Art class final

The exterior of the Romanesque St. Étienne served as a model for Gothic architecture because its ____ appeared repeatedly in Gothic churches.

Two tower tripartite facade

The term ____ was coined in 1951 to describe the process of dripping and splattering paint on huge canvases, a technique associated primarily with ____.

action painting; Jackson Pollock

____ are constructed by placing barrel vaults at right angles to cover a square space known as a ____.

groin vaults; bay

In The Outbreak, Käthe Kollwitz tried to symbolize ____ through her forceful depiction of the 16th-century Peasants' War.

man's inhumanity to man

The realism, symbolism, and complicated imagery found in Northern Renaissance paintings originated in and was influenced by ____.

manuscript illumination

As evidenced in The Birth of Venus, the Medici family protégé Sandro Botticelli loved, above all else, to paint ____.

mythological themes

Alice Neel is best known for her ____ portraits, a collection of souls handpicked from all strata of society.

stark, unflinchingly realistic

The Futurists' belief that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of a "dynamic sensation" is very evident in Giacomo Balla's constantly "moving" painting known as ____.

street light

Northern Renaissance artists tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using ___________

symbolism

The assertive clashing of shapes in Frank Gehry's high-tech Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT symbolizes ____.

the diverse disciplines that will be housed in the structure

The young artist Raphael painted numerous canvases of the Madonna and Child, but some of his most impressive compositions, like The School of Athens, were executed for ____.

the papal apartments in the Vatican

Mark Rothko is renowned for his ____.

large, hazy-edged color field rectangles

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun painted the portrait of Marie Antoinette and her children in an attempt to portray the queen as _______

A loving devoted mother

_______ is characterized by spontaneous execution, large gestural brushstrokes, abstract or abstracted imagery, and intense color fields, all produced on large monumental canvases

Abstract Expressionism

During the ____ period of Greek art, an architectural format was developed that served as a model for all later Greek temples. The central room of the temple was known as a ____.

Archaic; cella

During the Classical period, ___________ became the center of Greek art and culture under the dynamic statesman ________

Athens; Pericles

Peter Paul Ruben's, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus depicts a scene from Greek mythology in which two mortal women are seized by _______ the twin sons of Zeus

Castor and Pollux

In the apes of St. Peter's , Bernini combined architecture, sculpture, and stained glass to produce the brilliant golden display known as he _____________

Cathedra Petri

Samuel Fosso began his career as a photographer and comes from

Central African Republic

The emperor Maxentius ordered construction of a large basilica near the Roman forum. Little of it remains today, but its design set the precedent for many subsequent ____.

Christian churches

The pantheon's dome is ________ to lessen the weight of it both physically and visually

Coffered

Along with their interest in psychoanalysis, the Surrealists also incorporated some of the attitudes and techniques of the ____ movements.

Dadaists

The movement away from a realistic representation of subject slow toward abstraction took many forms, but Paul Cézanne led the way towards modernism with his __________, as seen in his still-life with Basket of Apples

Drastic collapsing of space, forcing imagery of the picture plane

Before the Baroque period ended, ____ began to replace Rome as the center of the art world and ____ was the principal exponent of its official style.

France

Modern architecture encompassed many architectural visions, including those of all but which one of the following architects?

Frank Stella

The circles, squares, patterning, and rigid wedge-shaped torsos depicted on the Dipylon Vase indicate that it is a fine example of the ____ period of Greek art.

Geometric

Which of the following statements about steel cable construction first used on to build the Brooklyn Bridge is not true

It can only span very short distances.

Appropriation artist Vik Muniz is known for using

Junk

The ancient Greeks considered themselves to be the center of the universe or "the measure of all things" a concept known as

Naturalism

____ shut down the Bauhaus in 1933, forcing many of its faculty, including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, to flee to the United States.

Nazis

____ was one of the first and most important churches erected during the Early Christian period. With its long nave and apse at one end, it was a(n) ____ plan church.

Old St. Peter's; Latin Cross

TheEiffel Towers magnificent iron trusses were

Prefabricated

Robert Rauschenberg's combine painting The Bed, he uses a ______ as his canvas

Quilt and pillow

Francesco Borromini's ___________, is an organic building that incorporates the Baroque elements of motion , space and light

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

What was modern about the "new" art of the late 18th-century in France was it's concept of _________. The first period of modern art to use planar recession was _____\

Space; Neoclassicism

In Helen Frankenthaler paintings such as the _________, the canvas and image are now literally one

The Bay

Which of the following does not describe Jan Vermeer's Young Woman with a water jug

The colors are harsh and garish

The colosseum in Rome consists of two back to back _________ and a combination of columns that produce a sense of lightness proceeding from bottom to top tier

Theaters; Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

Which of he following statements does not set the Fauves apart from their 19th century predecessors

Their subject matter centered on traditional nudes, still life and landscapes

Francis Bacon's figure with meat is a raw and distorted reworking of

Valázquez's Pope Inncocent X

The modern Realist painters of the 19th century, including Honoré Daumier and Édouard Manet, were bound by all of the following except they ____.

Were preoccupied with the science of optics

The ____ was a multilevel temple designed by the religion-oriented Sumerians but built by the later Babylonians and Assyrians.

Ziggurat

Japanese artist Mariko Mori can be described as all of the following except ____.

a painter and a sculptress

In Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea's Elementos Arquitectronicos, his primary theme seems to relate to ____.

a sense of quiet desperation

When Michelangelo was only 27, he carved the 13 1/2-foot statue of David from ____.

a single piece of almost unworkable marble

The two most significant innovations in building design introduced by the Romans were the ____, which made construction of the Pantheon possible.

arch and concrete

Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism are to be found in the ____ of Leon Battista Alberti.

architecture

Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco, Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the architectural space of the church by painting a(n) ____.

barrel vaulted chapel with holy and common figures

In Deconstructivist architectural design, buildings are intended to be seen in ____.

bits and pieces

The François Vase, with black figures on a reddish background, is an example of the ____ painting technique and was produced during the ____ period of Greek art.

black-figure; Archaic

Of works such as the Red Room, Henri Matisse said it should be "a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest." This is because Matisse's primary concern was to ____.

create a pleasing pattern

The Processional Frieze from the royal audience hall in Persepolis shows __________

deeply carved, fleshy, well-rounded human figures

In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo created the most ____ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.

dramatic negative space

The Incan fortress of Machu Picchu is considered to be ____ construction, as it was built without any mortar.

dry masonry

The shocking realism depicted in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic stems from his ____.

experience working with live models and dissecting corpses

As the Gothic period progressed, all of the following architectural innovations occurred except ____.

exterior walls appeared heavier

The iconography of the stylized, doll-like figures on the Weighing of Souls tympanum from the Cathedral of Autun was intended to convey ____.

fear and repentance

Large-scale tomb sculptures that were intended to house the spirit of the deceased if mummification failed were known as ____.

ka figures

Indian artist Subodh Gupta's Silk Route is composed entirely of ____.

kitchen utensils

Haitian artist Jean-Ulrick Desert made ____ into burqas for The Burqa Project.

national flags

During the Old Kingdom period of Egyptian art, a new manner of representing the human figure developed that would last thousands of years. It was characterized by all of the following except ____.

naturalistic depiction of the human figure

In an effort to produce an integrated look to the Parthenon, all of the following construction variations are found except that the ____.

top step of the platform is perfectly straight

The cathedral of Florence features all of the characteristics below except ____.

twin bell towers