art 100 finial exam

This artist is most famous for creating mobiles such as Untitled.

Alexander Calder

the work Absolute Power is typical of the designer:

Chaz Maviyane-Davies

This artist, who created Detroit Industry, is considered a leader in the revival of fresco mural painting in the 1920s and 1930s.

Diego Rivera

In the photograph Pepper #30 by _______, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object.

Edward Weston

The architect Frank O. Gehry associates architecture to functional sculpture, as seen in his

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The Chicago school of architecture was led by __________, the first great modern American architect.

Louis Sullivan

A 2009 building in Japan broke new ground by building interactive design into its surface. The _______ on its façade provides access to information about the building and its business.

Quick Response (QR) code

A typical example of a low-relief sculpture would be:

a coin

Graphic design is a creative process employing art and technology to

all of the above

The Chinese regard painting as derived from the art of

calligraphy.

The original meaning of the term ______________ is a type of preparatory drawing that is a full-sized drawing made as a guide for a larger work in another medium.

cartoon

The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using

cast iron

Many works of art have been subject to _______ over the centuries, from the iconoclasm of the first century, to sixteenth-century nude figures, to recent "controversial" works such as Chris Olfili's Holy Virgin Mary.

censorship

Which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

charcoal

Charles White used the technique of _______ to give the figure in Preacher a feeling of figural mass.

cross-hatching

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

The term "art criticism" refers to making _______ of art, both favorable and unfavorable.

discriminating judgments

Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows because of the use of the pointed arch and

flying buttresses.

_____________ art theories focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it

formal

Art theories that focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it are called:

formalism

Drawing is considered to be the _______ of all other media.

foundation

Sculpture is meant to be seen from all sides and is called in-the-round or

freestanding

Shape refers to the expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area or within the outer boundaries of a three-dimensional object. The wide variety of shapes can be grouped into two general categories: positive and negative.

geometric and organic.

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

glaze

The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Longo is an excellent example of a _______ sculpture.

high-relief

In the art world, a _______ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique.

medium

Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin, by Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, is an excellent example of a(n) _______ painting.

oil

This type of printing, as seen in Ester Hernandez's Sun Mad, has lent itself to poster production and the many social movements that have allied themselves with printmakers to help spread the word about their causes.

silkscreen

A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

tempera.

The Taj Mahal is one of the world's best-known works of architecture. Identify its function.

tomb

Many contemporary type designers are redesigning and updating old fonts, with concern for readability. Donald Meeker, for example, was instrumental in updating the font of _________ to a more legible (and quickly readable) type.

white-on-green Interstate freeway signs

Originally covered with gold leaf, the 1st century Japanese Bodhisattva Guan Yin was created entirely from:

wood

An illustration is commonly used alongside:

written material

The QR5 wind turbine is an innovative green product designed to be smaller, less noisy, and more user-friendly than standard wind turbines. The "QR" of the turbine's name stands for both the company's name and its main selling point, which is

"quiet revolution."

_______, the artist who made Rocket to the Moon, paid tribute to the richness of the African-American experience through photomontage.

Barnet Newman

Large Reclining Nude is the final result of this artist's long process of planning and rearranging the design of the composition.

Henri Matisse

ane Avril Jardin de Paris, a poster created using the lithographic process, was made by this artist.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

This artist created Light Rain at Shono, and is considered one of the most famous Japanese woodblock printmakers.

Hiroshige

The print The Letter, by American artist Mary Cassatt, illustrates the influence of _______ on her work.

Japanese woodblock prints

American artist _______ is known for his watercolors, such as Rio de Santa Maria Formosa, Venice.

John Singer Sargent

Identify the 1973 court case that clearly established artists' freedom of expression.

Miller v. California

From a bicycle seat and handlebars, the artist _______ formed a sculpture and titled it Bull's Head.

Pablo Picasso

To create Guernica, a monumental painting depicting the horrors of war, this artist made many preliminary sketches.

Pablo Picasso

Michelangelo made detailed drawings of A Reclining Male Nude as studies for which of the following finished works?

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

The drawing Carpenter was made at the beginning of this artist's career, yet it reveals his careful observation and attention to detail.

Vincent van Gogh

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

aesthetics

When sculptors work with soft materials, they often use a(n) _______ to prevent sagging.

armature

The first-century sculpture Augustus of Prima Porta and the fourteenth-century painting Effects of Good Government in the City exemplify which function of art?

art for persuasion

A subcategory of constructed sculpture-seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield-that lets artists use familiar objects in new ways is called

assemblage

A subcategory of constructed sculpture-seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield-that lets artists use familiar objects in new ways is called:

assemblage

The balance in Jockeys Before the Race, by artist Edgar Degas, is

asymmetrical

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

beeswax.

Identify the technique used by two-dimensional artists to create the illusion of volume with light.

chiaroscuro

The process of printing came to Europe from

china

The work by Robert Arneson called California Artist is made of:

clay

In painting media, the pigment provides

color

Marjane Satrapi combined word and drawn image in Persepolis, a

comic book

In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith Haring used _______ colors to create a bold and dynamic effect.

complementary

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use _______theories.

contextual

Opaque watercolor is sometimes called

gouache.

Art criticism involves making _______, both favorable and unfavorable.

judgments

Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of _______ with his mobiles.

kinetic sculpture

Value in the art sense refers to the

lightness and darkness of surfaces.

Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett is an excellent example of a(n)

linoleum cut.

In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

lithography

When a work of art, such as Theo van Doesburg's Composition (The Cow), shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

nonrepresentational.

A(n) _______ print is one in which an artist is physically involved with its production.

original

Rosalba Carriera, creator of Portrait of Girl with a Bussola, was a popular eighteenth-century artist whose medium of choice offered rich colors and a smooth surface. Identify the medium.

pastel

Pastel, charcoal, Conté crayon and _______ are types of dry drawing media.

pencil

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make _______ to check on the developing image.

proofs

_______ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole

proportion

Traditional Chinese criticism declared that artists should try to go beyond _______ of the subject matter.

representation

Ogata Korin's Cranes is a good example of the principle of

rhythm and repetition.

Non-Italic typesetting is known as _______ type.

roman

The short lines or feet at the base of type are called _______.

serifs

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project is an excellent example of

site-specific art

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project is an excellent example of:

site-specific art

Throughout history, architects have always addressed and integrated three key issues: function, form, and

structure.

Yong Soon Min's Dwelling is an assemblage that attempts to express which of the following?

the artist's feelings of a divided self

Nicola López's Blighted is an example of a contemporary artwork that combines printmaking techniques to create an installation that expresses the artist's memories of

the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Keith Sonnier created Motordom, an intense light installation in the outdoor lobby of a government building in Los Angles, to express which of the following?

the reality of car culture that Southern Californians have to live with

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of:

the society that produced it

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of

the society that produced it.

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is

trompe l'oeil

The art of composing printed material from letterforms is called

typography

The art of composing printed material from letterforms is called:

typography

Francisco Goya's nineteenth-century print I Saw This functions as a commentary on

war

Julio Gonzales was the sculptor who first used the _______ for his metal sculptures.

welding torch

Julio González was the sculptor who first used the _______ for his metal sculptures.

welding torch

In buon fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to

wet plaster.