Art 110

What type of daily life is depicted in the Florentine Codex?

Aztecs making clothing and regalia Correct

Rosa Bonheur's Charcoal burners uses the medium of:

Charcoal

The ________Blank are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.

Chinese

The Gates project in New York was monumental, created by __________Blank and partner.

Christo

Beside paper, what other materials have served to support drawings?

Cotton fabric, papyrus, dirt

Which one of the following does NOT pertain to the three pyramids at Giza, Egypt?

Each pyramid was a vast tomb constructed to serve the daily, earthly worship needs of one pharaoh's entire community.

Rachel Ruysch's Still-Life with Flowers reveals many details about the subject matter. Which detail is NOT revealed?

Goblets do NOT and decorative shells sit near the poppies.

What type of professional organization had been in existence for centuries, determining how young artists were trained and how new professionals administered business?

Guild

Which placements are accurate for the title figure, Rathnasambhava, in the painting Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South?

He is seated on a lotus throne in a position of meditation. He faces sideways in a pose of tranquility. His left hand makes the indication of bestowing vows. His right hand makes the gesture of rebirth.

Which descriptions apply to the painting The Two Fridas?

It features a double portrait of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter. It features a double portrait of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter. Correct Each female figure has an exposed heart. Each female figure has an exposed heart. Correct Each figure has thick eyebrows and wears a floor-length dress Each figure has thick eyebrows and wears a floor-length dress Correct The two figures clasp hands in a mirrored posed. The two figures clasp hands in a mirrored posed. Correct The figures do not reveal their facial expressions.

Which statements describe the form of El Greco's Adoration of the Shepherds?

It has many lengthy, wavy lines. It has many lengthy, wavy lines. Correct The setting is unclear and the space is vast. The setting is unclear and the space is vast. Correct Light in the painting radiates from the body of the infant. The painting is organized around the shepherds in the middle.

Which one of the following does NOT apply to the Mandala of Jnanadakini?

This is a Hindu mandala example.

Radiocarbon dating indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to what period?

Upper Paleolithic Era

Erik Nitsche's 1956 poster designed for General Dynamics creates emphasis using what focal point?

a glowing atom

What does Caribou Migration I show?

a migration of pregnant caribou that has been untouched by humans

What did Christian Boltanski start with to create his Altar to the Chases High School?

a photograph of a 1931 high school graduating class

Philosophers determined that the pleasure of art was an intellectual pleasure and was perceived through what practice?

a special kind of attention known as disinterested contemplation

In a two-dimensional work with __________ balance, two sides do not match. It may seem to be balanced, though, by having visual weights in its two halves that are comparable.

asymmetrical

According to Living with Art, how do we measure "normal" or constant size?

based on our prior knowledge and experience

What substance allows drawing media to be shaped into sticks (for dry media) or suspended in fluid (for liquid media), and to adhere to the drawing surface?

binder

What type of drawing medium is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends?

brush and ink

What are soft, finely textured stones that can be used for drawing?

chalk

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________Blank to describe the way shadows and light define the shape of forms.

chiaroscuro

What material is added to graphite to produce pencils that range from very hard to very soft?

clay

Pasting or gluing paper onto paper to create a drawing was first popularized by Georges Braque in the early 20th Century. What is this genre called today?

collage

What is term for the personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which a work of art was created, received, and interpreted?

context

What element is most often used to indicate boundaries between forms?

contour lines

In the 1970's, Mexican American prisoners were provided with ____________Blank as surfaces to create drawings on to communicate with loved ones outside prison?

cotton handkerchiefs

What principle is idealized in Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People, 1830?

democracy

Isometric perspective, using ______Blank lines but without allowing parallels to converge, was a spatial technique.

diagonal

Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels?

different binders are used

Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating ______.

emphasis

What is the focus of Tawaraya Sōtatsu's The Bird's Nest Patriarch?

emptiness

To better understand the statue Amida Buddha, what does the protuberance or ushnisha on top of the figure's head represent?

enlightenment

How can Mia Pearlman's installation Inrush, best be described?

exploded drawing

The Florentine Codex records how __________Blank were used, a highly valued material of the Aztec culture.

feathers

A ______Blank is the shape we detach and focus on in works of art.

figure

The Akan rulers of West Africa are served by linguists who carry a staff topped with a gold, leaf-covered wooden sculpture known as a(n):

finial

Which two traits are often linked with creativity?

generating ideas and analyzing ideas

The National Parks Preserve Wildlife poster was designed according to what feature?

golden rectangles

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Divan Japonais illustrates repetition by employing similar black and gray shapes. What additional colors in the poster provide variety?

green, yellow, red

The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.

hierarchical

To what aspects does iconography pertain?

identifying, describing, and interpreting art's subject matter. a distinctive ensemble of repeating characteristics

What is an example of a liquid medium?

ink

The 1956 poster Erik Nitsche created for General Dynamics subordinates the role of all of the following EXCEPT which one?

its high-value, contrasting colors

Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?

just behind the head of the figure of Jesus

Art that moves is called ______Blank art.

kinetic

A __________Blank may be a meticulous rendering of the terrain of the natural world as an artist has observed or a vision of the artist's imagination.

landscape

Filippino Lippi used what medium in his work, Figure Studies: Standing Nude and Seated Man Reading?

metalpoint

What drawing material was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance?

metalpoint

What term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work?

model

In Judith Baca's work Great Wall of Los Angeles: Frontier California 1880 and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, images cover over a half-mile of length to tell a(n) ______Blank of the area.

narrative

If an artist creates a work that faithfully represents our visual experience, their approach is:

naturalistic

What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)?

nib

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________Blank shapes.

organic

In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________Blank, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________Blank.

outlines; contour lines

In his work, Cottage among Trees, what medium does Rembrandt use to create a rich and varied drawing?

pen, brush and ink

What two basic visual cues are used to imply depth in the 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats?

position and overlap

When artists ranging from architects to sculptors initiate projects, they may seek inspiration with __________Blank, initial designs that will end up becoming a finalized artwork.

preliminary drawings

Which pair of colors shows complementary harmony?

red, green

What type of painting would be monochromatic?

reds, pinks, maroons

Rhythm is derived from what?

repetition

What is a necessary feature of pattern?

repetition

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Billingsgate, with its smokestacks and vertical lines of sailboat masts, is an excellent example of what design principle?

rhythm

What principle of design is based on repetition?

rhythm

What principle of design concerns size relative to a "normal" or a standard size?

scale

Robert Rauschenberg's Windward used his canvas like a huge page in a:

scrapbook

For what genre is artist Frida Kahlo known?

self-portraits

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called:

sketches

What do the hand gestures shown by the Amida Buddha represent?

teaching

All of the following images are found in Robert Rauschenberg's Windward except which one?

the Empire State Building

Altar to the Chases High School uses blurry, abstracted photographs, lighting from metal lamps, and stacked tin boxes to tell the devastating story of __________Blank on a human, intimate scale.

the Holocaust

Wounded Man Fleeing (Battle of the Somme, 1916) by Otto Dix exaggerates the size of what to accentuate a soldier's reaction?

the eyes

Starting in 1985, what did the Guerrilla Girls protest?

the heavily male-dominated and sometimes fully male art exhibitions

What was the most prominent decorative motif used in 16th- to 19th-century kimonos?

the natural world

What did ancient Egyptian artists use as their fundamental unit of measurement?

the palm of the hand

In art, what is form?

the physical appearance of a work

What aspects does the portrait Andy Warhol by Alice Neel show?

the subject as vulnerable and frail the subject as vulnerable and frail Correct a pale subject with closed eyes a pale subject with closed eyes Correct the subject with scars and sagging flesh the subject with scars and sagging flesh Correct the subject wearing a girdle to support a wounded area the subject wearing a girdle to support a wounded area Correct a bald subject wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes

What term is used to describe a color lighter than a hue's normal value?

tint

In Navajo culture, what is the purpose of sand painting, ceremonially created by hataali?

to call upon spirit powers to heal and bless someone who is ill

What did Ansel Adams describe as the desired result with his photography?

to guide viewers in seeing nature's beauty, to preserve it for the future generations

What pigment was historically more expensive than gold and only available to the wealthiest artists and patrons?

ultramarine blue

Many still-life works attempt to capture what art and design element?

visual texture

What refers to the evident "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged within a composition?

visual weight

What is foreshortening?

when an elongated object appears shorter than its actual length as if compressed

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________Blank light.

white

In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________Blank onto a surface coated with a preliminary coating of paint.

wire

William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress shows images and symbols that point to a sad fate for an innocent young woman. Which one of the following is NOT pictured?

An older uncle who was to be the young woman's guardian seems confused in the background.

Some artists started to question the artist's role in the latter part of the 20th century. Which British street artist, known for his stencil method, wrestles with issues surrounding art and ownership?

Banksy

Which descriptions apply to Meta Warrick Fuller's Talking Skull?

It is intended to be viewed from all sides. It is intended to be viewed from all sides. Correct It was created with a durable and heavy material. It was created with a durable and heavy material. Correct It is an interpretation of a Jamaican folktale. It is an interpretation of a Jamaican folktale. Correct It shows the figure's body bending toward a tombstone. It shows the figure's body bending toward a tombstone. Correct It shows the impressions of the artist's fingers.

The Great Mosque in Córdoba, Spain, features a vast interior with an emphasis on its dome. Which one of the following does NOT apply to this dome?

It is symmetrical. It contains geometric patterns. It contains colorful and glittering gold, ornate designs. It contains flowery motifs.

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

Lake George by John Frederick Kensett

In the subtractive color process, what are the secondary colors?

Orange green violet blue yellow

In the 16th century, finding __________Blank was essential to professional success for an artist.

Patrons

In Howling Wolf's ledger drawing from your text, Ute Indian, what mediums are used?

Pen, ink, and watercolor

The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as:

Pigment

Which work exemplifies the natural world theme?

Spiral Jetty

Which theme is best represented by Frank Henderson's drawing Off to War?

Stories and histories

How do the three-dimensional figures that comprise Magdalena Abakanowicz's Backs demonstrate variety?

The figures have different textures and masses.

Regarding emphasis and subordination, which one of the following does NOT apply to Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting The Banjo Lesson?

The foreground is subordinated, blurring the details.