Art Appreciation Mid Term
Renaissance
"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
Tint
(n.) a delicate color or hue; a slight trace of something; (v.) to give color to something; to dye
When was paper invented?
105 AD
Pieter Bruegel Hunters in the Snow
1565
Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits
1849
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
1942
Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France ________ years ago.
25,000
Taoism
A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature.
linear perspective
A monocular cue for perceiving depth; the more parallel lines converge, the greater their perceived distance.
Collagraph
A print made from an image built up with glue and sometimes other materials.
Motif
A recurring theme, subject or idea
sketch
A rough representation of the main features of an object or scene and often made as a preliminary study.
Pointillism
A school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye
Shape
A shape is created when a line is enclosed
Rhythm
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Acrylic
A synthetic polymer used in high-performance latex or water-based paints.
Tempera
A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein; also, the medium itself.
Assemblage
A three-dimensional composition in which a collection of objects is unified in a sculptural work.
Rib Vaults
A vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them.
The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as
Pointillism
This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum
Prism
This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens
Raphael
One method used to establish depth in Beda Stjernschantz's Pastoral (Primavera) involves placing figures higher or lower in the composition. This process for creating depth is called
Relative Placement
The Belgian Surrealist artist created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to
René Magritte
Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?
Romanesque
Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808
Romanticism
We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of
Saturation
Bas-relief
Sculpture whose ornament or figures are somewhat raised above the background
emphasis
Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color
Temperature
Maya pyramids primarily served as platforms for
Temples
Mary Cassatt
The Boating Party
Caravaggio
The Calling of St. Matthew
Vincent Van Gogh
The Night Cafe
Artist's book
a book produced by an artist, usually an expensive limited edition, often using specialized printing processes
High-relief
a carved panel where the figures project with a great deal of depth from the background
By using what color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.
a complementary
rosin
a dry powdered resin that melts when heated, used in the aquatint process
hypostyle hall
a hall with a roof supported by columns
Dome
a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.
Graphite
a shiny, black substance that is used in pencils
Post-and-lintel
a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)
This is the most vivid element of art and design
color
analogous colors
colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called
complementary colors
Line
considered to be a moving dot. It has an endless number of uses in the creation of art
Value
deals with the lightness or darkness of a color
In the DC Comics image of Superman, the figure is portrayed at an extreme angle. This what view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewer's attention
foreshortened
Honroe Daumier, Rue Transnonian
graphic satire
Ignudi
nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
secondary colors
orange, green, violet
oil paint
paint made of pigment floating in oil
Cave Paintings from Pech Merle Cave
pigment with saliva
life drawing
practice of drawing from a live model
The traditional primary colors are
red, yellow, blue
support
refers to any material onto which paint is applied
Form
refers to objects that are 3-Dimensional, or have length, width, and height
Texture
refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched
What did Michelangelo believe to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts?
sculpture
How did artist D. J. Hall use color pencil to achieve rich color and intense light effects in her work Piece of Cake?
she pressed the pencil aggressively into the paper
When what colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.
subtractive
Naturalistic
term refers to observations made of individual's behavior in an everyday life setting
architecture
the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
relief
the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area
pattern
the geometric arrangement of objects in space
Chiaroscuro
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting
cross-hatching
the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness
Formal Analysis
the visual analysis of artistic form
Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses what perspective
three-point
A series of different values that are grouped together is called a
value range
Artists can create a sense of by using light and dark values
Depth
The Chinese artist Fan Kuan created in his work Travelers among Mountains and Streams by alternating bands of lighter and darker values
Depth
Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment. True or False?
False
Henri Matisse was a member of the what movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could
Fauve
Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?
Francesco de Medici
Henri Matisse
French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?
Green has positive associations in Islamic art
The process of using a series of parallel lines set close to one another to differentiate planes of value in a work of art is called
Hatching
What did René Magritte express to his viewers when he wrote "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") on his work The Treachery of Images?
He wants us to recognize that what appears to be a pipe is not really a pipe; it is and illusion, nothing more than paint of a flat surface
The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and
Highlight
Bone ash
Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating
The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is
Hue
What is the name of the artist that painted The Yellow Christ?
Paul Gauguin
The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing
Pink polka-dots trash bags
background
Plane in a composition furthest from the viewer
This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called
Chiaroscuro
What culture first reproduced and printed artworks on paper
China
An artist can use color to indicate depth. When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be
Closer
In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.
Cross-hatching
Where is the Great Serpent Mound located
Adams County, Ohio
Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as
Aggression
Where is Shah Jahan, The Taj Mahal located
Agra
Ready-mades
An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.
Colors fall adjacent (side by side) to each other on a color wheel
Analogous
engraving
Art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints
When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called
Atmospheric perspective
Principles of Art
Balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, rhythm, unity, and variety
Where is Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House located
Bennelong Point, Sydney Australia
Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972
Berkely art musuem
Stained Glass
In Gothic architecture, the colored glass used for windows
registration
In art and archaeology, in sculpture as well as in painting, a register is a horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines
Editions
In printmaking, the total number of prints made from a given plate or block. Each print is numbered in the order that it was printed. For example, edition 32 of a print would indicate that the print was the 32nd print printed.
Art
Is the making of objects such as paintings, buildings, drawings, pottery, weaving, sculptures and prints.
content
It mainly focuses on the physical aspects of the artwork, such as medium, color, value, space, etc., rather than on what it communicates
California artist/impasto (Joan Brown)
Joan Brown (February 13, 1938 - October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California
When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, what showed that the human eye can be deceived by color
Josef Albers
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Decapitating Holofernes
Colossal Head
La Venta, Mexico 900-400 BCE Olmec
Peiter Bruegel the Elder
Landscape with the fall of Icarus. Oil paint
Impressionists
Late 19th century artistic movement characterized by visible brush strokes, softer colors, unusual angles, and ordinary subject matter.
Thutmosis, Bust of Queen Nefertiti
Limestone
This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon line, vanishing point, and convergence lines
Linear perspective
What architect was called the father of Modernism
Luis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
Oil Paint
Suzanne Valadon- The Blue Room
Oil paint
Monotype
One of a kind print made from painted or inked surface.
Raphael, School of Athens
Paint, plaster
Artemisia Gentileschi used what medium in , Allegory of Painting?
Painting
Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
focal point
The center of interest on a page or set of facing pages, created by using color, contrast and proportion.
Which does the following painting by Spanish artist Francisco De Zurbaran, depicts?
The dead body of St. Bonaventure
Jacob Lawrence
The life of John Brown
In what year was the Suleimaniye mosque designed and who designed it.
The mosque was ordered by the sultan Suleyman, and architect Sinan built it in 7 years, between 1550-1557 AD.
foreground
The panel closest to the viewer
In the ground
The part of a pattern that does not command attention; the background.
Edvard Much, The Scream
The pictures are tied together in terms of subject matter and form, and focus on existential topics such as love, pain, anxiety, jealousy and death.
contrast
The state of being noticeably different from something else when put or considered together.
What does the lion in Memorial to king leopold of the Belgians symbolize.
The stone blocks are a reference to King Leopold II's nickname, the 'King-Builder'The elephant and the lion symbolise Congo's magnificent nature and the abundant natural wealth beneath its soil
Emil Nolde
This artist was a member of the Nazi party and had to paint in secret
The painter Thomas Hart Benton varied the intensity of the color green in The Wreck of the Ole '97 to help the viewer feel at a safe distance from the train wreck? True or False
True
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as
Value
The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called
Value
Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.
Vanishing Point
Contrapposto
an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs.
The German artist Albrecht Durer created Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief Printmaking method.
aquatint printmaking
kinetic
art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect
The French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon created chiaroscuro by using chalk on paper.
black and white
Kathe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait
charcoal
Casting
involves making a mould and then pouring a liquid material, such as molten metal, plastic, rubber or fibreglass into the mould
impressionism
is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
Space
is the area around, above, and within an object
Color
is the element of art that refers to reflected light
This system, which derives its name from the Greek meaning "equal measure," uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth
isometric perspective
What are the elements of art
line, shape, form, space, color, value, texture
Fresco
work of wall or ceiling art created by applying pigment onto intonaco, or a thin layer of plaster.
