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64 Cards in this Set
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What type of art?
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BLACK LINES- WASSILY KANDINSKY NON-OBJECTIVE |
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What type of art? |
LA TRAHISON DES IMAGES- RENE MAGRITTE NON-REPRESNTATIONAL- it is a painting of a pipe, not an actual pipe. |
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What is the definition of Iconography? |
The study or description of images and symbols |
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Give an example of Iconography |
Stained glass windows |
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What type of Art? |
Homeless vechicle in New York City- Krzysztof Wodiczko Social Art, Activist Art |
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What type of Art? |
Richard Serra- Tilted Arc Public Art |
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What does the Taj Mahal represent? |
Symmetrical |
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Michelangelo- David |
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What type of line? |
Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, House Outline |
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What is the definition of Abstract Art? |
The rendering of images and objects in a stylized or simplified way, so that though they remain recognizable, their formal or expressive aspects are emphasized. Compare both representational and non objective art. |
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Pablo Picasso- LesDemoiselles d'Avignon |
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What color represents death in this textile? |
White- Death in Africa, |
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What is the definition of Representational Art? |
Any work that seeks to resemble the world of natural appearance. |
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What painting is it representing? |
Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass Copy of Marcantonio Raymond, The Judgement of Paris |
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What technique this artist use? |
Robert Ryman, Long Impasto |
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What Perspective does this painting show? |
Leonardo da Vinci- The last Supper One Point Perspective |
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What type of art is this? |
Barbara Hepworth, Two Figures Abstract |
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When White is added to a color it is called? |
Tint |
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When black is added to a color it is called? |
Shade |
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Kane Kwei- Coffin Orange, in the shape of a Cocoa Pod -Artists make functional objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with meeting |
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The Primary form of Islamic art is what? |
Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence Calligraphy |
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What does the candle represent? |
Georges de la Tour, Joseph the Carpenter
The devine light, of Jesus Christ |
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Sol Whitt, American Mathematics |
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What is the definition of Spectrum |
Sunlight that passes through a prism breaks into bands of different colors |
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What is the definition of cross hatching? |
Two or more sets of roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to one another, in order to create a sense of three-dimentional, modeled space. |
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What technique does this painting use? |
Michelangelo, Head of Satyr Cross-Hatching |
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Eugene Delacroix, Study for the Death of Sardanapalus |
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Primary colors? Secondary colors? Complementary colors? Intermediate colors? |
Red, Yellow, Blue Orange, Green, Purple Yellow-Purple, Blue-Orange, Red-Green Blue-Green |
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What did she use in her art? |
Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico Blood and gun Powder |
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Define Non-Reprentational and Non-Objective |
Art that makes no reference to the natural world and that explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements- Line, shape, and color, and the formal compositional principals of a given medium. |
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What technique is being displayed? |
Tenebrism |
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What kind of color Palette did this artist opt. for? |
Charles Searles, Filas for Sale Open Palette- Where he employs the entire scheme of hues. |
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What is Impasto |
Paint applied very thickly to canvas or support. |
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Larry Poons, Orange Crush |
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what is the definition of Chiaroscuro? |
In drawing and painting, the use of light and dark to create the effect of three-dimensional , modeled surfaces. |
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Know the parts |
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What does this painting do? |
Faith Ringgold, God bless America Active Seeing- Historical context, the civil rights movement |
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What is Foreshorting? |
Andrea Mantaegna, The Dead Christ The modification pf perspective to decrease distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backward from the picture plane at an angle approaching the perpendicular |
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What is Rhythm and how is it demonstrated in this painting. |
Jacob Lawrence, Barber Shop An effect achieved when shapes, colors, or a regular pattern of any kind is repeated over and over again. By the shapes and the colors- as well as the patterns used. |
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Rene Magritte’s painting The Treason of Images, “the phrase this is not a pipe” refers to which of the following concepts?
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The image is a representation of a pipe but not the object
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What is non-objective art
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Art that doesn’t refer to the natural world at all.
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The Mudra refers to which aspect of the
Buddhist representation |
The buddha's hand gestures |
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A fuller interpretation of Jan van Eyck’s painting of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami is gained through the study of ______________.
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iconography of Flemish art
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The Photograph Lisa Lyon was made by Mathew Richie.
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False |
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Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase was based on the book Movement, which was written by whom?
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Etienne-Jules Marey
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Which Van Gogh painting is referenced by Pat Steir in one of her six works entitled Drawing Lesson Part I, Line #5?
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The Starry Night
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From what practice did Edouard Manet intentionally deviate from that made this painting so controversial?
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Traditional use of canvas
Traditional painting techniques |
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Which group of people Found Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary offensive?
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The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
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Why is there a tendency for the public to not receive, or openly appreciate, innovative artwork?
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The public’s lack of experience with art
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Against what was Gomez-Pena and Sifuentes’s The Cruci-Fiction Project meant as a symbolic protest?
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California’s immigration policies
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What creates not only a sense of enclosure and connection but also movement and direction?
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implied line
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The French term nature morte refers to which of the following?
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still life painting
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Contour line only describes shape
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False |
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In paintings that demonstrate Atmospheric
Perspective |
Objects farther away often appear bluer
Objects father away appear less distinct the Contrast between light and dark is reduced |
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An example of an Analogous Color scheme would be which color pairings on the color wheel?
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Green and Blue-Green |
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Modeling is defined as
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The use of light and shadow to describe a
3-dimensional form |
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If an object has mass, it is _________.
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a solid that occupies a three-dimensional
volume |
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Which of the following helps create space in art?
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Perspective light color |
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On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought to be ________.
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cool colors |
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Georges Seurat’s painting technique of placing thousands of tiny dots next to one another is known as __________.
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pointillism
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Alexander Calder’s “mobiles,” such as Untitled, move air currents move through them in the room making them _________.
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kinetic
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The surface quality of a work is known as _________.
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Texture |
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Because of its application to crafts, folk art and women’s work, ________ is associated with beautifying utilitarian objects.
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decorative pattern |
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What is the purpose of African kente cloths?
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Designed to be worn at special occasions and ceremonies
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