Art Appreciation Final

What is Pop Art?

A style of painting and sculpture that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Britain and the US, using mass-production techniques (such as silkscreen)or real objects in works that are generally more polished and ironic than assemblages

What is the name of the technique that was invented during the Italian Renaissance, which allowed artists to create the mathematically precise illusion of 3-D space on a flat surface using a vanishing point and horizon line?

Linear Perspective

Classical Greek and Roman art influenced many architectural styles throughout history. The following styles influenced early American architecture. This style is called

Neoclassical

What are storyboards?

A series of drawing or paintings arranged in the sequence used to visualize the major shots in animation or film

The book states 6 purposes for creating art. What are these 6 purposes?

Delights Commentary Worship and ritual Commemoration Persuasion Self- expression

What is a relief print?

A piece of art - a print - in which part of the printing surfaces that carry ink are left raised, while remaining areas are cutaway

What are Earthworks?

A sculptural form made from earth, rocks, or sometimes plants, often on a cast scale and in a remote location

What is a cantilever?

A beam of slab projecting a substantial distance beyond its supporting post or wall

What is Minimalism?

A nonrepresentational style of sculpture and painting that came to prominence in the middle and late 1960s; usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses.

Who is Andy Warhol?

Andy Warhol was a popular American artist in the 1960s. He did not invent Pop art, but he was its most visible and controversial exponent. Warhol began his career as a commercial artist. Warhol's art shows us, in new ways, the effect of mass media and mass marketing on all of us. Among his most common subjects were consumer products such as Coca-Cola and Campbell's soup.

The Parthenon in Greece was designed to honor the goddess

Athena

Greek artisans wanted to add a sense of naturalism to classical figures. They did this by using a technique known as

Contrapposto

Leonardo DaVinci's "Mona Lisa" is famous for many reasons. One of the artistic values present within the piece is the use of _______, which produces softened outlines or hazy forms throughout the composition.

Contrapposto

What are the differences between Earthenware, Stoneware, and Porcelain?

Earthenware - fired at a relatively low temp and is porous after firing. May be red or brown or tan. Most common Stoneware - heavier, fired at a higher temp, and not porous. Grayish or brown. Preferred medium bc of workability and strength Porcelain - rarest and most expensive. Made from deposits of decomposed granite, becomes white and nonporous after firing at a high temp. Perfected in china

When comparing artworks by Georgia O'Keefe (Ch. 22) and Edward Hopper (Ch. 23), which artist is more interested in content?

Edward Hopper

Modernism appealed only to wealthy patrons and the church because of its broad subjects. (pg. 406)

False

The Terra-Cotta Warriors in the tomb of Emperor Qin vary from the Classical Greek statues because the warriors are all set with a contrapposto stance.

False- they were standing straight up

What are the 3 methods of critiquing artwork?

Formal - focus attention on the composition of the work and how it may have been influenced by earlier works Contextual - which consider art as a product of a culture and value system Expressive - pay attention to the artist's expression of a personality or worldview

What are the differences between these 3 techniques? Hatching, Cross-hatching, and Contour hatching.

Hatching - single rows of parallel lines Cross-hatching - parallel lines on top of opposite directional lines - layers make it darker and add volume Contour hatching - rows of lines, but curved - not straight/parallel lines

Egyptian artists created stylized artwork, however, they would often idealize their rulers and make them the largest figure in the composition. This visual technique was called

Hierarchic Scale

The tenants of _____________ developed during the Italian Renaissance as people looked to ancient Roman and Greek ideas and philosophy for inspiration.

Humanism

In three dimensional artwork, some pieces project out of a background, while other pieces can be viewed from all sides. This type of three-dimensional artwork that can be viewed from all sides is called

In-the-round

A person can LOOK at an image or her/she can SEE an image. What is the difference between looking and seeing?

Looking is habitual and implies taking in what is before us in a generally mechanical or goal-oriented way. Seeing is a more open, receptive, and focused version of looking. In seeing, we look with our memories, imaginations, and feelings attached.

Four of the earliest civilizations included Egypt, China, India, and

Mesopotamia

How and when was photography invented?

Photography was invented in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce when scientists discovered that certain chemicals were sensitive to light. He recorded and fixed on a sheet of pewter an image he made by exposing the sensitized metal plate to light for eight hours.

What did the Romans perfect that proved to be stronger architectural building support than the earlier support system known as Post and Lintel?

Rounded arch

African art abstracts the figure when creating masks and sculptural forms.

TRUE

The art of today is considered global because of ________

Technology and the communications of the world

Regionalism was a style that focused on visions of American culture during the 1930s. A well-known artist of this style from Neosho, MO, was

Thomas Hart Benton

What are the differences between these 3 types of paints? Watercolor paint, Oil paint, Acrylic paint.

Watercolor - pigments mixed with w water as a vehicle and gum arabic (sap from acacia tree) as a binder Oil - made from linseed oil pressed from the seeds of the flax plants - a luminous quality - provides increased opacity: better covering power, and when thinned, greater transparency. Slow drying time gives the advantage of being strokes of color and make changes during the painting process. Can be applied thick or thin Acrylic - pigment is held by acrylic polymer, a synthetic resin that provides a fast-drying, flexible film. vehicle is water. Colors maintain high color intensity bc of the binder is transparent. Acrylics rarely darken or yellow over time, unlike oils

When a work of art is altered or removed from public view, this process (action toward the work of art) is called

cencorship

The planning and arranging of the elements and principles of design is called

composition

"Guerica" by Pablo Picasso was created as a protest to which of the following:

horros of war

The 4 steps of critiquing an artwork include description, analysis, interpretation, and

judgement

A mosque is complete with a __________ which creates a visual focal point and calls the faithful to prayer.

minaret

Icons today represent famous or well-known images while icons in the Middle Ages were used as

sacred objects

What is Typography?

the art and technique of composing printed materials from type