Art 101, Bruce, Test 1

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This art movement, of which Hans Arp was a member, valued randomness, absurdity, and nonsense over rational or orderly patterns.

Dada

Seventeenth Century huqqa base (1.152) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in _____________.

India

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

Intimacy

This term refers to the substance contained in an object but it does not necessarily imply weight.

Mass

In ancient Egypt this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit

PALM

this 16th century Flemish artist designed the art Hunted in the snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer's eye through the work.

Peter Bruegel

This female artist brilliantly used a rhythmic structure in her planting Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, an image of cattle at work in the fields.

Rosa Bonheur

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

Spiritual

the opposite of emphasis is ___________l.

Subordination

This inventor co-created the film Fred Ott's Sneeze, which was one of the first American movies.

Thomas Edison

These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in ________ works of art.

Three- dimensional

This American novelist noted that "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

William Faulkner

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportional for the human body, creating ________ design.

a harmonious

the American artists Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage Pisasso and Braque.

a monochromatic

By using objects that viewers will know, Nam June Pail's TV Buddha draws on previous of __________ texture.

actual

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

an implied line

Vesperbild (Pieta), Germany, 1330, the shrunken, twisted body and oversized, anguished head of Mary are accentuated for effect. This distortion of the human body, ________ form the we can all understand, makes the viewer feel.

an organic

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market Kyobashi" which used placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

ando Hiroshige

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession. This medium is called ________.

animation

________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

asymmetrical

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point.

blood spurting from holofernes`s neck

The lines that are create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the _________ of a ________

boundary... shape

This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of three dimensional solid form is called ________.

chiaroscuro

Color affects the way we think and react to the world, and can be used for healing purposes. This practice is called ________.

chromotherapy

________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

color

the three kinda if unity are:

compositional, conceptual and gestalt

This is an area that is visible when viewer is looking a a fixed point.

cone of vision

The artist Egon Schiele drew his Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing, with Hands on Hips using ________ line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contor

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of _____________.

contract

The medieval Arabic scholar Alhazen used a camera obscura, a device that later helped artists to understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

dark room

Artist can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

the Chinese artist Fan Kuan crated __________ in his work Travers among Mountains and Streams by alternating band of lighting and darker value.

depth

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's representational portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque __________ her body.

disorts

Vesperbild (Pieta), Germany, 1330, the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.

distorted

The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.

field

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this ________.

foreshortening

Form such as pyramids, precise and regular, are known as __________ forms.

geometric

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Peater Schechter experimented w open volume when they created the hanging sculpture.

ghostwriter

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

golden section

The principle of any design are a kind of ________ that artist apply to the element of art.

grammer

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the "Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem," use green as one of the main colors?

green has positive associations in Islamic art

A flat work of are has 2 demotions: __________ and width.

height

The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.

highlight

If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of ________ lines in order to show peaceful repose.

horizontal

The term used for referring to the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

hue

The shape that designer Saul Bass created for AT&T logo is not defended by a continuous boundary. This shape, suggested by dots or lines that are not connected, is ___________ shape.

implied

the rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowman in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dresses of the Vine suggest struggels and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using __________ rhythm.

irregular

The computer simulation game The Sims uses _______ perspective.

isometric

Advertisers often use this color to reach audience because it's most visible in the spectrum.

lime yellow

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

low

Marisol was commissioned the create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the stature possesses a weighty __________ that communicate the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.

mass

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

motif

The seventeenth century pashmina carpet from northern India (1.152) uses repeats stylized flower as ________ to create a strong, unified design.

motifs

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

Chuck Close

if the action portrayed in the early film Fred Ott's Sneeze was not a sneeze' but a man wiping his nose, this would have an effect on the leave of intensity in the movie. this movie would be _________

much more intense

In her painting Music-pink and Blue II, Georgia O'Keefe emphasized the blue ____________ space in order to attract the viewer's attention into a deep interior.

negative

In the Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and __________ shapes to attract the viewer's attention into a deeper interior.

negative

Mickett and Stackhouse crated In The Blue to imply water, The work's many empty spaces, crated w irregular horizontal members.

open

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

orthogonals

Ron Lambert, Sublimate (Cloud Cover) replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the _________.

passage of time

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

performance art

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

performance art

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

prism

This Italian artist used two-point combined w one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens.

raphael

When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.

rebel against

The traditional primary colors are ________.

red, yellow, blue

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.

relative size, overlapping, alternating value, and relative position

The 3-D surface the is designed the be viewed form only on direction is know as ____________.

relief

Baltimore album quilts, which use variety to unify their composition, are named after these collections.

scrapbooks

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

shade

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

small scale

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

subversive

In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

surrealist

________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.

symmetrical

When painters in the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza illustrated The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, they solved the problem of how to ________ in a single painting by merging a series of episodes into one picture.

tell a story

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

temperature

Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

three-dimensional

Traditional visual arts, such as painting, are inherently static, but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

time...... motion

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

An artwork can be described as non-objective if its subject matter is ________.

unrecognizable

The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.

value

A series of different values that are grouped together is called a ________.

value range

Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.

vanishing point

One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.

vanishing point

Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.

variety

This is a kind of visual diversity that can bring many different ideas, media, or elements together in one composition.

variety

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.8), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water

Paul Gauguin use of color __________ in his 1889 depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the works connection w the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

yellow

This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures.

zoetrope

This photographer revealed a natural ex of progressive in his photo titled Artichoke Halved.

Edward Weston

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

Elements

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

Focal Point

In 2-D art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

Format

Marisol's work Father Damien was crated was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. Stands in front of State Cap Building in U.S. State of __________.

Hawaii


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