Art final

Mies Van der Roha, who was Head of the Bauhaus, is often remembered for saying:

"less is more"

This German artist's naturalistic depiction Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.

Albecht Durer

Which of the following statements is true of the Caffenol process?

All of the answers

This British artist created street art using a process that involved stencils and spray paint.

Banksy

Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?

Caravaggio

The 1900th artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris created a handcrafted version of this writer's works as a rejection of rampant industrialization.

Chaucer

Wang Xizhi was one of the great calligraphers of the Jin Dynasty from this ancient culture.

China

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.

Chuck Close

Hannah Hoch was part of a movement known as ______________________________.

Dada

Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.

False

If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision.

False

An artwork that has many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

False ...because hue is just another word for color. If there are many hues that means there are many colors, and a piece with many colors would NOT be monochromatic! A piece that has many values but only one hue IS monochromatic!

Vito Acconci is the artist who created _______________________________.

Following Piece

Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?

Gutenberg

The work of ____________________________was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.

Marcel Duchamp

The first people (c. 3400 BCE) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the __________________________________________.

Mesopotamians

Albrecht Durer's standard of letterforms was based on the alphabetic characters of this culture.

Rome

One of the first popular films to use color imagery was

The Wizard of Oz

It does not matter if a sculptor is creating a human statue on a monumental scale, or a figure much smaller than life size: if the sculptor applies the ratio of the Golden Section, the sculptor will have naturalistic proportions.

True

An Inconvenient Truth is _____________________about __________________________.

a documentary.......global warming

An upright stone that has an incised relief on its surface, such as the Maya sculpture is known as ________________________.

a stela

Before the invention of paper drawings were done on _________________________.

all of the above

Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology are:

all of the above

Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welle's Citizen Kane are:

all of the answers

Artworks made using alternative media and processes

all of the answers

Georges Melies film A Trip to the Moon is know for being:

all of the answers

Videos designed to be art are often made to be presented ______________________________________.

all of the answers

When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by _____________________________.

all of these answers

___________________________________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

asymmetrical

Sticks of chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with a __________________________.

binder

Wherever literacy takes hold, ____________________________ usually develops as a form of art the expresses layers of meaning and feelings by means of the shape of the written letterforms.

calligraphy

A major benefit of the calotype process is that

calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced

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

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

Kasushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ______________________________________.

compositional unity

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is _______________________ unity.

conceptual

Artists can create a sense of ________________________ by using light and dark values.

depth

Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by _______________________________ but often exist only in the form of _______________________________.

direct experience.......visual documentation or personal accounts

In James Allen's etching The Connectors, an image of workers erecting the Empire State Building, the artist created a feeling of great height by using _____________________________ line to lead the viewer's eye diagonally.

directional

By orienting lines so that they attract attention to a specific area of a work of art the artist is using_____________________.

directional line

The first cameras were _____________________________________.

early 1800s

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

early 1800s

___________________________films often include innovative technology, unexpected subject matter, and/or manipulated images.

experimental

In a two dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ____________________________.

figure-ground reversal

The positive and negative shapes in M.C. Eschers print Sky and Water 1 balance each other and are an example of _______________________________.

figure-ground reversal

When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this: __________________________.

foreshortening

In two dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

format

Forms such as pyramids, which tend to be precise and regular, are known as _______________________forms.

geometric

The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is ____________________________________

gestalt

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where is was used to indicate social importance.

hierarchical

The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ___________________________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.

implied

Some Jewish texts create images using this kind of line made up of small letters.

implied line

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called __________________________.

implied motion

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies _______________________________.

intimacy

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ________ rhythm.

irregular

The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffets Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits ____________________________________.

irregular line

John Cage's concert for the opening of the National Arts Foundation can be seen as a happening because:

it expanded the scope of art to include the lived moment

This is the art of organizing type, logos, and illustrations in traditional print media:

layout design

This is most often a carefully designed piece of type that is unique and easily identified.

logo

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ____________________________.

loneliness

Tibetan Buddhist monks create color sand images with a radial design. This representation of the universe is called a _________________________________.

mandala

Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy, but in fact this is not necessarily the case. This element of art is called ______________________________.

mass

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called _____________________________ scale.

monumental

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ____________________________.

negative

This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

organic

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider 'drawing' define the _____________________________of a _____________________________.

outline.....shape

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ___

passengers on a steam ship

An artwork consists of cutting off someones tie and pouring shampoo on his head would be best described as ________

performance art

The theory that describes the way separate images viewed at regular intervals create the appearance of continuous motion is called_______________________________.

persistence of vision

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

_____________________________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from the central points and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to seide and top to bottom.

radial

____________________________________________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.

radial

Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to:

raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil

Color associations vary by culture. For example, an American bride would probably wear white, while her Asian counterpart might wear _________________.

red

Mel Bochner used _________________________ line in the work Vertigo because it is controlled and measured.

regular

A three dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________________________________.

relief

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated that rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of ___________________________ in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens.

repeating marks

An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:

scale and pattern

Baltimore album quilts, which use variety to unify their composition, are named after these collections.

scrapbooks

The marks that are added to a letterform that were derived from the chisel marks created fro words incised on Roman buildings are called _________________________.

serifs

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________________________.

shade

The Flemish artist Jan Van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ____________________________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

spiritual

Jackson Pollock is known for:

splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor

The opposite of emphasis is ________________________.

subordination

Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or __________________________________ effect.

supernatural

When a color is associate with hot or cold we refer to this as color _____________________.

temperature

As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed,

the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see

Whose responsibility is it to make sure your work is finished and turned in on time?

the student

These four visual elements of art-form, volume, mass, and texture-are present in _______________________works of art.

three dimensional

Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied _______________________ shape.

triangular

In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ____________________________________.

truthful

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to _________________along the boundary where the two colors meet.

vibrate

In Joseph Beuys's Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist:

wrapped himself in felt and lived for 5 days alone in an art gallery with a coyote

What does the work "photograph" mean?

writing with light