ART 111: Test #1

Question 1

Academic

Answer 1

traditional, that value old-fashioned rules of painting

Question 2

Modern Art

Answer 2

Artists experimented with new ways of making art and fresh ideas. It is a move away from usual accuracy toward abstraction

Question 3

Symbolism

Answer 3

centered in France, Austria, and Germany (1880s-1920s)

Question 4

Itaglio

Answer 4

where ink is pressed down into grooves in the surface of a metal plate

Question 5

Relief Painting

Answer 5

where ink is pressed onto the surface on wood

Question 6

Engraving

Answer 6

scratching the metal surface with a needle to make ink holding grooves

Question 7

Etching

Answer 7

using acid to eat away these ink holding grooves

Question 8

Ground

Answer 8

stop out coating

Question 9

Black Painting

Answer 9

a series of paintings by Goya made directly into the walls of his home

Question 10

Allegory

Answer 10

art that has multiple meanings

Question 11

Symbolism

Answer 11

dream, imagery, dark, eroticism, “internal world” (its external counterpart is impressionism)

Question 12

Femme Fatal

Answer 12

dark, dangerous women

Question 13

Fin de Siecle

Answer 13

end of the century

Question 14

Gold Leaf

Answer 14

tiny, tissue, thin sheets of gold give the surface of the canvas

Question 15

Gusamtkustwerk

Answer 15

“total art”; merging of visual art, fresco, music

Question 16

Aquatint

Answer 16

etching process that allows large areas of darkness

Question 17

Mise en Abyme

Answer 17

“placed into the abyss”

Question 18

Art Nouveau

Answer 18

“New Art”

Question 19

Whiplash Lines

Answer 19

curving neutral forms

Question 20

Shunga Prints

Answer 20

erotic Japanese prints

Question 21

Mosaic

Answer 21

colored bits of tile/stone to create an image/pattern