Art Exam I

This art movement, of which Hans Arp was a member, valued randomness, absurdity, and nonsense over rational or orderly patterns.

Dada

The seventeenth-century burqa base was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ______.

India

The sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer's eye through the work.

Pieter Bruegel

This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athen.

Raphael

This female artist brilliantly used a rhythmic structure in her painting Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, an image of cattle at work in the fields.

Rosa Bonheur

This inventor co-created the film Fred Ott's Sneeze, which was one of the first American movies.

Thomas Edison

This american novelist noted that the "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

William Faulkner

Triumph of the will is a film about _________.

a Nazi rally and the speeches of Adolf Hitler

By using objects that most viewers would be familiar with, Nam June Paik's TV Buddha draws on our previous experience of ________.

actual texture

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The dressing of the vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ___________ rhythm.

alternating

when using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by _________________.

alternating value, relative size, overlapping, relative position

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

an implied line

The sphere that designer Saul Bass created for the AT&T logo is not defined by continuous boundary. This type of shape, which can be suggested by dots or lines that do not connect, is termed _________ .

an implied shape

In Vesperbild (or Pieta) from fourteenth-century Germany, the shrunken, twisted body of Jesus and the oversized, anguished head of Mary are accentuated for expressive effect. This distortion of the human body, __________ that we can all understand, makes the viewers feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of a mother and son.

an organic form

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

animation

____________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

asymmetrical

Artemisia Gentileschi used direction line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

_____________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

color

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

color temperature

The three kinds of unity are

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

The artist Egon Schiele drew his Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing, with Hands on Hips using ________ line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contour

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a __________.

contour........volume

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of ________.

contrast

The medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera used a camera obscure, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscure is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

dark room

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

depth

The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created _________ in his work Travelers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values.

depth

In Vesperbild (or Pieta) from fourteenth-century Germany, the artist __________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's representational portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ____________ her body.

distorts

Any of the __________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

elements

The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.

field

Double Indemnity, a 1944 movie by Billy Wilder, is an example of this genre of mid-twentieth-century cinema

film noir

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

focal point

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this _______.

foreshortening

In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

format

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as ______.

geometric forms

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618

golden section

The principles of design are a kind of __________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Done of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

green has positive associations in Islamic art

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body, creating _____________ design.

harmonious

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.

height

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

highlight

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

horizontal

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

hue

The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ___________ lines of dots dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

implied

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

intimacy

The computer simulation game The Sims uses ___________ perspective.

isometric

if the action portrayed in the early film Fred Ott's Sneeze was not a sneeze, but a man simply wiping his nose this, would have an effect on the level of intensity in the movie. This movie would be __________.

less intense

Advertisers often use this color to reach their audience because it is the most visible in the spectrum.

lime yellow

A color that is almost gray has a _________ saturation.

low

Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.

mass

The American artist Mark Tansey used __________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

monochromatic

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

motif

The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India uses repeated stylized flowers as ___________ to create a strong, unified design.

motifs

This american painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

Chuck Close

In her painting Music---Pink and Blue II, Georgia O'Keeffe emphasized the blue _______ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

negative

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and _________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.

negative

American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest) to imply the presence of water. The work's many empty spaces, which were created using irregular horizontal members, are an example of __________.

open volume

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

orthogonals

In ancient Egypt this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

palm

Ron Lambert's sculptural work "Sublimate (Cloud Cover)" replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the _____.

passage of time

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

performance art

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

performance art

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

perspective

This object can be used to separate white light in to the colors of the spectrum.

prism

When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.

rebel against

The traditional primary colors are _______.

red, yellow, blue

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

relief

Baltimore album quilts, which use variety to unify their composition, are named after these collections.

scrapbooks

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

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

small scale

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyek uses hierarchical scale to communicate ___________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

spiritual

The undecorated areas of the Peruvian double-chambered vessel with mouse are ______________ compared to other areas that are patterned or modeled in the dimensions.

subordinated

The opposite of emphasis is _____________.

subordination

When _______ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

By using _________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ___________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconcious mind.

surrealist

____________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.?

symmetrical

When painters in the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza illustrated The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, they solved the problem of how to ________ in a single painting by merging a series of episodes into one picture.

tell a story

Color ____________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

three dimensional

These for visual elements of art (form, volume, mass, and texture are present in _____ works of art.

three dimensional

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of _________ and _________.

time..... motion

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is __________.

unrecognizable

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

value

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a __________.

value range

Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.

vanishing point

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single _______.

vanishing point

This the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.

vanishing point

Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ____________ in a work of art.

variety

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

variety

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden, the garden is punctuated by a specific feature the points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water

Paul Gauguin's use of the color _________ in his 1889 depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

yellow

This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures.

zoetrope

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create a focal points.

Ando Hiroshige

This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.

Edward Weston

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Peter Schecter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library.

Ghostwriter

Marisol's work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S. State of ________.

Hawaii