ART-111-803 Final Ex Qz Qs

The Hudson River School painted _____________.

American landscapes

The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period.

Byzantine

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

Early 1800s

Which painting was included in the first Salon des Refuses (Salon of the Rejected)?

Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

The visionary artist James Hampton was in what line of work in Washington, D.C.?

He was a janitor

Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?

Paul Cezanne

Realism was partly inspired and fueled by the invention of ___________________________.

Photography

Films such as Amelie combine realistic and fantastical elements in order to:

Point out the magical qualities in ordinary life

Who developed a canon of harmonious proportions to be used for the portrayal of the ideal human body in sculpture?

Polykleitos

_____________________ refers specifically to writers and artists in France who were concerned about achieving social change after the Revolution of 1848.

Realism

The artist ______________________ is known for her appropriation of famous paintings, sculptures and photographs from the past.

Sherrie Levine

One of the first popular films to use synchronized sound

Singing in the Rain

The effect created when we see two or more repeated images in quick succession in such a way that they visually fuse together is called

Stroboscopic motion

painters of what style were inspired by the use of emotionally charged and often dreamlike images

Symbolism

Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts?

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

T/F - American artist Xenobia Bailey created work for The Cosby Show, Elle magazine and other films

True

T/F - Bulls were often shown in the art of the Babylonians and Minoans.

True

T/F - En plein air is the French term for "in the open air".

True

T/F - Iconoclasm is the destruction of images.

True

T/F - In the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were integral to the practice of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

True

T/F - Kandinsky often used musical terms to title his paintings, referencing the work of contemporary composers whose music he admired.

True

T/F - Photography provided another, much less laborious and less expensive way to record a likeness or an event in a very realistic manner.

True

T/F - Pop art embraced everyday subject matter in their work.

True

T/F - The earliest surviving paintings in the world are found in caves.

True

One of the first popular films to use color imagery was

Wizard of Oz

What role did photography play for the artist Edgar Degas?

he used it along with other mediums

Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because ________.

he wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality

The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of

human eye

The American Scene was __________________.

inspired by the harsh realities of the Great Depression

The overall composition and the facial expressions in Pontormo's Deposition create an atmosphere of ____________________.

instability, chaos, and disorder

Which of the following statements best relates to Max Ernst's Surrealism and Painting?

it can be liberating when the imagination wanders in the mysterious realm of creativity

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process

it creates very detailed images

Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called

stop-motion animation

The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ___________________.

tesserae

The presence of a bishop in Fragonard's The Swing could suggest:

the Church's lack of action against immoral behavior

The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?

the Northern Renaissance

The Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed

the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see

What aspects of Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomfited many viewers when it was first exhibited?

the nude women seated next to men dressed in contemporary clothing

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii is about:

the sacrifices of an ancient Roman family

When did the development of digital cameras begin to change the path of photography?

1980s

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs consists of ________.

3 things a chair could be

Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of

All of the above

Georges Melies's film A Trip to the Moon is known for being:

All of the above

Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?

All of the above

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

All of the above

Paul Cezanne used _______________ in his work Mont Sainte-Victoire.

Atmospheric Perspective

Donatello's David is made in what medium?

Bronze

Which of the cultures did not have a written language

Cycladic

Camille Claudel's sculpture The Waltz received some criticism for being too _____________________.

Erotic

T/F - All Islamic manuscripts include a page with a portrait of Allah.

False

We have found that many Roman houses in Pompeii had _________________ covering the walls.

Fresco Paintings

During the Neo-Classical period many Europeans participated in the ______________ Tour, which was a lengthy excursion to travel and visit ancient ruins, and be exposed to Classical and Renaissance culture.

Grand

Who made a Symbolist version of Judith with Holofernes's head?

Gustav Klimt

D.W. Giffith's film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda tool by

Ku Klux Klan

Who called himself the Sun King?

Louis XIV

Dan Flavin's Untitled (1996) builds on ________.

Marcel Duchamp's concept of readymades

A niche in a mosque that is a wall oriented toward Mecca is called a ________________________.

Mihrab

Often defined as a movement that essentially broke with tradition.

Modernism

The Art Nouveau style is French for what?

New Art

Daguerreotypes are made on what?

Polished Metal Plates

Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?

Renaissance

Monticello was built for ______________________.

Thomas Jefferson

The arist Tara Donovan has used ordinary objects, everyday objects such as _______________________ in her work.

all of the above

The structure of Romanesque churches recalls architectural elements from

ancient rome

Brunelleschi's design for the dome of Florence Cathedral was triumph over adversity because ___________________.

building such an enormous dome was a technological challenge

A lamassu is a

guardian beast

Design features of the Portland Public Services Building include:

none of the above

The protective goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt are represented on the headdress of the mask of King Tutankhamum by

vulture and cobra

Expressionism focuses on:

what is felt rather than what is seen

Meaning of "Photograph"

writing with light

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement?

Baroque

A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?

Claude Monet

The Pantheon uses (mostly) which architectural order for its columns?

Corinthian Order

Hannah Hoch was part of a movement known as

Dada

Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?

De Stijl

Non-fiction films based on actual people, settings, and events are known as

Documentaries

Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky intends his Manufacturing series to make viewers think about human actions leading to

Impact on planet

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called __________________.

Impasto

The Great Sphinx is associated with which pharaoh's pyramid?

Khafre

What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship (3.7.15)?

a book

Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel is an example of:

a readymade

In Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Liberty is __________________________.

a symbol of freedom

A major benefit of the calotype process

calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced

The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ___________________.

catacombs

The formal element mark Rothko focused most on was

color

Rococo architecture, such as Johann Balthasar Neumann's basilica of Vierzehnheiligen, preferred:

delicate pastel colors

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de la Galette ____________________________.

depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

The term coined by Robert Smithson.

earthworks

The medium of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5 is ________.

film

Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before?

flying buttress and rib vaults

An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called _________________.

kouros

What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?

mosaic

In the center of the dome of the Pantheon there is a(n)

oculus

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts

passengers on a steam ship

The representation of a thing, an idea, or an abstract quality, such as "freedom" as a person or in human form is known as _____________.

personification

It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of

rosetta stone

The painting of the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel includes a _________________.

self-portrait of MIchelangelo as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin

Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique was called ____________.

sfmuato