Test 1 ART
If an artist were to create a print with three different colors, how many separate relief blocks would they need?
3
The earliest existing printing artworks on paper were created in this culture.
China
If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of
Hatching
Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.
Keramos
The work of ____ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.
Marcel Duchamp
The division between art and craft began during this period.
Renaissance
Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools. In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.
Wilhelm de Kooning
Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?
a blog about a painting
Memento Mori refers to:
a symbol of mortality
When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.
alternating value, relative position, relative size, overlapping (all of the above)
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
When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, with out regard for any particular area, this is called _________.
broad emphasis
When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.
cartoon
Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.
charcoal
The 3 kinds of unity are:
compositional, conceptual, gestalt
Most commercial color printing is achieved using 3 primary colors and black. These primaries are ________?
cyan, magenta, yellow
By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using ________.
directional line
When were the first successful photographs made?
early 1800s
The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.
egg
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
If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?
foreshortening
A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a _______?
form
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.
geometric
These handwritten illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages.
illuminated manuscripts
When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless this is known as ______?
implied movement
Another name for a freestanding sculpture is __________?
in the round
Which of the following is a print making process?
intaglio
An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.
intimacy
This architectural term describes a structure created from a pile of material.
load bearing
A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.
motif
In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.
palm
The French impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created the tub in 1886.
pastel
The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.
pattern
An artwork that consists of cutting off someones tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ___________?
performance art
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
pigment
Daguerreotypes are made on ________.
polished metal plates
This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.
post and lintel
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
prayer figures
Size relationships between parts of an object, or its ___________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.
proportions
This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.
relief
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.
relief
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
subordination
As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ________.
the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see
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
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
A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.
woodcut
What does the word "photograph" mean?
writing with light
