Art 100 Test 3-Jeff State

Movies were being showed all over Europe and the United States as early as

1896

When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?

1980s

A piece of thrown pottery is made using this potter's tool

A wheel

The binding agent in encaustic pain is

Beeswax

Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment and ___________.

Binder

Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?

Casting

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture

China

Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?

Chiseling

This type of arched span was first used in ancient Babylonian and Mycenae

Corbeled Arch

In 1525, this German master printmaker wrote a manual establishing the first set of rules for the construction of letterforms

Durer

When were the first successful photographs made?

Early 1800's

The binding agent for tempera paint is

Egg

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face):

Employs her background as a graphic designer in its use of text and image

This is a group of letter forms designed to have a uniform appearance

Font

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

Fresco

Egyptian picture symbols are called

Hieroglyphs

Which of the following is a printmaking process?

Intaglio

Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?

Johannes Gutenburg

This architectural term describes a structure created from a pile of material

Load Bearing

The work of ________ _________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.

Marcel Duchamp

What unconventional medium does Jean Tinguely use in homage to New York?

Mechanized Junk

The first people (c. 3400 BCE) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the

Mesopotamians

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the burn fresco method.

Michelangelo

This component of paint has traditionally been minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal bi-products.

Pigment

This architectural construction consists of two uprights and a crossbeam

Post and Lintel

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 free-standing sculpture, this type of sculpture is designed to only be viewed from one side

Relief

The division between art and craft began during this period

Renaissance

The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture

Rounded

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

Silverpoint

This kind of stress pulls on the structure and must be countered by a pushing stress

Tension

One of the first popular films to use color imagery was

The Wizard of Oz

Architects consider this when designing a building:

The site, engineering, materials, the needs of the user

If an artist were to create a print with three different colors, how many separate relief blocks would they need?

Three

Color pencil is much like a graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ___________.

Wax

What is the process that a ceramicists uses to knead and remove pockets of air from wet clay?

Wedging

In Joseph Beuys Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me

Wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote

What does the word "Photograph" mean?

Writing with light

The sculptural process in which the artist carves in only shallow depth is called:

bas relief

Using a sequence of specially generated drawings to create scenes in a movie is called

cel animation

An art work that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would be best described as

conceptual art

The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the _______ and __________ of the vegetable.

form and texture

The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called

glaze

Another name for a free-standing sculpture is

in the round

Paint in its most basic form is composed of __________ and a liquid binder.

pigment

Daguerreotypes are made on

polished metal plates

Clay that has a great deal of water mixed into it, making it very thin, is known as

slip

AS Eadweard Muybridge's experiment with motion showed:

the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see

The difference between film and video is:

the way it is recorded

A relief print created out of a solid woodblock is called a

woodcut