ARTS1301 Final Exam

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

Charcoal

Artist, Janine Antoni created the artwork Lick and Lather from what materials?

Chocolate and Soap

CE means:

Common Era

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ______

Complementary colors

Chartres Cathedral, like many Gothic Cathedrals, has a floor plan in the shape of a what?

Cross

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ____

Motif

The hole at the top of the Pantheon is a/an:

Oculus

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.

Pigment

Pablo Picasso challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by emphasizing underlying geometric form and the construction of pictorial space. T/F

True

Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures. T/F

True

The way that Jackson Pollock painted focused on the process of making art T/F

True

Who is the artist of Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe?

Vincent van Gogh

Egyptian statues shows.....

a lot of movement

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

absorb

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

The three kinds of unity are:

compositional, conceptual, gestalt

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of _____

contrast

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

contrast

The doors of the Church of Saint Michael's at Hildesheim, Germany, ______

depict scenes from the book of Genesis, all the others answers

The binding agent for tempera paint is _____

egg

What kind of artworks do the Guerilla Girls make?

feminist posters and pamphlets

A two-dimensional object is called a shape and a three-dimensional object is known as a _____

form

A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as _____ shape

geometric

The principals of design are a kind of ___ that artists apply to

grammar

Michelangelo was reluctant to take the commission for the Sistine Chapel ceiling because

he considered himself a sculptor, not a painter

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

implied

Another name for freestanding sculpture is _____

in the round

One important similarity between Stonehenge and 'The Gates' is that ________.

it took a highly organized team to construct them

The component of paint has traditionally been extracted from ______

minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products

A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from

nearly every angle

The Eiffel Tower was made _____

of trusses

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

organic shape

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

performance

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

performance art

The traditional primary colors are ____

red, blue, yellow

This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.

relief

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.

relief

Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artist renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?

renaissance

Linear perspective is used to _____

represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions

Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?

revolutions in France and America - the Age of Reason - industrialization - the Enlightenment

The binding agent in the spotted-horse paintings at Pech Merle is _____

saliva

This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

silkscreen

The _____ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture 'Cloud Gate' is appealing for viewers to touch.

smooth

The opposite of emphasis is _______

subordination

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

the ideas behind the artwork over its realization

The elements of art form the basic ______ of art.

vocabulary

One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using the liquid ____

water

Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?

wax, stone, plastic, ice

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ____

woodcut

Which of the following can create a pattern?

woven cloth, fish scales, cracked mud,...etc

Banksy's self destructs on of his artworks on October 5, 2018. This artwork cost the buyer:

1.4 Million

We have discovered paintings at Pech Merle in France that have been made by artists dating back ____ years.

25,000

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

9B

Animals were never shown on cave paintings. T/F

False

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

False

A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.

Height

Although Vincent's mental state suffered after the physical injury of _____, he found painting to be therapeutic.

His ear

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called ____

Impasto

In One: Number 31 Jackson Pollock created exuberant lines that were not the result of the bush pressing against the canvas. How the paint fell was:

Left up to chance

One definition of this element is a "mark that connects two point."

Line

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

Red

_____ Balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same

Symmetrical

The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called _____

Tesserae

Christ as the Good Shepherd was a common theme in early Christian art. T/F

True

Iconoclasm is the destruction of images. T/F

True

If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with a negative star shape on the paper. T/F

True

Las Meninas shows how significant Velazquez was to the Spanish court. T/F

True

This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.

bas-relief

Spirituality encompasses _____

all of the answers

Which of the following are qualities of most impressionist artists and their paintings?

all of the answers

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on _____

all of the answers (animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood)