Art Appreciation Test 1

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

Aesthetics

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in _____

Beeswax

Which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

Charcoal

Identify the technique used by two-dimensional artists to create the illusion of volume with light.

Chiaroscuro

In painting media, the pigment provides

Color

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use _____ theories.

Contextual

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering.

Design

The term "art criticism" refers to making _____ of art, both favorable and unfavorable.

Discriminating judgements

______ art theories focus attention on the composition of the work and how earlier works may have influenced it

Formal

Drawing is considered to be the ______ of all other media

Foundation

Shape refers to the expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area or within the outer boundaries of a three-dimensional object. The wide variety of shapes can be grounded into tow general categories.

Geometric and organic

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

Glaze

Opaque watercolor is sometimes called _______

Gouache

Which of the following refers to the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art?

Iconography

________ is the term for the purity or saturation of a color

Intensity

In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

Lithography

In the art world, a ______ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique.

Medium

Art made with a combination of different materials, such as photomontage, is referred to as ______

Mixed Media

An ______ print is one in which an artist is physically involved with its production

Original

Pastel, charcoal, Conte crayon and _______ are types of dry drawing media.

Pencil

At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make _____ to check on the developing image

Proofs

______ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole

Proportion

Figurative art is a type of ______ art.

Representational

Architects are primarily concerned with qualities of _______

Space

In _____ balance, the two sides of a composition on either side of an imaginary vertical dividing line correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form.

Symmetrical

A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is ____

Tempera

To evaluate a work of art properly, we must deal with it in the context of

The society that produced it

The Taj Mahal is one of the world's best-known works of architecture. Identify its function.

Tomb

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is _____

Trompe l'oeil

____ is the appearance or condition of oneness in a work of art

Unity