Art Appreciation Exam 1

How did Pablo Picasso respond when told that his portrait of Gertrude Stein did not look like her?

"She will"

The oldest museum in America, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in

1805

The Belgian Surrealist artist __________ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting

Rene' Magritte

Two nineteenth-century French sculptors, Auguste Rodin and Constantin Brancusi, created stone works that expressed the same theme, but through different uses of the element mass. What was the title that both artists used to describe their work?

The Kiss

An upright stone that has a n incised relief on its surface, such as the Maya sculpture (1.2.7), is known as

a stela

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to

absorb

This is the most vivid element of art and design

color

This object can be separated white light into the colors of the spectrum

color wheel

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called

complementary colors

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and _________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones

cross-hatching

The American sculptor David Smith created sculptures of geometric forms. In his work Cubi XIX, Smith used the following geometric shape

cuboids

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

depth

Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and

depth

If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm

foreshortening

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a

form

The organic form and abstract quality of Lino Tagliapietra's sculpture, Batman, allow it to express the idea of

freedom and life

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as _______ forms

geometric

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from

nearly every angle

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ______ forms

organic

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of

painted wood

By looking at the flat triangular surfaces of Disney's Spaceship Earth, the effect of light and shadow can be observed. What are these flat surfaces?

planes

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as

pointillism

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a

relief

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a

shade

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color

temperature

The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is

the artists own blood

In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated because

they were part of a ritual that had social and spiritual importance

These four visual elements of art- form, volume, mass, and texture- are present in_________ works of art

three-dimensional

Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher, uses _________ perspective

three-point

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called

value

The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is

volume

A graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron

False

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic

False

Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment

False

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the playful mood of the movies

False

Gertrude Stein was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

False

The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called perspective

False

Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was intended as a heroic symbol commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. If it had been built it would have been much smaller than the Eiffel Tower.

False

Henri Matisse was a member of the ______ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as the could

Fauve

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of

chroma

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be

closer

Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist

Johannes Vermeer

Louise Bourgeois is an American sculptor who created a work that stands outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What is the title of this spider-shaped sculpture?

Maman

The work known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by it's creator. That title was

Nuestro Pueblo

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a value range

True

Agnolo Bronzino's painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art

True

Artist Ai WeiWei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics

True

Eva Hesse's Untitled (Rope Piece) is considered highly abstract

True

James McNeil Whistler, painter of Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, believed that art had intrinsic value regardless of its message or subject matter

True

The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors, which cannot be mixed from any other color combination

True

The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle

True

The traditional "artists" primary colors are red, yellow, and blue

True

This system, isometric perspective, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

True

Triangular planes make up the surface of a geodesic sphere. Planes that are closer to and facing toward the light source tend to be lighter than planes that are further form it and facing away

True

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are _______ colors

analogous

This type of relief,________, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

bas-relief

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called

chiaroscuro

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is

hue

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the Sun God Re (0.0.1) on a coffin chose his subject because

it expresses beliefs in an afterlife

This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines

linear perspective