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Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated?

A sensation to it's audience

William G. Walls' print Fort Edward is a vehicle for for expressing the artists thoughts about....

The passing of the Native American way of life. Nation building, also expansion of 10th century America.

Western Artists since the Renaissance have usually considered _______ to be the highest forms of art.

Paintings and sculptures

During his lifetime Vincent van Gough did what?

Spent 10 years as an artist. Produced 1,000 drawings and 1,250 paintings.

Traditionally Artists in China learned their craft by ______

Copying their, and others masters works.

Stolen Art loses much of its value because?

Lack of a good title, improper provenance, inability of buyer to resell painting in future

African masks displayed in museums were originally made for _____?

For use in ceremony--- often had spiritual or magical significance

Art is sometimes censored by authorities because _______

Some find it pornographic. It offends religious beliefs. Objections to a political message. Represents values one considers offensive/ improper.

The Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition contained work that ________

Did not conform to Nazi party goals

The Turkish soldiers in Delacroix's painting The Massacre at Chios are shown wearing turbans because the artist wanted ______

Them to appear more fearsome, and exotic to European viewers.

The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is a principle of ______.

Positive and negative shapes

These 1300- year old South American drawings , which include an enormous image of a spider, were first discovered by overflying commercial aircraft because they are so huge.

Nazca Lines

Line can be used as a tool to _____

Describe. Connect two points. Define boundaries between two planes. Define shapes. Direct the viewers eye. Convey a sense of movement and energy.

Barbara Hempworth uses line to plan and visualize her 3D artwork. What kind of 3D artwork does she produce?

Sculptures

This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in am attempt to explore the deep rooted sources of creativity and truth.

Andre Masson

Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It by SauerKids are a good example of what kind of line?

Implied lines

In the work The Connectors the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewers attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building

Directional Lines

Vertical Lines tend to communicate _____

Strength and Energy

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise

Geometric

This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater.

Fairey

Using negative shape the graphic designer Al Grivetti inserted this number into the Big Ten logo to express the leagues expansion

Eleven