ART 1301: Test 2

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What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments? A) Motion B) The Great Depression C) Light D) World War I

A) Motion

Architects of Romanesque Churches began installing _____ around the apse, which allowed the overflow of pilgrams to circulate freely around the interior of the church.

Ambulatories

Under the reign of _____, a new, more naturalistic style of Egyptian art developed.

Amenhotep IV

The Taj Mahal was build by the 17th Century Moselem emperor for what purpose?

As a tomb for his wife

What drawing material was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance? A) Ground B) Metalpoint C) Pastel D) Charcoal

B) Metalpoint

_________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it. A) Impasto B) Encaustic C) Gouche D) Fresco

C) Gouache

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

Clay

The walled, upward extension of the nave that is pierced with windows is called the ________.

Clerestory

Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her _______. A) Collages B) Video art C) Pop-art films D) Portraits

D) Portraits

Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?

Earthworks

A Flying Buttress is an arched exterior support system found on what style of building?

Gothic

The Doric, Ionic, Corinthian styles are known as what architecutal style?

Greek Orders

What celebrated 19th century artist created posters for cabarets and dance halls of Paris?

Henride Toulouse Lautrec

What term is used to describe the convention of representing social importance by size often found in Egyptian art?

Hierarchical scale

When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ____.

Hypostyle hall

What genre conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

Installation

What are some elements of J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speaks to its design.

Interactivity

What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?

Interactivity

_______ is a pattern or patterns formed by intricately interwoven ribbons and bands.

Interlace

What is a characteristic of minimalist art?

It attempts to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves.

WHat is a characteristic of relief sculpture?

It is often used to decorate architecture

The ancient olmecs of Mesoamerica prized _____ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.

Jade

The skeleton-and-skin structure the Crystal palace was designed by ___ in 1851

Joseph Paxton

What material is made from the sap of a tree?

Lacquer

What feature is NOT typical of Romanesque architecture?

Large Windows of stained glass

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

Layout

" Stacking and Piling" is another term for what structural system?

Load-bearing construction

When the name of the company, insitution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as ____.

Logotype

A true arch was develped by ______ architects long before the Romans came up with the idea.

Neo-Babylonian

What design form unique to Byzantination architecture- is seen in the Church of Sam Vitale?

Octagon

The round opening in the dome of the pantheon is called a(n) ______.

Oculus

When clay is wet, it becomes moldable and cohesive, or ________.

Plastic

Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.

Pont du Gard at Nimes

_____ is the most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What purpose is served by the carved figures that adorn the entryways at Chartres Cathedral?

Reminders of the sacred space within

What Caroligian feature can be found in the chapel of Charlemange?

Roman Arches

What is the principle ingredient in glass?

Sand

The carving method is what type of process?

Subtractive

WHat material was the basis for most ancient sumerian buildings?

Sun dried brick

_______ such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas

Symbols

What object was the most treasured of medieval possessions for royal and noble households, as well as wealthy merchant families?

Tapestries

Identify the two developments that created graphic design, as we know it today.

The printing press and the Industrial Revolution.

What work illustrates the pinnacle of stained-glass art?

Tree of Jesse

The sculpture Olowe of Ise is associated with what culture?

Yoruba

In oil painting, thin veils of translucent color applied to over a layer of opaque paints are known as ______. A) Glazes B) Gesso C) Tesserae D) Synthetics

A) Glazes

After building a canvas and before painting it, an artist generally applies a(n) ______ to improve adhesion of paints. A) Primer B) Impasto C) Cartoon D) Binder

A) Primer

_______ is the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper. A) Registration B) Linocut C) Photogravure D) Serigraphy

A) Registration

Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event? A) Animal motion B) The Great Depression C) Produce merchants D) World War I

B) The Great Depression

What is the most common way to shape a hallow glass vessel

Blowing

What animal is repeatedly found in the art of anceint mesopotamia?

Bull

What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" and "straight" photography? A) A photograph's meaning should refuse to make sense in traditional ways B) A photograph should explore poetic effects C) A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way D) A photograph's subject should reference photography itself.

C) A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way

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? A) Wash B) Ground C) Binder D) Pigment

C) Binder

_______ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent, or dangerous. A) Pictorialism B) Avteur C) Censorship D) Dada

C) Censorship

George Seurat used what medium in his pointillist work, Cafe-Concert? A) Pencil B) Watercolor C) Conte Crayon D) Pastel

C) Conte Crayon

What 20th-century master of the fresco technique created the work Mixtec Culture? A) Frida Kahlo B) George Braque C) Diego Rivera D) Rablo Picasso

C) Diego Rivera

A rubber stamp creates what type of print? A) Intaglio B) Silkscreen C) Relief D) Lithograph

C) Relief

The lost-was process is what type of sculptural method?

Casting

The Palace Chapel at Achen was built for _______ as his personal place of worship.

Charlemagne

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium? A) Fresco B) Watercolor C) Arcylic D) Oil Paint E) None of the above

D) Oil paint

Which work is a prime example of art from the Hellenistic era?

Laocoon Group

Why is wood such a popular craft material?

it is abundant and relatively easy to work

For what purpose was color photography 1st widely used? A) Advertising B) Photojournalism C) Portratiture D) Dada art

A) Advertising

The _____ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 c.e. A) Chinese B) Egyptian C) Greeks D) Persians

A) Chinese

What two ancient painting media are still in use today? A) Encaustic and fresco B) Acrylics and tempera C) Gouche and oils D) Acrylics and oils

A) Encaustic and fresco

What is the source material from Thomas Ruff's work, Substratum 12 III? A) Japanese manga B) Muybridge's series of animal movement C) Digital photographs taken by Hubble Space telescope D) Abstract patterns in textile weavings

A) Japanese manga

What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected? A) Lenses B) Celluloid film C) Daguerreotypes D) Dark rooms

A) Lenses

What printing technique uses a grease-based crayon, known by its German name, tusche? A) Lithography B) Dry point C) Screen-printing D) Mezzotint

A) Lithography

Pope Julius II employed which 2 Renaissance artists to paint frescos for him? A) Michelangelo and Raphael B) Vermeer and Van Eyck C) Donatello and Titian D) Van Gogh and Gauguin

A) Michelangelo and Raphael

What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography? A) Portability B) 3-D film C) Immediate development of the film D) Colorization

A) Portability

What feature of video appeals to many artists? A) Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor B) The warm quality of celluloid film C) Pixilation that allows for animating objects D) A short exposure time of around 30 secs.

A) Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called _______. A) Sketches B) Grounds C) Media D) Binders

A) Sketches

The dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening? A) The horrors of World War I B) The racial aftermath of the American Civil War C) The emergence of television D) The dominance of machines in the 20th century life.

A) The horrors of World War I

What is the primary characteristic of watercolors? A) Transparency B) Ease of revision C) Permanency D) Textual qualities

A) Transparency

What work is a good example of how screen-printing may be used to produce broad areas of flat, uniform color? A) Singing Their Songs by Elizabeth Catlett B) Standard Station by Ed Ruscha C) The Caress by Mary Cassatt D) The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz

B) Standard Station by Ed Ruscha

What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype? A) A strict international patent B) The inability to make multiple copies from captured image C) The invention of the motion picture D) The cost of silver

B) The inability to make multiple copies from capture image

What medium, invented in the 20th-century, resembles oil paint, but dries very quickly and is far more durable? A) Gouache B) Collage C) Acrylic D) Tempera

C) Acrylic

________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting. A) Julia Margaret Cameron B) Gertrude Kasebier C) Alfred Stieglitz D) Thomas Ruff

C) Alfred Stieglitz

In oil painting, linseed oil acts as a _______. A) Support B) Ground C) Binder D) Pigment

C) Binder

IN a daguerreo type, what type of surface is used to record light? A) Rayogram B) Gelatin silver print C) Copper plate covered with silver iodine D) Plate of glass

C) Copper plate covered with silver iodine

The work of Hannah Hoch is considered to be a part of what artistic style? A) Pure photography B) Pictorialism C) Dada D) Photojournalism

C) Dada

In printmaking, when an edition is complete, what will typically happen to the matrix? A) It will be registered so that the artist may rework his or her own ideas anew. B) It will be registered so that the edition may be copyrighted C) It will be canceled so that no more prints can be made from it. D) It will be restored so that a new image may be printed from it.

C) It will be canceled so that no more prints can be made from it.

What artist used traditional woodcut printing to create art with modern subject matter? A) Alfred Stieglitz B) Albrecht Durer C) Kathe Kollwitz D) Ed Ruscha

C) Kathe Kollwitz

Which of the following is NOT one of the techniques of intaglio printing? A) Mezzotint B) Engraving C) Linocut D) Aquatint

C) Linocut

What printing process is considered the most direct and effortless, features that lead to its use in daily newspapers? A) Etching B) Intaglio C) Lithography D) Serigraphy

C) Litography

Except in the case of ______, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking. A) Relief prints B) Screen prints C) Monotypes D) Intaglio prints

C) Monotypes

Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre? A) Screenprinting B) Renaissance mosaics C) Painting D) Rococo Sculpture

C) Painting

Chris Ofili used what medium in his work, Prince among Thieves with Flowers? A) Brush and ink B) Charcoal C) Pencil D) Pen and ink

C) Pencil

What structure is a horizontal form supported at only 1 end?

Cantilever

What qualities are common in the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude?

Installations are temporary and transitory

The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of what structural system?

Post- and-intel

What is the fastest method of creating a hallow, rounded clay form?

Potter's Wheel

What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?

Printing Press

What traditional craft does contemporary artist Faig Ahmed incorporate into his art?

Rug weaving

In typography, what are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters?

Serifs

Alexsander Rodchenko worked in the _____ style, his works marked by abstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture

Constructivist

The Abbey Church of Saint-Foy is one of the earliest _____ churches ever built.

Romanesque

The art and architecture of the high Middle Ages is generally divided into 2 periods, the _____ and the _____.

Romanseque; Gothic

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film empire? A) Early space travel B) Passage of time C) The daily life of an artist D) Epic battle scenes

B) Passage of time

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applies to what surface? A) Dry plaster B) Hot beeswax C) Stretched canvas D) Wet plaster

D) Wet plaster

In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ______ onto a surface coated with a preliminary coating of paint. A) Dart B) Dagger C) Coin D) Wire

D) Wire

Images from the world's earliest known printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was made using what process? A) Lithography B) Mazzotint C) Dry Paint D) Woodcut

D) Woodcut

What late-medieval artist used architecture to define spave and indirect movement in his paintings?

Duccio

Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at his work. A) Degas B) Rembrandt C) Picasso D) Ingres

C) Picasso

In her work, Untitled from 2011, what medium does Julie Mehretu use to intentionally evoke architectural drafting? A) Brush and ink B) Metalpoint C) Radiograph D) Pastel

C) Radiograph

In what way does Caledonia Curry, better known as Swoon, use linocuts and woodcuts in a modern way? A) Internet art B) Blog decorations C) Street art D) Color screen prints

C) Street art

Mosaic is made of small, closely spaced particles called _______. A) Weaves B) Easels C) Tesserae D) Impasto

C) Tesserae

What is pigmentation in paint? A) A Binder B) A vehicle C) A powdered color D) A solvent

C) a powdered color

Sculptures will often create a "sketch" out of ________ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice.

Clay

Pueblo potter Maria Martinez used what method to create her striking blackware

Coiling

Where could Romans watch gladiators fight to the death, along with other sporting events?

Colosseum

What aspect of Christianity required a fundamental change in the architecture of religious buildings?

Congregational worship

What term is used to describe the pose used by the Greek artists that expresses the potential for motion inherent in a standing human?

Contrapposto

What feature is an important aspect of Gothic architecture?

Flying Buttresses

Falling Water (The Kaufman House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of what designer?

Frank Lloyd Wright

What is the most common product of wood working art?

Furniture

What structure used digital fabrication in its construction?

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

The Indian Sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of ____ sculpture

High-Relief

What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign?

Hope

What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBTQ flag?

Inclusion and acceptance

Casting is known as a(n) ______ method

Indirect

The Great Sphinx at Giza, In Egypt, has the head of a man and the body of a ____.

Lion

How is Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology organized in order to effectively display its subject?

Location and time

A______ is often the 1st and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

Logo

What term is used to describe sculpture in which figures project only slightly from the background?

Low relief

The secret of ____________ was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it.

Porcelain

What is the primary subject matter of the cave paintings of Chauvet?

Animals

Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels? A) Crayons are made for children, while pastels for artists B) Different binders are used C) Pigment quality is better for crayons D) Liquid pigment is used

B) Different binders are used

What painting technique, used in the 1st century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, involves the use of wax? A) Tempera B) Encaustic C) Oil paint D) Acrylic

B) Encaustic

What is an example of a liquid medium? A) Graphite B) Ink C) Silverpoint D) Pastel

B) Ink

What technology has changed print making, making the traditional use of a matrix increasingly obsolete? A) Registration machines B) Inkjet printers C) Serigraphy D) Monotype

B) Inkjet printer

During what time period did experiments with the camera obscura 1st begin? A) Industrial revolution B) Italian Renaissance C) Early 20th century D) Classic Greece

B) Italian Renaissance

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink _______ the surface of the printing plate. A) Lies above B) Lies below C) Is forced through D) Lies even with

B) Lies below

The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as _____. A) Pastel B) Pigment C) Binder D) Wash

B) Pigment

The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as A) Pictorialism B) Photojournalism C) Censorship D) Continuous motion photography

B) Photojournalism

What characterisitc is associated with lithography? A) Stone relief B) Planographic process C) Engraving D) Intaglio

B) Planographic process

Unlike their Greek and Romazon predecessorsm, Byzantine artists perferred what type of aesthetic?

A flattened, abstracted style of art

What is the most notable example of neolitic architecture in Europe?

Stonehenge

What term is used to describe the ability of a material to withstand tension?

Tensile strength

What type of structure is generated by rotating an arch 360 degrees about a vertical central axis?

Dome

What characteristic of Hellenistic Roman art can be seen in the Funerary portrait of Gratidia M. L. Chrite and M. Gradtidius Libanus?

A) A realistic portraits of individuals

In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ______ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.

Albrecht Durer

What artist often blurred the line between commercial design and fine art?

Andy Warhol

________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

Assemblage

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on _____.

Carpets

_______ was developed by ancient Greeks as a naturalistic pose for sculptures of the human figure

Contapposto

What characteristic can be seen in the sculpture, Apoxymenos (Scraper)?

Contrapposto

What early writing system, marked by wedge-shaped marks, was used in Mesopotamia?

Cuneiform

What type of drawing medium is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends? A) Radiograph B) Crayon C) Metalpoint D) Brush and ink

D) Brush and Ink

Honore Daumier used the lithographic process for his masterly work in ______. A) Serigraphy B) Etchings C) Black and White photography D) Caricatures

D) Caricatures

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ______ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment. A) Collage B) Gouache C) Sketch D) Cartoon

D) Cartoon

Vonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of ______. A) Brush and ink B) Chalk C) Pastel D) Charcoal

D) Charcoal

Romare Bearden's Mysteries can be considered what type of work? A) Acrylic B) Pointillist C) Watercolor D) Collage

D) Collage

What type of medium is frequently used in post-internet art? A) Tapestry B) Acrylic C) Installation D) Digital Software

D) Digital software

How can Mia Pearlman's Installation Inrush, best be described? A) Papier Colle B) Delicate Silhouettes C) Spatial collage D) Exploded Drawings

D) Exploded Drawings

Which is NOT one of the 4 basic printmaking process? A) Screen printing B) Intaglio C) Lithography D) Gouache

D) Gouache

What are the Lumiere brothers known for? A) Producing the first science fiction film B) Spearheading the new wave film movement C) Originating the concept of the auteur in filmmaking D) Inventing the 1st workable film projector

D) Inventing the 1st workable film projector

In printmaking, a (n) _______ is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper. A) Burin B) Edition C) Impression D) Matrix

D) Matrix

What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)? A) Brush B) Ground C) Wash D) Nib

D) Nib

In Howling Wolf's ledger drawing from your text, Ute Indian, what mediums are used? A) Brush, ink, and pastels B) Crayon and pastels C) Crayons, charcoal, and graphite D) Pen, ink, and watercolor

D) Pen, ink, and watercolor

What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art? A) Prints have very little resale value and are a poor investment for collectors. B) Prints are always machine-made and relatively inexpensive. C) Prints are copies of works of art and don't involve artists in the production process. D) Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.

D) Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.

What term is used to describe "silk-writing"? A) Registration B) Intaglio C) Lithography D) Serigraphy

D) Serigraphy

What innovation as practiced by Jackson Pollock, helped move painting away from the easel? A) Installations that were meant to be experienced from inside, moment by moment. B) Computer software was used to digitally alter images C) Acrylic paints were spread around the borders D) The canvas was placed on the floor

D) The canvas was placed on the floor

Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.

Eiffel Tower

How is high-relief sculpture different from low-relief sculpture?

Elements of high relief maybe in the round, unattached to the background

To compensate for the natural vision distorotion in which tall columns appear to bend inward, the greeks gave them a slight bulge, which is known as _____.

Entasis

What type of statues were common in classical Rome?

Equestrian

What did gold signify in ancient Egyptian culture and art?

Eternity

What is one result from the passage of NAGPRA in 1990?

Excaration of native graves or sacred sites was prohibited

What subject matter informs the abstract artworks of the cycladic culture?

Female nude figures

What material did Shigeru Ban use in his Centre Pompidou-Metz, that updated the ancient idea of fabric architecture.

Fiberglass

WHat technique shapes metal through hammer blows?

Forging

What method of sculpture illustrates the additive process

Modeling

What technique was used to complete the work, Empress Theodora and Retinue?

Mosaic

What type of art decorates the interior of San Vitale?

Mosaics

The _______ is the walkway directly in front of a church that serves as the entry porch.

Narthex

Andy Goldsworthy uses ____ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral

Natural

Marble sculptures from what ancient Greek structures were removed and sent to England in the hopes of preservation?

Parthenon

What technique is illustrated in the sculpture Akhenaten and his family?

Sunken relief

What is another term used to described fired clay?

Terra Cotta

The arts and crafts movement came about as a reaction to what event?

The Industrial Revolution

What painting, by the artist Giotto, shows his pioneering use of a "window" effect in painting?

The Lamentation

Why have most ancient Greeks bronze statues not survived even though Bronze was the favored material for freestanding sculpture?

They were melted down to make weapons and other objects

What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?

Today, multiples can be created from the process

The cross-shaped floor plan of a church is formed by the combined shapes of the nave and the _____.

Transept

Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building.

Wainwright Building


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