Art Appreciation Chapters 1-7
One of the chief techniques employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is:
Chiaroscuro - The balance of light and shade chiro = light and oscuro = dark
The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:
Civil Rights Movement
In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?
Grid
Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of:
Hatching and cross-hatching to create movement of light to dark, giving the piece a sense of volume and form.
Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour?
Illuminated by the candle: Jesus
Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as
Impasto
Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them:
Kinetic art - art that moves or at least seems to move
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear:
Less distinct, bluer, contrast between light and dark is reduced
What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in The Women of Avignon?
Museum visit in Paris, African Masks
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered
Non-objective
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
One-point linear perspective
In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?
Overlapping images implying one is on top of another
The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the:
Palette
The Impressionists were concerned with rendering:
Perceptual color - the effect so flight by representing perceptual reality
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
Photorealistic
Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates:
radial balance
Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
? Energy, ingenuity, courage of conviction, explorer, innovator
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called
Abstract
Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of:
Arbitrary color
J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway. What are they?
Atmospheric and linear perspectives
In her painting Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through:
Color contrast through complimentary colors
How did Michelangelo's David become a political statement?
David vs. Goliath was seen as the People vs. the Medici Family
In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?
Denser Lines
The background mountains in Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks are a perfect example of:
Distance used in atmospheric perspective
The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's
Emotions?
Jackson Pollock wanted to portray:
Energy and motion
In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their:
Flat, close-up views with distant landscapes
Lines that are loose and free-form are called:
Gestural lines
A color's brightness or dullness is called its:
Intensity or saturation
There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it?
It appears heavy but is actually hollow and made of light wood.
SAMO is a name adopted by:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves:
Put a sheet of paper over something textured and rub over it with crayon
In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:
Rene Magritte
Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist
Replicates what the eye sees
What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder, Lisa Lyon?
Right angles to portray a woman
Ben Jones's Black Face and Arm Unit uses color and line in the form of bands, ornaments, and scarification reminiscent of the facial decorations in:
Some of the most ancient African Sculpture
The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of:
Symmetry (one of the most symmetrically balanced buildings)
In Manuel Neri's sculpture Mujer Pegada Series No. 2, the smooth and rough areas of bronze provide examples of:
Texture
The title of Willem de Kooning's "North Atlantic Light" refers to
The lightness of nature the artist wanted to get in touch with
The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider
The relationship between Images and Words
How does Mary Cassatt assert a more active role for the woman in her painting In the Loge?
The woman gives up the female role by entering the male world in a bold painterly statement. Both her face and her hand enter the space of light - light being the male's realm.
The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was
To teach the public how to see and appreciate advanced art
Gustave Caillebotte's Place De l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?
Two-point linear perspective
Unlike a Renaissance painting, time-based media like Teresa Hubbard's and Alexander Birchler's Detached Building can utilize the element of:
Video, sound, technology
The temperature of Jane Hammond's Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be described as:
Warm - just like a sunny fall day
When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows:
absolute symmetry