Art Appreciation FINAL
(Q008) When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:
a scholarly journal article
The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as ________ representation of the human body.
an idealized
(Q005) By using this kind of color combination, artists avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood.
analogous
kerosene
At one point in the lithography process, the artist must wipe the stone clean with which solvent to prepare for the inking?
flanders
Linseed oil came into general use as a painting binder in the fifteenth century, particularly in the following country:
What did the use of a canon of proportions allow ancient Egyptian artists to do?
Make artworks that did not change much over time
Barbara Hepworth used line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did she produce?
Sculpture
The total number of nude people in Spencer Tunick's installation at Zócalo, Mexico City, Mexico, May 6, 2007 was approximately:
18,000
Eric Fischl's Falling Woman deals with the subject of:
9/11
Chuck Close's Self Portrait of 1997 is made up of small units that are unrecognizable, or __________, when viewed closely.
Abstract
In African art, such as that of the Senufo people, spirit figures are often shown as:
Abstract with exaggerated body parts
Wafaa Bilal is:
An Iraqi artist living in the US
What do the Stela of Naram-Sin, Virgin of Vladimir, and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa all have in common?
An emphasis on light in the form of rays or golden tones
The logo that identifies the Ford Motor Company was created using Spencerian script by ________ named Harold Wills.
An engineer and executive
Ideas about beauty during the Italian Renaissance, as seen in Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, actively revive the same concepts found in ________.
Ancient Greece
This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.
Andre Masson
In Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, the bird is shown:
Being deprived of oxygen
These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range.
Black and white
Artworks in public spaces:
Can excite strong emotions in a community
When restorers began work on cleaning the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1980, what did they discover had affected the original appearance of the frescoes?
Candle smoke The interventions of previous restorers Rain damage Bacteria from the visits of millions of tourists
Line can be used as a tool to:
Demarcate boundaries, imply direction, give a sense of surface, and indicate movement
An artist can create an illusion of depth using only color by varying the:
Intensity
Diego Rivera worked in the medium of ________, which was traditional in Mexico.
Mural Painting
Artworks that show interaction between humans and deities ________.
None of the answers shown
A "man-made mountain" is another term for a ________.
Pyramid
Technology is used in contemporary video artworks, such as those made by Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, in ways that ______.
Relate to people using imagery and a medium they can readily understand
Which artist, in his painting The Human Condition, challenged the Renaissance notion of the "illusionistic window"?
René Magritte
Artists intersperse value and texture to create a sense of:
Rhythm
Who is shown with the king on the Stela of Hammurabi?
Shamash, the Sun God
How does Jillian Mayer's I Am Your Grandma relate to lineage and ancestors?
She is speaking to a descendant who has not been born yet
The magnificent Süleymaniye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey was designed by:
Sinan
This material allowed for the construction of huge, glass-fronted skyscrapers.
Steel
On which of the following formal elements does Henri Matisse concentrate in Blue Nude II?
The color blue
The sculpture showing Shiva's dance indicates that he brings to life
The cycle of death and rebirth
A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:
The elements have conceptual unity
The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ________.
The idea behind the artwork
Op art of the 1960s relied on a physiological effect that creates an illusion of motion. This effect is:
The natural oscillations of the eye
What do Yoko Ono's Wish Tree and Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project have in common?
The rely on participants for their completion
The Palette of Narmer emphasizes ________.
The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave Off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?
The wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji The shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work Textures are repeated throughout the work The placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern
Antony Gormley's Asian Field is a vast ________ artwork made up of small clay figures.
installation
The earliest films did not feature ________.
intergrated dialogue
What was used to make Houdon's statue of George Washington?
marble
(Q003) The drawing Untitled (Ocean) by Vija Celmins uses broad emphasis to draw attention to this part of the work:
the composition as a whole
Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa focuses on:
the survivors at sea
The Disasters of War
"And There Is No Remedy" was part of a horrifying print series created by Francisco Goya, titled ________.
King Hammurabi of Babylon had his law code carved onto a stela for public viewing. His code has often been summarized as:
"an eye for an eye"
The Gates was an enormous artwork erected by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York City. Although the artwork itself was on display for only sixteen days, it took ________ of negotiation with city officials to approve the project.
24 years
This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.
A bicycle wheel mounted on a stool
Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne implies motion. What kind of motion is being depicted?
A chase scene
The sculpture of the Sphinx of Hatshepsut depicts:
A female dedicated as a male king
In web design, text that when clicked will immediately link to another web page is called ________.
A hyperlink
An artistic representation of the human figure without clothes is called:
A nude
The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:
A stuffed goat
Dorothea Lange took a series of photographs of a family in what kind of living quarters?
A tent
What elements did William Hogarth depict with accurate perspective in his engraving published in 1754, based on the teaching of such methods?
A woman handing a candle to a man outside her window Sheep lined up and walking away A bird perched on a tree A sign showing the moon hanging from the building
(Q007) Which of the following can be used to create emphasis?
All of the other answers
In the twentieth century, personal identity became a central issue for artists. Such groups as ________, who had previously been excluded from mainstream culture, began celebrating their differences.
All of the other answers (women, ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and the transgender community)
Sometimes artists use this kind of changing pattern to make a work more lively.
Alternating Pattern
Which artist made multiple images of Chairman Mao?
Andy Warhol
Which artists strongly influenced the artist Ai Weiwei?
Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp
Marilyns
Andy Warhol produced silkscreen prints depicting many celebrities, including a work titled Four ________.
Moving images created with a zoetrope were early forms of:
Animation
The Bauhaus school in Germany was originally conceived as a school of ________ by its founder, Walter Gropius.
Architecture
Notions of beauty as seen in artworks:
Are culturally determined and change over time
Sacred places, such as mosques, temples, shrines, and chapels, ________.
Are often used for quiet contemplation
father
Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession, but she was supported by her ________, who was also an artist.
What navigational guide did Muslims use to find the direction toward which to pray to Mecca and also to calculate the time of day?
Astrolabe
Contemporary filmmakers use this effect to give the illusion of great depth, even when the scene is in a limited space.
Atmospheric Perspective
There are two kinds of relief sculpture, a pronounced surface treatment called high relief and a shallow surface low relief called:
Bas Relief
The symmetrical design of the building that we know as the Taj Mahal carries associations of:
Beauty and stability
(Q009) This color with a cool temperature is often used to describe a depressed psychological state of mind.
Blue
What shared aspects of the caves at Lascaux and the catacombs in Rome indicate that these places were sacred to those who used them?
Both sites feature paintings connected to the Christian religion
This Italian artist was the first to define a formal system of linear perspective.
Brunelleschi
Architects must consider the availability and cost of ________ when they plan their projects.
Building Materials
How did the Feminist artists Judy Chicago and the Guerrilla Girls expand the opportunities and subject matter of art to include women and issues relevant to them?
By bringing attention to women who had been left out of the history of art
How do bis poles represent the cyclical nature of human life?
By showing the deceased individual along with ancestors
Each answers shown is correct
Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?
Exceptional large-scale stained-glass windows were featured in the construction of which Gothic cathedral in northern France?
Chartres
Artists sometimes use this method of applying value to give a feeling of three-dimensionality.
Chiaroscuro
the artist builds up rather than cuts into the surface that is to be inked
Collagraph printing is different to relief or intaglio methods, because:
(Q002) This is a kind of color "map" that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other.
Color wheel
An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.
Complement
What aspects of the individuals are emphasized in the Ife head (possibly a king) and Kaigetsudo Dohan's Beautiful Woman?
Composure, dignity and maturity
Installation artworks:
Consider how the viewer will move through the space Transform the traditional space of an exhibition Immerse viewers in the artwork Can take place inside or outside
Which type of arch, made up of stones that are progressively stepped inward, was used by the ancient Babylonians and Mycenaeans?
Corbeled Arch
What was William M. Harnett investigated for due to the trickery and illusion created in his paintings?
Counterfeiting
The technique in which an artist creates a series of closely arranged parallel lines that is overlapped by another set of parallel strokes to create a sense of value is called:
Cross-hatching
Commercial color printers use the following three primary colors, plus black:
Cyan, magenta, yellow
Bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with creating artificial environments (such as the conditions suitable for life in outer space) in which she grows plants. In Astroculture (Shelf Life), 2009, she found that the plants' leaves turned:
Dark blue
Francisco Goya's The Second of May, 1808 and The Third of May, 1808:
Depict two consecutive days of violence
This chapter examines the different ways in which spirituality can be expressed in art. For example:
Depictions of specific deities References to spirits and ancestors Reflections of communication with the spirit world Places with sacred resonance
How is Pacal shown on his own sarcophagus lid ( 4.3.11)?
Descending into the realm of the underworld beneath the world tree
(Q008) This kind of line tends to be more visually active, so it can draw the viewer's attention.
Diagonal
A good example of variety in a work would be:
Different shapes and colors
Contemporary artist Duane Hanson creates incredibly lifelike sculptures; all of them ________ the viewer.
Direct their gaze away from
In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer's attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building.
Directional
Artists Jenny Saville and ORLAN both concentrate on ________ in their self-portraits.
Distortion and manipulation of the way they look
The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ________.
Dome
Installation artist Yayoi Kusama not only covers the floors, ceiling, and walls of interior spaces with dots, but she also ________.
Dresses in dotted fabrics
Graffiti artist Ganzeer's series Martyr Murals commemorates those killed in the ________.
Egyptian Revolution in 2011
Pointed arches conduct the downward thrust of the weight of the building by redirecting it outward toward the walls, and have a strong upward visual ________.
Emphasis
Which female ruler's image is reproduced as a mosaic in Ravenna, Italy?
Empress Theodora
When Marina Abramović performed The Artist is Present at MoMA in 2010, she did not speak or move, but created what she called a/an "________" with participants.
Energy dialogue
What term describes the optical trick of swelling columns at midpoint (in order for them not to appear hourglass-shaped at a distance), as used in the design of the Parthenon?
Entasis
Artworks that engage the theme of the cycle of life ________.
Examine the mysteries of life
(Q009) Psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tells us that the painter was:
Expressing anxiety
Kryzsztof Wodiczko used his artwork Tijuana Projection to raise awareness about issues affecting a community of women working in ________ near the US/Mexico border.
Factories
Which African-American artist created the fiber artwork Tar Beach as an autobiographical work about her own experiences growing up in New York?
Faith Ringgold
Artistic depictions of death are more prevalent now than during the Renaissance.
False
There are no artworks that consciously counter stereotypical representations by showing men as vulnerable and women as powerful.
False
Chuck Close painted with ________ to create portraits of friends and family.
Fingerprints
(Q006) In Artemisia Gentileschi's work Judith Decapitating Holofernes, the viewer is directed to the __________ that is indicated by directional lines.
Focal point
The method whereby rules of perspective are applied to represent unusual points of view is called:
Foreshortening
Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?
Francesco de' Medici
Each answer shown is correct
Fresco painting was practiced in which of these locations?
One important difference between Frida and Hidden Figures is that ______.
Frida is a biopic based on the life of an artist with the same name
This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.
Geometric
Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language?
German
The word "type" derives from the ________ meaning "to strike."
Greek
The artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris believed that society should reject rampant industrialization and restore ________.
Hand Craftsmanship
Both Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum and Kara Walker's Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combine ________.
Historical occurrences and contemporary viewpoints
bone ash
Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of ________.
they both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions
Hokusai and Albrecht Dürer were printmakers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:
she pressed the pencil aggressively into the paper
How did the artist D.J.Hall use color pencil to achieve rich color and intense light effects in her work Piece of Cake?
In which sixteenth-century work does the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel use rhythm to direct the viewer's attention to different areas of the work?
Hunters in the Snow
A ________ is an architectural space that is created by using a series of columns, or a colonnade, to support a flat ceiling.
Hypostyle Hall
In the relief sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece, the figures of the Lapith people are:
Idealized
25,000
Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France ________ years ago.
Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It, by Sauerkids, are a good example of this kind of line.
Implied
Shirin Neshat was born in:
Iran
In Francisco Goya's print The Third of May, 1808, the Spanish citizens are arranged in a(n) ________ rhythm, whereas the French soldiers have ________ rhythm.
Irregular...Regular
Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York:
Is highly geometric
This type of perspective is used by computer- and video-game designers because it allows them to create depth using parallel diagonal lines.
Isometric
Why might an architect choose a simple, repetitive rhythm for his or her building?
It suggests stability
Which of the following is not a characteristic of "community art"?
It tends to be very small, remote, and private
poem
José Clemente Orozco, a Mexican muralist, worked in fresco. He wrote about the medium of painting, and called it "a ________ and nothing else."
The main building in the Horyu Temple complex in Nara, Japan is the ________.
Kondo
What is an example of something that is not in geometric form?
Leaf
Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace gives us a strong sense of the weaponry favored by the Japanese samurai, including:
Lengthy bows and arching swords
dissection
Leonardo da Vinci engaged in which activity—banned by the Church—in order to get detailed drawings of the human anatomy?
drawing from a live model
Life drawing is the process of:
What issue(s) concern twenty-first-century architects?
Limited Resources, Energy Conservation, and Sustainability
Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #35" was intended to comment on the ________.
Limited roles available to women in the 1950s
Though no original works of calligraphy by the ancient Chinese artist Wang Xizhi still exist, many students have been able to retrieve specimens of his writing style by:
Making rubbings from a stone tablet
This twentieth-century artist, and creator of Fountain (a factory-made urinal), was very influential for later artists working in alternative media.
Marcel Duchamp
Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York, a mechanized assemblage of discarded junk, was influenced by:
Marcel Duchamp's readymades, the painting techniques of Jackson Pollock, and the rebellious performances of Dada artists
This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of the Colossal Olmec Heads.
Mass
Expressionist
Max Beckmann exploited the irregular character of drypoint for his print Adam and Eve because it matched the style of the ________ group with whom he was affiliated.
Classical architecture inspired Renaissance architects, and the style was also revived in the ________ century.
Mid-Eighteenth
Digital color displays are illuminated by three different colored light cells: red, green, and blue. These can result in:
Millions of color possibilities
Which of the following combinations are included in David Hammon's Untitled (Night Train) (4.10.9)?
Minimalist form and content that makes a social commentary
Although radically different in appearance, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater can both be described as ________ architecture.
Modernist
When online television streaming services, such as HBO and Netflix, choose to release all episodes of a series simultaneously, this gives viewers:
More control over their viewing experience than with traditional television
In Islamic art it is not uncommon to see complex interlaced __________, which are designs repeated as units in a pattern.
Motifs
The designer and artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created poster designs for which Parisian nightspot?
Moulin Rouge
This kind of perspective is best used when the artist is confronted by a complex scene in which the viewpoint is not at ground level.
Multi-point
These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by overflying commercial aircraft.
Nazca Lines
monotype prints and monoprints
Nearly all printmaking is done in editions, but some artists will opt to create unique prints. These are called:
(Q001) Reflected light excites ________ that line the back of our eyes, and their signals are reprocessed and interpreted as color in our brains.
Nerve cells
Which artist distorted and manipulated her body to an extreme degree using plastic surgery?
ORLAN
An important difference between Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me and Following Piece is that Following Piece took place ________.
On the streets of New York
When the eye blends two colors that are near each other, creating a new color, this is known as ________.
Optical mixture
The human figure communicates the rich experience of humanity, and artists emulate this experience using this kind of form:
Organic
Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of:
Organic and Geometric Form
An artist creates compositional unity by:
Organizing all of the visual elements of the work
The artist Chuck Close used a repeated pattern of organic concentric rings set into a diamond shape to create his large:
Paintings
The traditional, and narrow, definition of "fine art" includes ________.
Paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals
first
Paper was invented by Cai Lun in China around the end of the ________century CE. He used macerated vegetable fibers suspended in water.
What term did Salvador Dalí invent that describes the foundation for his paintings?
Paranoaic-critical
Which ancient Greek artist won a contest to create the most convincing painted illusion?
Parrhasius
This type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist's body in the work.
Performance Art
The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ________.
Performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments
The lead architect of the Taj Mahal complex borrowed design elements from:
Persia, India, Turkey
Timothy O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death is a:
Photograph
the brown soil of Umbria, Italy
Pigment names are often derived from their source. For example the pigment that we call umber is named after ________.
Gunther von Hagens, a German artist who combined anatomy and science, developed this art technique, which preserves bodies after death:
Plastination
Which two philosophers, included in the center of The School of Athens, highlight the development of learning in the ancient world?
Plato and Aristotle
Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.
Pointillism
(Q007) This Greek sculptor wrote a treatise on how to create a statue of a human being with perfect proportions.
Polykleitos
The School of Athens, an architectural illusion created by Raphael, was painted for the library of ________.
Pope Julius II
Which piece of sculpted Roman glass was named after one of its owners, Margaret Bentinck, an English duchess?
Portland Vase
China
Printing with ink was first practiced in which country in the third century CE?
What is an example of a form?
Pyramid
Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing focuses on:
Race relations between Italian-Americans and African-Americans
When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:
Radial
Giulio Romano was trained by this artist, who influenced his fresco Fall of the Giants:
Raphael
(Q010) Henry Peach Robinson created his photographic work Fading Away by using a Golden ________ for the format dimensions.
Rectangle
Pablo Picasso's Guernica was created in black and white in order to:
Resemble newspaper photographs
This principle of design arises from repetition of a pattern.
Rhythm
When there are at least two points of reference in an artwork, __________ is present.
Rhythm
This is a way in which artists divide visual space into different kinds of sections to achieve different rhythmic effects.
Rhythmic design structure
nearly a month
Robert Rauschenberg created a work titled Erased de Kooning Drawing by erasing a work by the Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. How long did it take Rauschenberg to erase the whole drawing?
Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?
Romanesque
When a typeface does not have any extra embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ________ font.
Sans serif
Figure 4.2.3 depicts episodes from the life of Buddha, ________.
Sculpted as separate scenes all on one block of sandstone
This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater.
Shepard Fairey
The Constructivist movement in art is associated with which historical European country?
Soviet Union
In The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, by the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza, there are five figures. These five figures are:
St. Anthony (three times), a centaur, and St. Paul
Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) makes the viewer consider which of the following issues?
Stereotypes that are common in graphic design, Powerful institutions, such as museums, The problematic ways in which some institutions treat women, The fact that gazing at beauty is a form of voyeurism
Artworks with a vanitas theme are often in the ________ genre.
Still life
Which of the following artworks still physically exists?
Stonehenge
Vertical lines tend to communicate:
Strength
Artists face a communication challenge: to find a ________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition.
Structure
(Q002) When an artist wants to draw attention away from a particular part of a composition, he or she uses:
Subordination
(Q005) In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, the viewer is directed away from Icarus plunging into the sea, through the use of:
Subordination
Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.
Subversive
luminosity
Such artists as Jan van Eyck took advantage of the transparency of oil paint glazes to attain a rich ________, as though their painting was lit from within.
Artists belonging to the ________ movement make works inspired by dreams and the subconscious.
Surrealist
What is the semi-circle at the top of each page on Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (4.3.6)?
Symbols related to the time of year and relevant constellations
Whether pagan, Christian, or Buddhist, artworks depicting deities are generally intended to ________.
Tell the stories of the key religious figures
Maya pyramids primarily served as platforms for ________.
Temples
This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses.
Tempo
A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:
Texture
woodcut
The German artist Albrecht Dürer created Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief printmaking method?
a sence of energy
The German artist Käthe Kollwitz used charcoal to express ________ in her self-portrait of 1933, even though she rendered her face and hand in a static, realistic way.
(Q011) The French artist Jean-François Millet commented on the problem of divided social classes in nineteenth-century France in his monumental painting of workers in a field, titled:
The Gleaners
What shared theme connects the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, Giselbertus's tympanum at the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, and Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance?
The Last Judgment
an oasis
The Roman-era encaustic portraits from Fayum are excellent examples of Roman painting in wax. What was Fayum?
Which of the following statements about the Taj Mahal is not true?
The Shah's mausoleum remains incomplete to this day
This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.
The Sphinx
Nick Ut's Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack can be interpreted as the artist's disapproval of ________.
The Vietnam War
Noma Bar's illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:
The act of gun crime and its terrible result
Performance art differs from theater because ________.
The actions usually take place in an art context
The figure carrying another figure on the right-hand wing of Otto Dix's triptych The War is:
The artist
How are stereotypes related to James Luna's Take a Picture with a Real Indian (4.10.13)?
The artist engages stereotypes to show their difference from lived reality
Pablo Picasso's Guernica, 1937, can be interpreted as:
The artist's outrage against General Franco's violence
polymer resin
The binder used to suspend pigment in acrylic paint is ________.
Which of the following describes "Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994"?
The mother and baby are photographed shortly after birth
rosin
This material, derived from tree sap, is used in aquatint printmaking: a process that emulates the appearance of water-based media.
The word vomitoria, used to describe the entryways of the ancient Roman Colosseum, conveys the fact that:
Throngs of people spilled from the building as they exited
The Sun Stone made by the Aztecs (Figure 4.4.5) reveals how they used astronomical and mathematical knowledge to count ________.
Time
(Q006) A color that is lighter than its basic hue is called a:
Tint
In Catherine Opie's "Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina," the depiction of gender is made ambiguous for what reason?
To challenge assumptions about identity based on appearances
The illustrator James Montgomery brought this character to life, and created a memorable icon, in his poster I Want You for U.S. Army:
Uncle Sam
In his work The Flagellation, Piero della Francesca communicates a mood of detachment and contemplation by using this principle of design.
Unity
How do the Woman from Willendorf and Willem de Kooning's Woman I convey the power of women?
Using abstraction to suggest general ideas of powerful women
What instrument does artist Marcia Smilack hear when she turns her work Cello Music upside down?
Violin
In The Treachery of Images, Magritte tells us that painting is a:
Visual trick
This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.
Volume
Qin Shi Huangdi's army of terracotta soldiers
Was found in 1974
Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in:
Washington DC
What common characteristic do the Sumerian bull lyre, Navajo sand painting, and Gèlèdé masquerade share?
We have to imagine important parts of their original presentation
Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo express which of the following?
What the artist looked like and experienced on a personal level
charcoal dust
When Raphael transferred his drawing of The School of Athens to the wall for painting, what substance did he force through perforations in the paper?
registration
When creating a multi-color print, aligning the blocks or plates to ensure that the colors will appear in the correct location is called ________.
William Blake
Which English artist and poet suggested that drawing is fundamental artistic skill?
Senefelder
Which German author devised the lithographic printing process because he wanted to use a cheaper printing method?
graphite
Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?
All of the answers shown are used
Which of these is not used to make the bristles for a brush with a bamboo shaft, for example those used by Asian artists?
Sonia Delaunay
Which painter and watercolorist was the first woman to have her work shown at the Louvre during her lifetime?
because it is softer than wood and does not show the grain
Why do many contemporary printmakers prefer linocut to woodblock printing?
it dries almost immediately
Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with?
speed of application is important to graffiti artists, who often risk arrest for defacing public property
Why would graffiti artist Banksy use stencils to transfer his artworks onto walls?
Who worked in a calm state, between heartbeats, and through the night, while creating works of art?
Willard Wigan
The artists Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, and Alberto Giacometti show human figures in what way?
With their anatomy distorted or fragmented
The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by:
Women
Yves Klein's Anthropométries de l'époque bleue, March 9, 1960, used "living brushes" in its creation. These brushes were actually:
Women's bodies dipped in paint
The artist Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board to create a piece of art made up of:
Words
(Q011) The ancient Chinese "Theory of Five Elements" associated colors with corresponding cultural symbols. This philosophy is called:
Wu Xing
What scientific process can scholars use to view what lies beneath layers of paint on an artwork's surface?
X-ray
A musical tells a story using ______.
a dialog, dance & songs
(Q009) Italian Renaissance painter Raphael's The School of Athens depicts ________.
a gathering of great scholars
One of the first moving subjects to be captured on camera was ________.
a horse
When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, _______ image is formed.
a negative
Because they consider the camera a machine that captures an image of an event exactly as it occurred, some viewers believe that the resulting photograph is ________ record of events.
a totally reliable
(Q012) Which of the following statements is true of "Chaos Machine" by Clive King?
abstraction allowed the artist to respond to a tragic accident from his childhood
(Q004) Color mixtures using light, for example those in digital displays, are called __________ color mixtures.
additive
(Q004) Of the twelve figures in Jacob Lawrence's print from his series The Life of John Brown, this figure is emphasized the most:
all of the figures are emphasized in different ways
(Q002) Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:
all of the other answers (heroism, epic virtues, bravery, admiration)
Artists can emphasize the importance of a ruler by portraying him or her:
all of the other answers (in elaborate clothing, larger than other figures, in the center of a composition, and seated on a throne)
What happened after Marie Antoinette and Her Children was made?
all of the other answers (it was removed from public display, the king was beheaded, the queen was beheaded, and the French Revolution)
During his twenty-seven-year rule, Chairman Mao's face was reproduced across China in what medium?
all of the other answers (stamps, bank notes, posters, statues)
How has the Chinese government responded to the activities of artist Ai Weiwei:
all of the other answers (they have shut down his blog, he has been publicly decried, he has been beaten by the police, and his studio has been destroyed)
Adolf Hitler took a strong stance against modern art that he believed did not conform to Nazi party goals. His actions included:
all of the other answers burning books, ridiculing what he called "Degenerate artworks", closing art schools, and confiscating art from museums)
(Q002) A group of artists might share a style—an identifiable kind of visual expression—because:
all of these
The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.
an egg
(Q005) In ancient Egyptian art, the pharaoh was almost always depicted in this way:
as the largest of all the figures
The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into work of art is called
assemblage
Considering films to be works of art because they are the realization of a director's creative vision is known as auteur theory, from the French word for "________."
author
(Q006) When it tells about an artist's life, feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.
biographical
(Q005) The statement in question #4 relates to which type of analysis?
biographical context
(Q004) Robert Lostutter creates his work with a particular scale in mind. That scale relates to these animals:
birds
How did photographer Steve McCurry decide to mark the end of the production of Kodachrome film?
by using the final roll to produce a series of portraits
The ________ was an early form of camera.
camera obscura
When an artist is making pottery by hand-throwing, the first step when forming the clay on a potter's wheel is to ________.
center a mound of clay on the wheel
Which of the following processes produces full-color photographs?
cibachrome
The earliest photographs were black and white because:
color processes were not invented until the 1880s
(Q006) This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that.
distorted scale
The sequences in Meshes of the Afternoon are similar to ______.
dream imagery
Early photographer William Henry Fox Talbot discovered how to make positive prints that could be:
easily reproduced
(Q010) When Paul Gauguin painted his work Yellow Christ he chose the color yellow for its __________ qualities.
empressive
Gèlèdé rituals, performed by the Yoruba in Nigeria, celebrate:
female strength women as mothers the life-giving powers of women spiritual well-being
(Q001) This is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art.
focal point
In Geoffrey Chaucer's time, the makers of the fine objects we can see today in the world's great art museums learned their trade in associations called ________.
guilds
The metalworking process called repoussé, used to create the death mask from Mycenae, involves what kind of craftsmanship?
hammering
The Korean-American artist Hyo-In Kim created the work To Be Modern #2 to emulate a ________, a traditional Korean dress worn with shoes and a hairpin by women of the upper and royal classes.
hanbok
San Ildefonso pottery is created using:
hand building techniques
(Q011) Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:
he wanted to develop his own individual style
(Q008) When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large:
head
Jacques-Louis David's painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps depicts the French emperor:
heroically crossing the Alps
A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth
high relief . . . bas-relief
Audrey Flack's painting Marilyn (Vanitas) contains the following reminders of the brevity of life:
hourglass burning candle fruit clock
Michelangelo used this Italian term, which refers to nudity, to describe the figures he intended to use for the tomb of Pope Julius II:
ignudi
(Q003) A work that is created in small scale can communicate:
intimacy
Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.
kinetic
The actor Andy Serkis played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies. His performance was a combination of traditional acting and ________.
motion capture
Among artistic media, one that developed relatively recently is ________.
moving imagery
(Q007) Some people argued that Robert Mapplethorpe should not have been awarded public funding, because:
of his identity as a gay man and the sexual nature of his photographs
French artist JR draws attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by displaying his photographs ________.
on the side of a wall that divides them
(Q001) We perceive scale in relation to:
our own size
(Q008) Color deception occurs when:
our perception of a color is influenced by the color next, or adjacent, to it
South-African wood turner Andrew Early chooses to keep the natural irregularities of wood in his finished artworks, in order to preserve a sense of the material's innate ________.
personality
Chris Jordans' Gyre is made from:
plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean
Clay used to make earthenware has a good ________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation.
plasticity
The main difference between the animation used in The Nightmare Before Christmas and Spirited Away is that The Nightmare Before Christmas was made using ______.
puppets and stop-motion
Unlike a photocollage, a photomontage is made to be ________.
reproduced
Like other contemporary photographers, Carrie Mae Weems returned to historic processes in her work. Which of the following statements describes her project From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried?
revisiting historic daguerreotypes of slaves in the U.S. by adding text and color
(Q009) Placement of elements in a composition controls ________ and creates multiple focal points.
rhythm
(Q007) A color that is almost gray has a low chroma, or __________.
saturation
(Q003) Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as:
signs or signals
In 1914, Diego Velázquez's The Toilet of Venus (Rokeby Venus) was ________.
slashed
Naum Gabo's Constructed Head No. 2 investigates the sense of ________ and form implied by flat planes, in contrast to the solid mass of conventional sculpture.
space
Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge could be put into a ________ to create the impression that they were actually moving.
spinning zoetrope
Which of the following is not a method of carving?
spooning
(Q004) Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:
the appearance of multiple, repeated figures
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is a well-known symbol for the plight of:
the impoverished
Garry Winogrand's practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance was known as:
the snapshot aesthetic
The most deeply carved—therefore most important—element in the sunken relief of the Egyptian king Akhenaten, his queen Nefertiti, and their three daughters is:
the sun
Processing plant fibers begins with separating the fiber from the plant, then preparing it for use by spinning the fiber into a long ________.
thread
Photographs have only recently been widely collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ________.
true forms of art
The Hawaiian sculpture of a war god (Figure 2.4.7) is a composition that represents how many different gods?
two
(Q003) Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:
two primary colors
(Q001) The tools of formal analysis help us to:
understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork
(Q010) A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:
what was in the foreground and background
Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?
with its back to a pillar or wall
(Q010) Ando Hiroshige created the work "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi" in this medium:
woodcut print
