Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden both utilize ____ & _____ ______ to create order and harmony in their versions of the Piano Lesson.
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Color and shape repetition
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African-American artist Faith Ringgold records the story of her life and dreams on a Harlem rooftop. Her painted memories are depicted within the framework of a(n) _________.
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Patchwork quilt
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In his family 1907 photograph, Alfred Stieglitz captures the juxtaposition of the upper and lower classes on board the Kaiser Wilhelm II ship. This photograph is titled _________.
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The Steerage
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Images painted directly on a wall or intended to cover a wall completely, such as Jose Clemente Orozco’s Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-American, are known as _______.
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murals
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Marc Chagall self-portrait I and Village can best be described as a depiction of _____________.
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fantasy
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In Laurie Simmons’ photograph Red Library #2, the perfect room and robot-like woman are meant to symbolize ______.
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The dangers of too much order
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The use of space and atmosphere in Max Beckmann’s The Dream could be best described as ______.
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Claustrophobic and compressed
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Located in Istanbul, Turkey, the _____ was build as a Christian church in 532-537 CE but was converted to an Islamic mosque in 1453 and now serves as a museum. Its _____ is especially wondrous, appearing to float on light streaming through its row of windows.
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Hagia Sophia; dome
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Marcel Duchamps Fountain is a readymade, produced from an upside-down ____.
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trashcan
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Judy Chicago’s triangular installation called the Dinner Party was constructed to honor and immortalize _______.
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History’s notable women
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The 19th-century painter Jean-Francois Millet wrote, “I try not to have things look as if chance had brought them together, but as if they had a necessary bond between them.” Here, the artist is expressing his quest for ________ in his art works.
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harmony
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In Betye Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, the artist is protesting the use of Aunt Jemima as a(n) _______.
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stereotype
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Picasso protested the horror and brutality of the Spanish civil war in his 1937 masterpiece painting known as ________.
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Guernica
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In Nighthawks, Edward Hopper’s desolate scene of late night diners in a city café, the scene seems to be set in the period of the _____.
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1940’s
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An Anti-commercial movement begun in the1960s in which works of art are conceived and executed in the mind of the artist is known as ____.
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Conceptual art
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Light against dark or dark against light creates visual differences in _____.
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Value
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_____ are formed when intersecting or connected lines enclose space.
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shapes
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Using their signature combination of the body and braided hair, the Gerlovins created a modern revision of _____, one of the most popular themes of the Renaissance.
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Madonna and Child
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In art, a _____ is usually defined as a moving dot and is both the simplest and most complex of the visual elements.
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line
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_____ creates the illusion of roundness or three dimensionality through the use of light and shadow on a two-dimensional surface.
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modeling
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Diagonal lines are often used to ____.
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Imply movement and directionality
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The _____ shape of an artistic composition is considered the background.
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negative
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In works with ______, the lines are completed by the viewer.
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Implied line
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In Emily Mary Osborne’s Nameless and Friendless, _________ visually connect and lead the viewer’s eye around the composition.
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Gestures and glances
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The process of organizing the visual elements to achieve a desired aesthetic in a work of art is known as _________.
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Design
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Pictorial balance can be found in which of the following?
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Proportion of Human Figure
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The device of _____ to create unity is reflected in the ages of the youth, their ethnicity, and their suggested bond of friendship in Delilah Montoya’s Los Jovenes (Youth).
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Continuity
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The compositional unity in Thomas Hart Benton’s Palisades derives primarily from _________.
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Curvilinear shapes and lines
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Unlike two-dimensional compositions, three-dimensional objects such as sculptures often have ______.
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Actual balance
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Proportion of the Human Figure can best be considered an example of ____.
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Bilateral symmetry
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_________ refers to the portrayal of people and things as they are, with no idealization or distortion.
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realism
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Roy Lichtenstein’s Forget It! Is an example of Pop Art that has the visual appearance of a _____.
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Comic strip
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In expressionistic art, the artist intentionally distorts colors and forms in the composition in order to achieve a(n) ____.
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Sense of chaos
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______ refers to a distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school or movement, or a specific culture or period.
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content
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The form of an artwork includes all of the elements that make up the composition except _____.
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Subject matter
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Walter de Maria's the lightning field is considered a spectacular example of ________.
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land art
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Peter Testa believes we "need to rethink how we assemble buildings" and has designed a high-rise tower out of ____.
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woven carbon fiber
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the oldest form of printmaking is ________, and most likely the first people to use it where the ancient _______.
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woodcut; Chinese
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the advent of the camera replaced the age-old need of art to imitate nature as closely as possible, and this change, in turn, led to the development of 20th century artistic _____.
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abstraction
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william wegmans blue period is a canine spoof on ____.
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picasso's old guitarist
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one of the best preserved ancient roman aqueduct systems is the ____ near nimes, france. the ____ of the limestone blacks allowed for the weight of three tiers of arches.
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pont du gard; compressive strength
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the binding agent that powdered pigment is mixed with to form paint is known as the _____.
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vehicle
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the primary purpose of ______ is to preserve memories of persons or events
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monuments
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Andy goldsworthys ice piece was produced using
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his breath
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intaglio prints are made from ______ into which lines have been incised
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metal plates
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many of the artist chuck closes unidealized portraits such as self portrait/conte crayon, are based on a _____, which produces blurry photographic likenesses.
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a grid transfer method
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the gothic, pointed arch church of notre dame is bathed in light due to its ample _____.
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fenestration
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the faces in faith ringgolds soft sculpture mama jones, andrew, barbara, and faith are reminiscent of ________.
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african masks
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rembrandt copied ______ but addedsome aditional features to his own sketched version
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Leonardo da vinci last supper
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in the lost wax process, molten metal is poured into a fire-resistant mold known as a ______.
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investiture
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lithgraphy, invented in the beginning of the 19th century by a german playwright, is a planographic, or ______, printing process in which a _____ is used.
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surface; stone slab
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dorothea langes mirgant mother is a touching photograph take during the period of
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the great depression
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in the ___ process, the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper, zinc, or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the hell of the hand
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engraving
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broadly defined, _____ is the art of running an implement that leaves a mark over a surface.
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drawing
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Louis Sullivans rigid horizontal and vertical processions of facade elements that suggest the regularity of the spaces within his wainwright building reinforce sulivans famous motto that ______.
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form follows function
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in silverpoint drawings, the drawings surface must be coated with a ground of ____.
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bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment
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higher quality photographs are said to have higher _________.
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resolution
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the oldest known type of ink is india or china ink, made form a solution of _____.
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carbon black and water
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true fresco, or _________, is executed on damp _____.
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buon fresco; lime plaster
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the traditional composition of tempera, rarely used today, consisted of _________.
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egg, pigment, and water
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the word photograph is derived from greek roots that mean ________.
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to write with light
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the botanical whimsies of _______ are considered some of the finest examples of art nouveau glass.
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Tiffany
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william henry fox talbots first "photogenic drawings" were eerie, delicate photographs of ______, produced from a ______
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plants; negative
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for the gatesm cristo and jeanne-claude installed _____ throughout central park in Feb of 2005
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saffron colored fabric panels
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which of the following is not an additive sculptural process
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carving
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the fluidity and portability of watercolor has often lent itself to ___________
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rapid sketches and preparatory studies
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native american potter Lucy M. Lewis produces her finely made acoma pueblo pots through th elaborious process of _________.
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coiling
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due to its ______,clay is frequently used to make three-dimensional preparatory sketches for other sculptures.
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weakness
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in both the camera and the ________, light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.
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human eye
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miriam schapiros maid of honour is a paint-and-fabric construction hat she labeled ________
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femmage
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