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During the ( ) the term"art" was used roughly in the same sense as "craft"

Middle ages

The term for extreme optical fidelity is

Trompe l'oeil

The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its

Visual characterics

Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of

Installation

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

After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that

Experts still debate the works iconography

During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both

We're felt to provide leisure

The field of philosophy called aesthetics asks the question

All these answers are correct

Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because

All these answers are correct

Our modern idea about art carry with them ideas about

The museum

Rebecca Purdum's Chin Up and Vasily Kandinsky's swinging have what in common

Both are nonrepresentational in style

Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the

All of these answers are correct

( ) involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art

Iconography

( ) 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

What term describes work done by nonprofessionals

All of these answers are correct

If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience it's style is

Naturalistic

Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

Claude Monet

When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its

Form

During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ( ) came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts

Painting, sculpture, and architecture

According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries because

The portrait was almost miraculously lifelike

Charles White's untitled illustrates the technique of

Hatching

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work

The Rocky Mountains

One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is

All of these are correct

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized piece of art

Motion

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ( ) light

White

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

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

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ( ) to describe the way shadows and light define the Mass of forms

Chiaroscuro

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

The German painter Franz Marc associated the color blue with

Male spirituality

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

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