Visual Arts 1301 Midterm

75. In 1525, _______ created a unified alphabet for mass production.

Albrecht Durer

98. A ________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end.

Cantilever

80. In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

Clay

97. The International style emphasizes:

Clean lines, geometric form, avoidance of superficial decoration.

33. The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to a ratio known as:

Defining perfect human proportion

9. What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

Folk, naive, intuitive, primitive, art brut

91. The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which..

Green jade

90. Wood is a popular craft material because:

It is widely available, renewable, and relatively easy to work with

84. High-relief sculpture is different from low-relief sculpture in that:

Low relief figures project slightly, high relief figures project boldly

92. An archaeologist asked ________ to reconstruct an entire pot from a broken pi...

Maria Martinez

53. A nonaqueous paint is one that dissolves in something other than water.

Oil

24. The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. What are they?

Position and overlap

87. The most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel is by:

Potter's wheel

57. What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?

Prints are made using an indirect process and results in multiples of the same image.

56. A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

Relief

32. Sculptor Claes Oldenburg tends to challenge viewers' how?

Scale

20. Artist Frida Kahlo is well-known for her

Self portrait

88. The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to:

The Industrial Revolution

36. Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional theme of:

Vanitas

3. The most famous of Maya Lin's works

Vietnam Veteran Memorial

27. The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is?

Walls converge to imply depth

51. One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. Why?

Wet on wet, can be scraped away for revisions or effect

41. In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ .

Wire

70. The ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy that equates to mutual interdependence is?

Yin-Yang

5. The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is

to become aware of the process of looking itself.