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During the ( ) the term"art" was used roughly in the same sense as "craft" |
Middle ages |
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The term for extreme optical fidelity is |
Trompe l'oeil |
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The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its |
Visual characterics |
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Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of |
Installation |
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To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of |
Iconography |
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After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that |
Experts still debate the works iconography |
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During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both |
We're felt to provide leisure |
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The field of philosophy called aesthetics asks the question |
All these answers are correct |
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Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because |
All these answers are correct |
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Our modern idea about art carry with them ideas about |
The museum |
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Rebecca Purdum's Chin Up and Vasily Kandinsky's swinging have what in common |
Both are nonrepresentational in style |
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Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the |
All of these answers are correct |
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( ) involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art |
Iconography |
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( ) is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross |
Pieta |
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What term describes work done by nonprofessionals |
All of these answers are correct |
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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience it's style is |
Naturalistic |
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Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by |
Claude Monet |
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When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its |
Form |
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During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ( ) came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts |
Painting, sculpture, and architecture |
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According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries because |
The portrait was almost miraculously lifelike |
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Charles White's untitled illustrates the technique of |
Hatching |
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The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work |
The Rocky Mountains |
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One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is |
All of these are correct |
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During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized piece of art |
Motion |
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In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ( ) light |
White |
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The 18th century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are |
Position and overlap |
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Passive Pink refers to the color that |
Seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body |
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In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ( ) to describe the way shadows and light define the Mass of forms |
Chiaroscuro |
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A black and white photo of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ( ) of the colors |
Values |
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The German painter Franz Marc associated the color blue with |
Male spirituality |
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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world |
James Turrell |
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In drawing, the outer boundaries of 2d forms are defined by ( ) while the outer boundaries perceived among 3d forms are identified by ( ) |
Outlines, contour lines |