Art Appreciation 1-8, 11 & 13 Fill in the blank
Chapter 4: A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the _______ of the colors
values
Chapter 5: _______ relates to the size of objects in a work in relation to their actual size
Scale
Chapter 4: A hue darker than the hue's normal value is called a ________
Shade
Chapter 13: The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are ______ ______ and Skeleton and Skin
Shell system
Chapter 11: The additive process of sculpture includes both ________ and assembling
modeling
Chapter 1-3: The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its _______ characteristics
recurring
Chapter 5: Through repetition, any of the visual elements can take on a _______ within a work of art
rhythm
Chapter 4: Textures we experience through the sense of touch are called actual texture or ________ textures
tactile
Chapter 8: The earliest surviving woodcut image, dated 868 C.E., has a representation of the _________ preaching
Buhdda
Chapter 8: One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink lays ______ the surface of the printing plate
Below
Chapter 8: The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing music is ____________
Lithography
Chapter 11: If a work has been created by replacing a wax model with molten metal, then the material used for the completed work probably was _________
Bronze
Chapter 8: Serigraphy means, literally, "_____ ______"
"Silk writing"
Chapter 1-3: During the Middle Ages the term "art" was used roughly in the same sense as "_______"
"craft"
Chapter 1-3: Our modern ideas about art carry with them idea about the 1) ______ and the 2) ________
1) artist & 2) audience
Chapter 13: The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles of columns were developed by the Ancient Greeks in the ___, 6th, and 4th centuries B.C.E respectively
7th
Chapter 7: ___________ painting medium, developed after chemists created strong, weatherproof, industrial paints, has challenged the supremacy of oil painting
Acrylic
Chapter 8: In 1515, ________ ______ was appointed court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian 1
Albercht Durer
Chapter 6: The close association between writing and painting is evident in ________ cultures where the brush has long been the preferred drawing tool as well as writing instrument
Asian
Chapter 11: __________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture
Assembling
The _____-____, in Kyoto, Japan is an elegant example of post-and-lintel architecture
Byodo-in
Chapter 13: A __________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end
Cantilever
Chapter 7: In fresco painting, a drawing called a _________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment
Cartoon
Chapter 11: Wood and stone are the principal materials for ________
Carving
Chapter 6: _______ remains after wood is burned
Charcoal
Chapter 6: The _________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.
Chinese
Chapter 11: Sculptors will often create a "sketch" out of _______ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice
Clay
Chapter 5: Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create _________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art
Conceptual
Chapter 13: The ________ column order of architecture has a capital consisting of stylized, carved acanthus leaves
Corinthian
The ____-_______ process dates back to the 3rd millennium B.C.E
Lost-wax
Chapter 13: The Crystal Palace and the ________ _______ were constructed in the 19th century using iron and steel as building materials
Eiffel Tower
Chapter 7: The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is ________
Encaustic
Chapter 5: When an artist uses directional lines, color, sizes, or shapes to draw the viewer's eye to a certain area of a work, that artist is using the emphasis or _______ _______ principle
Focal point
Chapter 13: Falling Water is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of _______ ______ _______
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 13: ________ _______ _______ believed that a home should should blend with its environment and the interior and exterior of the home should be visually and physically integrated
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 1-3: The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors
French
Chapter 6: The artist _______ _________ is often associated with conte crayon drawings
George Straut
Chapter 5: _______ ________ began an association with the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1917 that lasted until his death in 1946
Georgia O'Keelf
Chapter 7: ______ is a mixture of white pigment and glue that seals support and can be sanded and rubbed to a smooth, ivory like finish
Gesso
Chapter 6: The use of pen and ink to make expressive thick and think lines is referred to as calligraphic or _______ lines
Gestural
Chapter 6: __________ constitutes the marking materials of a common pencil
Graphite
Chapter 6: The media of ______ _______ is the most forgiving of mistakes and changes of decision
Graphite pencil
Chapter 4: _________ relates to the visual information surrounding a shape that we detach and focus on
Ground
Chapter 6: The traditional metalpoint _______ recipe calls for a mixture of bone ash, glue, and white pigment in water
Ground
Chapter 7: Encaustic painting requires the application of a ______ source close to the surface to fuse the colors on a completed painting
Heat
Chapter 5: A work of art which bases scale on the relative importance of the people depicted is using ______________ scale
Heirarchical
Chapter 13: When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ________ _______
Hypostyle Hall
Chapter 1-3: __________ is the term that relates to a study of the symbols and story in a work of art
Iconography
Chapter 7: The technique of thickly applying layers of paint is known as _________
Impasto
Chapter 4: Artists can portray _________ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted surface
Implied
Chapter 8: In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called an ____________
Impression
Chapter 11: The concept __________, conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art
Installation
Chapter 4: _________ perspective is the viewpoint form above and parallel lines do not converge in the distance
Isometric
Chapter 4: __________ can best be described as "the path traced by a moving point"
Line
Chapter 13: Post and ________ structural system was used in most ancient Greek and Egyptian temples
Lintel
Chapter 6: Ink is an example of a ________ medium in drawing
Liquid
Chapter 13: A structure, which is created from sun-dried brick and coated with mud plaster, such as the Great Friday Mosque in Mali, have ________ - _______ _________ type walls
Low-bearing Structure
Chapter 8: In the 17th Century, an amateur artist from the Netherlands boasted to his king that he had created a method for printing shadings of gray without using lines. The printing technique was __________ which is part of the intaglio family of processes
Mezzotint
Chapter 8: The printing technique of __________ is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray
Mezzotint
Chapter 11: __________ do not believe in trying to influence people rough images; they favored industrial and construction materials, and they attempted to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves
Minimalist
Chapter 8: Except in the case of __________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking
Monotype
Chapter 7: A __________ paint is one that dissolves in something other than water
Nonaqueous
Chapter 1-3: All of these methods: animal fats and pigments mixed together, the use of reed brushes, and powdered pigments blown through hollow reeds used by ____________ painters
Nonrepesentational
Chapter 8: An artist who is directly engaged in creating an edition of prints from an original master usually makes a limited number of prints, ___________ and signs them
Numbers
Chapter 13: The opening in the top of the Pantheon's dome is called an _________
Occulous
Chapter 7: _______ paint dries so slowly that the finished painting may not be completely dry for months
Oil
Chapter 4: The term _______ refers to the board on which artists mix colors or the artist's range of color
Palette
Chapter 4: In a two-dimensional art form, the actual flat surface on which the work is executed is called the ________ _____
Picture plane
Chapter 7: The substance which provides the color in paint is known as _________
Pigment
Chapter 5: The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through size and __________ of the figures
Placement
Chapter 5: __________ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole
Proportion
Chapter 13: __ __________ ______ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome
R. Buckminster Fuller
Chapter 6: Pen and ink was the favorite sketching medium of _____________, one of the greatest draftsmen of the 17th century
Rambrandt
Chapter 4: __________ describes the process of sunlight being broken up into a spectrum or rainbow band
Refraction
Chapter 8: A rubber stamp creates a ______ type print
Relief
Chapter 5: The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfect male form with the perfect geometry of the circle and ________
Square
Chapter 13: Gothic builders developed buttresses, piers, and flying buttresses to _______ cathedral walls from the outside
Stabilize
Chapter 13: East Asian roofs usually present a distinctive curving profile, which is made possible by ________ trusses
Stepped
Chapter 4: Artist who use tiny dots in varying concentrations to indicate light and shadow are using the ________ drawing technique
Stippling
Chapter 13: Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are tensile strength and ________ _______
Structural Weight
Chapter 1-3: When the author uses the term ______, he identifies it as constant, recurring, and coherent
Style
Chapter 1-3: Iconography involves identifying, describing, and interpreting the ______ ______ in a work of art
Subject matter
Chapter 1-3: The objects or events that a work depicts are known as
Subject matter
Chapter 11: The carving method is more aggressive than modeling, more direct than casting, and is a __________ process
Subtractive
Chapter 5: In a two-dimensional work with __________ balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by distributing visual weight accordingly
Symmetrical
Chapter 13: ________ ______ designates, in architecture, the ability of a material to span horizontal distances with minimum support from below
Tensile Strength
Chapter 4: During the 20th century, ______ and _____ became a recognized element of art
Time and Motion
Chapter 13: The Taj Mahal was built in the 17th century by the Muslim emperor of India for serving as a _____ for his wife
Tomb
Chapter 7: Watercolor's primary characteristic is its
Transparency
Chapter 13: Aqueducts were constructed by the Romans to _______ water
Transport
Chapter 5: Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art
Variety
Chapter 1-3: According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is what it means to the ________
Viewers
Chapter 1-3: __________ paintings meditate on the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness
Vitaias
Chapter 5: Pablo Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" is based in symmetrical balance, but the two sides are not identical mirror images. This composition allows him to explore the traditional theme of _________
Vitias
Chapter 13: Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, ________ ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building
Wainwright Building
Chapter 7: In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to _____ plaster
Wet
Chapter 6: Historically in silverpoint, lines were drawn with a silver _______ onto a surface coated with bone dust
Wire
Chapter 11: The term ____ = ________ may be used to refer to the depth of the forms in a coin
bas - relief
Chapter 4: In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of _________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms
chicros
Chapter 13: The stresses in a ______ are much like those of an arch, except that they are spread in a circle around the perimeter
dome
Chapter 11: Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are known as _________
earthworks
Chapter 7: Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are _______ and fresco
encritic (could be spelled wrong)
Chapter 4: Parallel lines receding into the distance, in linear perspective, seem to converge at a vanishing point which is located on the __________
horizon
Chapter 11: Casting is known as an _________ method
indirect
Chapter 5: Another term for asymmetrical balance is ________ balance
informal
Chapter 11: Artists looking for a new direction in thought processes related to artwork created a new art form, called _________, in which space is presented as a work of art that can be entered, explored and experienced
installation
Chapter 8: The two main differences between prints and most other forms of art are: prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in _________ of the same image
multiple
Chapter 4: In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called _________ shapes.
organic
Chapter 13: Built almost 2000 years ago, the _____ __ ____ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch
pont du gard
Chapter 8: The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of an artist-quality ___________ to make prints
printer
