Art Appreciation Final

Conté is a _____ mediudm

Drawing

The construction method of stacking bricks or stone blocks with no mortar is known as...

Dry Masonry

Applying warm color to one area of a design that is otherwise made up of cool colors is a way to create _____ in a design

Emphasfis

The type of paint that has a vehicle of wax is...

Encaustic

Found on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals, _____ were designed to counteract lateral thrust on the buildings' walls

Flying Buttresses

The concept that the "look" or appearance of an artwork can convey meaning, independent of subject matter, is referred to as...

Form language

Glass is made by...

Freezing quartz crystals

Creating designs by gluing flat shapes cut from thin pieces of different types of wood is called...

Intarsia

The central and uppermost voussoir in an arch is called the...

Keystone

To say that a design is afocal means that it...

Lacks a clear focal point

Of the following elements, which is the most relevant to tenebrism: line, texture, light, motion

Light

The most common vehicle in artists' oil paint is...

Linseed oil

Given a painting of a man represented with different shades and tints of blue, which of the following would not be an accurate description of the artist's use of color: cool, local, monochromatic, arbitrary

Local

_____ is the term used to describe sculptures in which the forms project slightly from a background surface

Low relief

The earliest cameras were used by artists to make...

Paintings and drawingis

The most common support for watercolor painting is...

Paper

A landscape painter who paints her subject from direct observation using colors as they actually appear would be applying _____color

Perceptual

The medium whose name comes from Greek roots meaning "light writing" is...

Photography

In a church that is built on a Latin Cross plan, the central aisle is called...

A nave

Given that each of the following is handmade, which would least likely be considered an example of a craft?

A painting on canvas

According to the text, which of the following is considered a role of artists in society: to help us see the world in new ways, to make objects and structures more pleasurable, to make a visual record, to give form to the immaterial

All of the above

In architecture, which of the following can influence the design of a building: topography, function, economy, technology

All of these

The type of rhythm present in the pattern on a checkerboard is...

Alternating

In printmaking, a group of prints that are produced from the same master images are called...

An edition

In terms of design elements, a row of twelve black buttons running down the front of the shirt would be an example of...

An implied line

A large, multipart sculpture that creates an environment is called...

An installation

Tracing the shape of a pear onto a piece of paper would create...

An organic shape

In theory, mixing equal amounts of red, blue and yellow paint would produce...

Black

In traditional lithography, the master image is carried on a...

Block of stone

When mixing pigments, the color purple can be created by mixing...

Blue and Red

When working with pigments, the three primary colors are...

Blue, red and yellow

The technique of painting that involves mixing pigments into wet plaster is...

Buon fresco

Which of the following is a sharp metal tool used for engraving?

Burin

When an artist makes a drawing of a face by outlining the shapes of the head and facial features, the artist is using...

Contour lines

The Greek order, which includes capitals decorated with acanthus leaves, is the...

Corinthian

Which of the following is not a device for creating an illusion of depth: relative size, radial balance, modeling, linear perspective, atmospheric perspective

Radial Balance

In two-dimensional art, areas of cool color placed beside areas of warm color will appear to...

Recede into space

Which one of the following is a device for achieving unity in a work of art: contrast, simultaneous contrast, repetition of form, surrealism

Repetition of form

For the ancient Greeks, the "golden rectangle" ____

Represented ideal proportions

In the context of art, the term "non-objective", means that the artist did not base the work on anything...

Seen in the observable world

The printmaking process that employs a stencil is...

Serigraphy

Which of the following is not an intaglio process?

Serigraphy

In a camera, which of the following helps to determine the amount of light that is captured: shutter speed, focus, view finder, macro adjustment

Shutter Speed

The reason why the colors yellow and purple seem to intensify when placed next to each other is a phenomenon called...

Simultaneous contrast

The system of linear perspective is based upon the fact that the further away an object is, the _____ it appears

Smaller

In art, the relative lightness or darkness of something is...

Value

Cross-hatching is as technique used to create different ____ within a two-dimensional work of art

Values

Two-point perspective is so named because the system employs two...

Vanishing points

"Warp" and "weft" are elements of which craft?

Weaving

Using cooking as an analogy for making art, the elements of design would be like...

The ingredients

Given a large scale oil painting of a soldier raising a flag after battle, which of the follow might best describe the artwork's subject: the large size, the oil paint, the soldier raising the flag, a feeling of victory

The soldier raising the flag

Based on the color wheel given in the book and in lecture, the complement of blue is...

Orange

Given a realistic watercolor of a shop on a stormy sea and a lighthouse shining its light, the content could be...

A feeling of hope

In painting, a layer of transparent or semitransparent paint is called...

A glaze

An artwork that employs the wind to move pieces around would be considered...

A kinetic sculpture

Within the composition of a painting, a person pointing towards something would create...

A line of sight

A linocut is an example of ____ process in printmaking

A relief

Which of the following could be considered an element of design, if associated with a sculpture?

A rough texture

Which of the following subjects from nature would represent and example of radial symmetry: a waterfall, a butterfly, a starfish, a blade of grass

A starfish

Which of the following relates to a fluid drawing medium: a wash, a scrub, a glaze, encaustic pouring

A wash

The style of art that best describes a painting of a bird depicted as flat, geometric shapes is...

Abstract

Which of the following is not a type of ceramic?

Aquatint

The lost-wax technique allows for the creation of sculptures which,,,

Are hollow

When the elements of one side of a composition have the same visual weight as elements on the other side, but are not a mirror image of it, we say that it possess _____ balance

Asymmetrical

A painting, in which tenebrism was employed, will always have...

At least one focal point

Of the four devices used by painters to create illusions of depth, which would have the potential to suggest the greatest distance in a landscape painting?

Atmospheric Perspective

From the Greek for "beautiful writing", lines that change from thick to thin as they flow across a surface are often described as...

Calligraphic

the term sued the describe a shadow that is cast by an object onto another surface is...

Cast Shadow

The Eiffel Tower is an example of...

Cast iron construction

The drawing material made from burnt wood is...

Charcoal

In painting, creating the illusion of a three dimensional, curved surface by gradually shifting from light to dark is...

Chiaroscuro

Pigments are responsible for providing the _____ in an art material

Color

_____ is the term used to describe a system of visual images the meanings of which are widely understood by a given culture or cultural group

Iconography

Lines that are loose, raw and gestural are said to have an _____ quality...

Expressive

Including shadows, core shadows and highlights in a drawing of an object is an approach to...

Modeling

Which of the following is not a drawing medium?

Gouache

Which of the following materials is a soft form of carbon?

Graphite

Which of the following is a hue: cool, texture, green, dark

Green

In some instances, a painting or drawing might be coated with _____ before the actual artwork is begun

Ground

In art, the use of _____ dictates that the size of a subject indicates its importance

Hierarchical scaling

A color that is very pure and intense is described as...

High saturation

Which medium would be the best choice for an artist trying to draw very fine lines?

Metal point

The printmaking process that is employed to create singular images is...

Monotype

The color red can be made by mixing what pigments: green and purple, green and yellow, orange and purple, orange and green, none of these

None of these

Of the following 2-dimensional media, which has the potential for creating the most realistic works of art?

Oil painting

The phenomenon wherein an area of small dots of blue color intermixed with small dots of yellow might appear green is called..

Optical Color Mixing

A painting made up of hundreds of wavy lines that appear to vibrate is an example of...

Optical painting

_____ is a type of white-bodied ceramic that, because of its historic origin, is often referred to as "china"

Porcelain

If a painting is described as being three times taller than it is wide, we are able to know the artwork's..

Proportions

A potter's wheel helps ceramic artists to shape vessels by _____ the clay

Spinning

Ferroconcrete is concrete reinforced with...

Steel

The word "craft" comes from the Old English, "craeft", meaning...

Strength

Carving a sculpture from a block of stone would be an example of a ____ process

Subtractive

The early photographic process that utilized a paper negative to produce a positive image on paper was developed by...

Talbot

The camera lens used to make distant objects appear closer is the _____ lens

Telephoto

The type of paint that has a vehicle of egg is...

Tempera

In determining a material's ability to span a distance without breaking, one of the most important considerations is a material's...

Tensile strength

Red-orange is an example of a ____ color

Tertiary

The element of design that relates to the surface quality of a material is...

Texture

In a truss, linear, structural elements are put together in units in the shapes of,,,

Triangles