Art Appreciation Final Exam Review

A comprehensive set of vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts and terminology for the Art Appreciation Final Exam.

Artistic media that capture motion and time

Film and video/animation.

Examples of artworks portraying implied motion

Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne and Balla’s Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.

How do artists create movement?

By using repetition, diagonal lines, contrast, and optical effects (e.g., Riley’s Cataract 3, Holzer’s Untitled).

Kinds of artworks that help actual motion

Kinetic art and performance art.

Three types of Unity in visual arts

Compositional unity, conceptual unity, gestalt unity.

Types of visual balance

Symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial.

Scale and proportion in artworks

Scale: size relative to viewer; Proportion: size relationship between parts.

Hierarchical scale in artworks

Using size to show importance (e.g., Palette of Narmer, Egyptian reliefs).

Golden Section ratio

1 : 1.618.

How artists use focal point

They use contrast, placement, or directional lines (e.g., Judith Decapitating Holofernes).

Milton Glaser's contributions

Graphic design, AIDS posters, and 'I ♥ NY'.

Three types of rhythm in art

Simple (repetitive), alternating, progressive.

Deborah Coates’ quilt symbolism

Triangular 'Birds in the Air' motifs symbolize escape and movement as freedom from slavery.

Types of visual analysis

Formal, contextual, iconographic, biographical.

Formal analysis definition

Analysis of visual elements and principles of art.

Three painting techniques with examples

Oil painting (Nighthawks), tempera (medieval panels), fresco (Roman walls).

Additive sculptural process

Building form by adding material (e.g., clay modeling).

Anamorphic distortion

Distorted image visible from a certain angle (e.g., skull in The Ambassadors).

What does interpretation of an artwork entail?

Combining formal analysis, research, and personal insight.

Feminist Analysis and Critique

Examines gender and power (e.g., Ingres’ Grande Odalisque).

Hopper's conveyance of loneliness in Nighthawks

Uses isolation, empty space, artificial light, lack of interaction.

Pre-history definition

Before written records (e.g., Lascaux and Altamira cave sites).

Sumerian culture and inventions

Early Mesopotamian civilization; invented cuneiform and the wheel.

Rosetta Stone's significance

Allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered.

How Akhenaten changed Egyptian religion

Introduced monotheism (Aten) and Amarna art.

Aspects of ancient Greek society

Democracy, philosophy, idealized human form.

Greek artworks by period

Archaic: Kouros; Classical: Doryphoros; Hellenistic: Laocoön.

Differences between Roman and Greek sculpture

Romans favored realism, portraiture, and individuality.

Importance of portraiture in Roman culture

Showed status, ancestry, and power (e.g., veristic busts).

Polykleitos' contribution

Wrote about contrapposto (e.g., Doryphoros).

Example of Stroboscopic motion

Drum 52.

Stop-motion example

Isle of Dogs.

Earliest kinetic artwork credited to

Marcel Duchamp.

Calder's mobile type

Kinetic sculpture.

Famous Hokusai work

Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa.

Vishnu Dreaming the Universe shows

Gestalt unity.

Golsa Golchini's small-scale work

The Lazy Pink.

Example of Distorted scale

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Great Mosque of Córdoba rhythm type

Simple rhythm.

The Blue Room is an example of

Pattern.

Babur Overseeing His Gardeners uses

Line.

Area covered by pattern

Field.

Rhythm arises through

Repetition of Pattern.

Goya shows good and evil using

Visual rhythms.

Iconography means

Writing with images.

Skull symbol is called

Memento mori.

Environment & culture analysis is called

Contextual analysis.

Midsummer Night in Harlem context

Historical context.

80 Backs context

Biographical context.

Drawing attention away is called

Subordination.

Untitled (Ocean) emphasis

Overall emphasis.

Judith Decapitating Holofernes uses

Directional lines.

Triadic Ballet is an example of

Actual motion.

Solar Rotary indicates time using

Sun.

First pure landscape

Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

Palace of Knossos location

Crete.

Bull-leaping culture belongs to

Minoan art.

Earliest Sumerian writing is

Cuneiform.

Script deciphered by Champollion

Hieroglyphic.

Only woman ruler of Egypt

Hatshepsut.

Roman temple dedicated to all gods

Pantheon.

Three orders of architecture designed by Greeks

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian.

Archaic Greek male nude

Kouros.