Art Final

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his works "The Circus" and "Sunday on La Grande Jatte." This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

pointillism

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

polished metal plates

Artwork made of three-dimensional materials, including found objects, as well as technique of creating artworks that challenged traditional art practice

Assemblage

A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?

Claude Monet

A work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface. From the French for "to glue"

Collage

Representation of a subject from multiple viewpoints at one time

Composite View

Who is the artist of The Scream?

Edvard Munch

An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.

False

Giorgio De Chirico was one of the younger members of the Surrealist movement.

False

Salvador Dalí's painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks, ants, and a distorted face, all of which are symbols of his mother, who died the month before this was painted.

False

"Wild Beasts": early 20th century movement emphasizing bold, exaggerated colors and simplified forms to favor creation expression over accuracy

Fauvism

"I did not create a woman, I made a picture."

Henri Matisse

"I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."

Marcel Duchamp

This artist took a urinal, turned it on its side, made some other slight alterations, and presented it as an art object titled Fountain.

Marcel Duchamp

Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?

Paul Cézanne

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

Paul Gauguin

A single photographic image that combines several separate images.

Photomontage

An everyday object presented as a work of art.

Readymade

Kasimir Malevich was part of which movement?

Suprematism

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

True

"I cannot work without a model . . . I exaggerate . . . but I do not invent the whole picture."

Vincent Van Gogh

In Matisse's Joy of Life the artist is emphasizing ________.

a leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing

A dreamlike environment is created in Giorgio De Chirico's "The Melancholy and Mystery of the Street" by:

all of the other answers

Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street: Rainy Day" demonstrates:

all of the other answers

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because

all of the other answers

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

all of the other answers

Objects found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ________.

readymades

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.

all of the previous answers

What aspects of Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomforted many viewers when it was first exhibited?

all of the previous answers

Pablo Picasso made "Girl before a Mirror" ________.

at the height of his career, when he was inspired by his mistress

Paul Cézanne used ________ in his work Mont Sainte-Victoire.

atmospheric perspective

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was ________ the Armory Show in 1913.

seen as scandalous by viewers at

The technique used to make Andy Warhol's "Thirty Are Better than One" is ________.

silkscreen

This printmaking process can be used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

silkscreen

a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas

conceptual art

Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque is part of which movement?

cubism

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was shocking because of the nudity it contained.

false

Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

false

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

the ideas behind the artwork over its realization

The natural world is simply the "canvas" on which an artist creates their earthwork. Nature has no effect on the earthwork, even after the artist has finished the artwork.

false

The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark.

false

The work of Minimalist artists is generally made out of natural materials with an organic quality.

false

Vincent van Gogh committed suicide by bleeding to death after slicing off his left ear.

false

most of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist works look like paintings, but they are actually Cubist collages.

false

What role did photography play for the artist Thomas Eakins?

he used photography to study anatomy and proportion

Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs" consists of ________.

three things that a chair could be

Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________.

to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality

Donald Judd ordered the boxes for his "Untitled" artwork, made in 1967, from a factory.

true

Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers, both in practice and during performances.

true

Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically.

true

Pablo Picasso challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by emphasizing underlying geometric form and the construction of pictorial space.

true

Pop Art aimed to undermine the "high art" tendency to value only works that were "original" and "unique."

true

Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by embracing everyday subjects.

true

Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made.

true

The way that Jackson Pollock painted focused on the process of making art.

true

Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because ________.

he wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night, this technique is called ________.

impasto

artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks, construction of an intentional environment as a completed artwork.

installation

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.

it creates very detailed images

How does Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque relate to the scene it represents?

it is an abstraction based on nature

Donald Judd's Untitled (1967) is part of which movement?

minnimalism

The medium of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting: White on White is:

oil on canvas

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

passengers on a steam ship

Twentieth-century artists continued the explorations in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

true

In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.

truthful

The artist of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ________ the art movements and traditions of the past.

wanted to leave behind

Expressionism focuses on:

what is felt rather than what is seen

What does the word "photograph" mean?

writing with light

The degree to which an image is altered from an easily recognizable subject

Abstraction

artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production

Action Painting

Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Africa

Like Dada, Surrealism was also opposed to rationality and convention

True

The colors of the bodies and trees in Matisse's Joy of Life are ________.

based on what the artist saw, but exaggerated

Why did the artist of The Scream make the painting the way he did?

because he was focusing on his internal experience

The technique used by Roy Lichtenstein to show gradations in color in his "Girl in Mirror" was ________.

borrowed from newspaper printing and comics

The medium of Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is ________.

bronze

Silkscreen printing uses a stencil process, and was first developed in ________ during the Sung Dynasty.

china

The formal element that Mark Rothko focused on is ________.

color

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Moulin de la Galette

depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

art so large it cannot be displayed in commercial galleries, difficult or impossible to sell or to see, uniting art with life, sculpture with nature.

earthwork

A critic praised Monet's work "Impression, Sunrise" by saying it had given a viewer such clarity of thought and purpose that he ran out of the gallery and immediately began writing a novel

false

Edgar Degas was very selective with his subjects; he depicted only people from the upper classes.

false