Art Appreciation Final
Michelangelo
(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?
-revolutions in France and America - the Age of Reason - industrialization - the Enlightenment
We have discovered paintings at Pech Merle in France that have been made by artists dating back ________ years.
25,000
Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?
9b
Jackson Pollock
A twentieth-century American painter, famous for creating abstract paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas in complex swirls and spatters.
Ai WeiWei
Artist who is a symbol of rebellion against the Chinese government. Sunflower seeds
Artist, Janine Antoni created the artwork Lick and Lather from what materials?
Chocolate and soap
CE means:
Common Era
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called _____
Complementary colors
Although Vincent's mental state suffered after the physical injury of ________, he found painting to be therapeutic.
Cutting off his ear
The doors of the Church of Saint Michael's at Hildesheim, Germany, ________.
Europe?
Animals were never shown on cave paintings. T/F
False
Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.T/F
False
Banksy's, self destructs on of his artworks on October 5, 2018. This artwork cost the buyer:
Girl with Balloon/ Love is in the Bin
Picasso
Guernica
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirror Room - Phallis Field, 1965
Chartres Cathedral, like many Gothic Cathedrals, has a floor plan in the shape of a what?
Latin cross
Janine Antoni
Lick and Lather 1993
One definition of this element is "a mark that connects two points."
Line
Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.
Michelangelo
A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.
Nearly every angle
Shepard Fairey
Obama Hope Poster
Jeff Koons
Pink Panther
Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Christ as the Good Shepherd was a common theme in early Christian art.T/F
True
Iconoclasm is the destruction of images. T/F
True
If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with a negative star shape on the paper.
True
Las Meninas shows how significant Velázquez was to the Spanish court.
True
Pablo Picasso challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by emphasizing underlying geometric form and the construction of pictorial space.
True
Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures.T/F
True
Who is the artist of Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe?
Vincent Van Gogh
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.
absorb
A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.
an implied line
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.
animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood
This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.
bas-relief
Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.
charcoal
This is the most vivid element of art and design.
color
The three kinds of unity are:
compositional, conceptual, gestalt
The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of ________.
contrast
Vincent Van Gogh
experimented with sharp brush lines and bright colors
What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
feminist posters and pamphlets
A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ______.
form
A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.
geometric
The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art
grammar
A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.
height
Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called ________.
impasto
Barbara Kruger
is a feminist artist who explores the "male gaze". Her goal was to subvert the typical use of imagery in advertising with her huge word and photograph collages
One important similarity between Stonehenge and 'The Gates' is that ________.
it took a highly organized team to construct them
A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.
motif
This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.
organic
This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.
performance art
This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history
performance art
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
pigment
This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
pigment
If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?
red
The traditional primary colors are ________.
red, yellow, blue
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.
relief
this type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.
relief
Linear perspective is used to ________.
represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions
Another name for freestanding sculpture is ________.
round
the binding agent in the spotted- horse paintings at Pech Merle is __________
saliva
We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.
saturation
This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.
silkscreen
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
subordination
When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.
subtractive
________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.
symmetrical
The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ________.
tesserae
Conceptual art emphasizes ________.
the ideas behind the artwork over its realization
Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?
they rejected the traditional values of the Academy, they evoked the sensations of everyday life, they painted outdoors and captured natural light, and their brushstrokes were visible and paintings appeared unfinished. All of the other answers.
The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.
vocabulary
ChucK Close
was a photorealist who was only interested in recording visual information not any insights into the portraits of his sitters. His canvases were very large and every aspect of the face could be seen on close viewing.
Robert Rauschenberg
was a pop artist who made "combines" by interspersing painted passages with sculptural elements.
daVinci
was sculptor, painter, achitect, inventor, and mathmatician. considered well-rounded universal person., Renaissance man who painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa
One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
water
Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?
wax stone plastic ice
A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.
woodcut
Which of the following can create a pattern?
woven cloth, fish scales, cracked mud,...etc
