Interim Assessment 6 Review
Why is American Gothic by Grant Wood considered an example of painting created in the style of Regionalism?
American Gothic depicts rural midwestern values in a clearly readable composition.
What was Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio's approach to painting?
Caravaggio created dramatic compositions that focus on realism.
How did French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin use Naturalist conventions in his paintings?
Chardin depicted ordinary people and activities with a sense of realism.
How are Classical Greek sculptures figures depicted? heel? Ex. red and green
Complimentary colors
How was French Impressionist Edgar Degas influenced by Japanese woodblock prints?
Degas depicted scenes from an elevated vantage point.
What makes Estate by Robert Rauschenberg an example of Postmodern art?
Estate uses images of American popular culture that people would easily recognize.
How did French Impressionists such as Claude Monet capture their impressions of a scene on canvas?
French Impressionists used dabs of pure, vibrant color to show changing light and weather conditions.
How did Realist Winslow Homer made Prisoners from the Front more lifelike?
Homer made preparatory sketches of actual soldiers on the battlefield and at camp.
Where are sculpted portals and stained glass windows typical found?
In Gothic catherdrals
What characteristic of Modernism did Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers include in the Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture?
Incorporating service features such as air conditioning and escalators as design elements.
What features of Neoclassical architecture did Thomas Jefferson include in the design of Monticello?
Jefferson incorporated architectural features seen in Greek and Roman buildings.
How did artist Wassily Kandinsky incorporate characteristics of Expressionism in Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)?
Kandinsky used bold, exaggerated lines and colors to communicate his inner feelings.
What are the Elements of Art?
Line, shape, color, form, space, value, texture.
How did French artist Jean-François Millet incorporate conventions of Realism and Naturalism in his paintings?
Millet depicted a scene from everyday, contemporary life by using lifelike colors and solid shapes.
What Modernist conventions did Henry Moore use in Mother and Child?
Moore used abstracted, simplified, and exaggerated forms.
What Post-Impressionist convention did Paul Cézanne use in Mont Sainte-Victoire?
Patches of color that define the objects in a carefully planned composition.
How did Pablo Picasso communicate a political statement in Guernica?
Picasso used fragmented, distorted shapes to convey the suffering felt during war.
What Abstract Expressionist innovation did Jackson Pollock exhibit in Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)?
Pollock made the act of painting more important than the final artwork.
How did Baroque artist Rembrandt of the Netherlands apply paint to a canvas?
Rembrandt applied expressive strokes of thick paint by using the impasto technique.
What characteristic describes late nineteenth-century sculptor Auguste Rodin's work?
Rodin's work captures a sense of movement and emotion through surface texture variations.
What is a distinguishing characteristic of Surrealism, as seen in The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí?
Surrealist art is based on ideas from the artist's imagination and subconscious mind.
What innovative and extreme lighting technique did Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio use in his paintings?
Tenebrism
How did Fauves ignore accepted conventions of traditional art?
The Fauves used intense, expressive colors that are not realistic.
What photographic characteristic did Louis Daguerre exhibit in his daguerreotypes?
The capture of a permanent image with rich tonal variations and fine detail.
What are characteristic of the paintings of French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussin?
The depiction of a narrative subject within an organized, idealized landscape.
What Rococo characteristic did French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau use in his paintings?
The depiction of aristocrats within idyllic landscapes
Why is Still Life - Le Jour by Georges Braque an example of Synthetic Cubism?
The painting depicts objects from more than one vantage point at the same time.
Why is Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix considered an example of Romantic art?
The painting uses color, lighting, and movement to elicit an emotional response from viewers.
What does the word composition mean?
The placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art.
What Italian Baroque characteristic does David by Gianlorenzo Bernini exhibit?
The sculpture engages the viewer by breaking into the viewer's space.
How are classical Greek sculptures depicted?
They are idealized beauty and perfect proportions.
How did Art Nouveau artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany use line and shape in their works?
They used curvilinear, organic lines and shapes from nature.
How did Symbolist Edvard Munch use line and color in The Scream?
To express his feelings of fear and anxiety.
How did Vincent van Gogh's Post-Impressionist use of color in his art work?
Van Gogh used bold color to convey emotion.
Which characteristic best describes a technique which Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velázquez used in his paintings?
Velázquez captured many middle tones between dark and light to create structure and accentuate color.
