Art Review

When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?

1980s

Conceptual Art

A general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s

Performance Art

An art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry

In the Roettgen Piet 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, ______ form that we can all understand, makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

An organic

Installation

Artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental

The British artists practices street art using a process that involves stencils and spray paint

Banksy

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

Chuck Close

An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ________.

Closer

Feminist Analysis

Consider the role of women presented in an artwork

Formal Analysis

Describe the uses of formal elements in a work

In Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewers attention in this way are known as _______ lines.

Directional

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

Distorts

As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________. Her intent was to create _____ with her viewers.

Extreme performance pieces, an energy dialogue

In the DC Comics image of Superman, the figure is portrayed at an extreme angle. This _____ view creates an unusual perspective and grab the viewers attention.

Foreshortened

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston public library in Illinois

Ghostwriter

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ____ and ______ composition.

Harmonious and relaxed

Ai Weiwei's S.A.C.R.E.D. depicts six dioramas of:

His experience as a prisoner

In one of his lithographic images, this French artist depicted the aftermath of a violent incidence of police brutality, where a family was killed in a case of mistaken identity.

Honor Daumier

Iconographical Analysis

Interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the sun God are on a coffin chose his subject because

It expresses beliefs in an afterlife

In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVOIR CHRONICLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of _____.

Movement

In his photograph Two ways of life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of _______.

Painting

The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing.

Pink polka-dot trash bags

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of _____.

Subordination

The opposite of emphasis is

Subordination

In her work Object, a fur lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist M ret 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 unconscious mind.

Surrealist

The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:

The artists own blood

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

Two-point

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the elements of art called

Value

Agnolo Bronzino s portrait Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son, Giovanni conveys a sense of:

Wealth, power, high status

In Joseph Beuy's Coyote, I like America and America like me, the artist:

Wrapped himself in felt and lived five days in art gallery with a coyote

Paul Gauguins use of the color_____ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the works connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

Yellow

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

an implied line

Action Paintings

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

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ____ to give a sense of the vastness of the American landscape

atmospheric perspective

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.

balance

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

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

Biographical Analysis

considers the artists personal experiences

Contextual Analysis

considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed

In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ______, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.

cross-hatching

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

focal point

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

gesture

Happenings

impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance

This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects

life drawing

Mel Bochner used __ line in the work Vertigo because it is controlled and measured

regular

To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color.

relief block

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

small scale

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate _____ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

spiritual

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.

to rebel against

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

vibrate