Art Midterm
Memento mori refers to:
A reminder of morality
When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.
Actual
What is the difference between analysis and critique?
Analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.
Animal hide, cloth, wood and papyrus
________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.
Asymmetrical
The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.
Bas-relief
This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.
Bas-relief
The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.
Beeswax
This pictorial logo, used to identify Chevrolet products, has come to replace words when identifying the company.
Bowtie
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.
Break down categories of traditional artworks, break down the traditional boundaries between art and life, and focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook
There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means "dry fresco," and this kind, which means "good fresco."
Buon
Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.
Charcoal
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
This is the most vivid element of art and design.
Color
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.
Complementary colors
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.
Conceptual
Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________.
Depth
Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
Direction, Dramatic Play, Placement, Line
A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________.
Edition
The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.
Egg
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.
Extreme performance pieces
What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
Facade
This craft medium uses threads, fabrics, and other textiles.
Fiber
The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
Field
This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.
Focal Point
A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.
Form
In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.
Format
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.
Geometric
The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called ________.
Glaze
Stained glass was integral to the development of this medieval French architectural style.
Gothic
The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.
Grammar
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 ________.
Hatching
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
Hierarchical
The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.
Highlight
What genre might a filmmaker be working in if he or she used ominous music, fake blood, and shot many of the scenes at night?
Horror
A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.
Implied Line
This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian.
Intaglio
Which of the following is a printmaking process?
Intaglio
An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.
Intimacy
This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.
Kinetic
This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines.
Linear perspective
A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called ________.
Linocut
A color that is almost gray has a ________ chroma.
Low
The work of ________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.
Marcel Duchamp
Glass was probably first used by this ancient culture
Mesopotamia
Which architect began a movement in architectural sustainability in 2004 with the innovative modular Glidehouse?
Michelle Kaufmann
The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.
Monumental
Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?
Museum website
A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.
Nearly every angle
Georges Méliès's film A Trip to the Moon is known for being:
Part of his magic show, moves time forward using multiple settings, repeated scenes, and cuts
Ron Lambert's sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover) replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the ________.
Passage of time
The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.
Pattern
This type of charcoal is commonly used as drawing material and is easy to erase.
Pencil
If an architect wanted to build a large square building with a domed roof, he or she would use this structural feature to transfer the load of the roof.
Pendentive
To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall, Raphael ________ a large drawing, then used powdered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.
Perforated
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
Pigment
Daguerreotypes are made on ________.
Polished metal plates
This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
Prisim
The primary colors that make up the basis for commercial printing are ________.
Red, green, and blue
The traditional "artist's" primary colors are ________.
Red, yellow, and blue
A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.
Relief
This aspect of culture is integral to both ancient Greek and Yoruba figural art, despite the differences in how the resulting artworks look.
Religion
This type of arch was created by the Romans to open space overhead.
Rounded
If a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is ________.
Running forward
Architects consider this when designing a building.
Site, engineering, materials, and need of the user
The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.
Stroboscopic motion
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
Subordination
The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas.
Symbols
________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.
Symmetrical
An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.
T/F False
An artwork can have only one focal point.
T/F False
Artists started depicting time in art only in the twentieth century, and no other artwork that implied movement was made before 1900.
T/F False
Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.
T/F False
Cast iron was only invented in the eighteenth century.
T/F False
If a sculptor wanted to create a relief that was visible from more than one angle, bas-relief would be a good method to use.
T/F False
The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.
T/F False
Wood is not strong enough to create freestanding sculptures more than about 4 ft tall.
T/F False
Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically, chemically, or digitally.
T/F True
The final step in developing a film in a darkroom is washing and drying the print.
T/F True
Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space.
T/F True
The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________.
The human eye
All sculptures have this characteristic in common:
They exist in three-dimensional space
Artists draw for many reasons, including:
To define their ideas, to plan for larger projects, to resolve ideas in preparatory sketches, and to record visual observations
Films such as Amélie combine realistic and fantastical elements in order to:
Trick the viewer into believing everything in the film is true
There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
Two
The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ________.
Typography
What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
Unity
An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:
Unity and Variety
One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.
Vanishing point
This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.
Variety
The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.
Vocabulary
In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.9), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?
Water
This type of design can incorporate text, image, recorded sound, and moving images.
Web design
What is the process that a ceramist uses to knead and remove pockets of air from wet clay?
Wedging
As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ________.
What the human eye cannot see, created illusion of movements
Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?
blog of painting
When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?
early 1800s
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
prayer figures
Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________.
stop-motion
What does the word "photograph" mean?
writing with light