Intro To Visual Arts Final Exam Review

Front 1

The work, Ancestors of the Passage: A Healing Journey through the Middle Passage by _______ treats the subject of slavery and its effects on women.

Back 1

Imna Arroyo (p. 50-51)

Front 2

_______ is(are) usually necessary for someone to be able to create art from the ideas in his/her imagination.

Back 2

training & practice (p. 14)

Front 3

Ideals of beauty are:

Back 3

culturally influenced (p. 45)

Front 4

Ludwig Hohlwein's poster "Und Du?" is an example of:

Back 4

propaganda (p. 37-38)

Front 5

In the formalist approach the chief emphasis to judging quality in art is on ________.

Back 5

how the artist manipulates elements of design (p. 48)

Front 6

Censorship of art was never an issue until the twentieth century.

Back 6

FALSE (p. 30-31)

Front 7

Some artists cannot easily explain why they create art. For them, it is ________.

Back 7

an inner calling (p. 13)

Front 8

Three-dimensional artworks have ________.

Back 8

height, width, and depth (p. 16)

Front 9

A work of art can be judged from very different points of view.

Back 9

TRUE (p. 46-47)

Front 10

Georgia O'Keeffe wanted to paint an exact representation of what she saw in nature.

Back 10

FALSE (p.22-23)

Front 11

There are no absolute guidelines for judging ________ in art.

Back 11

quality (p. 46)

Front 12

The meaning found in art, including the subject-matter and the emotions, ideas and symbols is called __________.

Back 12

content (p. 32)

Front 13

Piet Mondrian's Composition (B) En Bleu, et Blanc (Composition in Blue, Yellow, & White) is an example of __________.

Back 13

nonobjective, or nonrepresentational, painting (p. 20)

Front 14

For Paul Klee, the act of artistic creation seemed to be a way of approaching ________.

Back 14

the unseen (p. 42)

Front 15

When someone pays an artist to create a work of art it is called a ________.

Back 15

patronage (p. 37)

Front 16

A naive artist is someone who has never been formally trained in the techniques of art.

Back 16

TRUE (p. 42)

Front 17

Maya Ying Lin said she wanted her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial to be _________.

Back 17

honest about the reality of war (p. 35)

Front 18

An artist who uses abstraction as an approach is:

Back 18

extracting the essence of the real object (p. 20)

Front 19

In Western society, the acceptance of art by women and artists of color has been subject to racial and gender stereotyping.

Back 19

TRUE (p. 50-51)

Front 20

The first purpose of applied arts is to:

Back 20

serve some useful function (p. 24)

Front 21

Complementary colors are those that are:

Back 21

opposite each other on the color wheel (p. 133)

Front 22

During the Renaissance, European painters developed the technique of chiaroscuro, which means:

Back 22

light and shade (p. 118)

Front 23

When the figure and ground are about equal in area an artist can create a _________, in which either color can be interpreted as lying on top of the other.

Back 23

figure-ground reversal (p. 96)

Front 24

When two-dimensional images are made to look three-dimensional it is called:

Back 24

illusion (p. 82)

Front 25

The surface quality of a work is called:

Back 25

texture (p. 110)

Front 26

The shapes in Matisse's painting The Snail are called hard-edged because ________.

Back 26

their boundaries are clearly distinguished (p. 85 & 88)

Front 27

When a visual effect is so realistic it fools our perception it is called ________.

Back 27

tromp l'oeil (p. 115)

Front 28

Atmospheric perspective is a way to ___________.

Back 28

show deep space by making distant things hazy (p. 101)

Front 29

On its most basic level, three-dimensional art physically _________.

Back 29

occupies space (p. 91)

Front 30

The sculptor Henry Moore was interested in the interplay between _________.

Back 30

positive form and negative space (p. 80)

Front 31

Alexander Calder's Cow uses _________ lines to create a sense of three-dimensionality and to emphasize the overall form of the image.

Back 31

contour (p. 58 & 91)

Front 32

Real-world objects taken from trash heaps and used in art are called:

Back 32

found objects (p. 93)

Front 33

In art the term "scale" refers to:

Back 33

relative size (p. 105)

Front 34

The phrase "point of view" is used in art to indicate where the viewer is standing in relation to the figures in the artwork.

Back 34

TRUE (p. 103)

Front 35

A shape placed on a two-dimensional surface establishes a _________.

Back 35

figure-ground relationship (p. 94)

Front 36

Edward Steichen's photograph Rodin: The Thinker is a good example of the use of:

Back 36

value and contrast (p. 118)

Front 37

Sculptures that project out from a two-dimensional ground are called:

Back 37

reliefs (p. 72)

Front 38

Linear perspective is a mathematical system used to show:

Back 38

recession in space (p. 97)

Front 39

Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate employs reflected light to capture the viewer's attention.

Back 39

TRUE (p. 124)

Front 40

A mark or area that is significantly longer than it is wide may be perceived as _______.

Back 40

a line (p. 57)

Front 41

Balance is a principle of design based on the __________.

Back 41

visual weight one assigns to parts of a work (p. 177)

Front 42

Because _________ there is visual tension created in Nancy Graves' work Trace.

Back 42

it is intentionally unbalanced (p. 179-180)

Front 43

Repetition can be used in decorative works to create an all-over __________.

Back 43

pattern (p. 168)

Front 44

The __________ was critical to Frank Gehry in designing the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.

Back 44

environmental setting (p. 192-193)

Front 45

The use of multiple triangles by Lucy Pettway in her artwork Birds in the Air exemplifies the organizing principle of:

Back 45

repetition (p. 165)

Front 46

In Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, Christ is the most important figure, and his place in the composition is as the:

Back 46

focal point (p. 185)

Front 47

The ceremonial blanket from the Haida culture is an example of symmetry because __________.

Back 47

the left side and the right side are identical (p. 177)

Front 48

The painter Wassily Kandinsky believed that coherence and harmony in a painting could be achieved by using only ________.

Back 48

colors and shapes, with no references to the physical world (p. 194-195)

Front 49

Rhythm can be achieved by using:

Back 49

shape or form, color, and line (p. 175)

Front 50

In the rock garden of Ryoan-ji Temple, the relationship of sand to rocks and rock to rock formed out of meditation of the universe, not on adherence to a human system.

Back 50

TRUE (p. 191)

Front 51

_________ refers to the principle called "economy of means".

Back 51

Paring away extraneous details (p. 187)

Front 52

Rhythm in art can be compared with rhythm in music.

Back 52

TRUE (p. 175)

Front 53

A way of using the principle of variety so that two dissimilar things are compared is commonly called ________.

Back 53

contrast (p. 172)

Front 54

If an artist is drawing the human figure in proportion:

Back 54

each body part should be in relative size to the others (p. 189)

Front 55

All works of art have a focal point

Back 55

FALSE (p. 185)

Front 56

The golden rectangle is a way of establishing the:

Back 56

ideal proportion of space (p. 189)

Front 57

The use of multiple similar torsos by Magdelena Abakanowicz in her piece Backs is an example of the organizing principle of:

Back 57

repetition (p. 165)

Front 58

In Essence Mulberry, Helen Frankenthaler's use of gray paint the same color as the ground creates a ________.

Back 58

transition (p. 169 & 171)

Front 59

The principle of repetition works because our brains prefer order to chaos.

Back 59

TRUE (p. 165)

Front 60

Instead of using mathematical devices to unify the image in The Boating Part, Pierre-Auguste Renoir employed _________.

Back 60

color and the objects in the scene to link groups of people (p. 182-183)

Front 61

There are special crayons made of grease for use in lithographic printing.

Back 61

TRUE (p. 209)

Front 62

The word used to refer to the material with which the artist works is __________.

Back 62

medium (p. 198)

Front 63

Ink that is thinned with water or spirit and brushed on to suggest tone is called a ________.

Back 63

wash (p. 213)

Front 64

Charcoal can only be used in a quick, sketchy manner.

Back 64

FALSE (p. 203)

Front 65

During its history in China, brush and ink painting was ________.

Back 65

considered spiritually expressive (p. 211)

Front 66

Conte crayon is ________.

Back 66

versatile and can be used for softness or sharp lines (p. 209)

Front 67

The subtle value gradations Leonardo da Vinci created with chalk in "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist are called:

Back 67

sfumato (p. 206)

Front 68

Of the tools for drawing that are classified as "dry" the most commonly used is:

Back 68

graphite pencil (p. 201)

Front 69

Georges Seurat was able to get a range of values from Conte crayon by __________.

Back 69

working on textured paper (p. 209)

Front 70

Leonardo da Vinci's "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist" is a full-sized chalk drawing done as a model for a painting. This work is, thus, called a:

Back 70

cartoon (p. 204)

Front 71

Kathe Kollwitz's "Self-Portrait with a Pencil" shows that charcoal is often used because:

Back 71

the fact that it smudges easily allows artists to exploit effects in toning the image (p. 203)

Front 72

Drawing pens are sometimes made of bird feathers which are called quills.

Back 72

TRUE (p. 210)

Front 73

The word "pastel" is usually associated with ________ tones.

Back 73

pale (p. 207)

Front 74

In his drawing "Fish Skeletons" Hyman Bloom reverses the usual technique for pen and ink by:

Back 74

using white ink on dark paper (p. 210)

Front 75

Corot's Civita Castellana illustrates how the use of graphite pencils ___________.

Back 75

can result in many value gradations, are good for drawing small precise lines like hatching, and can create many variations of grays and blacks (p. 202)

Front 76

In early tempera painting that used gold leaf, the gold was applied:

Back 76

over a surface of red gilder's clay, then burnished (p. 223)

Front 77

Some nonobjective painters of the twentieth century worked on unsized canvas:

Back 77

so that the paint would be absorbed right into the canvas (p. 218)

Front 78

Drawing and painting are two separate things, with no similarities between them.

Back 78

FALSE (p. 215)

Front 79

The medium used by Kurt Schwitters for Merz 19 is called:

Back 79

collage (p. 239)

Front 80

Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night shows his use of impasto, which gives the painting surface textures ___________.

Back 80

three-dimensionality (p. 217)

Front 81

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Peace is a fresco, which was painted directly onto:

Back 81

wet plaster walls (p. 219)

Front 82

One of the main properties of tempera paint is:

Back 82

it dries very quickly to a matte finish (p. 223)

Front 83

In theory, acrylic paints are permanent and will never deteriorate.

Back 83

TRUE (p. 236)

Front 84

Encaustic must always be kept cool while it is being applied.

Back 84

FALSE (p. 218) *Encaustic uses hot wax which becomes more difficult as it cools

Front 85

Mosaics are an art form that is still used today.

Back 85

TRUE (p. 240)

Front 86

Correggio's painting Danae seems to glow because the artist used ________: layers of pigment suspended in a transparent medium.

Back 86

glazes (p. 228)

Front 87

Of painting media, the only one that does not dry quickly is:

Back 87

oil (p. 224)

Front 88

For his huge murals of Mexican political history, Diego Rivera __________.

Back 88

sketched directly onto the wall with red chalk or charcoal (p. 219-220)

Front 89

The Young Woman with a Gold Pectoral is an example of the early method of painting known as ________ in which pigment is suspended in hot wax.

Back 89

encaustic (p. 218)

Front 90

In general, paint is made by suspending ____________ in a liquid medium and adding a binder.

Back 90

pigment (p. 215)

Front 91

Graphic designers usually work with other people, such as marketing specialists and clients.

Back 91

TRUE (p. 269)

Front 92

Although graphic design is for commercial purposes, some designs, like Toulouse-Lautrec's poster, have been treated like ________.

Back 92

fine art (p. 269)

Front 93

The advertisement for the Chicago Spire shown in Wallpaper magazine relies on _________ to lure us into wanting to know more about the product.

Back 93

a sparse illustration (p. 274)

Front 94

The image by Alberto Seveso used for the cover of a magazine about computer arts includes elements suggesting the ___________, and are meant to evoke the mind of a young computer designer at work.

Back 94

unraveled strands of computer circuitry (p. 275-276)

Front 95

Peter Good feels that, unlike Europeans, American culture is not generally receptive to ___________.

Back 95

ambiguity (p. 270)

Front 96

A good graphic designer will ____________.

Back 96

consider the taste and interests of the public, elicit a certain feeling toward the public, and lure the public into wanting to know more (p. 268-269)

Front 97

According to Peter Good, graphic designers should ___________.

Back 97

be constantly open to new ways of seeing things (p. 270)

Front 98

The edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer published by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones is a good example of __________.

Back 98

harmony of design (p. 275 & 277)

Front 99

For The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones created a special Gothic ___________ to allude to the period in which the stories were originally written.

Back 99

typeface (p. 275 & 277)

Front 100

Typefaces are often chosen according to the ___________ messages they convey.

Back 100

psychological (p. 273)

Front 101

In 1976, Peter Good designed the "I Love New York" slogan of a red heart between black, block letters that was designed to promote tourism to the city.

Back 101

FALSE (p. 268) Created by Milton Glaser

Front 102

Paul Rand, who designed the IBM logo, believed that corporate logos should ___________.

Back 102

consist of simple, universal, and timeless shapes (p. 269)

Front 103

The Graphic Design guru Milton Glaser once said, "I like to design something for institutions that did no harm and for personalities that I feel comfortable with."

Back 103

TRUE (p. 276)

Front 104

The two major ingredients of graphic design are:

Back 104

letters and images (p. 272)

Front 105

The cover image from Computer Arts Interactive shows the importance of ____________ in magazines.

Back 105

illustrations (p. 275-276)

Front 106

A big improvement in photography, based on Fox Talbot's work, was:

Back 106

the development of a means of creating multiple copies of an image (p. 280)

Front 107

From the time of the Renaissance, some artists used a camera obscura, which was a ___________.

Back 107

dark room or box that used light to show images on a surface (p. 279)

Front 108

The photographer best known for is experiments in placing still pictures into a sequence to analyze motion is:

Back 108

Eadweard Muybridge (p. 295)

Front 109

For the past few decades videos by fine artists have been included in the collections of great museums.

Back 109

TRUE (p. 305)

Front 110

The purpose of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's photograph of Jane Morris was to:

Back 110

serve as a study for a drawing (p. 281)

Front 111

The word photography is Greek for _________.

Back 111

writing with light (p. 279)

Front 112

Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, is an example of ___________ photography.

Back 112

documentary (p. 283)

Front 113

One of the very earliest popular uses of photography was __________.

Back 113

for portraits whose aim was capturing a perfect likeness (p. 280)

Front 114

The ___________ offers an example of how, before the advent of color photography, patrons had themselves photographed before a false backdrop with details hand painted.

Back 114

Portrait of a Landowner (p. 281)

Front 115

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is an example of the _________ style of film-making.

Back 115

expressionist (p. 299)

Front 116

Ordinary television signals are transmitted ________.

Back 116

through the air (p. 304)

Front 117

The photographs of Ansel Adams have played a major role in:

Back 117

land conservation efforts (p. 284-285)

Front 118

This film uses 4 separate and conflicting points of view to make a statement about truth.

Back 118

Rashomon (p. 303)

Front 119

In a film, the splicing together of a variety of shots at the editing stage is called a:

Back 119

montage (p. 299)

Front 120

When a single scene in a film continues for several minutes with no break it is called:

Back 120

an extended take (p. 296)

Front 121

Artists use found objects to create artwork by a process called:

Back 121

assembling (p. 340)

Front 122

In fifteenth-century Benin sculptors were supported by _________.

Back 122

patronage of the king (p. 332)

Front 123

A gouge, a mallet, and a scraper are tools used for _________.

Back 123

carving wood (p. 329-330)

Front 124

The sculpture, Pod Pocha by Ursula von Rydingsvard employs both stacking of elements and carving away to suggest _________.

Back 124

the natural processes of geological layering and erosion (p. 341)

Front 125

For his monumental sculptures, such as Torqued Ellipses, Richard Serra uses computer modeling to work out __________.

Back 125

basic coordinates, balance, layout and shape (p. 328)

Front 126

In Michelangelo's David the figure's head and shoulders are in a slightly opposite direction than his hips and legs, in a pose called:

Back 126

contrapposto (p. 334)

Front 127

The ability of sculptural material to resist forces of pressure, like gravity, is called its:

Back 127

tensile strength (p. 330)

Front 128

Artwork made of impermanent found objects is referred to as ________.

Back 128

ephemeral (p. 344)

Front 129

The lost-wax process of bronze casting can only be used for small objects.

Back 129

FALSE (p. 337)

Front 130

Michelangelo believed that one piece of marble was the same as another.

Back 130

FALSE (p. 331)

Front 131

Stone can be polished to be very smooth.

Back 131

TRUE (p. 334)

Front 132

This sculpture by Louise Nevelson, called Black Wall is made of various pieces of wood. This sculpture is called an:

Back 132

assemblage (Ch. 10 PPT)

Front 133

Zoe Leonard creates sculptural installations, such as Strange Fruit (for David), from __________ materials.

Back 133

ephemeral (p. 344)

Front 134

Artists like using stone for sculpture because of its:

Back 134

permanence (p. 329-330)

Front 135

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of:

Back 135

earthworks (p. 346)

Front 136

The bronze sculpture of Degas' Horse Galloping on Right Foot shows the details of the original:

Back 136

modeling in wax (p. 335, 337)

Front 137

In casting, a mold is used into which:

Back 137

molten material is poured (p. 337)

Front 138

The Greeks developed the ___________ process of casting, which is still used.

Back 138

lost-wax (p. 337)

Front 139

To keep track of where they are when carving a block, wood sculptors may __________.

Back 139

draw the outline of the sculpture on the wood (p. 330)

Front 140

Sculpture made from found objects is sometimes called ___________ sculpture.

Back 140

junk (Ch 10 PPT)

Front 141

Porcelain is considered to be the most precious of ceramic ware because it is:

Back 141

pure white, non-absorbent, and very strong (p. 355)

Front 142

Dale Chihuly is a major artist in the field of:

Back 142

art glass (p. 365)

Front 143

Iron that is worked in a heated state with hand tools is called:

Back 143

wrought (p. 358)

Front 144

The ancient craft of making objects from clay is called:

Back 144

ceramics (p. 352)

Front 145

Crafts have been highly developed since ___________.

Back 145

millennia ago (p. 350)

Front 146

Soft woods, such as pine and spruce, are not always easy to work with because ___________.

Back 146

they may splinter while being worked on (p. 360)

Front 147

The practice of ________ seems to have begun with the nomads of Central Asia.

Back 147

weaving rugs for covering their tents and wrapping their possessions (p. 371)

Front 148

Louis Tiffany and John La Forge developed:

Back 148

the opalescent form of stained glass (p. 369)

Front 149

Susye Billy, a basket weaver of the native Pomo people in California, has said natural materials for her craft are difficult to obtain because __________.

Back 149

land developers have changed the natural environment (p. 369)

Front 150

Some woodworkers look for "defects" in a piece of wood, like ______, as seen in Mark Lindquist's Toutes Uncommon Bowl.

Back 150

burls (p. 363-364)

Front 151

Most clay vessels are _______ to ensure permanence and water resistance.

Back 151

baked (p. 353)

Front 152

An ancient method for working with clay is called:

Back 152

wheel-throwing (p. 353)

Front 153

Douglas Steakley's raised vessels are an example of:

Back 153

hammered copper (p. 360)

Front 154

A common clay body, or mixtures of different kinds of clay, is:

Back 154

earthenware (p. 352)

Front 155

Wood cannot be used for extremely ornate forms.

Back 155

FALSE (p. 360)

Front 156

Harvey Littleton revived the art of glassmaking in the twentieth century __________ movement.

Back 156

studio glass (p. 364)

Front 157

Today's craft artisans experiment with new techniques only and have little or no interest in traditional methods.

Back 157

FALSE (p. 350-351)

Front 158

Wedging is a step in the process in which the artist:

Back 158

removes air pockets from the clay (p. 353)

Front 159

Any type of clay is suitable for ceramics.

Back 159

FALSE (p. 352)

Front 160

Slab building is a method for:

Back 160

building up clay (p. 352-353)

Front 161

Among the things architects consider is acoustics, or the:

Back 161

science of sound (p. 392)

Front 162

The walled gardens in the Alhambra were functional and provided fruits and vegetables for the royal family.

Back 162

FALSE (p. 401)

Front 163

The interiors of buildings with steel frameworks:

Back 163

are broad open spaces (p. 400)

Front 164

Buildings constructed in the International Modern Style are:

Back 164

constructed along purely functional lines, largely made with glass exteriors, and lacking in ornamentation. (p. 402)

Front 165

The "Nakagin Capsule Building" in Tokyo is an example of ____________.

Back 165

modular construction (p. 405)

Front 166

Of the names listed below, the one that is not a Greek order is:

Back 166

Rhodian (p. 396) *Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric are all Greek orders

Front 167

Architects are like artists working in other visual media because they:

Back 167

use the elements of design and the organizing principles (p. 386-387)

Front 168

R. Buckminster Fuller's architectural theory is based on forms created by nature at the molecular level.

Back 168

TRUE (p. 403) *Geodesic domes

Front 169

The circular interior space of the Pantheon in Rome is called a:

Back 169

rotunda (p. 390)

Front 170

Through its innovative architectural developments, Romans were able to build:

Back 170

domes, open spaces without obstructions, and barrel vaults (p. 396)

Front 171

To account for local climate in his design of an Amsterdam Bank Complex, A. Ton Alberts incorporated _________.

Back 171

solar panels (p. 408)

Front 172

Which of the following is hardest to carve: wood, ivory, jade, or marble?

Back 172

jade (Ch 10 PPT)

Front 173

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is a good example of the use of:

Back 173

cantilevered beams (p. 405 & 407)

Front 174

The Suq ai-Ainau is an excellent example of how architects adapt their designs to respond to _________.

Back 174

the environment in which the structure is placed (p. 392)

Front 175

The flying buttress was used in the interior of Gothic cathedrals, such as Chartres, to support the thick interior walls.

Back 175

FALSE (p. 399) *Flying buttresses reduce the need for thick interior walls

Front 176

The invention of balloon-frame construction came about with the development of:

Back 176

mass-produced nails (p. 400) *and machined boards instead of hand-cut lumber)

Front 177

Stone has been used as a building material since ancient times because of its compressive strength, which is the:

Back 177

ability to support pressure without breaking (p. 394)

Front 178

Eric Kuhne's Bluewater Shopping Complex in Kent, England contains a rain forest and mountain bike trails.

Back 178

TRUE (p. 407)

Front 179

In post-modern architecture, building designs tend to:

Back 179

be expressive and individual, following no one specific style (p. 406)

Front 180

Wrought iron began to be used for framing buildings in the _________ century.

Back 180

nineteenth (p. 400)