ART 200 MIDTERM
Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?
camera obscura
In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium?
charcoal
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is what?
chiaroscuro
The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is what?
clay
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear to be what?
cooler and less distinct
Sayre (the author of your textbook) states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
critical thinkers
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator"
What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?
dries slower allowing for a more naturalistic development
When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?
early renaissance
D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?
editing
The Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using which medium?
encaustic
Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because of what?
everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's?
expressive line
Lines that are loose and free-form are called what?
gestural lines
Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints, such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834?
honore Daumier
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called what?
iconography
Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called what?
implied lines
Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?
in-the-round
In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
isaac newton
We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from what?
letters he wrote to his brother
Jeff Koons' Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials?
live flowering plants
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was not able to include what in photographs, such as Le Boulevard du Temple?
motion
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called what?
mudras
The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called what?
oil painting
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
one-point linear perspective
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called what?
photorealistic
Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates what?
radical balance
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe what?
representational art
Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called what?
tenebrism
In a work of art, "content" refers to what?
what the image means
Which of these artists created a work titled Pietà?
Michelangelo
What is the Function of the noise blonde figure?
Pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it.
Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called what?
a cartoon
Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?
acrylic
The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan for what reason?
as a mausoleum for his favorite wife
Wood and stone carvings are examples of doing what in art?
assemblage
Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?
binders
What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?
both earthwork
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional, but they are called what?
Aesthetic
What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
African mask he saw at a Paris museum.
The word paper is derived from what country?
Egyptian papyrus
In Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the woman depicts what?
the last judgment
What was the mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967?
to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"
Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin and his workshop of artists, are called what?
triptchs
Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?
two-point perspective