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What are six purposes of art? (Hint: refer to page 21 of your textbook)
-Religion and spirituality.
-Politics and the social order.
-Recording and communicating information.
-Decoration.
-Expression.
-Social action.
Shiva, Lord of the Dance, is an Indian sculpture representing the Hindu god Shiva in his roles as creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe. Which of the following best describes the purpose of this artwork?
Religion and spirituality
Margaret Bourke-White's photograph titled Flood Victims, Louiseville, Kentucky documents the distress and disparity brought on by the devastating natural disaster of the flooding of the Ohio River in 1937. What best describes the purpose of Bourke-White's photograph?
Recording and communicating information
In her painting titled The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo's two self-portraits represent:
Her European and Mexican heritages
Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights is best described as:
A fantastical depiction of the Garden of Eden, Earth and Hell
Match the type of art with its definition:
Representational - Art that depicts recognizable objects and figures from the real world. Can be realistic or stylized. Intended to be recognized by the viewer
Abstract - The artist refers to objects from the real world to explore formal relationships. The viewer may or may not recognize the subject matter
Nonobjective - Art does not depict anything from the real world. Uses pure forms like lines, shapes, textures and colors that do not represent anything else.
What type of art is Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire?
Nonobjective
What type of art is Judith Leyster's Self Portrait?
Representational
Match the ingredient of art (subject, form, content or context) to an example of it in Mary Cassatt's painting The Boating Party.
Subject - A mother and child, a man rowing, a sailboat, a river
Form - Many shades of blue, asymmetrical balance, many textures
Content - Woman is lost in thought, child is relaxed, man is doing good job rowing
Context - Cassatt was painting in paris at the height of impressionism
List the elements of art
Line
Shape
Texture
Light / Value
Color
Space
Time
The direction of line can affect the attitude or feeling that the marks suggest. Match the direction of line with the attitude.
Horizontal - Peaceful, subdued, stable
Vertical - Alert, assertive, bold
Diagonal - Dynamic, exciting, energetic
In Jean-Honore Fragonard's painting The Swing, we imagine a line that connects the gaze between the flirtatious woman on the swing and her swooning suitor. This type of line is called __________________.
Implied line
What type of line describes Benny Andrews “Chalking Up”
Contour - lines that depict edges
What type of line describes Eugene Delacroix “Studies of Lions”
Gesture - Capture the posture or movement of the entire figure
What type of line describes John Tenniels “Alice, the Duchess and the baby”
Cross-hatching - intersecting parallel lines close together to create darks
Theodore Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa shows the horrible aftermath of a shipwreck. Our eyes follow the outstretched dead bodies on the raft, and reaching arms of the surviving men up to the man waving his shirt and looking toward a barely visible rescue ship on the distant horizon. This movement through elongated shapes of the bodies and through the man's gaze is called ________________ line.
Diagonal
The holes, empty spaces and space around Henry Moore's sculpture titled Reclining Figure are referred to as _________________ spaces.
Negative
Vincent van Goh applies paint in built up globs that stand away from the surface. This type of paint application is called __________.
Impasto
Artemisia Gentileschi, in her painting Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, creates a highly dramatic, tense scene by the use of which element of art:
Highly contrasting values
On the 12-hue color wheel, what are the secondary colors?
orange, purple/violet, green
The predominant colors of violet and yellow in this Tiffany glass lamp shade lie across from each other on the color wheel. This color scheme is called
Complimentary
In Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, he placed dots and strokes of colors next to each other which at a distance appear to mix to form new colors. This phenomenon (sometimes referred to as Pointillism) is called ________________.
Optical mixing
Describe three methods for depicting the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface.
Overlapping: Objects are positioned one in front of another so that objects that are blocked are understood to be farthest in the distance.
Conceptual representations: Objects are depicted so that they hint at three-dimensional reality rather than being shown the way we see them in real life.
Atmospheric perspective:
Objects are depicted to show the effect of the atmosphere so that objects that are blurrier, lighter, and duller are understood to be farthest in the distance.
The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's fresco painting The Last Supper is directly behind Jesus's head (the central figure in the painting). How is the vanishing point determined in a painting?
The vanishing point is always the point to which receding edges converge
List the principles of design
Unity/Variety
Balance
Emphasis and subordination
Scale
Proportion
Rhythm
To make works of art interesting, artists balance unity with __________________.
Variety
What type of balance is used in this ceremonial robe from Chilkat, Alaska?
Symmetrical balance
This nonobjective painting by Wassily Kandinsky creates asymmetrical balance by balancing the visual weight of the large black circle on the left with _________________________.
Describe two ways Leonardo da Vinci made Jesus the focal point of his fresco The Last Supper.
-He’s in the middle
-Everyones looking at him
Niki de Saint-Phalle's sculpture entitled Black Venus is _______________________
a large scale
The Golden Section refers to which principle of design?
Proportion
Olowe of Ise's Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife has figures with elongated necks, which show manipulation of:
Proportion
A drawing can be considered which of the following: (refer to bold headings on pages 134-138, you may choose more than one answer)
-A finished work of art
-An intense way to see
-A way to take notes
-A way to understand the creative process
Which drawing medium did Via Celmins use in her drawing above Untitled (Ocean)?
Graphite
Which drawing medium did William Kentridge use in his drawing entitled Drawing for Other Faces
Charcoal
In Rembrandt's drawing A Young Woman Sleeping, what creates the impression of a wall behind the woman?
A wash
What drawing medium did David Hockney use to make his drawing entitled The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011?
iPad drawing
Match term with its definitions
Pigment
Binder
Glazes
Impasto
Pigment - Fine, dry colored powders that do not dissolve
Binder - Suspend the pigments and allow them to adhere to surface
Glazes - Thin, transparent layers of paint that allows to pass through them, creating luminous affects
Impasto - Thick, opaque paint that stands away from the surface in textured brushstrokes
Joan Mitchell uses thick, opaque paint that stands away from the surface in textured brushstrokes. What is this paint application called?
Impasto
Match the painting medium with its binder.
Encaustic
Tempera
Fresco Secco
Buon Fresco
Oil
Watercolor
Gouache
Acrylic
Encaustic - Wax
Tempera - Protein emulsion such as egg yolk or milk
Fresco secco - Dry plaster
Buon fresco - Wet plaster
Oil - Linseed oil
Water color - Gum arabic
Gouache - Gum arabic and chalk
Acrylic - Synethetic resin
What are the characteristics of fresco?
Fresco is a technique where the artist paints directly on a plaster wall
Giotto di Bondone created this buon fresco painting entitled The Lamentation demonstrating his mastery of technique. What do the lines in the sky show?
Where the different days of painting (called giornate) meet up
Diego Rivera's painting Detroit Industry is a fresco painting. (True or false)
True
What paint medium is Ralph Goings painting Diner 10 A.M.?
Water color
A feature of Jacob Lawrence's painting You Can Buy Bootleg Whiskey for Twenty-Five Cents a Quart that characterize it as a gouache painting is:
It is painted on paper and has flat, bold shapes of opaque color
What characteristics of acrylic paints do the vertical black lines that separate parts of the painting show?
Hard-edged lines
Printmaking is an indirect process. (True or false)
True
What event does Honore Daumier's lithograph Rue Transnonain, 15 April 1834 represent?
The morning after a massacre in an apartment building
Briefly explain the four printmaking techniques.
Relief: Raised areas on the surface holds the ink and print, and the areas that are carved away do not print:
Intaglio: Prints are formed by printing an incised surface.
Planographic: Prints are produced by printing from a flat surface.
Stencil: Prints are made by printing through a surface.
The purpose of the Diamond Sutra, a 9th century relief print from China, was to
provide widespread distribution of Buddha's teachings
This relief engraving by Jose Guadalupe Posada entitled A Jig Beyond the Grave was a one-of-a-kind image and was therefore very expensive. (True or false)
False
In Francisco Goya's print The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, which figure(s) represent(s) Reason?
The man
A woodcut print, such as Kathe Kollwitz's The Widow I is a type of ___________ printing.
Relief
Elizabeth Catlett created ordered patterns and simulated textures in her _______________ entitled Sharecropper.
Linocut
Intaglio is characterized by:
The ink being held in incised areas of a matrix, and then transferred to paper
Edward Hopper's print entitled Night Shadow is made by an intaglio process using acid. This printmaking process is called _______________.
Etching
Honoré Daumier's print Rue Transnonain is a lithograph. Which of the following visual characteristics indicate that this print was made using lithography rather than relief or intaglio techniques?
The print contains both lines and smooth tonal variations with a range of soft grays.
Stencil is different from relief, intaglio and planographic printing techniques in that prints:
Do not appear as mirror images
Esther Hernandez needed a separate screen to print each color in her screenprint titled Sun Mad. How many screens did she need? Remember that white is the color of the paper, not an ink color.
5 or 6
List the four artistic decisions that filmmakers make.
-What was filmed
-How the camera was used
-How shots were put together
-What sounds were used
A ____________________ is a dark box with a pinhole through which reflected light shines and creates an upside down image on the opposite wall.
camera obscura
One of the first types of photographic processes involved capturing a single image on a copper plate coated with silver iodide invented by a Frenchman called the __________________.
Daguerreotype
What is the difference between a still film camera and a digital camera?
Still film cameras produce photographs with continuous colors and tones that blend, while digital cameras create an image with a grid of tiny squares
List five types of photographs
-Landscape
-Portrait
-Photojournalism
-Documentary
-Artistic expression
We studied Margaret Bourke-White's Flood Victims, Louisville, Kentucky, in chapter 1. The photo depicts African Americans standing in a relief line under a billboard of smiling white faces after a disastrous flood during the Great Depression. This photograph is best described as an example of what kind of photograph?
Photojournalism
What does Dorothea Lange's photograph titled Migrant Mother represent?
Ansel Adams is known for taking landscape photographs of the America West. How did his photographs affect the American psyche during WWII?
His majestic photographs reminded Americans of what they were fighting for
Julia Margaret Cameron is know for her __________________ photography.
Portrait
What did Eadweard Muybridge's photographs of a horse running prove?
All four of a galloping horse's legs leave the ground simultaneously
Cinematic scenes that show events that happen in a previous time period are called ___________________.
Flashbacks
Match the film term with its definition.
Narrative
Experimental
Scripted
Documentary
Live action
Animated
Narrative - Films tell a story, proceeding in a logical progression
Experimental - Films purposefully do not follow a logical progression
Scripted - Films have actors who learn parts, rehearse roles, and are staged by directors
Documentary - Films are presented to viewers as reliable depictions of real people, places, and events
Live action - Films capture ongoing motion with a rolling camera
Animated - Films capture a series of slightly different static images, one frame at a time
Note: This question is from this week's video learning materials, not the textbook
The first full-feature animated movie was made by Walt Disney in 1937 and was called _______________.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Peter Campus's video art piece entitled Three Transitions uses the medium of video to explore which topic?
Stages of life
