Art

These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by overflying commercial aircraft.

Nazca Lines

In web design, text that when clicked will immediately link to another web page is called ________.

a hyperlink

Which African-American artist created the fiber artwork Tar Beach as an autobiographical work about her own experiences growing up in New York?

Faith Ringgold

Commercial color printers use the following three primary colors, plus black:

cyan, magenta, yellow

Line can be used as a tool to:

define outlines, connect points, define boundaries between planes, define shapes, direct our gaze, and convey a sense of movement and energy.

A representational work of art ________.

depicts objects or people so that we can recognize them

This kind of line tends to be more visually active, so it can draw the viewer's attention. Group of answer choices

diagonal

A musical tells a story using ______.

dialog, dance, and songs

A good example of variety in a work would be:

different shapes and colors

This use of scale can create an abnormal or supernatural effect, and was used by the Surrealists to do just that. Group of answer choices

distorted scale

The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ________.

dome

Life drawing is the process of: Group of answer choices

drawing from a live model

What colors did Vincent van Gogh use in his painting The Potato Eater?

earth tones

Something done on a monumental scale usually indicates:

epic virtues heroism admiration bravery

Vincent van Gogh associated both the stars that fill the sky and the cypress trees in The Starry Night with:

eternity

Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with?

it dries almost immediately

Which of the following is NOT a true description of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?

it illustrates limited activity and progress

Allan Houser's work Reverie is representational because:

it includes two shapes that we recognize as faces

Why might an architect choose a simple, repetitive rhythm for his or her building?

it suggests stability

Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.

kinetic

Stolen art loses much of its value because:

lacking good title and proper provenance prevents its resale

Which of these is NOT a geometric form?

leaf

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is a good reflection of the Futurist Manifesto of 1909, which was written by:

Filippo Marinetti

Which Japanese woodblock print gave Van Gogh the idea for the sky in Starry Night?

Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa"

Feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.

biographical

These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range.

black and white

Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of ________. Group of answer choices

bone ash

Constantin Brancusi worked with Auguste Rodin, but he decided to leave his studio because:

both Rodin had other artists carve his work for him and there were too many studio apprentices

Which parts of the composition of The Starry Night did Vincent van Gogh paint from his imagination or memory?

both moon and steeple

This is a kind of color "map" that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other. Group of answer choices

color wheel

Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?

graphite

Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:

he wanted to develop his own individual style

When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, he or she made this body part disproportionately large

head

A work that is created in small scale can communicate:

intimacy

In Francisco Goya's print The Third of May, 1808, the Spanish citizens are arranged in a(n) ________ rhythm, whereas the French soldiers have ________ rhythm.

irregular...regular

We perceive scale in relation to:

our own size

This type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist's body in the work

performance art

José Clemente Orozco, a Mexican muralist, worked in fresco. He wrote about the medium of painting, and called it "a ________ and nothing else."

poem

Artists intersperse value and texture to create a sense of:

rhythm

Placement of elements in a composition controls ________ and creates multiple focal points.

rhythm

This principle of design arises from repetition of a pattern.

rhythm

A color that is almost gray has a low chroma, or __________.

saturation

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is work in which medium?

sculpture

Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.

sculpture and painting

The artist Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board to create a piece of art made up of:

words

The ________ was an early form of camera.

camera obscura

Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France ________ years ago.

25,000

This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth.

André Masson

This Italian artist was the first to define a formal system of linear perspective.

Brunelleschi

The polished surface of Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi had a great impact on the sculptures of this Minimalist artist:

Donald Judd

Which artwork by Constantin Brancusi started as a pedestal, but later became an architectural sculpture?

Endless Column

Linseed oil came into general use as a painting binder in the fifteenth century, particularly in the following country:

Flanders

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is a work in which style?

Futurist

In which art movement do we categorize the works of Vincent van Gogh?

Post-Impressionist

Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?

Romanesque

The Starry Night is a scene from which place in France, where Vincent van Gogh was for a time resident in an asylum?

Saint-Rémy

Which of the following is not a method of carving?

Spooning

The lead architect of the Taj Mahal complex borrowed design elements from:

Turkey India Persia

Where was the first Surrealist exhibition held in the United Sates?

Wadsworth Athenaeum

This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.

a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool

The subject matter detailed in The Persistence of Memoryincludes:

a carcass landscape melting clocks ants

One of the first moving subjects to be captured on camera was ________.

a horse

Thomas Struth's photograph Museo del Prado 7 is:

a portrait of art appreciatio

When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:

a scholarly journal article

Sometimes artists use this kind of changing pattern to make a work more lively.

alternating pattern

The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.

an egg

By using this kind of color combination, artists avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood.

analogous

Moving images created with a zoetrope were early forms of:

animation

The Bauhaus school in Germany was originally conceived as a school of ________ by its founder, Walter Gropius.

architecture

The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:

assemblage

Why do many contemporary printmakers prefer linocut to woodblock printing?

because it is softer than wood and does not show the grain

What were the Futurist artists and Umberto Boccioni most interested in achieving?

breaking free from traditional subjects in art

What aspect of dynamism did Boccioni express in his paintings and sculptures?

breaking free with form and expressing motion

Architects must consider the availability and cost of ________ when they plan their projects.

building material

Installation artworks:

can take place inside or outside transform the traditional space of an exhibition immerse viewers in the artwork consider how the viewer will move through the space

The deep landscape seen in The Persistence of Memory is typical of which region of Spain?

catalonia

When an artist is making pottery by hand-throwing, the first step when forming the clay on a potter's wheel is to ________.

center a mound of clay on the wheel

Printing with inks was first practiced in which country in the third century CE?

china

An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.

complement

Which of the following can be used to create emphasis?

contrast direction placement

The technique in which an artist creates a series of closely arranged parallel lines that is overlapped by another set of parallel strokes to create a sense of value is called:

cross-hatching

A studio visit from which person inspired Willem de Kooning to re-stretch the canvas for Woman I and begin to rework it?

eyer Shapiro

The golden sculpture Bird in Space from 1928 is highly textured.

false

The title of The Persistence of Memory helps the viewer to understand the artwork.

false

Umberto Boccioni and his peers wanted to paint traditional nude forms.

false

Umberto Boccioni wrote his manifesto of Futurist sculpture in 1909; it was published in the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro.

false

Willem de Kooning's Woman I was a very spontaneous painting.

false

Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession, but she was supported by her ________, who was also an artist. Group of answer choices

father

This is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art.

focal point

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.

geometric

Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?

glue oil gum arabic wax

Which of these is not used to make the bristles for a brush with a bamboo shaft, for example those used by Asian artists?

goat hair horse hair wolf hair ox hair

4 / 4 pts The metalworking process called repoussé, used to create the death mask from Mycenae, involves what kind of craftsmanship?

hammering

Which of the following is true of Willem de Kooning's painting technique in Woman I?

he scraped off paint with a palette knife he used gestured strokes he rubbed off paint with a rag and turpentine he combined slow and fast application of paint

This type of perspective is used by computer- and video-game designers because it allows them to create depth using parallel diagonal lines.

isometric

Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night was most likely an early morning sky and not a night sky, because:

he was an he was an insomniac

A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth.

high relief . . . bas-relief

This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of the colossal Olmec heads

mass

What did Salvador Dalí say he had seen at a party that inspired the composition of The Persistence of Memory?

melting camembert cheese

Digital color displays are illuminated by three different colored light cells: red, green, and blue. These can result in:

millions of color possibilities

Constantin Brancusi's sculptures broke from the traditional practice of:

modeling in clay before casting in bronze

Nearly all printmaking is done in editions, but some artists will opt to create unique prints. These are called: Group of answer choices

monotype prints and monoprints

When online television streaming services, such as Netflix, choose to release all episodes of a series simultaneously, this gives viewers:

more control over their viewing experience than with traditional television

Among artistic media, one that developed relatively recently is ________.

moving imagery

The earliest films did not feature ________.

ongoing dialog

An artist creates compositional unity by:

organizing all the visual elements of the work

The traditional, and narrow, definition of "fine art" includes ________.

paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals

The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ________.

performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments

Willem de Kooning was influenced by Cubist artists George Braque and Pablo Picasso in developing what aspect of Woman I?

pictorial space

Clay used to make earthenware has a good ________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation.

plasticity

Unlike a photocollage, a photomontage is made to be ________.

reproduced

When there are at least two points of reference in an artwork, __________ is present.

rhythm

This is a way in which artists divide visual space into different kinds of sections to achieve different rhythmic effects.

rhythmic design structure

When a typeface does not have any extra embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ________ font.

sans serif

Willem de Kooning had previously worked as what type of artist?

sign painter

This material allowed for the construction of huge, glass-fronted skyscrapers.

steel

Vertical lines tend to communicate:

strength

When an artist wants to draw attention away from a particular part of a composition, he or she uses:

subordination

Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.

subversive

Color processes can be used to make photographs that are:

surreal socially conscious expressive realistic

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí is done in an illusionistic style, typical of Old Master painting. With which artistic movement is Dalí associated?

surrealism

This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses.

tempo

A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:

texture

Performance art differs from theater because ________.

the actions usually take place in an art context

What activates the figure-ground relationship in Woman I?

the aluminum band of paint

Collagraph printing is different to relief or intaglio methods, because:

the artist builds up rather than cuts into the surface that is to be inked

The earliest photographs were black and white because:

the chemistry used captured gray tones they were more expensive color photography was impossible color processes were complicated

The painting Starlight by Agnes Martin uses broad emphasis to draw attention to this part of the work:

the composition as a whole

A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:

the elements have conceptual unity

The wings on Unique Forms of Continuity in Space remind us of what motif from Classical mythology?

the horse Pegasus

The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ________.

the idea behind the artwork

What is the most energized aspect of the composition of The Starry Night?

the sky

Van Gogh's composition for The Starry Night is similar to some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the way that:

the sky dominates two-thirds of the canvas

Katsushika Hokusai's print "The Great Wave Off Shore at Kanagawa" uses compositional unity in which of these ways?

the wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji the shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work textures are repeated throughout the work the placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern

A group of artists might share a style - an identifiable kind of visual expression - because:

they all worked at the same time they all used similar techniques they all studied in the same place

Hokusai and Albrecht Dürer were printmakers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:

they both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions

Processing plant fibers begins with separating the fiber from the plant, then preparing it for use by spinning the fiber into a long ________.

thread

Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life with her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:

through the use of multiple, repeated figures

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is called a:

tint

After the death of Surrealism in Europe, Salvador Dalí had a "second life" in the United States.

true

Art critics Thomas Hess and Harold Rosenberg viewed Willem de Kooning's Woman I as an "action painting."

true

Constantin Brancusi polished the surface of Bird in Space to have a mirror-like appearance, suggesting infinity.

true

Constantin Brancusi preferred to cast his sculptures from wood and stone models rather than clay or plaster.

true

Constantin Brancusi was a Persian-born sculptor who worked in Paris.

true

In 1927 Brancusi won a court case against the US government, ruling that his sculpture Bird in Space was in fact a work of art and therefore should not be taxed.

true

Salvador Dalí called his works "hand-painted dream photographs."

true

Similar to the art of the Cubist movement, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space allows us to see how the form interacts with the space around it.

true

We can physically relate to the figure in Willem de Kooning's Woman I because of the scale of the painting.

true

We can tell that Willem de Kooning struggled with the painting Woman I because of the long period of time he worked on it in his studio (from 1950 to 1952).

true

Willem de Kooning struggled bridging abstraction and figuration in the painting Woman I.

true

Photographs have only recently been collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ________.

true forms of art

Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:

two primary colors

The tools of formal analysis help us to:

understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork

This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.

volume

A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:

what was in the foreground and background

Vincent van Gogh was influenced by these Japanese artworks:

woodblock prints