Exam 3 Vocab

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.

Question 2

Automatism

Answer 2

most often refers to a technique of subconscious drawing in which the artist allows his unconscious mind to take control.

Question 3

Collage

Answer 3

is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

Question 4

Curtain wall

Answer 4

thin, usually aluminum-framed wall, containing in-fills of glass, metal panels, or thin stone. The framing is attached to the building structure and does not carry the floor or roof loads of the building

Question 5

Expressionism

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emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War.

Question 6

Formalism

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the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects – rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world.

Question 7

Installation (art)

Answer 7

an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

Question 8

Photomontage

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the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image.

Question 9

Prairie Stlye

Answer 9

marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament.

Question 10

Primitivism

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mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate “primitive” experience.

Question 11

ready made

Answer 11

refabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their intended use and elevated to the status of art by the artist choosing and designating them as such.

Question 12

Appropriation

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the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them

Question 13

Assemblage

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an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate.

Question 14

Benday dots

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used in color comic books in the 1950s and ’60s to create effects of shading and secondary colors inexpensively.

Question 15

Earthworks

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natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures

Question 16

Performance art

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presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.

Question 17

Pluralism

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refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse.

Question 18

School of Artists

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educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design

Question 19

Silkscreen printing

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each print in an edition is considered an original work of art, not a copy

Question 20

Site-specific sculpture

Answer 20

Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.