Into to the Visual Arts Midterm
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
Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned artist Giambologna to create a sculpture that symbolized the city's strength?
Francesco de' Medici
Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language?
German
This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.
Great Sphinx of Giza
Which of the following statements is untrue?
Katushika Hokusai carved and printed all of his artworks himself
The Maya lintel showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc is a limestone relief sculpture that was probably created with stone hammers and wooden drills because:
Maya sculptors had no metal tools
These huge 1,300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were discovered in modern times by an overflying commercial aircraft.
Nazca Lines
This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater.
Shepard Fairey
In The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, by the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza, there are five figures. These five figures are:
St. Anthony (three times), a centaur, and St. Paul
The artists Brancusi and Rodin both made sculptures in which the principle of mass played a role. Their artworks had the same title. What was the title?
The Kiss
What is the oldest art museum in America?
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
This object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture.
a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool
Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne implies motion. What kind of motion is being depicted?
a chase scene
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
The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:
a stuffed goat
Which of the following statements is true of "Chaos Machine" by Clive King?
abstraction allowed the artist to respond to a tragic accident from his childhood
When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material, the process is called ________.
additive
process that involves assembling or constructing sculptures using wood
additive process
The massive earthwork the Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ________.
an egg
The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as ________ representation of the human body.
an idealized
Moving images created with a phenakistoscope were early forms of:
animation
The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:
assemblage
There are two kinds of relief sculpture: a pronounced surface treatment called high relief, and a shallow surface low relief called ________.
bas-relief
When it tells about an artist's life, feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.
biographical
Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. Which type of analysis does this statement relate to?
biographical context
Which of the following is a method of carving?
chipping, sawing, whittling, drilling
An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other.
complement
The African American artist Carrie Mae Weems adds drama to her photographic work using this principle of design that employs opposites:
contrast
Line can be used as a tool to:
demarcate boundaries imply direction give a sense of surface indicate movement
A representational work of art ________.
depicts objects or people so that we can recognize them
A good example of variety in a work would be:
different shapes and colors
In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer's attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building.
directional
To keep track of their progress when carving a block, stone sculptors may ________.
draw an outline of the form on the block on all sides
Psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tells us that the painter was:
expressing anxiety
The earliest art object known was created from wood.
false
The medium of wood can be used to create subtractive sculpture but not additive sculpture.
false
This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.
geometric
material that is very hard and abrasive. Sculpting it requires special tools
granite
used for smoothing, scraping, and removing large portions of the stone
hammers and chisels
What did Yusaku Maezawa say was the reason he purchased Basquiat's work in 2017?
he felt a responsibility to preserve the work
Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:
he wanted to develop his own individual style
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
Michelangelo used this Italian term, which refers to nudity, to describe the figures he intended to use for the tomb of Pope Julius II:
ignudi
Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It, by Sauerkids, are a good example of this kind of line.
implied
Antony Gormley's Asian Field is a vast ________ artwork made up of small clay figures.
installation
Allan Houser's work Reverie is representational because:
it includes two shapes that we recognize as faces
Over the years, public opinion of the Watts Towers has varied, but people have never thought that:
it is a perfect example of the Neoclassical style
Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because:
it offends people's religious beliefs, its sexual content seems pornographic, it carries a political message that worries the authorities, its moral values seem improper
What is NOT true about James McNeil Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?
it was highly praised by the critic John Ruskin
Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.
kinetic
Which of these is NOT a geometric form?
leaf
Marc Quinn's Self, a self-portrait made from frozen blood, is created in ________ scale.
life-sized
The small clay or plaster models made by sculptors in preparation for larger sculptures are called ________.
maquettes
scale models created from clay and other materials and used as visual references to calculate where the stone needs to be removed
maquettes
relatively hard stone that can be polished to a high gloss to show its luminescent qualities
marble
This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of large boulders or the sculpture House by Rachel Whiteread.
mass
Some people argued that Robert Mapplethorpe should not have been awarded public funding, because:
of his identity as a gay man and the sexual nature of his photographs
The human figure communicates the rich experience of humanity, and artists emulate this experience using this kind of form:
organic
Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of:
organic and geometric form
An artist creates compositional unity by:
organizing all of the visual aspects of the work
This type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist's body in the work.
performance art
Examples of graphic art include:
posters, advertising, signage, social media
Which of these is a form?
pyramid
When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:
radial
used to smooth sculptures
rasps and files
Hammers and chisels are tools used for ________.
removing portions of stone
earplugs, goggles, leather gloves, dust masks, and steel-toed boots
safety equipment
Barbara Hepworth used line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did she produce?
sculpture
Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.
sculpture and painting
Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as:
signs or symbols
material that is softer and much easier to carve
soapstone
The most commonly used stone for sculptures is:
soapstone, granite, limestone, marble
Naum Gabo's Constructed Head No. 2 investigates the sense of ________ and form implied by flat planes, in contrast to the solid mass of conventional sculpture.
space
Vertical lines tend to communicate:
strength
Artists face a communication challenge: to find a ________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition.
structure
process that involves the removal of material, either stone or wood
subtractive process
Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer's normal expectations of a textured surface.
subversive
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
The Constructivist movement in art is associated with which historical European country?
the Soviet Union
Noma Bar's illustration Gun Crime uses positive and negative shape to communicate:
the act of gun crime and its terrible result
Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in 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:
the appearance of multiple, repeated figures
A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if:
the elements have conceptual unity
The symmetrical design of the building that we know as the Taj Mahal does NOT carry associations of:
the identical twins for which it was built
What is referenced in El Anatsui's Old Man's Cloth?
the impact of consumerism, the colonial history of Africa, the enduring power of Ghanaian culture, the fragility of Ghanaian culture
What can we NOT conclude from a formal analysis of David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)?
the man in the red jacket is the artist's ex-lover
Op art of the 1960s relied on a physiological effect that creates an illusion of motion. This effect is:
the natural oscillations of the eye
Katsushika Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated ________.
the sensations of a fall day by the river
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 used similar techniques, they all worked at the same time, they all studied in the same place
Stone sculptures from ancient Egypt and the Classical world were originally often painted.
true
The Hawaiian sculpture of a war god (2.4.9) is a composition that represents how many different gods?
two
The tools of formal analysis help us to:
understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork
In her abstract works Electric Dress and Untitled, Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka created ________ through the repetition of lines and circular shapes in bold colors.
unity
This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form.
volume
this material may be applied to a sculpture to create a sheen
wax
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
Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?
with its back to a pillar or wall
Because of its availability and ease of use, ________ is a popular material with which to create sculptures.
wood
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