Fine Arts Midterm

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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.


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