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| Question 10 Scale is defined as: |
The dimensions of an art object in relation to the original object that is depicts or in relation to the objects around it. |
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| Question 9 ________ is a term that describes an artist’s attempt to draw out eyes to one area of a compostion. |
Emphasis |
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| Question 8 The ______ was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion. |
Golden section |
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| Question 7 When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is: |
Afocal |
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| Question 6. Jan Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of _______. |
An asymmetrically-balanced composition |
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| Question 5 The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan beginning in 1632 _________. |
As a mausoleum for his favorite wife, who died giving birth to their 14th child |
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| Question 4 Sayre stats that the focal point in Larry Poons Orange Crush is: |
There is no focal point |
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| Question 3 Where is the focal point in the Boroque painting, Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour? |
In the child's face |
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| Question 2 The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of _______ in art/architecture. |
Symmetry |
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| Question 1 Chartres Cathedral’s rose window best illustrates: |
Radial balance |
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CHAPTER 8 |
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| Question 10 The Kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana provide a perfect example of which art element? |
Pattern |
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| Question 9 In what way can a large-scale work be considered a temporal art form? |
The spectator moves through time a space to view it |
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| Question 8 Thick paint applied to a canvas, like on Robert Ryman’s Long, creates actual texture known as _________. |
Impasto |
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| Question 7 Alexander Calder’s mobiles, like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them ________. |
Kinetic |
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| Question 6 Which of the following is not as aspect of texture? |
Content |
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| Question5 Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called: |
Op Art |
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| Question 4 A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Muse de Organgerie as demonstrating ________ motion. |
Brownian |
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| Question 3 Early manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels were said to be _____ because they were elaborately illustrated and decorated. |
Illuminated |
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| Question 2 Because Gianlorenzo Berini’s David tells a story of David slaying Goliath its is said to have a __________ sequence. |
Narrative |
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| Question 1 Which of the artists below created a work titled Piet? |
Michelangelo |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
CHAPTER 7 |
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| Question 10 What is yellow’s complementary color? |
Violet |
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| Question 9 DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called _________. |
Atmospheric perspective |
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| Question 8 Which of these elements helps to create space in art? |
All of above; perspective, light, and color |
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| Question 7 On Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called: |
Intermediate colors |
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| Question 6 On on the color wheel, blues adn greens (p. 109) are usually thought of as: |
Cool colors |
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| Question 5 A color's brightness or dullness is called: |
Intensity or saturation |
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| Question 4 Michelangelo’s Head of a Satyr (p.100) shows the use of: |
Cross-hatching |
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| Question 3 Nikolai Buglaj’s Racing sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of _______. |
A and B; associating blackness with negative qualities, and associating whiteness with positive qualities. |
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| Question 2 With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear ______. |
Cooler and less distinct |
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| Question 1 The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning murky. This technique is called: |
Tenebrism |
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| CHAPTER 6 |
CHAPTER 6 |
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| Question 10 In the 15th century in Italy there was a profound redefinition of space with the codification and usage of linear perspective. Some see the same thing happening today with _________. |
The increase usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities |
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| Question 9 When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)? |
During the Renaissance Italy |
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| Question 8 According to Sayre, or notion of space has changed abruptly and even become fluid since the begging of the twentieth century due to: |
Einstein's theories |
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| Question 7 The surface of a painting or drawing is called: |
The phone plane |
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| Question 6 Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African Feast- making spoon (pg. 77) share a similar trait. What is it? |
They are both positive forms that create negative space |
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| Question 5 In the Dead Christ (pg. 86), Andrea Mantegna utilizes the technique of _______ in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view. |
Foreshortening |
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| Question 4 Where is the vanishing point in The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci? |
At Jesus' head |
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| Question 3 What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, From the Ivory Coast? |
It represents the power of imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good |
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| Question 2 Paul Cezanne’s Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair illustrates in: |
All the above; design, pattern, color |
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| Question 1 Leonardo da Vinci’s, The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective? |
One-point linear perspective |
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| CHAPTER 5 |
CHAPTER 5 |
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| Question 10 What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenges in his photographic portrait of female body builder, Lisa Lyon? |
The traditional representation of the female nude |
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| Question 9 The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called: |
A composition |
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| Question 8 Pat Steir’s series, The Drawing Lesson Part 1, Line #1 is about what type of lines? |
Various artits unique expressive lines |
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| Question 7 Hatching and Cross-hatching are ways of turning line into _____, or three dimensional, modeled space. |
Value |
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| Question 6 Which of these pieces illustrates the use of expressive line? |
Van Gogh's, The Starry Night |
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| Question 5 In Giacometti’s Man Pointing, our eyes are directed down his right arm and past his pointed finger to some imagined point of interest beyond. This is an example of which formal element? |
Implied line |
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| Question 4 When a style of line becomes associated as an artist’s work, we say it is… |
Autographic |
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| Question 3 How is Sol LeWitt’s line best described in his work, Wall Drawing No. 681 C? |
Analytic |
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| Question 2 Titian Assumption and Consecretion of the Virgin demonstrates the power of: |
Line of sight |
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| Question 1 The Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist ______ line. |
Expressive |
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| CHAPTER 4 |
CHAPTER 4 |
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| Question 10 Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation? |
They have little historical context in which to view the work |
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| Question 9 How is Maya Ying Lin’s Vietnam memorial similar to works by Edovard Manet and Marcel Duchamp? |
All were itinially misunderstood by the public |
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| Question 8 Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed? |
Richard Serra |
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| Question 7 Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge were pioneers in the burgeoning art of _____, which was first explored by the Lumiere Bros in 1895. |
Motion pictures |
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| Question 6 What specific component of the National Endowment for the Arts made works of art available to the general public? |
The arts in Public Places Program |
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| Question 5 Which artwork was referred to as an explosion in a shingle factory? |
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Stair case |
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| Question 4 Manet’s Djeurner sur I’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) has rejected from the annual salon exhibition in Paris in 1863. Where was it exhibited? |
At the Salon de Refus |
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| Question 3 Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist’s life his African heritage and what else? |
His catholic upbringing |
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| Question 2 Maya Ying Lin’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.: |
Was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style |
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| Question 1 In 1863, Edvord Manet’s Djeuner sur I’herbe was rejected by the public due to: |
It's modernity |
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| CHAPTER 3 |
CHAPTER 3 |
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| Question 10 Why images of humans traditionally banned as Islamic art? |
Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the creator. |
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| Question 9 The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe: |
Representational art |
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| Question 8 The symbolic hand gestures that refers to specific state of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called: |
Mudra |
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| Question 7 Which of these statements best defines visual literacy? |
The ability to recognize, understands, and communicates the meaning of visual images. |
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| Question 6 Christian art main purpose through the middle ages, like that of the stained- glass window from Chartres cathedral, was _____. |
To educate illiterate people in Christian doctrine. |
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| Question 5 The stained-glass window from Chartres cathedral is an excellent example of the use of iconography in art, which means _____. |
It uses a system of symbols which is easily understandable to most Christians. |
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| Question 4 When a woke of art such as Kasimir Malevich’s Suprematist, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called: |
Nonrepresentational |
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| Question 3 Bierstad’s picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his: |
European experience |
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| Question 2 Jan Van Eycks, Giovanni Arnolfini, and his wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called… |
Iconography |
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| Question 1 In the Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is: |
Rene Magrite |
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| CHAPTER 2 |
CHAPTER 2 |
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| Question 10 We can clearely see the artistic impulse to give form to the immaterial, to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings... |
Religious Art |
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| Question 9 In America, Yukinori Yanagi directly addressess... |
The traditional view that Japan is a distinct adn isolated culture |
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| Question 8 What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure? |
It pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it |
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| Question 7 Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on teh right side of the composition fo Les Demoiselles Avignon? |
African ritual masks |
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| Question 6 Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be ______ rather than functional. |
Aesthetic |
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| Question 5 Where did Christo and Jean-Claude locate their temporary installation, The Gates? |
New York's Central Park |
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| Question 4 According to Sayre what are three steps in the process of seeing? |
Reception, extraction, inference |
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| Question 3 The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the... |
Civil rights movements in the 1960's |
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| Question 2 Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the Amreican flag to experess... |
His proclivity for things seen but not examined |
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| Question 1 The Gates is a typical artwork by the collaborative team... |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude |
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CHAPTER 1 |
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