Art Appreciation FINAL
(blank) is an example of a sculptural installation
Cai Guo-Qiang's Dream
The Baroque painter credited with inventing the dramatic use of light and dark was
Caravaggio
Paper was invented in
China
Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, and The Gates are just a few of the works created by
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The sculptor (blank) is known for re-creating ordinary objects on an heroic scale
Claes Oldenburg
The strange and artificial sense of form and space in the 16th century Italian painting is typical of
Mannerism
Which of the following artists revived the traditions of fine pottery making among the Pueblo people?
Maria Martinez
The most celebrated frescoes of the 20th century were from
Mexico
Which of the following is a Baroque artist?
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Woman of Algiers is a prime example of __painting
Romantic
In 1970, Robert Smithson arranged rock and earth in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, for an earthwork entitled
Spiral Jetty
Louise Bourgeois's Red Room (Child) was made using the sculptural process of
assembling
As a model for Christian churches, Roman architects used the standard ________ plan.
basilica
in the 15th century, the single-sheet ancestors of today's brochures and newspapers were called
broadsides
Sherrie Levin's 1991 Fountain demostrates the postmodern practice of appropratiation
by presenting the work as Levine's own without directly acknowledging Marcel Duchamp
Oil paint applied in very thin translucent layers is called
a glaze
In Roman architecture, a basilica is
a long, rectangular, multipurpose meeting hall
The term avant-garde, used to describe art and artists on the cutting edge, was originally
a military term for soliders who went first into battle
Paul Cezanne made at least seventy-five works of arts involving the same subject which was
a mountain near his home
A full-size drawing used for painting projects is called a
cartoon
Typeface refers to
a style of type
A work of art that is made in three panels is called
a triptych
Applying water-diluted ink to a drawing surface with a brush creates
a wash
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed by
a young college student
The branch of philosophy that deals with natural and artistic beauty is
aesthetics
Painting with oils "all at once" in a spontaneous, single pass is known as
alla prima
Subtractive processes include
carving
Slab construction and coiling are techniques used in
ceramics
Artists use charred wood in order to produce
charcoal drawings
In Janine Antoni's Gnaw, two 600-pound cubes of which materials were gnawed on by the artist?
chocolate and lard
In a Romanesque church, the (blank) is an aisle around the apse that helps to ease the excess flow of pilgrims through the church
ambulatory
The reorganization of visual elements in two-dimensional art is called
composition
An image of a sacred subject painted on a wood panel during the Byzantine era is referred to as
an icon
The Great Spinx at Giza is believed to be
an image of the pharaoh Khafre
Gouache is a watercolor medium into which __ has been added
an inert white pigment
The word Classical in the context of Western civilization refers to
ancient Greek and Roman culture
The objects found at the Sutton Hoo burial site in Great Britian are typical of the
animal style
Style, as defined by recurring characteristics found in art, can be classified in terms of
cultural style school style period style individual style
Stained glass is made by
cutting and piecing together bits of colored glass
The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned the American Institute of Graphic Arts to
develop a set of symbols that could communicate across language barriers
Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa effectively used blank lines to create tension
diagonal
The two broad categories into which traditional drawing materials are typically divided are
dry and liquid media
The most famous emulsion for tempera paint is (blank) as their preferred medium
egg yolk
Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating
emphasis and subordination
Carpets, rugs, and tapestries and clothing would fall into the category of (blank) art
fiber
The term "trompe l'oeil" is French for
fool the eye
The definitions of form and content include that
form is the way that art looks; content is what the work is about.
Popular in 17th-century Holland, subject matter that focused on scenes of everyday life is called
genre
Which of the following media is the most common for drawings?
graphite pencil
To prepare the painting surface, an artist usually applies a
ground
The role of art in relation to the sacred world
has been with us since the earliest of times
Which of the following types of lines are used to create shading effects?
hatching
For encaustic, the medium or binder is made of
hot wax
The three physical properties of color are
hue, value, intensity
Conceptual art is a theoretical approach to art where
ideas are more important than the object
In the mid-1970's and 1980's, artists combined a lush application with figurative references
in a style that became known as Neo-Expressionism
Although no definite line separate crafts from other art objects, one helpful distinction is that
in crafts there is a special emphasis on the materials used
Sculpture that is freestanding and completely finished on all sides is called
in the round
Donald Judd's Minimalist sculptures have the look of
industrial fabrication
Artistic works in the animal style often contain ________ and images of abstracted animals
interlace
The difference between Thomas Cole's The Oxbow and Wang Jian's White Clouds Over Xiao and Xiang
is that one explores the natural world and the other the world of fantasy
The appreciation of work of art can be enhanced greatly by knowing
its place in history, how it was made, and why it was made
Art that physically moves, such as Alexander Calder's mobiles, is called ________ art
kinetic
A (blank) is a designer's blueprint for a work such as a book or magazine
layout
The term "chiaroscuro" comes from Italian, and literally means
light/dark
The most common medium for oil paint is
linseed oil
A sculpture in which the subjects project very slightly from the background is called
low relief
According to recent research, Stonehenge
marks a graveyard and possibly a religious complex
The substance that holds the pigments together without dissolving them is the
medium
Which medium involves drawing with a fine wire onto a coated surface?
metalpoint
The additive process of sculpture includes
modeling and assembling only
Byzantine churches, such as San Vitale, had much of their interiors decorated with
mosaics
Louise Bourgeois' "woman with packages" is best described as being
naturalistic
Picasso's painting First Communion would best be described as
naturalistic
The central interior space of the basilica-style church is called a
nave
Conceptual art as seen in the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres stresses that
the idea is more important than the object
Which new group of art patrons emerged during the Renaissance?
the merchant class
Which of the following first allowed designers the means to communicate to a broad public?
the printing press
The following factors have contributed to the influence of graphic design except
the rise of Nazism in thirties Germany
Edouard Manet's Le Dejuener sur I'herbe was publicly and critically ridiculed, primarily because
the subjects were ordinary and undignified
Which characteristic helps define the art of 15th century northern European artists?
their precise rendering of surface details
During the twentieth century, blank were added to the visual elements used by artists.
time and motion
To "set type" means
to create and place it into position
Realist artists wanted above all
to make art about everyday life using ordinary subjects
Which artistic role was fulfilled in Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau
to record and commemorate
The works in this chapter by Valdes and Flack are examples of (blank) paintings
vanitas
Weaving is created with two interlaced sets of fibers that form a grid-like pattern called
warp and weft
Color field painting was a form of abstraction that
was meditative, in contrast to the action inherent in action painting
A craft medium that does not require heat, but is susceptible to damage from heat and cold is
wood
John Baldessari's "Six Colorful Inside Jobs" showcases (blank) as art and art as (blank)
work
A standardized text logo is called a
workmark
The longest structure of an ancient Sumerian city was the
ziggurat
Emotion, energy, and movement are characteristics of
Italian Baroque art
The system of linear perspective was developed in the early 15th century in
Italy
Which of the following is a Neoclassical artist?
Jacques-Louis David
Which sculptor created Michael Jackson as a figurine on a monumental scale, a precious and fragile collectible?
Jeff Koons
The shamanistic rite of the Navajo culture have provided inspiration to the artist
Joseph Beuys
Which artist said "I chose the body as a subject...because it is the one form that we all share"?
Kiki Smith
Among the most pervasive symbols of our time are
Logos and trademarks
The word Rococo has become synonymous with
"elaborate and profuse"
The movement known as (blank) is included in the general European artistic trend called expressionism
-Der Blaue Reiter -Die Brucke -Fauvism
Carousing Couple is an example of
-Dutch Baroque art -a work by Judith Leyster -genre painting
Which work is a fresco painting?
-Raphael's The School of Athens -Leonardo's The Last Supper -Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam
Degas's The Singer In Green is
-a dry-media drawing -a pastel drawing -a 19th-century artwork -a drawing with value and color
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa is a fine example of Berini's talent in
-artitecture -lighting -sculpture -painting
Roman sculptors are credited with the artistic invention of
-death masks -bronze casting -stone carving -equestrian portraiture
In art, pigment is
-the colored material mixed with a binder for drawing -a material ground from organic or chemical substances -and the basis for the range of color available in crayons, pastels, and chalks
According to the author, what distingiushes archaeology from grave robbing?
-the passage of time -the motives of the perpetrators -the language we use to describe ancient finds
The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper
-was required because in earlier restorations, much of it was painted over -was undertaken to determine what paint was put on by da Vinci himself -left blank areas that were then filed in by pale, removable watercolor -was necessary because he used an experimental painting technique
The oldest cave paintings known today were made around
30,000 BCE
The Renaissance was
A revival of interest in ancient Greek and Roman ideals
The Parthneon was a temple built in the (blank) style
Doric
(Blank) involves heating a chunk of metal over a fire, then beating and shaping it with hammers
Forging
The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles is a prime example of design in the
French Baroque style
Of what artist was it said, "At last! A woman on paper!"
Georgia O'Keeffe
The oldest surviving set of laws from ancient Mesopotamia was recorded in
Hammurabi's Code
How did Vincent van Gogh die?
He committed suicide
Among the most famous of all 19th century posters are those created by
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artist Jeff Wall's "A Sudden Gust of Wind" is an example of "Art behind the art" which is a photographic reconstruction of a painting by
Hokusai
The three categories of style that dominated early 19th-century French art was
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism
Paleolithic simply means
Old Stone Age
The Athenian head of state _____ was responsible for the rebuilding of the Acropolis
Perikles
Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu are the names of
Pharaohs
Automatism was used in the making of many __works of art
Surrealist
The 1600s and 1700s in Europe are often referred to as
The Age of Kings
(blank) is an embroidery depicting the conquest of England by William of Normandy in 1066
The Bayeaux Tapestry
Which of the following works of art was created with a charcoal drawing medium?
Three Mile Island by Yvonne Jacquette
The three most vital centers of Italian art during the Renaissance were
Venicek Rome, and Florence
Which ancient Roman's writings on architecture related the human body to geometric shapes?
Vitruvius
Jim Hodges' Every Touch is composed of
petals of artifical flowers.
Pastel is made up of
pigment bound with a non-greasy binder
Gothic architecture typically incorporated
pointed arches and ribbed vaulted ceilings
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusamai's trademark motif is
polka dots
Which of the following is a fine white clay that fires at the highest temperatures?
porcelain
In sculpture, the term contrapposto means that the figure is
posed with the weight of the body shifted onto one foot
Since the Renaissance, Western societies differentiated between art and craft, as art
reveals imagination and genius
The design principle that is based on repetition is called
rhythm
The principal ingredient of glass is
sand
Michelangelo considered the field of (blank) to be his foremost specialty
sculpture
The use of (blank) can be seem in the painting Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
sfumato
As a visual element, the term "value" refers to
shades of light and dark
2-dimensional objects are said to have (blank) and 3-dimensional objects are said to have (blank)
shape/mass
Scale is defined as:
size in relation of one object to a standard or "normal" size
In traditional African sculpture, the human figure most often represents
spirits
The visual elements of art include all of the following except
style
Terry Winters has been making paintings that
suggest various information systems: computers, brains, cities, and the Internet
Georgia O'Keeffe's Deer's Skull with Pedernal utilizes (blank) balances
symmetrical
Which of the following are not among the principles of design?
texture and color
Which of the following reasons did not contribute to New York City becoming an art center after World Word II?
that the United States government had generous support programs for artists
Two artistic movement that were halted in their countries of origin by political oppression were
the Bauhaus and Constructivism
The emotional and dramatic Last Supper by Tintoretto reflects the artistic goals of
the Catholic Counter-Reformation
Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People commemorated
the French Revolution of 1830
Claude Monet belonged to a group of artists called
the Impressionists
Since 1985 the activities of the Guerilla Girls have focused on
the art establishment's unequal treatment of women and minority artists
The ancient cultures that we are able to examine most fully are those in which
the art has been found or preserved
Before the discovery of the Chauvet cave paintings, the oldest known paintings in Europe were
the cave paintings of Lascaux
What event prompted Pablo Picasso to create the painting Guernica?
the devastation of a Spanish city by Nazi bombers
Representations of the world had been created by hand until 1837, when
the first successful daguerreotype was produced
The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to a ratio known as
the golden rectangle
Pop art was a movement that focused on
the huge amounts of mass-produced images and objects
