Arts Final Exam
The word photography is derived from the Greek roots that mean ________.
"To write with light"
American artist, Roy Lichtenstein's Forget It, Forge Me! , is an example of Pop Art that has the visual appearance of a ______________.
1960's comic strip
Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, painted during the Renaissance, represents?
A western concept of beauty
colors placed side by side on the color wheel
Analogous
Glass sculptor Dale Chihuly's Fioridi Como, located in Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel, is a 70-foot-long ceiling piece is an example of?
Art for the environment
Margaret Bourke-White wrote, "Using the camera was almost a relief; it interposed a slight barrier between myself and the white horror in front of me...." Here, Bourke-White is describing ____________.
Buchenwald during the Holocaust
German Artist, Käthe Kollwitz's Self Portrait reveals one aspect of the character of the________________.
Charcoal
The Artist's Studio, taken in 1837, was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.
Daguerre
In both the camera and the _________, light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.
Human eye
Italian artist, Bronzino's painting Venus, Cupid and Folly and Time 1546, is an example of _________.
Iconography
Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with?
It dries almost immediately
American sculptor, Alexander Calder is known for his mobiles, which are excellent examples of
Kinetic Sculpture
Is Watercolor paint a forgiving medium and is it easy to erase.
No
Art that makes no reference to reality is called?
Non objective
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished...
Self-Portraits
A drawing made in preparation for a larger more complex work is called a ?
Study
Frida Kahlo's style in art was considered
Surrealism
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is a touching photograph taken during the period of ___________.
The great depression
Polykleitos created a canon of proportion for ____________________.
The human figure
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painting The Grande Odalisque, 1814, was painted for what audience?
The male viewer
Chinese Artist Zhang Chun Hong uses both charcoal and graphite to create values in the braided hair. Her work represents?
The passage of a life time
Alexander Gardner's Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, is a graphic photo taken during the _______________, probably from a camera in a wagon known as a _________.
United States Civil War; whatsit
Art that is distorted and simplified to its essence and departs significantly from the actual appearance from things is
abstract art
a mixture of pigment and a plastic vehicle that can be thinned with water.
acrylic
Polykleitos Doryphorus, 450 - 440 BCE, is a good example of ______________.
actual balance
British artist, Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, is an example of?
actual mass
Contemporary watercolor is referred to as __________, made up of pigments and a vehicle of __________.
aquarelle; gum arabic
Italian artist, Michelangelo's Studies for the Libyan Sybil is a good example of a drawing that was meant to be used __________.
as a preparatory study for another project
After the daguerrotype, the major advance in the history of photography was the development of the ___________ process, an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.
autochrome
True fresco, or __________, is executed on damp __________.
buon fresco; lime plaster
French artist, Honoré Daumier's pen and ink drawing, Counsel for the Defense(the Advocate), is illustration called a __________.
cartoon
In its original meaning, in Italian, a __________ was a full-scale preliminary drawing executed on paper for projects such as frescoes, stained glass, or tapestries.
cartoon
American Artist, Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, conceptually
celebrates famous women in history
Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Nights in Harlem, 1936 ___________________.
celebrates the Harlem Renaissance movement
From the Italian for "light-dark" , what term is sometimes used in place of the word modeling?
chiaroscuro
In La Source drawing, French artist, Prud'hon's nude figure is modeled with the use of
chiaroscuro
American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's portrait of George Washington is an oil-on-canvas image that most resembles a(n) __________.
comic-book hero
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel
complementary
American Artist, Jenny Holzer's Word Work, installed in the Guggenheim Museum, 1989 - 1990 is an example of
conceptual art
refers to a distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school or movement, or a specific culture or period.
content
Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselle's D'Avignon, 1907, began the start of what
cubism
Located in Istanbul, Turkey, the Hagia Sophia was built as a Christian Church in 532 -537 CE but was converted to an Islamic Mosque in 1453 and now serves as a museum. Its ____________ is especially wondrous, appearing to float on light streaming through its row of windows.
dome celling
Broadly defined, __________ is the art of running an implement that leaves a mark over a surface.
drawing
The traditional composition of tempera paint, rarely used today, consisted of __________.
egg, pigment, and water
The painting, Egypto-Roman Mummy Portrait of a Man, uses _______ paint?
encaustic
In the _________ process, the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper, zinc, or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand.
engraving
The Postimpressionistic Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh, used _________ in his painting, The Night Cafe.
expressive color
Hieronymous Bosch painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, is known for its ___________.
fantastical style
Russian, French artist, Marc Chagall's self-portrait I and the Village can best be described as a depiction of
fantasy
Italian artist, Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession, but she was supported by her ________, who was also an artist.
father
French artist, Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden both utilize what to create order and harmony in their versions of the Piano Lesson
flat color, shape and repetition
The United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C. is an example of?
formal symmetrical balance
In both tempera and oil painting, the surface of the wood or canvas is covered with a ground of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue known as __________.
gesso
In English artist, Emily Mary Osborne's Nameless and Friendless, _________ visually connects and leads the viewer's eye around the composition with psychological lines.
gestures and glances
Fifteenth-century, Italian artist Gentile da Fabriano applied thinly hammered sheets of gold to his Adoration of the Magi tempera panel using a technique known as __________.
gliding
What mathematical device was used to create the proportions of The Parthenon?
golden mean
By the 1850s, photographic portrait studios became quite popular and began to serve the needs of __________.
growing middle class
the study of the themes and symbols in the visual arts: the figures and images that lend works their underlying meanings.
iconography
Robert Capa's Death of Loyalist Soldier, 1936, is a powerful photograph because it shows ___________________.
imbalance in the moment of death
American Artist, Andy Warhol's silkscreen of the Four Marilyn's 1962
immortalizes an iconic figure in American history
Dutch artist, Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the Head of St. Matthew.
impasto
Japanese artist, Helen Oji's painting Mount St. Helen's, uses thick ________paint with a composition in the shape of a Japanese Kimino.
impasto
In works with _________, the lines are completed by the viewer
implied line and psychological
Sculpture capable to actual motion is described by the term:
kinetic
In Italian artists, Giotto's 14th-century painting Lamentation, joints can clearly be seen that break the blue sky into numerous sections. This occurred because of the ___________.
limitations of fresco paint
usually defined as a moving dot and is both the simplest and most complex of the visual elements.
line
The working surface from which a print is made is called a ___________.
matrix
Intaglio prints are made from _______ into which lines have been incised.
metal plates
William Henry Fox Talbot's first "photogenic drawings" were eerie, delicate photographs of plants, produced from a _____________.
negative
Ghanian sculptor, El Anatsui, Between Earth and Heaven from 2006, uses __________.
non traditional media
American artist, Jackson Pollock's Number 14: Gray, 1948, is a good example of what type of line.
non-linear
Atmospheric perspective is a ____________ means for producing the illusion of depth.
non-linear texture gradient
Outsider Artists are
not academically trained
French, Impressionistic painter Claude Monet was trying to capture the effect of ______________ in his Haystack at Sunset Near Giverny.
optical color
Archibald Motley's Saturday Night, painting uses ______________ to create space.
overlapping and diminishing sizes
French Artist Edgar Degas, Pastel drawing of The Tub, lays down intermittent strokes of different colored
pastels
Andy Warhol is considered a
pop artist
In Paul Landacre's Growing Corn, we see a good example of the ________ that can be obtained from the skillful use of wood engraving.
precise lines and tonal gradations
refers to the portrayal of people and things as they actually are, with no idealization or distortion.
realism
Higher quality digital cameras have ____________ similar to film images.
resolution
German-Swiss artist, Meret Oppenheim's Object, 1936, fur covered cup, uses what type of texture?
sensual
___________ is the only printmaking process in which prints can be rendered in paint as well as ink.
serigraphy
Dutch artist, Rachel Ruysch's Flower Still Life, after 1700, is a great example of________________.
simulated implied texture
Dutch artist, Rembrandt van Rjn's red chalk copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is considered a _______?
sketch
In creating his Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, Rembrandt used a drypoint needle in order to create _________.
soft, velvety lines
The focal point of Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus is created with
stable triangle and psychological lines
American Artist, Bette Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima makes reference to a
stereotype
French artist, Susan Valadon's painting Adam and Eve, 1909,
subverts the traditional assignment of blame and original sin
American artist, Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach, 1988,
tells the story of her childhood in Harlem
Pablo Picasso's painting, Guernica, 1937, is about
the carnage and brutality of the onset of the Spanish Civil War
Viola Frey's Family Portrait, 1995, is a great example of
the distortion of scale relationships
In Japanese artist, Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting, he blends traditional Japanese imagery with American cartoon characters and includes a self-portrait in which he is depicted as __________.
the statue of liberty
Deborah Butterfield's Verde, 1990, is ____________________.
three-dimensional horse made out of found steel
Italian artist, Claudio Bravo's Package is an excellently executed ________drawing that presents the illusion of a package wrapped in holiday paper and a bow.
trompe l'oeil
Andy Warhol's Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times, uses what design principles?
unity and variety
When a painter's oil paint becomes too thick, he has to thin it with a __________.
vehicle of turpentine
French artist, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917,
was the first readymade object in art.
Encaustic paint uses pigments suspended in _____?
wax
The oldest form of printmaking is ___________, and most likely the first people to use it were the ancient ___________.
woodcut; Chinese
Zhao Xiaomo's Family by the Lotus Pond is a ___________. The areas that were not meant to be printed were carved out __________ the surface of the wood.
woodcut; below