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Why did graphite become popular with artists?
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Because it could create fine lines and bold lines, was also easily erasible- they could be more experimental.
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Who is credited with keeping the first modern sketchbook?
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Jean Antoine Watteau
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What are the advantages of pastels to the artist?
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Wide range of colors, better control, colors are easily blended. It is a dry media - closest to working with pure pigments.
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What are conte crayons?
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Artist crayons, developed in the 1700's, they last longer than children's crayons, they are used when artists want to model forms softly.
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What type of pen is made from bird feathers?
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Quill pens. Goose feather is most common.
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What paint media uses wax as a binder?
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Encaustic, usually bees wax.
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What is a collage?
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A form of mixed media, an assembly of cutouts and pictures, cut and paste together.
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Why is the artwork of Vik Muniz considered non-traditional?
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He used nontraditional media in his art: ex. chocolate, and photographed the works.
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9. What is the difference between wood engraving and wood cut?
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Woodcut: negative aspects removed from wood. Wood engraving: done in endgrain of wood, very hard, special tools are needed.
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10. What printmaking processes use acid to remove lines in metal plates?
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Etching.
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What type of prints influenced Mary Cassatt’s The Letter?
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Japanese prints
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What does it mean to appropriate an image in contemporary art?
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To borrow imagery from another source
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What is referred to as the “dark field” in monotypes?
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Where paint is removed from the metal plate to build a picture.
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What was the first photographic image called?
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Daguerrotype
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Who was Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre?
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A french painter, created first permanent photographic image.
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Who was Timothy O'Sullivan?
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A pioneer in landscape photography.
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Who photographed the joys of upper-middle-class life in pre-WWI France?
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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What is a kinetoscope?
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The first motion picture player/camera, created by Thomas Edison.
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According to your text, when did TV become the center of American cultural life?
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In the 1950's.
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Who originated video art?
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Nam June Paik, a Korean and American artist.
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Who is Pipilotti Rist?
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Swiss Artist, created video art piece "Sip My Ocean"
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What is digital art?
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Art created with the aid of a computer
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What was whirlwind?
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Monitors attached to computers at MIT (bouncing ball; jingle bells)
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What is sketchpad?
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Hardware and software system, Sutherland could draw directly on the screen.
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What sort of tools were used to carve out the Colossal Olmec head?
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Stone tools.
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What events were commemorated on Assyrian sculpture?
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Military victories and hunting expeditions of Kings from 2800 years ago (in what is now Iraq)
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What is freestanding sculpture?
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Sculptures that inhabit 3D space, can be vied from all sides.
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What is performance art?
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Living sculptural events, they were made for the moment.
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Be familiar with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, by Joseph Beuys.
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Head covered with honey and gold foil; dead hare, touched paw to painting, then explained the art to the dead hare.
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What methods are used in additive sculpture?
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Sculpture is built up, by adding clay or plaster (can be installations)
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What methods are used in subtractive sculpture?
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The removal of pieces of the material, like clay, stone, or wood, to reveal the artpiece
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What is the lost wax method?
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A method of casting metal sculptures.
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What is the most important material used for African sculpture?
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Wood for woodcarvings/sculpture.
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What industrial techniques did sculptor David Smith use?
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Welding and Soldering
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What is mixed media?
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Art that combines more than on media - mostly a mix of 3d and 2d media.
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Describe the work of Tony Oursler.
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Created bio-morphic while fiber glass forms with dvd projections of faces on them.
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Who called architecture “ the most public of arts”.
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Walter Gropius
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What is the Kaufman House?
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The Fallingwater house created by Frank LLoyd Wright.
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What view is shown in a floor plan?
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The flat view from above.
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Why is the Parthenon in ruins today?
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Turk army stored gun powder in it, and the Venetians shelled it, thus blowing it all to hell.
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What is masonry?
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Blocks of stone, marble or granite.
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Why use a pointed arch in a structure?
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Allows higher ceilings, higher openings in outer walls for doorways and windows.
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How is it that modern skyscrapers can have a "glass skin"?
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Due to the interior metal "skeleton" as the support structure.
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What do skyscrapers in America symbolize?
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Corporate money, power, efficiency, and modernity.
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What does the facade of Saint Peters contain?
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A piazza: courtyard containing fountains and an obelisk.
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What are some of the most common craft media?
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Ceramics, glass, wood, metal and fiber.
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Where can the most beautiful, best-preserved set of stained glass windows in the world be found?
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A cathedral: Chartres in France.
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What was the Aesthetic Movement in the late 19th century?
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An arts and crafts movement in the last decades of the 19th century.
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What is typography?
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The selection and manipulation of styles and sizes of lettering.
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What is industrial design?
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The aesthetic refinement of products, making functional engineering solutions easy to use and attractive.
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