Art Appreciation Midterm MCQ CH1-8

lol

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