Exam ART
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of a(n)______ which uses natural materials in its construction.
Earthwork
Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the________ was an early experiment in iron construction.
Eiffel Tower
Who was the architect of the transformative Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
Frank Gehry
Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of what designer?
Frank llopyd wright
What type of professional organization had been in existence for centuries, determining how young artists were trained and how new professionals administered business?
Guild
Why is wood such a popular craft material?
It is abundant and relatively easy to work.
______ are broad areas of content reflected in the arts of many cultures.
Themes
What style of art is associated with the New York School?
abstract expressionism
What medium, invented in the twentieth century, resembles oil paint, but dries very quickly and is far more durable?
acrylic
What type of painting reveals the traces of an act, the painter's dance of creation?
action
What was an important part of an artist's path in past eras such as the Middle Ages?
apprenticeship
What is the practice of one artist reproducing or transforming an image that was created by another artist, claiming the reproduced or transformed image as their own?
appropriation
Which Abstract Expressionist artist was NOT a painter?
architecture
What type of work is Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon?
assemblage
________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.
assemblage
What type of art was called "degenerate" by Adolf Hitler?
avant-garde
What is the most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel?
blowing
______ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.
censorship
What feature must be present in a work that is symmetrically balanced?
central axis
Impressionism got its name from a painting called Impression, Sunrise, by which artist?
claud monet
In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?
clay
oseph Kosuth's considering the double life of words as image and idea at once in his One and Three Chairsidentifies it as______ art.
conceptual
______ was developed by ancient Greeks as a naturalistic pose for sculptures of the human figure.
contrapposto
In the 1970's, Mexican American prisoners were provided with____________ as surfaces to create drawings on to communicate with loved ones outside prison?
cotton handkerchiefs
Iconoclasm means the________ of images based on religious beliefs.
destruction
Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating ______.
diagonal
What type of medium is frequently used in post-internet art?
digital software
Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating ______.
distribute visual weight according
The quintessential Abstract Expressionist was Jackson Pollock, who by the late 1940s had perfected:
drip technique
Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?
earthworks
Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is one way of demonstrating ______.
emphasis
What painting technique, used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, involves the use of wax?
encaustic
To better understand the statue Amida Buddha, what does the protuberance or ushnisha on top of the figure's head represent?
enlightenment
The__________ doctrine of copyright law in the United States allows usage without gaining permission when a new work significantly transforms the original, criticizes it, satirizes it, and only employs as much of the original as necessary for the new intention.
fair use
If our attention is drawn to a proportionately small, clearly defined part of an artwork, this is known as a what?
focal point
What technique shapes metal through hammer blows?
forging
What is the most common product of woodworking art?
furniture
Works of art that show or record everyday life, such as views of domestic peacefulness or hunting, are called__________ scenes.
genre
A flying buttress is an arched exterior support system found on what style of building?
gothic
During the 1920s,_______ served as a magnet for some of the greatest Black American talents of that generation: artists, musicians, composers, actors, writers, poets, scientists, and educators.
harlem
The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.
hierarchical
What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign?
hope
The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors—made possible with portable oil colors—is evident in works by________ artists.
impressionist
Casting is known as a(n)________ method.
indirect
What is an example of a liquid medium?
ink
A__________ may be a meticulous rendering of the terrain of the natural world as an artist has observed or a vision of the artist's imagination.
landscape
What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?
layout
Which visual element can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?
light
What printing technique uses a grease-based crayon, known by its German name, tusche?
lithography
What subject did Realist artists seek to depict?
lives of the middle and lower class
A________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.
logo
In printmaking, a(n)______ is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper.
matrix
What genre of art sought to explore the possibilities of pure form?
minimalist
What term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work?
model
What type of balance is based on repeating without hierarchy?
mosaic
During the 20th century, which became a recognized element of art?
motion
Andy Goldsworthy uses________ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral.
natural
If an artist creates a work that faithfully represents our visual experience, their approach is:
naturalistic
Which Abstract Expressionist artist was NOT a painter?
nevelson
What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)?
nib
The round opening in the dome of the Pantheon is called a(n):
oculus
Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?
oil paint
In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called________ shapes.
organic
The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as:
photojournalism
The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as:
pigment
What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?
portability
The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of what structural system?
post-and-lintel
What is the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form?
potters wheel
What were the two developments that created graphic design?
printing press and Industrial Revolution
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of what art form?
ready-mades
What artistic style avoided sentimentality?
realism
A rubber stamp creates what type of print?
relief
Rhythm is derived from what?
repetition
What is a necessary feature of pattern?
repetition
What is the principal ingredient in glass?
sand
What was the subject matter of much Impressionist art?
scene of leisure involving the middle class
Mixing two primary colors produces a________ color.
secondary
For what genre is artist Frida Kahlo known?
self-portraits
Which artist developed the Pointillist technique?
seurat
Both scale and proportion pertain to __________.
size
An artist's ___________, such as drawings to record ideas, observations and notes, provides a peek into the initial steps of the creative process.
sketchbook
What is the primary characteristic of watercolors?
sketches
What term refers to the recurring pattern of choices—characteristic subject matter or materials, distinctive ways of drawing or applying paint, preferences for certain colors or color combinations—in an artist's work?
style
Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious?
surrealism
This kind of balance means that two halves of a composition mirror one another across a central axis with an imaginary horizontal or vertical line dividing the composition in two.
symmetrical
What term is used to describe the ability of a material to withstand tension?
tensile strength
What is another term used to describe fired clay?
terra cotta
The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to what event?
the industrial revolution
What did ancient Egyptian artists use as their fundamental unit of measurement?
the palm of the hand
What term is used to describe a color lighter than a hue's normal value?
tint
What role best describes the artist's intention when creating the Shiva Nataraja sculpture?
to give visual form to the unknown
What is the primary characteristic of watercolors?
transparency
A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors but captures the________ of the colors.
values
What type of literacy better enables us to engage with the images we view from a critical and analytical perspective?
visual
What is foreshortening?
when an elongated object appears shorter than its actual length as if compressed
Design made a break with the past as the 19th century drew to a close in Europe and the Americas. What new style rejected academic tastes and the Classical past and embraced nature?
Art Nouveau
Some artists started to question the artist's role in the latter part of the 20th century. Which British street artist, known for his stencil method, wrestles with issues surrounding art and ownership?
Banksy
Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC?
Maya Lin
What artist made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form a "combine?"
Rauschenburg
