Art 100

photography

What art medium was brought to Africa by European colonists?

earthworks

What category of art is made for a specific place using natural materials found there, especially the earth itself?

Organic shapes

What did the Neo-Dadaists like John Cage believe was missing from Abstract Expressionism?

Geometric Patterns

What do artists ornament manuscripts of the Qur'an with?

Create a foreground that is clear and detailed

What does an artist do to create a sense of atmospheric perspective?

charcoal

What drawing media is made from special vine or willow twigs?

Berber

What group helped Islam spread peacefully through much of West Africa?

Asante

What group is known for weaving kente cloth?

The surface artists print on

What is new about recent directions in printmaking?

It is critical of authority

What is one aspect of Postmodernism that is evident in Ai Weiwei's Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn?

overlap

What is one of the basic ways to imply three-dimensional space?

Mona Lisa

What is the most popular Western artwork?

ijele

What is the name of the Igbo mask that appears at the funeral of an especially important man, welcoming his spirit to the other world and easing his transition from one stage of being to the next?

Contrapposto

What is the pose the Greeks invented to express the potential for motion inherent in a standing human?

Limestone

What is the preferred surface upon which one prepares a lithograph?

Continuity

What is the principal message of Egyptian art?

installation

What kind of art conceives of a space and everything in it as a single work of art?

Cubism

What movement in art in the early 1900's did Georges Braque help create?

Sphinx

What mythical creature did Kara Walker sculpt out of Styrofoam and coat in sugar?

ball games

What ritual figures prominently in Mayan culture and art?

Public Art

What type of art is often the target of debate and controversy?

Anything that can melt

What types of materials can be cast?

The human figure

What was it critical to master for students in the academies of the 18th century?

To escape galleries

What was one reason artists began creating Land Art?

Harlem Renissance

What was the period in America called, when Black American artists, thinkers, musicians and writes came together with an optimistic and creative energy?

hierarchical scale

When figures who are more significant are depicted larger than less significant figures, such as a king painted or sculpted much bigger than his subjects or family, this is known as __________.

Quetzalcóatl

Who is the Aztec god of windstorms that bring rain?

It was deemed a "foreign" religion.

Why was much of the Buddhist art of the Tang dynasty was destroyed during the 9th century?

Indonesia

Yinka Shonibare uses brightly colored textiles with a complicated origin. What country's textiles did the Dutch base their imitation on before marketing it to West Africans?

All correct

Artists use what to model objects in two-dimensional works to give them a three-dimensional appearance?

acid

Intaglio comes from a word that translates to "to cut" in Italian. What does the cutting in etching and aquatint?

Bubonic plague

Other than goods such as silk, horses, spices, and jade, what else notoriously made its way along the Silk Road?

Binder

Paint consists of pigment, a vehicle and a:

Gum arabic

Pastel consists of pigment bound with a solution of _______________Blank and water.

Ruler of all

The Byzantine image of Christ as the Pantokrator image emphasizes the divine, awe-inspiring, even terrifying majesty of Christ. What is the Greek translation of Pantokrator?

Supply and Demand

The prices paid by art collectors are determined by which basic economic principle?

The Medici; Banking

This family was the toast of the town and ruled Florence, Italy, for many years. They not only commissioned art, but they sponsored an elite group to chat about Classical culture and its connection to Christianity. What was their name and in what type of business or area was their wealth initially attained?

He painted the world as he felt it.

How did Vincent van Gogh's paintings differ from those that came before him?

by pouring it

How did second generation Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler apply her paint to the canvas?

Preliminary sketches

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development or studies that linger on a detail of the visible world are called:

A pen or brush

If an artist wants a controlled, sustained, flexible line when using ink, what drawing tool can they use?

square

A fascinating feature of the golden rectangle is that when a __________ is cut off from an end, the resulting shape is a golden rectangle as well. This is a sequence that can be indefinitely repeated.

Touch

Actual texture relates to which of our physical senses?

Marquesans

Among the Polynesian peoples, which culture was known for the most cultivated and virtuosic tattoos?

The palm of the hand

Ancient Egyptian artists used what body part as their primary unit of measurement?

Leonardo

Based on his wide-ranging, and numerous achievements during the Renaissance time period, which artist is considered to be the model of a "Renaissance man?"

Social customs, politics, and current events

Caricatures are often commentaries on what?

Durable materials

Certain conditions foster the preservation of ancient art such as the climate of the local environment (dry), a highly organized culture, protected storage (a cave or tomb), and:

Colosseum

Chapter 1 Quiz: One role of art is to produce a space for human purpose. Which of these was a place where Romans would watch gladiators compete with each other and with wild animals in morbid, bloody contests?

Ready-made

Chapter 1 Quiz: What is an ordinary, mass-produced object designated and exhibited as an artwork, such as Marcel Duchamp's Fountain?

Visual

Chapter 1 Quiz: __________Blank literacy better enables us to connect with the images we view from a critical and analytical standpoint.

Europe; 19th

Chapter 2 Quiz: The museum as we know it today, a structure housing art and open to the public, developed in __________Blank during the decades heading into the __________Blank century.

Pig

Chapter 2 Quiz: The oldest cave and rock shelter painting discovered dates from about 45,500 years ago and portrays what animal?

Distinguishable, recognizable, repeated

Chapter 2 Quiz: Which characteristics contribute to artistic style?

Form describes representational art that accommodates a set of conventions for portraying the world.

Chapter 2 Quiz: Which statement is incorrect?

Form

Chapter 2 Quiz: __________Blank is used to describe an artwork's appearance or visual language—such as its shapes, colors, lines, light and shadow, and internal organization.

Earthwork

Chapter 3 Quiz: A(n) __________Blank is an art form typically of considerable size in scale. It is created in a landscape using natural materials located there, including dirt and rocks, or created with natural elements and placed into nature.

They are an activist group of female artists who formed in 1979.

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which description does NOT apply to the Guerrilla Girls?

Stories and Histories theme: Art prompting us to consider our place in this world

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which description does not accurately describe its associated theme?

The Dream

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which example is NOT representative of the theme reflecting on the self?

All are accurate examples of politics and the social order.

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which is NOT an accurate example of the theme politics and the social Order?

Reflecting on self

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which is an example of a theme in art?

Narrative

Chapter 3 Quiz: Which term describes artwork or images that tell a story?

Constantine

Christianity's situation changed abruptly in the year 313, when the Roman emperor __________Blank issued an edict of tolerance for all religions.

All are correct

Dada is considered a protest art movement. What did Dada protest?

Intimate and direct

Drawing is considered the most ____________Blank art.

apse

Drawing the attention of anyone entering the church, the ______Blank provides a setting for the altar, the focal point of Christian worship.

Merchant-rulers

During the Renaissance, what new social class joined the clergy and the nobility as art patrons?

Ukiyo-e

Edo era woodblock prints have become known as ________Blank, "images of the floating world," for their roots were tied in particular to the city's pleasure quarter and theater district, where townspeople and samurai went to relax.

Strong Female Protagonist

For what subject is Artemisia Gentileschi best known?

Oil

For which type of paint is the following true: They can be painted wet-on-wet, with a new color painted into a color that is not yet dry?

The figure

In a portrait painting the person being portrayed is considered:

A statue on horseback

In ancient Rome, what was considered the greatest honor that could be bestowed on a Roman ruler?

a squeegee

In screenprinting what is the tool that is used to punch the ink through the mesh screen?

Catholic countries and Protestant countries

In the 16th century, Martin Luther instigated a movement called the Reformation. It would end up permanently splitting Europe into what two divisions?

Carving

In which sculptural method does the artist begin with a block of material and cut, chip, and gouge away until the form of the sculpture emerges?

fresco

Michelangelo painted complex biblical scenes and figures of Old Testament images on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican. What medium was used?

Cycladic

The Greeks were preceded in the Aegaen Sea region by several cultures that thrived on the islands that are so plentiful there. Which of the following is one of those cultures?

Egypt

The earliest examples of encaustic painting that have been found were found where?

Greeks

The golden mean or golden section is a proportion that was discovered by the ancient __________.

rhythm

The placement of architectural elements such as projecting and receding columns creates a sense of __________ inside or outside a structure.

Dragon

The use of what symbol was restricted to the emperor during the Qing Dynasty?

The British Museum

Where do the sculptures from the Parthenon saved by Lord Elgin reside today?

Duccio

Which artist showed a shift toward the Renaissance by painting figures more naturally creating the illusion of three-dimensions?

Mark Rothko

Which artist was known for color field painting?

Roy Lichtenstein

Which artist's paintings were on comic-book imagery?

Complementary

Which color harmony places one color next to or near another from the opposite side of the color wheel in order to make both hues appear more intense?

Minimalist

Which group of sculptors wanted to rid art of representation and personal expression?

The Garden Of Earthly Delights

Which is the best example of the theme invention and fantasy?

Prussian blue

Which is the first synthetic pigment?

horizontal

Which line has the effect of feeling placid?

Impressionism

Which movement continued the Realist interest in modern life as subject but focused on the phenomena of light?

pen-ink

Which of the following are NOT forms of dry drawing media?

muted colors and clarity

Which of the following is a characteristic of Neoclassicism?

lighthearted and playful

Which of the following is a characteristic of Rococo?

3D printing

Which of the following is a digital method of creating sculpture?

Pyramid

Which of the following is an example of a mass?

Ornamentation

Which of the following is characteristic of Baroque art?

It is a diagram of a cosmic realm

Which one of the following statements is accurate about mandalas?

Assemblage

Which sculptural method is an additive process by which individual pieces, segments, or objects are brought together to form a sculpture?