Art Appreciation ICC Midterm

sketches

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called

Pen, brush, and ink

In his and work varied Cottage drawing among Trees what medium does Rembrandt use to create a rich and varied drawing?

metalpoint

Filippino Lippi Reading used what medium in his work Figure Studies Standing Nude and Seated Man Reading ?

charcoal

Rosa Bonheur's Charcoal burners uses the medium of

pen , ink , and watercolor

In Howling Wolf's ledger drawing from your text , Ute Indian , what mediums are used?

chalk

What are soft , finely textured stones that can be used for drawing ?

clay

What very soft material is added to graphite to produce pencils that range from very hard to very soft?

exploded drawing

How can Mia Pearlman's installation Inrush , best be described ?

wet plaster

In buon fresco , or true fresco , pigment is mixed with water and applied to what surface?

Raphael

What Italian Question Renaissance artist created the fresco The School of Athens ?

oil paint

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium ?

transparency

What is the primary characteristic of watercolors ?

binder

In oil painting , linseed oil acts as a :

encaustic and fresco

What two ancient painting media are still in use today ?

Encaustic

What painting technique , used in the first century in Egypt , Greece , and Rome , involves the use of wax?

cartoon

In fresco painting , a drawing called a is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.

Registration

is the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper.

relief

A rubber stamp creates what type of print ?

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

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

book illustrations

Shortly after the introduction of paper to Europe , what were woodcuts used for ?

Lies below

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio _____________ the surface of the printing plate.

Planographic process

What's characteristic is associated with lithography?

Gouache

Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes?

monotypes

Except in the case of _____________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

Käthe Kollwitz

What artist used traditional woodcut printing to create art with modern subject matter?

the Balinese necklace

What artwork from your textbook is an example of an artist creating an extraordinary version of an ordinary object ?

an ancient Native American petroglyph

Human actions and nature regularly damage and demolish . art In Utah at the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument Close to the Escalante River, someone tried to saw out a portion of what object with tremendous historical and spiritual value?

Greece ; the Iliad

As seen in Chapter 1 , " Living with Art , " the attic - black figure neck , amphora a painted storage jar or vase , is from ____________ and represented an event from ___________. This piece commemorates an ancient time.

Florida ; warehouses

Wynwood Walls is an area of public artworks in ____________ that transformed ___________ into huge art canvases.

1982

In what year was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial unveiled in Washington , DC ?

deepfake

, Wearing Gillian is an example of a ( n ) ________________ with the objective to dupe viewers by modifying video using artificial intelligence technology.

Road Map

Enrique Chagoya's lithograph _________________ highlights the prejudices of maps , as he shows the United States as huge while Canada and Mexico, plus the remainder of the world, are proportionally diminutive.

the Monuments Men

Early in World War II , these people were or this group was tasked with protecting Europe's cultural treasures and art. After the war, they were tasked with locating, taking inventory of, and returning looted art to rightful owners. Who were they?

shrank ; enlarged

The revelatory Mercator map provided European nations with a scale model of the globe It became tool imperialism and colonization. Modern scrutiny has uncovered, though, that sizes were distorted. The Mercator map _________________ regions of South America, Africa, and territories sitting on the equator while areas closer to the poles, inclusive of North America and Europe, were ______________.

the Colosseum

Art is not only images to view , but includes places created for particular human purposes such : as

They were both viewed as providing pleasure

During the 18th , century why were beauty and art discussed together ?

a special kind of attention known as disinterested contemplation

Philosophers determined that the pleasure of art was an intellectual pleasure and was perceived through what practice?

property

Copyright refers to the legal right to publish , reproduce , or perform a work ( a , painting a play , a ) song of original intellectual:

the physical appearance of a work

In art , what is form ?

teaching

What do the hand gestures shown by the Amida Buddha represent ?

Goblets and decorative shells sit near the poppies .

Rachel Ruysch's Still - Life with Flowers reveals many details about the subject matter . Which detail is NOT revealed?

As an established artist , he avoided working in a studio and relied on developing compositions outdoors

Which one of the following does NOT apply to artist Diego Rivera ?

She became a professional muralist despite encountering barriers as a female .

Which one of the following does NOT apply to 16th century artist Catharina van Hemessen ?

the eyes

Wounded Man Fleeing ( Battle of the , Somme 1916 ) by Otto Dix exaggerates the size of what to accentuate a soldier's reaction?

murals

Diego Rivera is known for his :

narrative

In Judith Baca's work Great Wall of Los Angeles: Frontier California 1880 and treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, images cover over a half mile of length to tell a __________ of the area.

the bombing of a civilian population

What was Pablo Picasso's Guernica a protest against ?

landscape

A _____________ may be a meticulous rendering of the terrain of the natural world as an artist has observed or a vision of the artist's imagination.

The artist assembled his fantastical vision from travel magazines and sketching visits to the zoo.

Which one of the following does NOT apply to The Garden of Earthly Delights ?

the natural world

Which is an example of a theme in art?

Stories and histories

Which theme is best represented by Frank Henderson's drawing Off to War?

Eden and He'll

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a painting in three sections. The center section portrays the bogus paradise of love. What do the outer two sections depict?

Themes

____________ are broad areas of content reflected in the arts of many cultures.

Genre

Works of art that show or record everyday life, such as views of domestic peacefulness or hunting, are called ________ scenes.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

What work of fantasy is by Hieronymus Bosch?

to give visual form to the unknown

What role best describes the artists intention when creating the Shiva Nataraja Sculpture?

Line

Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

Motion

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?

All these answers are correct

Lines are used in art to indicate

Organic

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ____________ shapes.

Triangle

Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a

Elizbeth Murray

Introduced at the beginning of Chapter 4, an artist that creates work that successfully utilizes multiple elements in her playful and colorful work The Sun and the Moon is:

Values

A black and white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ___________ of the colors.

outlines; contour lines

In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.

Chiaroscuro

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ___________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.

Crosshatching

Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of ______________ to create the illusion of shadows and lights in a portrait.

Jennifer Steinkamp

This contemporary video artist created Dervish, a projection of digital images of trees onto walls that change seasons as they spin in time:

white

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce _________ light.

secondary

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

Samuel Fosso

Using a multitude of patterns to create visual texture, this African photographer created a self-portrait called The Chief parodying an African tribal leader dressed in white shades, red suede shoes, leopard skin pants and holding fake sunflowers:

Sarah Sze

In her linear influenced sculptures, this contemporary artist creates intricately complex structures using ordinary objects such as yardsticks, bottle caps, string, plastic tubes, toothpicks, etc, as in her work Hidden Relief:

One-point

Leonardo da Vinci uses what type of perspective in his famous painting The Last Supper?

Georges Seurat

In his painting Sunday on La Grande Jatte, this 19th century French painter used pointillism to created an entire park scene on a ten foot long canvas, covering it with tiny dots of color:

Thomas Eakins

Demonstrating the use of line as a means of creating direction and movement, this American painter from Pennsylvania created a dynamic painting of a 'sculling' or rowing competition called, The Biglin Brothers Racing:

Lake George by John Frederick Kensett

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

M.C. Escher

A master at the art of 'figure/ground reversal', this Dutch artist/mathematician created fantastic and impossible optical effects such as ducks turning into fish and interlocking white and black bizarre animals:

The Spectrum

The colored wavelengths that comprise white light shown through a prism are called:

Mobiles

Alexander Calder is famous for his balanced sculptures that move with the wind which he referred to as:

Watteau

The use of ‘implied lines’ to guide the viewer’s eye around the page by the placement of the subjects can be seen in the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by the French Rococo painter.

Bill Reid

The Canadian Sculptor who carves massive sculptures in the Haida Indian style made of wood such as The Raven and the First Men is:

Actual Texture

The artist Mona Hatoum's piece Dormiente relies heavily on which element to communicate her concept?

The Scream

An example of the emotional and psychological effects of color can be seen in the eerily painted reds of Edward Munch's paintings:

Nasca

Lines creating animal forms and geometric patterns from the first millennium can be found etched into the earth by the inhabitants of Peru in which city?

It is drawn with one continuous line

What is so impressive about Claude Mellan's portrait of Christ called Sudarium of St. Veronica (1649)?

Joaquin Sorolla

An example of 'illusionistic' use of light is well demonstrated in the painting Boys on the Beach by artist:

Monochromatic

The painting Chanter by Emmi Whitehorse is an example of a ______________ color scheme.

an analogous

Louis Comfort Tiffany's stained glass Magnolias and Irises demonstrates ________________ color scheme.

Spools of colored thread

Artist Deborah Sperber uses what media to create optical color mixing as in her work Hendrix?

Cloud Gate

Affectionately called The Bean by the locals, the contemporary artist Anish Kaboor is famous for his polished mirror-surfaced large scale sculpture located in Chicago actually titled:

Claus Oldenburg

This American sculptor from the 1960's used the principle of 'scale' in his gigantic versions of ordinary objects such as garden shovels and clothespins.

A Mandela

In Tibetan Buddhism , the radial symbol that represents the order of the cosmos and is also used as a meditative device to help achieve a spiritual state of consciousness is called:

Asymmetrical

Gustav Klimt's painting Life and Death is a superb example of which type of visual balance:

conceptual unity.

Annette Messager's Mes Voeux demonstrates the use of:

none of these answers are correct.

A mathematical system that defines the proper proportions for an ideal human figure is referred to as:

1 to 1.618

The proportions of the Golden Section can be expressed numerically by the numbers:

The Parthenon

The proportions of the Golden Section were applied to the architectural design of which classical Greek building dedicated to the goddess Athena

Emphasis

In Francisco Goya's painting 'The Executions on the Third of May', the artist uses light to draw the viewers attention to the victim about to be shot. This illustrates the principle of:

Henry Ossawa Tanner

This African American painter in the 19th century studied under Thomas Eakins and painted masterful works such as The Banjo Lesson.

The Vitruvian Man

The symmetrical proportions of the human body are clearly demonstrated in the scientific drawing found in the sketchbook of the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci commonly referred to as:

Hierarchical Proportions

The brass ceremonial piece A Royal Altar to the Hand from Benin in Africa demonstrates the visual device of: