ARTS 2000 - UGA - 2025 - Midterm Exam

Artist: Unknown
Title: Left section of the “Lion Panel”
Media: Pigment
Time: 30,000 BCE

True or False? In Paleolithic Art, animals are represented with simplified in detail, while humans are naturalistic

FALSE (its the other way around)

What are the 6 things artists do?

1. Creat places for some human purpose

2. Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects

3. Record and commemorate

4. Give tangible form to the unknown

5. Give tangible form to feelings and ideas

6. Refresh our vision and help us see the world in new ways

Artist: Lin
Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Media: Black Granite
Time: 1982

Artist: Unknown
Title: Kente Cloth
Media: Cotton
Time: Mid-20th century

Artist: Unkown
Title: Shiva Nataraja
Media: Bronze
Time: 10th Century

Work of art

The visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through the use of a medium

Medium

A particular material, along with its accompanying technique

Mixed Media

Art made with a combination of different materials

Artist: Hampton
Title: Throne of the Third Heaven
Time: 1950-64
Media: Gold and Silver aluminium foil

Artist: de Goya
Title: Saturn Devouring One of His Children
Time: 1820-22
Media: Oil on plaster 

Artist: Picasso
Title: First Communion
Time: 1895-96
Media: Oil on Canvas

Who said “Why should the artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera”?

Pablo Picasso

Artist: Picasso
Title: Seated Woman Holding a Fan
Time: 1908
Media: Oil on Canvas

Representational Art

Descriptive of a work of art that depicts forms in the natural world

Abstract Art

Descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted

Nonrepresentational Art

Nonobjective, descriptive of art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself 

Artist: Delaunay
Title: Electric Prisms
Time: 1913
Media: Oil on Canvas

Aesthetics

Feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences; examines the nature of art and beauty

Wabi

Concepts such as naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence

Sabi

Loneliness, Old Age, and tranquility

Artist: Koetsu
Title: Tea Bowl
Time: Late 16th - Early 17th Century
Media: Raku Ware

Artist: Walker
Title: A Subtlety
Time: 2014
Media: Sugar, Styrofoam, and Molases

Installation Art

Work of art that can be entered, explored, experienced, and reflected upon 

Artist: Unknown
Title: Rathnasambhava
Time: 13th Century C.E.
Media: Watercolor on cloth

Artist: Picasso
Title: Guernica
Time: 1937
Media: Oil on Canvas

Artist: Kahlo
Title: Self-Portrait with Monkeys
Time: 1943
Media: Oil on Canvas

Who said: “I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality” ?

Frida Kahlo

Artist: Kusama
Title: Love is Calling
Time: 2013
Media: Glass Mirrors

Artist: Haring
Title: Untitled
Time: 1982
Media: Vinyl Paint on Vinyl Tarpaulin

What are the 6 Visual Elements?

Line, Light, Color, Texture and Pattern, Space, Time and Motion

Line

A path traced by a moving point

Light

Value of shades of light and dark

Chiaroscuro

Italian for light/dark where artists employ values to record contrasts of light and shadow in the natural world

Artist: White
Title: Untitled
Time: 1979
Media: Etching

Monochromatic

Harmonies composed of variations of the same hue, often with differences of value and intensity 

Artist: Essenhigh
Title: In Bed
Time: 2005
Media: Oil on Canvas

Complementary Color Scheme (plus what are the 3 pairs)

Harmonies involve colors directly opposite on the color wheel (Red & Green, Blue & Orange, Violet & Yellow)

Artist: Hiroshige
Title: Fireworks at Ryogoku
Time: 1857
Media: Woodblock Print

Texture

The surface quality - perception of smooth or rough, flat or bumpy, fine or course

Pattern

Any decorative, repetitive motif or design

Artist: Fosso
Title: The Chief
Time: 1997
Media: Chromogenic Print

Artist: Do Ho Suh
Title: Reflection
Time: 2004
Media: Nylon and Stainless Steel Tube

Artist: Cave
Title: Soundsuit
Time: 2011
Media: Mixed Media (knits, metal, voodoo dolls, bugle beads, mirrors, etc.)

What are the 5 principles of design

Unity & Variety, Balance, Emphasis & Subordination, Scale & Proportion, Rhythm

Unity

Sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole

Variety

Difference, which provides interest

Symmetrical Balance

Forms of a composition mirror each other across a central axis, an imaginary straight ;ine that divides the composition in half

Artist: O’Keeffe
Title: Deer’s Skull with Pedernal
Time: 1936
Media: Oil on Canvas

Artist: Klimt
Title: Death and Life
Time: Before 1915
Media: Oil on Canvas

Asymmetrical Balance

Two sides that do not match

Emphasis

Our attention is. drawn more to certain parts of a composition than to others

Subordination

Certain areas of the composition are purposefully made less visually interesting, so that the areas of emphasis stand out

Artist: Tanner
Title: The Banjo Lesson
Time: 1893
Media: Oil on Canvas

Artist: de Goya
Title: Executions of the Third of May, 1808
Time: 1814-15
Media: Oil on Canvas

Scale

Size in relation to a standard or “normal” size

Proportion

Refers to size relationships between parts of a whole

Rhythm

Based in repetition, basic part of the world we find ourselves in

What are the 5 kinds of Dry Media?

Graphite, Charcoal, Crayon, Pastel, and Chalk

Artist: Sikander
Title: 1, from 51 Ways of Looking
Time: 2004
Media: Graphite on Paper

Artist: da Vinci
Title: Self-Portrait
Time: 1512
Media: Red Chalk on Paper

What are the two types of Liquid Media? (Think quill)

Pen & Ink and Brush & Ink

Artist: Mehretu
Title: Untitled
Time: 2001
Media: Ink, Colored Pencil, and Cut Paper on Mylar

Collage

French for “pasting” or “gluing”

Artist: Mutu
Title: Hide and Seek, Kill or Speak
Time: 2004
Media: Collage and Mixed Media on Mylar

Fresco

Pigments are mixed with water and applied to a plaster support, usually a large-scale wall or ceiling coated in plaster

Artist: Raphael
Title: The School of Athens
Time: 1510-11
Media: Fresco

Artist: Lawrence
Title: The Migration Series
Time: 1940-41
Media: Tempera on Composition Board

True or False: Tempera dries very quickly, so colors cannot be blended easily once they are set down

TRUE

Artist: Sillman
Title: Nut
Time: 2011
Media: Oil on Canvas

True or False: Oil paint dries very quickly, which does not allow artists for more time to manipulate it

FALSE (it dries SLOWLY so artists DO have time to manipulate it)

Artist: Sargent
Title: Mountain Stream
Time: 1912-14
Media: Watercolor and graphite on paper

What is the leading characteristic of watercolors?

They are transparent and thinx

Acrylic paint

Strong, weatherproof, and industrial. Dry very quickly and permanently

Impasto

Italian for “paste”, a thick application of paint

Artist: Milhazes
Title: Mariposa
Time: 2004
Media: Acrylic on Canvas

What are the three historical methods for print making?

Relief, Intaglio, and Lithography

Relief

Image to be printed is raised from background (most common relief printing material is wood)

Artist: Unknown
Title: Preface to the Diamond Sutra
Time: 868
Media: Woodblock Handscroll

Intaglio

Italian word “to cut”, areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate (6 basic types: Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint, Etching, Aquatint, and Photogravure)

Artist: de Goya
Title: Asta su Abuelo (And so was his Grandfather)
Time: 1799
Media: Aquatint

Etching

Done with acids, which “eat” lines and depressions into a metal plate by using an etching needle

Artist: van Rijn
Title: Christ Preaching
Time: 1652
Media: Etching

Lithography

Planographic process, which means that the printing surface is flat-not raised or depressed

Artist: Catlett
Title: Singing Their Songs
Time: 1992
Media: Color Lithograph

Artist: Osorio
Title: You’re Never Ready
Time: 2009
Media: Inkjet on confetti

Camera Obscura

Latin for “dark room”

Daguerreotype

A light-sensitive surface as a copper plate coated with silver iodide, which recorded images that were sharp and clear

Artist: Daguerre
Title: Le Boulevard du Temple
Time: 1839
Media: Daguerreotype

Artist: Throssel
Title: Crow Camp
Time: 1910
Media: Modern Print from a Negative

Who said: “This is how we see ourselves, this is what is important to us”

Richard Throssel

Artist: Lange
Title: Migrant Mother
Time: 1936
Media: Photograph

What was the FSA and what did it do?

The Farm Security Administration, subsidized photographers and sent them out to record conditions across the nation

Artist: Stieglitz
Title: The Steerage
Time: 1907
Media: Chloride Print

Motion-picture Film

Series of still images projected at a speed of twenty-fpur frames per second, which makes the action seem continuous

Artist: Melies
Title: A Trip to the Moon
Time: 1902
Media: Motion-Picture Film

Artist: Paik
Title: TV Buddha
Time: 1974
Media: Closed-circuit video installation

Video

Converts a moving image into electronic signals. The signals are transmitted to a monitor, which decodes them and reconstitutes the image for display

Artist: Fei
Title: i.Mirror
Time: 2007
Media: Video 

Symbols

Convey information or embody ideas