Art Exam Answer Key

Chapter 1.1 1. What kind of three-dimensional artwork did Barbara Hepworth produce? a. Sculptures 2. The dashes and grids in Sauerkids’ The Devil Made Me Do It are examples of what kind of line? a. Implied 3. What can line be used as a tool of? a. Imply direction, give sense of surface, indicate movement 4. What are the 1300 year old South American drawings discovered by commercial aircraft called? a. Nazca lines 5. What artist used positive and negative shapes in his < Obey= campaign? a. Shepard Fairey 6. What artist would go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth? a. Andre Masson 7. What kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise? a. Geometric Chapter 1.2 1. A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are examples of what element of art? a. Texture 2. Frank Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of what? a. Organic and geometric form 3. What are the two kinds of relief sculpture? a. Low-relief (bas-relief) and high-relief (alto-relief) 4. What element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as the Olmec heads? a. Mass 5. What object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone? a. Great Sphinx of Giza 6. What are examples of geometric forms? a. Cube, Sphere, Cylinder, Pyramid Chapter 1.3 1. What is the method of applying value to give a feeling of three-dimensionality called? a. Chiaroscuro 2. In The Treachery of Images, Magritte tells us that painting is a what? a. Visual trick 3. What is the method where rules of perspective are applied to represent unusual points of view called? a. Foreshortening 4. What is the technique in which an artist creates a series of closely arranged parallel lines that is overlapped by another set of parallel lines to create a sense of value called? a. Cross-hatching 5. What are the two values at the extreme ends of a value range? a. Black and white 6. Who was the Italian artist to first define a formal system of linear perspective? a. Brunelleschi 7. What is the type of perspective used by computer and video game designers to create depth using parallel diagonal lines called? a. Isometric Chapter 1.4 1. What is a color that is lighter than its basic hue called? a. Tint 2. What kind of color combination do artists use to avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood? a. Analogous 3. Reflected light excites _____________ that line the back of our eyes, and their signals are reprocessed and interpreted as color in our brains. a. Nerve cells 4. Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of what? a. Two primary colors 5. What color with a cool temperature is often used to describe a depressed psychological state of mind? a. Blue 6. What kind of a color map allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other? a. Color wheel Chapter 1.5 1. What kind of motion is implied in Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne? a. A chase scene 2. Dorothea Lange took a series of photographs of a family in what kind of living quarters? a. A tent 3. Who are the five figures in The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul by the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza? a. St. Anthony (three times), a centaur, and St. Paul 4. Moving images created with a zoetrope were early forms of what? a. Animation 5. Op art of the 1960s relied on a physiological effect that creates an illusion of motion. What is this effect called? a. The natural oscillations of the eye 6. What object by French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered the first work of kinetic sculpture? a. A bicycle wheel mounted on a stool 7. What type of art involves viewing actual motion and the artist’s body in the work? a. Performance art Chapter 1.6 1. What are examples of variety in a work? a. Different shapes and colors 2. An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other. a. Complement 3. Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from which language? a. German 4. How does Katsushika Hokusai’s print < The Great Wave Off Shore at Kanagawa= use compositional unity? a. The wave crests mimic the snow on Mt. Fuji, The shape of Mt. Fuji is repeated throughout the work, The placement of the boats in between the waves creates a pattern. 5. What associations does the symmetrical design of the Taj Mahal carry? a. Beauty and stability 6. When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has what kind of balance? a. Radial Chapter 1.7 1. What can a work created in small scale communicate? a. Intimacy 2. In ancient Egyptian art, how was the pharaoh almost always depicted? a. As the largest of all the figures 3. What does the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael depict in The School of Athens? a. A gathering of great scholars 4. How did the Surrealists use scale to create an abnormal or supernatural effect? a. Distorted scale 5. How do we perceive scale? a. In relation to our own size 6. What Greek sculptor wrote a treatise on how to create a statue of a human being with perfect proportions? a. Polykleitos 7. When a Yoruba sculptor created a human form, what body part did he or she make disproportionately large? a. Head Chapter 1.8 1. In Artemisia Gentileschi’s work Judith Decapitating Holofernes, the viewer is directed to the ______________________ that is indicated by directional lines. a. Focal point 2. In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall o fIcarus, the viewer is directed away from Icarus plunging into the sea, through use of _____________________. a. Subordination 3. What figure is emphasized the most in Jacob Lawrence’s print from his series The Life of John Brown? a. All of the figures are emphasized in different ways 4. Placement of elements in a composition controls __________________ and creates multiple focal points. a. Rhythm 5. ______________________: a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art. a. Focal point 6. What kind of line is more visually active and draws the viewer’s attention? a. Diagonal 7. What does an artist use to draw attention away from a particular part of a composition? a. Subordination 8. What can be used to create emphasis? a. Direction, contrast, placement Chapter 1.9 1. In Francisco Goya’s print The Third of May, 1808, the Spanish citizens are arranged in a(n) ____________________rhythm, whereas the French soldiers have _____________ rhythm. a. Irregular, regular 2. In Islamic art it is not uncommon to see complex interlaced __________________, which are designs repeated as units in a pattern. a. Motifs 3. In which sixteenth-century work does the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel use rhythm to direct the viewer’s attention to different areas of the work? a. Hunters in the Snow 4. ____________________: the principle of design that arises from repetition of a pattern. a. Rhythm 5. ____________________ is present when there are at least two points of reference in an artwork. a. Rhythm Chapter 1.10 1. Why would a group of artists might share a style (an identifiable kind of visual expression)? a. They all used similar techniques, they all worked at the same time, they all studied in the same place. 2. Why did Pablo Picasso study and copy Las Meninas? a. He wanted to develop his own individual style 3. What does the psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tell us? a. The painter was expressing anxiety 4. What do the tools of formal analysis help us to do? a. Understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork. 5. Thomas Struth’s photograph Museo del Prado 7 is a portrait of what? a. A portrait of art appreciation 6. When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. What are primary sources? Secondary sources? a. Primary: Original art, sculptures, etc. Secondary: A scholarly journal article Chapter 2.1 1. Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. What are examples of binders? a. Each answer shown is correct 2. When artists used silverpoint for a drawing, they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of what? a. Bone ash 3. What is life drawing the process of? a. Drawing from a live model 4. Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils? a. Graphite Chapter 2.2 1. Images were painted using a saliva-and-pigment solution on cave walls at Pech Merle, France, _____________ years ago. a. 25,000 2. Linseed oil came into general use as a painting binder in the fifteenth century in what country? a. Flanders 3. What binder is used to suspend pigment in acrylic paint? a. Polymer resin 4. Why is egg tempera a challenging medium for artists to work with? a. It dries almost immediately Chapter 2.3 1. How is collagraph painting different to relief or intaglio methods? a. The artist builds up rather than cuts into the surface that is to be inked 2. What are the unique prints called that artists opt to create instead of printmaking in editions? a. Monotype prints and monoprints 3. Printing with inks was first practiced in which country in the third century CE? a. China 4. When creating a multi-color print, aligning the blocks or plates to ensure that the colors will appear in the correct location is called ___________________. a. Registration Chapter 2.4 1. What are the two types of relief sculpture? a. Low-relief (bas-relief) and high-relief (alto-relief) 2. What is a sculpture that moves called? a. Kinetic sculpture 3. What is the practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art called? a. Assemblage 4. What are the methods of carving? a. Chipping, sawing, whittling, drilling Chapter 2.5 1. A ____________________ is an architectural space that is created by using a series of columns, or a colonnade, to support a flat ceiling. a. Hypostyle hall 2. What issue(s) concern 21st century architects? a. Limited resources, energy, conservation, and sustainability 3. Pointed arches conduct the downward thrust of the weight of the building by redirecting it outward toward the walls and have a strong upward visual _______________________. a. Emphasis 4. Which type of arch, made up of stones that are progressively stepped inward, was used by the ancient Babylonians and Mycenaeans? a. Corbeled arch Chapter 2.6 1. Clay used to make earthenware has a good ______________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation. a. Plasticity 2. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s time, the makers of the fine objects we see today in the world’s great art museums learned their trade in associations called __________________. a. Guilds 3. When an artist is making pottery by hand-throwing, the first step when forming the clay on a potter’s wheel is to ____________________. a. Center a mound of clay on the wheel Chapter 2.7 1. Commercial color printers what three primary colors, plus black? a. Cyan, magenta, yellow 2. The designer and artist Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec created poster designs for which Parisian nightspot? a. Moulin rogue 3. The word < type= derives from the ____________________ meaning < to strike.= a. Greek 4. When a typeface does not have any extra me embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ___________________________ font. a. Sans serif Chapter 2.8 1. Because the camera appears to capture an image of an event exactly as it occurred, viewers often believe that the resulting photograph is ____________________ record of events. a. A totally accurate 2. Why have photographs only recently been collected by fine arts museums? a. They were considered by some not to be true forms of art. 3. When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, _______________________ image is formed. a. A negative Chapter 2.9 1. How does a musical tell a story? a. A dialog, dance, and songs 2. Among artistic media, one that developed recently is ___________________. a. Moving imagery 3. The earliest films did not feature what? a. Ongoing dialogue Chapter 2.10 1. Describe installation artworks. a. Consider how the viewer will move through the space, Transform the traditional space of an exhibition, Immerse viewers in the artwork, Can take place inside or outside (Each answer shown is correct) 2. How does performance art differ from theater? a. The actions usually take place in an art context 3. What are the kinds of artworks made using alternative media? a. Performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments 4. What is the most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art? a. The idea behind the artwork