Craftsmanship is a term used to describe how well a work of visual art is made. |
True |
Kitsch is a primary example of serious, complex, and highly conceptual art. |
False |
The ______________ in a work of art helps to give the artwork meaning. This is something a viewer can connect to on an intellectual level. |
Concept |
The division between art and craft began during this period. |
Renaissance |
The process of rolling out clay into long rope-like strands has been used to make fine ceramic objects since prehistoric times. This is called the ________ method. |
Coil |
The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called ________. |
Stained Glass |
This American artist uses glass to create dramatic and colorful interior installations, such as the one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. |
Dale Chihuly |
The only way an artist can work with metal is to heat it to a liquid state. |
False |
If an artist wanted to create an artwork sure to last for many thousands of years, wood would be a good material to use. |
False |
Textile art cannot express biographical or historical meaning. |
False |
This craft medium uses threads, fabrics, and other textiles. |
Fiber |
The process of using wood to create mosaic images, as used in the design by Francesco di Giorgio Martini to decorate a private studio for the Duke of Urbino around 1480, is called ________. |
Intarsia |
The South African wood turner Andrew Early creates his work using a power-driven spinning support called a ________. |
Lathe |
The Greek pediment on the temple dedicated to the god Zeus at Olympia depicts a scene from ________. |
The battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs |
When Buddha was born he sprang miraculously from the sea as a full-grown man. |
False |
The doors of the Church of Saint Michael’s at Hildesheim, Germany, ________. |
All the above |
Navajo sand paintings are generally made to be passed down from generation to generation. |
False |
Buddha can be discerned from a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) by the amount of jewelry that the figure is wearing. |
True |
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa was meant to show Teresa ________. |
All the above |
In ancient Egypt, what is a book of the dead? |
A collection of spells and incantations designed to help with navigating the afterlife |
Why might the paintings at Lascaux be considered sacred? |
Because the site was visited repeatedly and painted again and again |
Why is the building at Ise Jingu rebuilt every twenty years? |
Because nature is cynical and the shrine, too, must be renewed and refreshed |
Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________. |
To create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality |
Architects consider this when designing a building. |
All the above |
The Egyptians were the only ancient civilization to create load bearing constructions. |
False |
This is a ceiling based on the structural principles of the arch. |
Vault |
The architects of the Renaissance looked to the ________ for their inspiration. |
Greeks and Romans |
This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam. |
Post and lintel |
A room that uses numerous columns to support a flat ceiling is known as a ________ hall. |
Hypostyle |
The term for this type of arch is: (Picture) |
Corbeled |
Styles of art and architecture that were inspired by the Greeks and Romans are referred to as ________. |
Classical |
This nineteenth-century North American construction method uses lightweight wooden frames, instead of heavy timbers, to support the building. |
Balloon Framing |
This cast-iron building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and was more than a third of a mile long. |
Crystal Palace |
In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is: |
All of the above |
The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable characteristics. |
True |
What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc? |
A bloodletting ritual |
The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a powerful hunter. |
True |
The portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs over Tiananmen has never been taken down since the day it was first hung. |
False |
The Stela of Hammurabi: |
Has an entire law code written on it |
What material was used to make the Olmec colossal heads? |
Basalt |
The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas. |
Symbols |
Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type? |
Johannes Gutenberg |
If you were to design an instruction manual for building a car, good illustration as well as text would be vital. |
True |
The ________ was a German school of art and design that operated in the early twentieth century. The students at the school were immersed in the idea that "form follows function." |
Bauhaus |
These simple, symbolic graphics are often used for products that people of many different cultures use, so that there is no need for language translation: |
Icons |
James Montgomery Flagg created an illustration of this character, who the artist used for recruitment posters during World Wars I and II. |
Uncle Sam |
The primary colors that make up the basis for commercial printing are ________. |
Cyan, magenta, yellow |
The primary colors used to create color in an electronic display are ________. |
Red, green, blue |
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________. |
Absorb |
If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be? |
Red |
The traditional primary colors are ________. |
Red, yellow, blue |
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________. |
Complementary colors |
Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt’s The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition. |
Harmonious…relaxed |
Color associations vary by culture. For example, an American bride would probably wear white, while her Asian counterpart might wear ________. |
Red |
When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________. |
Temperature |
Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could. |
Fauve |
We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive. |
Optical color |
In 2014, Cloud Gate artist ___________________ purchased exclusive rights to Vantablack, the world’s blackest pigment. |
Anish Kapoor |
Francisco Goya’s The Second of May, 1808 depicts: |
Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers |
The photograph General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon, taken by photojournalist Eddie Adams, shows an innocent civilian being killed by a Vietnamese General. |
False |
Timothy O’Sullivan’s famous photograph of dead bodies on a deserted battlefield was taken during ________. |
The American Civil War |
Nick Ut never found out what happened to the Vietnamese girl he photographed running away after a napalm attack in which she had been burned |
False |
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica was an invented vision he made to express the terror he felt after waking from a nightmare |
False |
The ruler in the Palette of Narmer is identified using hierarchical scale. |
True |
The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by women. |
True |
Which of the following artworks depict in great detail the specific wardrobe of warriors? |
All the above |
In The War, Otto Dix paints a soldier lying in a trench in the ________ section of his artwork. |
Predella |
Why were some people against Maya Lin’s design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial? |
It descended into the ground |
What does the word "photograph" mean? |
Seeing through a lens |
A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________. |
It creates very detailed images |
Landscape photographs, such as those taken by Ansel Adams, help raise awareness about: |
Nature’s grandeur and the wilderness of the American West |
The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the ________ and ________ of the vegetable. |
Form…texture |
In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________. |
Truthful |
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her ________. |
Extreme performance pieces |
Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor. |
True |
Color photographs could be made from the time that the first photographic processes were invented. |
False |
Why did Rembrandt make so many self-portraits? |
All the above |
Who is the artist of Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe? |
Vincent Van Gogh |
Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself? |
Because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity |
What was the inspiration for Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series? |
Old movies |
What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make? |
Feminist posters and pamphlets |
Who was Hatshepsut? |
A female Egyptian pharaoh |
Which of the following movements influenced the filmmaker Spike Lee? |
The Civil Rights Movement |
What is true of "You Became a Scientific Profile"? |
All the above |
Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others? |
Titian, Venus of Urbino |
The way that images appear to be moving in films and videos is actually an optical illusion. |
True |
Thanks to research by Muybridge, we know that when in full gallop, a horse’s legs are ________ when all of them are off the ground. |
Underneath its body |
One of the first popular films to use color imagery was ________. |
The Wizard of Oz |
Georges Méliès’s film A Trip to the Moon is known for being: |
All the above |
Using a sequence of specially generated drawings to create scenes in a movie is called ________. |
Cel animation |
D. W. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation employed innovative film techniques and was also used as a propaganda tool by ________. |
Ku Klux Klan |
The film The Artist, released in 2011, comments on "the good old days" of the film industry by using ________. |
Silence and black and white |
What genre might a filmmaker be working in if he or she used ominous music, fake blood, and shot many of the scenes at night? |
Horror |
Videos designed to be art are often made to be presented ________. |
All the above |
Animation |
Making a movie by filming slightly varying separate still drawings, models, or computer generated images, and putting them together in a sequence so that they appear to move |
Film Genre |
Categories of film that have developed recognizable plots, types of characters, and scenery |
Nickelodeons |
Small storefront movie theaters popular in the early 20th century |
Storyboards |
Series of sketches or pictures used to show the scenes that will be filmed in a movie or created using animation |
Synchronized Sound |
Sound that is recorded during a scene or that coordinates with filmed images |
Beyonce’s wardrobe for the 2017 Grammy Awards was meant to reference Victorian era standards of beauty. |
False |
Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques possessed by male athletes. |
True |
The form of the goddess’s figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________. |
Classical Greek sculptures |
Which of the following issues are raised by Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago)? |
All the above |
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 |
The artist ORLAN is known for her live performances while undergoing plastic surgery. |
True |
John Cage’s concert for the opening of the National Arts Foundation can be seen as a happening because: |
It expanded the scope of art to include the lived moment |
Jackson Pollock is known for: |
Splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor |
Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ________ but often exist only in the form of ________. |
Direct experience…visual documentation or personal accounts |
Kara Walker’s installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines: |
Silhouette drawings and productions |
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