in Nancy Graves' work Trace.

it uses too many colors intentionally unbalanced* curved lines and straight lines in same work use of bronze and steel catches light

During the Renaissance, European painters developed the technique of chiaroscuro, which means

light and shade* real and artificial modern and antique black and white

One of the main properties of tempera paint is

looks very glossy b/c of egg yolk base colors can be blended well on surface dries quickly to matte finish* does not require much preparation

_____ is(are) usually necessary for someone to be able to create art from the ideas in his/her imagination.

money and good connections. paint and pencils luck and prayers training and practice*

Piet Mondrian's Composition (B) En Bleu, Jaune, et Blanc (Composition in Blue, Yellow, and White) is an example of

natural-looking landscape nonobjective, or nonrepresentational, painting* a Rococo painting style dramatic use of light and shadow

Marc Chagall's The Crow Who Wanted to be an Eagle uses the __________ medium.

oil buon fresco tempera gouache*

The fresh transparent effect in Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream is typical of

oil tempera watercolor* encaustic

For his painting "Portrait of a Young Man," Bronzino prepared many drawings, using the __________ method.

professional direct impasto indirect*

In art the term "scale" refers to

relative size* the weight of sculpture texture of surface range of colors used

the surface quality of a work is called

satin finish polish texture* relief

The subtle value gradations Leonardo da Vinci created with chalk in "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist" are called

sfumato* hatching local color chiaroscuro

Rhythm can be achieved by using

shape or form color line all of the above*

The shapes in Helen Frankenthaler's painting Mauve District are called hard-edged because

she used a ruler boundaries are clearly distinguished* represent brick walls colors look like steel

In his drawing "Fish Skeletons" Hyman Bloom reverses the usual technique for pen and ink by

showing only contour lines using alot of hatching to create shading using white ink on dark paper* creating spatial values

Some nonobjective painters of the twentieth century worked on unsized canvas

so they could cut it to whatever size they wanted b/c they wanted to mold into different shapes so paint would be absorbed right into canvas* when they were passed for time and could not size

Balance is a principle of design based on the

visual weight on assigns to parts of work* ratio of height of a picture to width scale of sculpture number of colors used in image