Fine Arts Midterm
study
A drawing made in preparation for a larger more complex work is called a ?
autochrome
After the daguerrotype, the major advance in the history of photography was the development of the ___________ process, an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.
united states Civil War; whatsit
Alexander Gardner's Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, is a graphic photo taken during the _______________, probably from a camera in a wagon known as a _________.
immortalizes an iconic figure in American History
American Artist, Andy Warhol's silkscreen of the Four Marilyn's 1962 _______.
stereotype
American Artist, Bette Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima makes reference to a ?
conceptual art
American Artist, Jenny Holzer's Word Work, installed in the Guggenheim Museum, 1989 - 1990 is an example of ________________.
celebrates famous women in history
American Artist, Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, conceptually _________.
comic-book hero
American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's portrait of George Washington is an oil-on-canvas image that most resembles a(n) __________.
tells the story of her childhood in Harlem
American artist, Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach, 1988, _______________
organic
American artist, Jackson Pollock's Number 14: Gray, 1948, is a good example of what type of line.
1960s comic strip
American artist, Roy Lichtenstein's Forget It, Forge Me! , is an example of Pop Art that has the visual appearance of a ______________.
kinetic sculpture
American sculptor, Alexander Calder is known for his mobiles, which are excellent examples of ______________.
pop artists
Andy Warhol is considered a _____________.
unity and variety
Andy Warhol's Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times, uses what design principles?
overlapping and diminishing sizes
Archibald Motley's Saturday Night, painting uses ______________ to create space.
abstract art
Art that is distorted and simplified to its essence and departs significantly from the actual appearance from things is ___________________.
non-objective
Art that makes no reference to reality is called?
non-linear texture gradient
Atmospheric perspective is a ____________ means for producing the illusion of depth.
oil paintings
Both Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat and Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel are ______________.
actual mass
British artist, Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, is an example of?
drawing
Broadly defined, __________ is the art of running an implement that leaves a mark over a surface.
a growing middle class
By the 1850s, photographic portrait studios became quite popular and began to serve the needs of __________.
the passage of a life time
Chinese Artist Zhang Chun Hong uses both charcoal and graphite to create values in the braided hair. Her work represents?
aquarelle; gum arabic
Contemporary watercolor is referred to as __________, made up of pigments and a vehicle of __________.
three-dimensional horse made out of found steel
Deborah Butterfield's Verde, 1990, is ____________________.
simulated implied texture
Dutch artist, Rachel Ruysch's Flower Still Life, after 1700, is a great example of________________.
impasto
Dutch artist, Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the Head of St. Matthew
sketch
Dutch artist, Rembrandt van Rjn's red chalk copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is considered a _______?
wax
Encaustic paint uses pigments suspended in _____?
gilding
Fifteenth-century, Italian artist Gentile da Fabriano applied thinly hammered sheets of gold to his Adoration of the Magi tempera panel using a technique known as __________.
pastels
French Artist Edgar Degas, Pastel drawing of The Tub, lays down intermittent strokes of different colored
flat color, shape, and repetition
French artist, Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden both utilize ________ to create order and harmony in their versions of the Piano Lesson.
cartoon
French artist, Honoré Daumier's pen and ink drawing, Counsel for the Defense(the Advocate), is illustration called a __________.
subverts the traditional assignment of blame and original sin
French artist, Susan Valadon's painting Adam and Eve, 1909, ____________.
was the first readymade object in art
French artist,Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917, _________________.
optical color
French, Impressionistic painter Claude Monet was trying to capture the effect of ______________ in his Haystack at Sunset Near Giverny.
Surrealism
Frida Kahlo's style in art was considered ______
chiaroscuro
From the Italian for "light-dark" , what term is sometimes used in place of the word modeling?
charcoal
German Artist, Käthe Kollwitz's Self Portrait reveals one aspect of the character of the________________.
subversive
German-Swiss artist, Meret Oppenheim's Object, 1936, fur covered cup, uses what type of texture?
non-traditional media
Ghanian sculptor, El Anatsui, Between Earth and Heaven from 2006, uses __________.
art for the environment
Glass sculptor Dale Chihuly's Fioridi Como, located in Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel, is a 70-foot long ceiling piece is an example of ____
fantastical style
Hieronymous Bosch painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, is known for its ___________.
resolution
Higher quality digital cameras have ____________ similar to film images.
gestures and glances
In English artist, Emily Mary Osborne's Nameless and Friendless, _________ visually connects and leads the viewer's eye around the composition with psychological lines.
limitations of fresco paint
In Italian artists, Giotto's 14th-century painting Lamentation, joints can clearly be seen that break the blue sky into numerous sections. This occurred because of the ___________
the Statue of Liberty
In Japanese artist, Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting, he blends traditional Japanese imagery with American cartoon characters and includes a self-portrait in which he is depicted as __________.
chiaroscuro
In La Source drawing, French artist, Prud'hon's nude figure is modeled with the use of _____________.
line
In art, a _____________is usually defined as a moving dot and is both the simplest and most complex of the visual elements.
gesso
In both tempera and oil painting, the surface of the wood or canvas is covered with a ground of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue known as __________.
human eye
In both the camera and the _________, light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.
cartoon
In its original meaning, in Italian, a __________ was a full-scale preliminary drawing executed on paper for projects such as frescoes, stained glass, or tapestries.
implied line and psychological
In works with _________, the lines are completed by the viewer.
father
Italian artist, 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.
iconography
Italian artist, Bronzino's painting Venus, Cupid and Folly and Time 1546, is an example of _________.
trompe l'oeil
Italian artist, Claudio Bravo's Package is an excellently executed ________drawing that presents the illusion of a package wrapped in holiday paper and a bow.
a western concept of beauty
Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, painted during the Renaissance, represents___________________.
as a preparatory study for another project
Italian artist, Michelangelo's Studies for the Libyan Sybil is a good example of a drawing that was meant to be used __________.
use similar visual elements, principles of design, and mediums
Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat and Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel
have non-descript backgrounds that push the subject matter close to the bottom of the picture plane in order to heighten the emotional impact.
Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat and Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel both _______________.
False
Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat is a true-to-life depiction of Marat's suicide. It's a painting that illustrates the moment when Marat finally ended his life to escape the physical anguish caused by a chronic skin condition from which he suffered.
David left the background as negative, empty space to push the subject matter closer to the viewer.
Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat was seen as a revolutionary composition because ____________.
a historical prototype for Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel.
Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat, served as _________________.
impasto
Japanese artist, Helen Oji's painting Mount St. Helen's, uses thick ________paint with a composition in the shape of a Japanese Kimino.
the male viewer
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painting The Grande Odalisque, 1814, was painted for what audience?
dome ceiling
Located in Istanbul, Turkey, the Hagia Sophia was built as a Christian Church in 532 -537 CE but was converted to an Islamic Mosque in 1453 and now serves as a museum. Its ____________ is especially wondrous, appearing to float on light streaming through its row of windows.
Self-portraits
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished ____.
not academically trained
Outsider artists are _____________.
the carnage and brutality of the onset of Spanish Civil War
Pablo Picasso's painting, Guernica, 1937, is about ___________.
celebrates the Harlem Renaissance movement
Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Nights in Harlem, 1936 ___________________.
actual balance
Polykleitos Doryphorus, 450 - 440 BCE, is a good example of ______________.
the human figure
Polykleitos created a canon of proportion for ____________________.
imbalance in the moment of death
Robert Capa's Death of Loyalist Soldier, 1936, is a powerful photograph because it shows ___________________.
fantasy
Russian, French artist, Marc Chagall's self-portrait I and the Village can best be described as a depiction of _______________
false
Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel depicts a gang member who was shot and killed by Charlotte Corday, a French counterrevolutionary.
kinetic
Sculpture capable to actual motion is described by the term:
began the start of cubism
Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselle's D'Avignon, 1907, _____________.
Daguerre
The Artist's Studio, taken in 1837, was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.
expressive color
The Postimpressionistic Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh, used _________ in his painting, The Night Cafe.
formal symmetrical balance
The United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C. is an example of?
stable triangle and psychological lines
The focal point of Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus is created with?
encaustic
The painting, Egypto-Roman Mummy Portrait of a Man, uses _______ paint?
egg, pigment, and water
The traditional composition of tempera paint, rarely used today, consisted of __________.
"to write with light"
The word photography is derived from the Greek roots that mean ________.
buon fresco; lime plaster
True fresco, or __________, is executed on damp __________.
the distortion of scale relationships
Viola Frey's Family Portrait, 1995, is a great example of ___________________.
false
Watercolor paint is a forgiving medium and is easy to erase.
the figure
What is the focal point of Sandow Birk's painting?
golden man
What mathematical device was used to create the proportions of The Parthenon?
vehicle of turpentine
When a painter's oil paint becomes too thick, he has to thin it with a __________.
David's Death of Marat depicts a martyred revolutionary hero during the French Revolution. Sandow Birk references this artwork to highlight the contemporary issue of gang violence and the supposed "martyrdom" of gang members who die while engaged in such activities. Birk's Death of Manuel brings viewers face-to-face with the slaughtered "hero" by isolating the figure--one who appears peaceful with a sympathetic expression--against a stark background. Birk's Death of Manuel employs an
Which of the following interpretations explains the underlying themes and symbolism of David's Death of Marat and Birk's Death of Manuel?
Sandow Birk's Death of Manuel, 1992
Which of these paintings uses expressionistic, yet monochromatic, color?
it dries almost immediately
Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with?
negative
William Henry Fox Talbot's first "photogenic drawings" were eerie, delicate photographs of plants, produced from a _____________.
acrylic
__________ is a mixture of pigment and a plastic vehicle that can be thinned with water.
style
____________ refers to a distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school or movement, or a specific culture or period.
icongraphy
_____________ is the study of the themes and symbols in the visual arts: the figures and images that lend works their underlying meanings.
realism
______________ refers to the portrayal of people and things as they actually are, with no idealization or distortion.
complimentary
____________colors are opposite of each other on the color wheel.
analogous
____________colors are placed side by side on the color wheel.
