ART 1300 Final Review

Match the quotation with the artist who made the statement: "I did not create a woman, I made a picture." "I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace." Related to calm and memory, art can enable people to "leave themselves behind." My paintings "are the frankest expression of myself."

"I did not create a woman, I made a picture."-Henri Matisse "I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."-Marcel Duchamp Related to calm and memory, art can enable people to "leave themselves behind."-Agnes Martin My paintings "are the frankest expression of myself."-Frida Kahlo

Please choose all the artists who make Earthworks using the earth itself and other natural elements of it.

Andy Goldsworthy Robert Smithson

Aaron Douglas, the artist of Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction, was particularly influenced by which of the following?

Art Deco, Egyptian wall painting, African art, and Modernist abstraction.

Which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Western Europe, a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?

Baroque

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

Chinese

A drastic difference between such elements as color or value (lightness/darkness) when they are presented together.

Contrast

Match the artwork with the style that best describes it: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People David's Oath of the Horatii Fragonard's The Swing

Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People-Romanticism David's Oath of the Horatii-Neoclassicism Fragonard's The Swing-Rococo

The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is _________.

Fresco

Who invented the concept of the readymade?

Marcel Duchamp

The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?

Northern Renaissance

Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?

Renaissance

What site serves as a repository for black historical experience, with archives and collections that would have been lost to either demolition or renovation and gentrification?

Stoney Island Arts Bank

William Hogarth had many of his paintings made into prints. T/F

True

Marcel Duchamp was responsible for three major innovations in art in the twentieth century. What were they? Select all answers that apply.

readymades conceptual art kinetic sculpture

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be _____.

representational all of the other answers abstract experimental non-objective

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of ________ painting.

an Academic

Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________.

sfumato

The claymation work of artist Nathalie Djurberg is a form of...

stop-motion animation

The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas.

symbols

Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from...

the Middle Ages

This art is centered around ideas above all other things.

conceptual

Of the three sculptures of the biblical hero David discussed in Chapter 3.6, the one by Michelangelo makes the identity of the figure the most obvious. T/F

false

The Belgian architect Victor Horta designed a home for Abraham Lincoln infused with elements that would come to epitomize Expressionism. T/F

false

The Guerrilla Girls, who formed in 1985, are no longer active in today's art world. T/F

false

What aspects of Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomforted many viewers when it was first exhibited?

the painting technique the nude woman seated next to men dressed in contemporary clothing all of the other answers the nude woman's self-confident gaze at the viewer

The ornate and fanciful style called Rococo was only fashionable in France. T/F

false

The work of Minimalist artists is generally made out of natural materials to emphasize its organic quality. T/F

false

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

focal point

An engraving can achieve fine detail, making the resulting print more like the artist's original drawing. T/F

true

Art Nouveau is a style that emphasizes decorative patterns and organic forms. T/F

true

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries. T/F

true

Claude Monet created several series of paintings in which he would focus on a single subject but alter light, atmosphere, and time of day. T/F

true

To make their artworks appear realistic, Renaissance artists sometimes distorted the way certain objects and elements looked. T/F

true

Trompe l'oeil means "fool the eye". T/F

true

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called ________.

impasto

New North American cities in the late eighteenth century chose Neoclassicism as their architectural style because...

it represented the ideals to which they aspired.

The __________ series or artwork by Carrie Mae Weems centers around a common piece of household furniture.

kitchen table

The artwork called Ever Is Over All, by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is a type of...

video installation

Jean-Baptiste Belley...

was a slave. led a vote to abolish slavery. was the first black man elected to the French National Convention. all of the other answers. bought his own freedom.

The Hudson River School painted...

American landscapes

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii is about:

The sacrifices of an ancient Roman family.

The technique used to make Juan Gris's Glass and Bottle of Banyuls is known as ________.

collage

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor.

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

early 1800s

From 1905 to around 1920, an art style evolved and came to be known as...

expressionism

A readymade artwork is made from materials used for fine art sculptures. T/F

false

In the French Academy, individual portraits and landscapes were more respected and valuable than any other subject matter. T/F

false

It was common for women to be part of the Abstract Expressionist movement. T/F

false