ARH 151 Final

This Post-Impressionist painter's faceted brushstrokes led to new spatial developments that would become "Cubism" (to be explored by Braque and Picasso).

Cezanne

Calcium carbonate (often from pulverized minerals and fossil shells) is mixed with gum resin and compressed to make what art medium?

Chalk

A most ancient of mediums, this was even used to draw on cave walls during the Paleolithic.

Charcoal

Assemblage is a 3D version of what 2D art technique?

Collage

This is "After Walker Evans," 1981, by Sherry Levine. What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Contextualism (Feminism)

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Contextualism (Institutional)

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Contextualism (institutional)

Photography was a major influence on this artist's work, as evidenced by his pictures of ballerinas and horse races, with asymetrical compositions, and tilted angles with extreme cropping, as if the works were candid camera shots.

Degas

This intaglio technique is different than engraving, in that it doesn't actually cut metal from the plate, but rather displaces it.

Drypoint

What is the media called where pigments are mixed with a binder of beeswax

Encaustic

Many world cultures (including most native American cultures) changed dramatically starting in the 15th century because of what?

European Colonization

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Expressionism

For the Chinese, calligraphy, painting, and poetry were three entirely separate artforms.

False

In the nineteenth century, there was so little trade between Asia and the West that Japanese art had no real influence on what artists in Europe were doing.

False

Paper was invented by Cai Lun in China around the end of the ______ century CE. He used macerated vegetable fibers suspended in water.

First

This is a group of letterforms designed to have a uniform appearance.

Font

Traditionally, a blacksmith is involved with this sculpting technique.

Forging

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Formalism

Picasso's Bull's Head is made from what material?

Found Objects

This Post-Impressionist artist moved to Tahiti, painting many pictures of the natives that alluded to symbolic and exotic spiritual contexts.

Gauguin

What do we call watercolor, mixed with a white pigment like chalk, creating an opaque medium with rich, strong colors?

Gouache

This early 19th century artist was outspoken against the corruption and vice, of the Court and the Church in Spain, reflecting the politically engaged spirit of Modernism while pre-dating it by a century.

Goya

The "lead" in a pencil is actually a mixture of carbon and clay, heated in an oven. This material is called what?

Graphite

What do we call a sculpture that projects substantially from a background surface or wall?

High-relief

The Great Stupa ________.

Holds remains of Buddha

The painters of this movement were interested in the reality of vision, studying light and color, and using brushstrokes so prominent that the paint itself became a subject of the work.

Impressionism

Another name for freestanding sculpture is ________.

In the round

The Ajanta caves, filled with paintings and sculptures, are located in ________.

India

This printmaking technique has ancient beginnings, dating back to cylinder seals from Sumeria, c. 2600 BC.

Intaglio

US currency is made using this basic printmaking technique.

Intaglio (etching)

A copper weathervane, moving in the wind, is a simple example of this kind of sculpture.

Kinetic

This printmaking technique, typically using stone plates, takes advantage of the fact that oil and water do not mix.

Lithography

This 3D technique begins with a model that is then made into a mold to create a substitute version of the model.

Lost-wax Casting

The Inka (Inca) civilization was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, but this site in the the Andes mountains, in what is now Peru, escaped destruction.

Machu Picchu

What do we call the object (often it's wood, metal or stone) whose surface contains an image that can hold ink, and so be transferred to a piece of paper, creating a print.

Matrix

This Native American culture left large mounds that once supported buildings and burial sites in what is now Moundville, Alabama. At one time it had one of the largest city populations in North America.

Mississippian

The additive process of sculpting in clay or wax is called what?

Modeling

This painting medium was one of the key new innovations in art during the Renaissance.

Oil paint on stretched canvas

This ancient culture, considered the "mother civilization" of Mesoamerica, left us 17 monumental stone heads, some weighing as much as 20 tons.

Olmecs

How are Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures preserved?

Photographs

Particles that make-up the color component of a paint are called what?

Pigment

Art from the Central and South Americas that dates back to before the 16th century is known as ________.

Pre-Columbian

This Chinese emperor, of the third century BC, planned to maintain his power after death with over 8000 terra-cotta soldiers, discovered in his burial mound in 1974.

Qin

Marcel Duchamp is credited with inventing this type of sculpture, his "Fountain" considered one of the first (if not most controversial).

Ready-made

This is "Tenant Farmer's Wife, Hale County, Alabama," 1936, by Walker Evans. What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Realism

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Realism

While often listed as an Impressionist, Manet's use of common people, un-idealized proportions and in-your-face subject matter, groups him with this French movement that started in the 1840s.

Realism

Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e school, in 19th century Edo, excelled in this multi-colored woodblock technique.

Relief

Linocut, using linoleum blocks, is a newer version of this basic printmaking technique.

Relief

This Northern European baroque artist was well known for his etchings, making nearly 300 in his lifetime.

Rembrandt

The marks that are added to a letterform that were derived from the chisel marks created for words incised on Roman buildings are called ________.

Serifs

This Post-Impressionist painter approached the use of color with an almost scientific rigor, developing his pointillistic technique and exploiting the phenomenon of optical mixture.

Seurat

Mt. Fuji, the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusai's famous print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," is sacred to believers of ________.

Shinto

This native Japanese religion worships many nature gods.

Shinto

With this printmaking technique a squeegee produces smooth areas of color by pressing ink through a stencil onto the paper.

Silk Screen

What do we call a sculpture (often environmental or monumental) that is integral to a specific location?

Site Specific

This Buddhist dome structure has no interior, and is a metaphor for the cosmic egg, Mount Meru and the dome of heaven.

Stupa

This was a popular technique with the ancient Egyptians, where an image was cut (incised) into a wall and then the image was painted?

Sunken Relief

What art criteria would be most appropriate for a discussion/evaluation of this work?

Surrealism

This African-American painter, although working in Paris, is one of the major proponents of 19th century American Realism.

Tanner

This literate warrior society dominated central Mexico until the arrival of Cortez and the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.

The Aztecs

This Mesoamerican culture flourished for over 2500 years (1100 BC to 1500 BC) in the Yucatan area of what is now Mexico.

The Maya

These 16th-17th century Muslim Indian rulers patronized figurative art that was influenced by Western practice.

The Mughals

What do we call the idea of awestruck wonder in response to the grandeur of nature, that was an aspect of many artworks from the Romantic Movement.

The Sublime

What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?

They were created without metal tools

The Edo Period (also called the Tokugawa Period) was named for the 17th century capital city of Japan. What do we call that city today?

Tokyo

These carved wood artifacts from the northwest coast of North America, signified a clan's mythological past, connecting them to the powers of animals such as bears and eagles.

Totem

This Post-Impressionist artist created many color lithographs of Parisian night-life as advertising posters. They continue to be popular works of art today.

Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract designs and patterns can convey information that is as important, recognizable, and specific as both representational and narrative imagery.

True

Aztec civilization came after the Olmec, Teotihuacano, and Maya societies.

True

The term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world."

True

The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ________.

Typography

The northern tip of Polynesia connects to what country. (This might be a trick question.)

United States

In "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," the curl of the wave intertwines with the sky to create an abstract ________.

Yin and Yang

This printmaking technique, more like drawing, cuts an image onto a metal plate with an acid bath.

intaglio (etching)

Robert Smithson's Sprial Jetty is sometimes not available to be seen because...

it is submerged beneath the Great Salt Lake

Your textbook is made using this printmaking technique.

lithography

Mesoamerican art was made in ________.

the region of modern-day Mexico and Central America

All sculptures have this characteristic in common:

they exist in three-dimensional space

What is the Taj Mahal?

A mausoleum

This modern art media is synthetic and water-based, dries quickly and allows for very thin or very thick applications of paint.

Acrylic

This 16th century Muslim ruler (inspired by the Persian court) brought figuration to Islamic art and opened India to foreign diplomats.

Akbar

Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?

All of these

This movement, in the 19th century, sought to revive the pride in handicraft associated with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Arts and crafts movement

The indigenous civilization on this continent, had a culture that remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years. They believe they can contact their ancestors in the Dreamtime, where spirits dwell.

Australia

A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________.

an edition

This religion started with the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama in sixth century BC.

Buddhism

The largest adobe (mud brick) structure in the world, in Djenne, Mali, in northwest Africa, is what kind of structure?

an Islamic Mosque