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ART EXAM 2
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- 1CH 2.1 Which English artist and poet suggested that drawing is a fundamental artistic skill?William Blake
- 2CH 2.1 Leonardo da Vinci engaged in which illegal activity in order to get detailed drawings of the human anatomy?dissection
- 3CH 2.1 When Raphael transferred his drawing of The School of Athens to the wall for painting he forced which substance through perforations in the paper?charcoal dust
- 4CH 2.1 Which material that looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?graphite
- 5CH 2.1 Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of ______.bone ash
- 6CH 2.1 The German artist Käthe Kollwitz used charcoal to express ______ in her self-portrait of 1933, even though she rendered her face and hand in a static, realistic way.a sense of energy
- 7CH 2.1 Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?gum arabic
wax
oil
glue
all of these - 8CH 2.1 Robert Rauschenberg created a work titled Erased de Kooning Drawing by erasing a work by the Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. How long did it take Rauschenberg to erase the whole drawing?nearly a month
- 9CH 2.1 Which of these is not used to make the bristles for a brush with a bamboo shaft, like those used by Asian artists?wolf hair
horse hair
goat hair
ox hair
all of these are used - 10CH 2.1 Paper was invented by Cai Lun in China around the end of the ______ century CE. He used macerated vegetable fibers suspended in water.first
- 112.2 Pigment names are often derived from their source. For example the pigment that we call umber is named after ______.Umbria, Italy
- 122.2 The Roman-era encaustic portraits from Fayum are excellent examples of Roman painting in wax. What was Fayum?an oasis
- 132.2 In The Virgin and Child with Angels, an egg tempera painting from the Ferrarese School, the artist has chosen to paint ______ frame that looks like the back of a canvas.an illusionistic
- 142.2 Fresco painting was practiced in which of these locations?Egyptian tombs
Roman houses
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Palace at Knossos
all of these - 152.2 Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist, practiced what kind of painting when he created large-scale works to celebrate the Socialist movement in Mexico?fresco
- 162.2 Linseed oil came into general use as a painting binder in the fifteenth century, particularly in this country.Flanders
- 172.2 Such artists as Jan van Eyck took advantage of the transparency of oil paint glazes to attain a rich ______ , as though lit from within.luminosity
- 182.2 Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession but she was supported by ______, who was also an artist.her father
- 192.2 The binder used to suspend pigment in acrylic paint is ______.polymer resin
- 202.2 Which painter and watercolorist was the first woman to have her work shown at the Louvre during her lifetime?Sonia Delaunay
- 212.3 Printing with inks was first used in which country in the third century CE?china
- 222.3 When creating a multi-color print, the alignment of blocks or plates to ensure that the colors will appear in the correct location is called ______.registration
- 232.3 Hokusai and Albrecht Dürer were print makers who lived at different times and in different countries, but they had this in common:They both relied on skilled craftsmen to execute their print editions
- 242.3 Max Beckmann exploited the irregular character of drypoint for his version of Adam and Eve because it fit the style of which group with whom he was affiliated?expressionist
- 252.3 This material, derived from tree sap, is important in aquatint, a printmaking process that emulates the appearance of water-based media.rosin
- 262.3 Francisco Goya created a series of works with horrific subjectsThe Disasters of War
- 272.3 Which German author devised the lithographic printing process because he wanted to use a cheaper printing methodSenefelder
- 282.3 At one point in the lithography process, the artist must wipe the stone clean with which solvent to prepare for the inking?kerosene
- 292.3 Andy Warhol produced silkscreen prints depicting many celebrities, including which singer/actor who was shown in a double portrait?Elvis Presley
- 302.3 The German artist Albrecht Dürer created the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse using which relief printmaking method?woodcut
- 312.4 Artists who engage in visual communication design must be well versed in the use of ______ b/c they must use many avenues to distribute their workpainting
sculpture
printmaking
media
*none of the above - 322.4 Even though Wang Xizhi had died long before, many students were able to retrieve specimens of his writing style by_____making rubbings from a stone tablet
- 332.4 Type is a word meaning "strike" derived from (language)Greek
- 342.4 When a typeface does not have any extra embellishments on the top and bottom of the letterforms, it is called a ____fontsans serif
- 352.4 The logo that identifies the Ford Motor Co. was created using Spencerian script by ____ named Harold Willsan engineer & executive
- 362.4 The artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris believed that society should reject rampant industrialization and restore ___________hand craftmanship
- 372.4 The illustrator Norman Rockwell introduced Rosie the Riveter on the cover of which weekly magazine during WWIISaturday Evening Post
- 382.4 The designer and artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created poster designs for which Parisian night club?Moulin Rouge
- 392.4 An advertisement for Tyco products integrated image and text by ______.changing color and size to create a picture
- 402.4 In web page design, text that will immediately link to another web page is called ______.a hyperlink
- 412.5 When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, ______ image is formed.a negative
- 422.5 The ______ was an early form of camera.camera obscura
- 432.5 The most important difference between the photographic process invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and the process devised by William Henry Fox Talbot was that Talbot’s images could be ______.colored
hand made
direct positives
easily reproduced
***none of the above - 442.5 Three important photographic genres are portraiture, landscape, and ______: images of inanimate objects, such as fruit.still life
- 452.5 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.an absolutely accurate
- 462.5 Photographs were only recently collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ______.true forms of art
- 472.5 Garry Winogrand’s practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance was known as ______.the snapshot aesthetic
- 482.5 Unlike a photocollage, a photomontage is made to be ______.controversial
- 492.5 The earliest photographs were black and white because ______.color processes were complicated
color photography was impossible
the chemistry used captured gray tones
they were more expensive
***all of the other answers - 502.5 Color processes can be used to make photographs that are ______.realistic
surreal
expressive
socially conscious
***all of the other answers - 512.6 Among artistic media, one that was developed relatively recently is ______.oil painting
charcoal drawing
marble sculpture
movies and film
***none of the other answers - 522.6 One of the first moving subjects to be captured in photographs was ______.a horse
- 532.6 Photographs by Muybridge could be put into a ______ to create the impression that they were actually moving.spinning zoetrope
- 542.6 The earliest films did not have ______ such as we experience in daily life.ongoing dialog
- 552.6 A musical tells a story using ______.dialog, dance and songs
- 562.6 The main difference between the animation used in The Cameraman’s Revenge and Spirited Away is thatThe Cameraman’s Revenge was made using ______.puppets
- 572.6 One important difference between The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and An Inconvenient Truth is that ______.An Inconvenient Truth is based on actual events
- 582.6 The sequences in Meshes of the Afternoon are similar to ______.dream imagery
- 592.6 Technology is used in contemporary video artworks, like those made by Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, in ways that ______.relate to people using imagery and a medium they can readily understand
- 602.6 Artworks made for the Internet encourage ______.collaboration among different artists
interactive experience for viewers
real-time updates of art actions
increasing diversity in the possibilities for artworks
***all of the other answers - 612.7 The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ______.performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments
- 622.7 The ideas, methods, and products of ______ inspired the alternative use of media and processes by artists who worked after they did.Marcel Duchamp
Jackson Pollock
John Cage
Claes Oldenburg
***all of the other answers - 632.7 The traditional, and narrow, definition of “fine art” includes ______.paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals
- 642.7 Performance art differs from theater because ______.the actions take place in an art context
- 652.7 The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ______.the idea behind the artwork
- 662.7 An important difference between Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me and Following Piece is thatFollowing Piece took place ______.on the streets of New York
- 672.7 Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) makes the viewer consider which of the following issues?-stereotypes that are commonly presented in graphic design
-powerful institutions, such as museums
-the problematic ways in which some institutions treat women
-the fact that gazing at beauty is a form of voyeurism
***-all of the above - 682.7 \What do Yoko Ono's Wish Trees and Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project have in common?They rely on the participants for their completion.
- 692.7 Installations are designed to ______.consider more than an individual work of art
transform the traditional space of an exhibition
immerse viewers in the artwork
design an entire exhibition space as an artwork
***all of the other answers - 702.7 Both Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum and Kara Walker’s Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet we Pressed On) combine ______.historical occurrences and contemporary viewpoints
- 712.8 In Geoffrey Chaucer’s time, the makers of the fine objects we can see today in the world’s great art museums learned their trade in associations called ______.guilds
- 722.8 The Korean-American artist Hyo-In Kim created the work To Be Modern #2 to emulate a ______, a traditional Korean dress worn with shoes and a hairpin by women of the upper and royal classes.hanbok
- 732.8 This word means the pliability of a material so that it can be easily formed into almost any orientation.Plasticity
- 742.8 This process, which involves carving away material from a surface where it cannot be reapplied, was used to sculpt the Olmec Colossal Head.subtractive
- 752.8 When an artist is making pottery by hand throwing, the first step when he or she forms the clay on a potter’s wheel is to ______.center a mound of clay
- 762.8 Which piece of sculpted Roman glass was named after one of its owners, Margaret Bentinck, an English duchess?Portland Vase
- 772.8 Exceptional large-scale stained-glass windows were featured in the construction of which Gothic cathedral in northern France?Chartres
- 782.8 The metalworking process called repoussé, used to create the death mask from Mycenae, involves which kind of craftsmanship?Hammering
- 792.8 Processing plant fibers begins with separating the fiber from the plant, then preparing it for use by spinning the fiber into a long ______.thread
- 802.8 Which African-American artist created the fiber work Tar Beach as an autobiographical work about her own experiences growing up in New York?Faith Ringgold
- 812.9 A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are ______, which is deeply cut, and ______, which has little depth.high relief ... bas-relief
- 822.9 Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?-Suspended from a chain above the floor
-So that a person could walk all the way around it
-Upon a high platform above the heads of viewers
-With its back to a pillar or wall
***-None of these - 832.9 Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned Giambologna to sculpt a symbol of the city’s strength to create a favorable image?Francesco de' Medici
- 842.9 Which of the following is not a method of carving?Spooning
- 852.9 Michelangelo used which Italian term, which refers to a manner of dress, to describe the figures he would use on the tomb of Pope Julius II?ignudi
- 862.9 The Hawaiian sculpture of a war god is a composition that includes how many different gods?Two
- 872.9 The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as ______ representation of the human body.an idealized
- 882.9 The massive earthwork Great Serpent Mound is made of mounds of earth that resemble a snake eating ______.an egg
- 892.9 The Constructivist movement in art is associated with which historical European country?Soviet Union
- 902.9 Gabo’s Constructed Head No. 2 investigates the sense of ______ and form implied by flat planes, in contrast to the solid mass of conventional sculpture.space
- 912.10 ______ space is the result of thoughtful design by an artist, or by a team of artists working to a common idea.Architectural
- 922.10 Architects must consider the availability and cost of ______ when they plan their projects.building materials
- 932.10 Mayan pyramids primarily served as platforms for ______.temples
- 942.10 The teams of workers who created the Great Pyramids appear to have taken pride in their work, and gave names to their teams. One such nickname was ______.“Drunkards of Menkaure”
- 952.10 A ______ is an architectural space that is created by using a series of columns, or a colonnade, to support a flat ceiling.hypostyle hall
- 962.-10 Which type of arch, which is made up of stones that are progressively stepped inwards, was used by the ancient Babylonians and Mycenaeans?Corbeled arch
- 972.10 Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?Romanesque
- 982.10 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 ______.emphasis
- 992.10 The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ______ roof.domed
- 1002.10 The main building in the Horyu Temple complex is called the __________ .kondo
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