Artists draw for many reasons, including: ________ |
To define their ideas |
Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest |
9B |
This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder. |
Silverpoint |
Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE. |
Charcoal |
In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water? |
China |
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder. |
Pigment |
The binding agent for tempera paint is ________. |
Egg |
This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place. |
Fresco |
One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid. |
Water |
Which of the following is a printmaking process? |
Instaglio |
This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed. |
Relief |
This printmaking tool is a sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a plate. |
Burin |
This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate. |
Etching |
This printmaking process means "stone writing" in Greek. |
Lithography |
Egyptian picture symbols are called ________. |
Hieroglyphics |
These handwritten illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages. |
Illuminated Manuscripts |
The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ________. |
Calligraphy |
This type of design can incorporate text, image, recorded sound, and moving images. |
Web Design |
What does the word "photograph" mean? |
Writing with light |
The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________. |
The human eye |
When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums? |
1950's |
An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________. |
Installation |
Glass was probably first used by this ancient culture. |
Mesopotamia |
The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called ________. |
Stained Glass |
This particular medium uses threads, fabrics, and other textiles. |
Fiber |
Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture? |
Wax, ice, stone, plastic |
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only. |
Relief |
Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting? |
Casting |
Objects found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ________. |
Readymades |
What is the name of the oven used to fire clay objects so that they become ceramics? |
Kiln |
Architects consider this when designing a building. |
The site, engineering, needs of the user, materials |
This kind of stress pushes on the structure of a building and must be countered by a pulling stress. |
Thrust |
This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam. |
Post-and-Lintel |
If an architect wanted to build a large square building with a domed roof, he or she would use this structural feature to transfer the load of the roof. |
Pendentive |
The subject of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ________. |
The July Revolution of 1830 in France |
Which of these cultures was not part of Mesopotamia? |
All were Mesopotamia cultures |
Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs consists of ________. |
Three things that a chair could be |
Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because ________. |
He wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality |
Hieroglyphic is the written language used by the: |
Egyptians |
It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of ________. |
The Rosetta Stone |
Jackson Pollock made paintings by: |
Dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor |
What does the Japanese word Chanoyu mean in English? |
Way of the Tea |
The Parthenon in Athens used to house a huge gold- and-ivory statue of: |
Athena |
The following are architectural orders developed by the Greeks: |
Corinthian, Doric, Iionic |
Which of the following colors was NOT used in a traditional Kente? |
Blue |
An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called ________. |
Kouros |
What does the most common type of prehistoric female figurines suggest the celebration of? |
Fertility |
The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ________. |
Catacombs |
What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy? |
Mosaic |
The Dome of the Rock is located in ________. |
Jerusalem |
Which term refers to part of a church doorway? |
Jamb |
What city replaced Paris as the art central of the world? |
New York City |
The structure of Romanesque churches recalls architectural elements from ________ |
Ancient Rome |
Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before? |
Flying Buttresses and Rib Vaults |
Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome? |
Renaissance |
What cultures are included in Mesoamerica? |
Teotihuacanos, Maya, Aztec, Olmecs |
Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night, this technique is called ________. |
Impasto |
Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting of The Last Supper by ______. |
-locating Christ at the center of the composition -creating a stable triangular form for Christ, in contrast to the activity of the other figures -framing Christ's head with light from the windows behind -arranging the vanishing point directly behind Christ's head |
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Chinese art? |
Encourages a state of despair |
Where was Machu Picchu located? |
Peru |
The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is ________. |
Fresco |
The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art? |
The Northern Renaissance |
A woodcut allows an artist to do which of the following? |
Make multiple prints of an image |
The artist of Christ in the House of Levi had to change the painting's name because ________. |
Church officials objected to Christ being shown with clowns, dwarves, and dogs at this key moment in the gospels |
Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel is an example of ________. |
Readymade |
What was the significance of an eagle mask for the Kwakiutl Native Americans? |
Used in a public coming-of-age ceremony |
What material was considered modern during this time and was also used to construct the Eiffel Tower? |
Cast Iron |
A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name? |
Claude Monet |
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because: |
It includes simplified forms and bodies as geometric shape |
Fragonard's The Swing depicts: |
A flirtation between two young lovers |
William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-Mode series tells the story of: |
The trials of an arranged marriage in which the couple behave immorally |
Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques- Louis David and Angelica Kauffmann, ________. |
Are inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, convey a moral message, place an emphasis on civic duty, are serious in tone |
What aspects of Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomforted many viewers when it was first exhibited |
-The painting technique -The nude woman seated next to men dressed in contemporary clothing -The fact that the woman looks out at the viewer |
The Yoruba believed Ife to be ________. |
The Naval of the world |
Bis poles were made for what purpose? |
-To honor someone who had just died -To depict the ancestors and acknowledge their role in daily life -To carry the deceased into the afterlife -They serve a ritual function in male initiation and memorial feasts |
The eleventh-century bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja was made in ________. |
India |
The painting called Dead Christ, by Andrea Mantegna, focuses the viewer's attention on ________. |
The immediacy of Christ's body and the fact that he is no longer alive |
How is it clear that the Kongo sculpture of a kneeling female figure with bowl and child represents a nature spirit associated with ancestors? |
Se is painted white and has shiny eyes |
The sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal shows him ________. |
Marking the intersection of the earthly realm and the underworld |
The Hopi of the southwestern United States are responsible for making which of the following sculptures? |
Kachina doll |
Who is the artist of Fox in the Snow? |
Gustave Courbet |
Why are the bodies of the damned in the Last Judgment tympanum from the Cathedral of Saint- Lazare so graphically grotesque? |
To show that the afterlife for sinners would be something to look forward to |
What is the woman doing in the painting Woman Holding a Balance? |
Holding scales as if she is weighing her jewelry |
Which two ancient Greek painters were masters of illusion? |
Zeuxis and Parrhasius |
Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows |
Leon Battista Alberti |
The oculus in Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: |
It is just a painted illusion |
Which part of William Harnett's The Old Violin is real and not just painted? |
The blue envelope |
Ron Mueck's Mask II is a: |
Oversized sculpture |
When columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint, this is called ________. |
Entasis |
Julian Beever is ________. |
A sidewalk chalk artist working today |
Fanny/Fingerpainting was ________. |
Made with the artist's finger and thumb prints |
Which part of René Magritte's The Human Condition is painted? |
The entire scene |
Ernest Meissonier's painting Remembrance of Civil War was removed by the French government from the 1850 Salon exhibition because: |
It was too powerful a reminder of recent events |
Timothy O'Sullivan's famous photograph of dead bodies on a deserted battlefield was taken during ________. |
The American Civil War |
Chris Burden's work All the Submarines of the United States of America is ________. |
An Instillation |
The composition of the Alexander Mosaic is designed to convey |
Action and Emotion |
The Bayeux Tapestry is approximately ________ long. |
275 feet |
Otto Dix's The War is a ________. |
Triptych |
The Woman from Willendorf is made out of which medium? |
Limestone |
The date of Willem de Kooning's painting Woman I is? |
1950-2CE |
Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture? |
Egyptian |
What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower? |
A Greek Athlete |
Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus? |
Sandro Botticelli |
Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others? |
Titian, Venus of Urbino |
What was the artist of Olympia trying to do? |
Update a classical subject for his own time |
What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work? |
She dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair |
Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks? |
Walking Man |