ARTS 1510 Final Review
Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
". . . people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant small could be."
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
"...nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time."
Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
"I hear with my eyes and see with my ears."
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
"It is a picture that even strong men find it difficult to look at long..."
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
"When I was a child I experienced this state of self-obliteration, so I painted the same motif endlessly."
If an artist wants to make an INTAGLIO print featuring flat areas of tone, what processes will the artist need to use?
Aquatint
Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?
Caravaggio
Basket making is DIFFERENT from weaving because in basket making:
Coils of strands can be sewn together
The printmaking process can create multiple original images. How do artists make sure that people buying a print are getting an authentic original image?
Completing the edition by destroying the matrix
A sculpture that consisted of lot of different dolls could retain a quality of oneness through which property?
Conceptual unity
Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque is part of which movement?
Cubism
Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?
De Stijl
Cubist paintings are completely non-objective and do not contain any recognizable objects.
False
Edgar Degas was very selective with his subjects; he depicted only people from the upper classes.
False
Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.
False
In Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg created exact replicas of her friends.
False
The art of the American Scene was divided into two branches, one of which was realistic and the other abstract.
False
The sheep and trees in Hogarth's False Perspective correctly decrease in size to show that they are further away.
False
Traditional video cameras use film.
False
________ made a Symbolist version of Judith with Holofernes' head.
Gustav Klimt
Imagine you were a sculptor and needed to make a sculpture out of gold. If the patron did not want to overspend, what might be the technique you would choose?
Hollow casting
Glassblowing is what kind of glass technique?
Hot
One reason mass is important to experiencing a sculpture is because mass:
Influences the effect of the sculpture
A spoon might be considered craft because:
It is used in everyday life
Who is the artist of The Dinner Party?
Judy Chicago
To make a carpet, artisans use:
Knots and interlaced fibers
Why is a handmade feel associated with craft?
Many crafts look rustic
Acrylics can be applied with rugged brushstrokes, in thin washes, in opaque fields, or in transparent glazes. Because of these characteristics, we say that acrylics:
Mimic the effects of other paints
We would expect most documentaries to be:
Narrative and unscripted
Playing soft classical music over a scene of warfare might be a case of sound used to:
Oppose mise en scène
If you were carving a sculpture in stone of a person experiencing grief, why might you depict them kneeling, with their hands to their face, crying, instead of standing and raising their hands to God?
Outstretched extremities can lead to structural problems
What kind of clay body would you use if you wanted to make a pot that would be used for fine dinnerware and that needed to hold water?
Porcelain
In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
Raphael
This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens.
Raphael
Who is the artist of Fountain (After Marcel Duchamp: A.P.).
Sherrie Levine
A sculpture that depicts a woman standing up straight, with her arms at her sides, is likely to have:
Symmetrical balance
When weavers use differently colored weft threads to form an intricate design that is an integral part of the material, the result is a:
Tapestry
When did people start making a distinction between crafts and fine arts?
The Renaissance
Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.
True
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) paid such artists as Aaron Douglas to make art.
True
Trompe l'oeil means "fool the eye".
True
Twentieth-century artists continued the representational explorations started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
True
William Hogarth's False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective.
True
A work of art made by painting a rectangular canvas only one shade of blue might be thought to have too much:
Unity
If an artist made a sculpture using two kinds of metal, we might think it was done to introduce:
Variety
In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________.
a figure-ground reversal
The Dada performance of "Karawane" was:
a lively, theatrical performance of nonsense words and sounds
A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape.
a positive
Memento mori refers to:
a symbol of mortality
Grant Wood chose subjects that:
reflected his experience in Midwestern America
Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be _____.
all of the other answers abstract non-objective experimental representational
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because:
all of the other answers it is not a naturalistic re-creation of the way we see the world it shows frontal and profile views at the same time it includes simplified forms and bodies as geometric shapes the space of the background and foreground meld together
Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama?
all of these words relate to her work: mirrors cosmos infinity dots
A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.
an implied line
What is the difference between analysis and critique?
analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself
The combination of jarring vertical and diagonal lines in Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom creates an atmosphere of ________.
anxiety
What is the reason Adrian Piper made My Calling Card (Card) #1 (for Dinners and Cocktail Parties)?
she wanted a way to respond to racist comments made by people who didn't realize she was black
Using flat sheets of clay to form a work is called _______.
slab building
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
In the work discussed in Ch. 21, artist James Luna is challenging what?
cultural stereotypes about Native Americans
Conceptual art emphasizes ________.
the ideas behind the artwork over its realization
What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
feminist posters and pamphlets
end of the century
fin de siècle
A thin, transparent layer of paint placed over an opaque undercoat is called a _______.
glaze
Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs consists of ________.
three things that a chair could be
Why does James Luna use the medium he does?
he wants to draw attention to himself as a living person
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
application of thick paint
impasto
The American Scene was:
inspired by the harsh realities of the Great Depression
Because viewers enter them to experience these works, _________ make the viewer an active participant in the artistic process.
installations
The Dada performance of "Karawane" doesn't make sense because ________.
it was part of a movement that devalued logical thinking
The Taj Mahal features four towers, each 162 ft high, called ________, a characteristic feature of Islamic architecture.
minarets
In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of ________.
movement
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
What is the medium of Aaron Douglas's Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction?
oil on canvas
when colors are blended by the eye
optical mixture
Miriam Schapiro's collage Baby Blocks combines two different kinds of shape. ________ is the term used to describe a shape that suggests the natural world, while the term geometric suggests mathematical regularity.
organic
The lines that create the image of the spider in the Nazca Lines define the ________ of a ________.
outline...shape
Which artist's work is directly referenced in Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les trois femmes noires by Mickalene Thomas?
Édouard Manet
Which painting was included in the first Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected)?
Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
Why do we need to experience a sculpture in person?
A sculpture is in our space, and a sculpture's environment affects its meaning
Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Africa
Artworks in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can ________.
All of the other answers: consist of recognizable objects consist of abstract objects draw inspiration from traditional culture draw inspiration from popular culture
What can you do to determine whether a photograph is realistic or manipulated?
All of these: Consider the photographer's agenda Check for inaccuracies in the image Be skeptical
If you were modeling a sculpture out of a soft, squishy material, what might you want to use for support?
An armature
A work created from joined, found objects is called:
An assemblage
The famous Stonehenge site (figure 1.8), which features large stones placed on Salisbury Plain in England, might be considered:
An earthwork
While previous chapters have been divided according to styles such as the Baroque, Romanticism, or Dada, this chapter is not predominantly divided in this way. Why not?
This final chapter, which has focused on Postmodernism, has shown a distinction from the previous chapters in the sense that it is not divided into certain styles. This has been done due to the fact that Postmodern art is characterized by the abandonment of a set style. This era predominately focuses on how various features of art can be combined to create new, creative works. Postmodern artists have been also characterized by their rejection of a story of art, the use of a diversity of media, references to prior works, complex personnel forms that mirror the complicated world, and other means of deconstruction through art. Therefore, it wouldn't be possible to divide Postmodern art into strict or specific styles.
3D printing can be used to make a sculpture.
True
Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.
True
Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers, both in practice and during performances.
True
Holbein's The Ambassadors has several references to religious content.
True
Linear perspective can help create emphasis.
True
Printmaking is a good way to share ideas with large groups of people.
True
seen from above
bird's-eye-view
Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point
blood spurting from Holofernes's neck
In the technique of ____, artists use clay as a transitional step to another, more permanent material such as bronze.
casting
Using tools to bend metal into a desired form when the temperature of the metal is lowered is referred to as ______.
cold working
One of the early photographs that created a unique positive image was called a ________.
daguerreotype
painting outdoors
en plein air