Final Flashcards by Alisha Phillips

In weaving fibers are held in place on a

loom

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In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith Haring creates a bold and dynamic effect by using

complementary colors

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The appearance of oneness in a work of art is

unity

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggens sculptures such as Shuttlecocks affect us immediately through their

scale

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To be a ceramist one must

work with clay

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Which building is designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent warefare

the Parthenon

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Michelangelo created a Study of a Reclining Male Nude

in preparation for a larger work

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Artists associated with which movement most stressed that viewers should see their paintings as objects not pictures?

Minimalism

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Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigment is suspended in

beeswax

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Marcel Duchmamp was responsible for bringing motion to

cubism

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The potters wheel was invented in

Mesopotamia

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In an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the

form

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Michelangelos David has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto, demonstrating influence of

Greek Sculpture

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Sclpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is called in-the-round OR

freestanding

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Romantic artists emphasized

emotion

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All of the following are true of pastel EXCEPT

It differs greatly from chalk

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Opaque water color is also called

gouache

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Dale Chihuly is noted for his intricate and colorful works in

glass

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An identifying mark or trademark is referred to as

a logo

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Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer

aesthetics

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The term used to describe the “fool-in-the-eye” realism of William Harnetts painting A Smoke Backstage is

trompe l’oeil

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The word photography literally means

“light-wrighting”

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Figure-ground reversal can best be seen in

M.C Eschers Sky and Water I

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The chinese regard painting to derive from the art of

calligraphy

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The Mesopotamians built their temples such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called

a ziggurate

Which artist is known for making story quilts

Faith Ringgold

Petroglyphs are made by

scratching an image onto a stone surface

Eadweard Muybridge is known for

photographing people and animals in motion

A print in which an artist is physically involved with the production is known as

an original print

Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows because they used pointed arches and

flying buttresses

Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm is an example of

Abstract Expressionism

In Jan Van Eycks The Arnolfini Portrait the woman wearing the green dress to symbolize

fertility

In art, the term value, refers to the

lightness and darkness of surfaces

The first Christian Churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by Romans as

government buildings

Which artist wanted viewers to see the natural rhythms present in a flower

Georgia O'Keeffe

Figurative art is a type of

representational art

A subcategory of constructed sculpture—seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield—that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways is

assemblage

Architects are generally most concerned with qualities of

space

The process of printing came to Europe from

China

All of the following are characteristic of International Style architecture EXCEPT

decorative ornamentation

Jacob Lawrence was a product of a community art center in

Harlem

One feature that set Gothic architecture apart from Romanesque was the extensive use of

stained glass

Some believe that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated with

the Great Mother Goddess

When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

nonrepresentational

Background shapes are referred to as

negative shapes

The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow, and

writing systems

The technique of papier collé is most closely associated with

Synthetic Cubism

What is also called a substitution process?

casting

Edgar Degas's paintings reveal his interest in the candid attitudes found in street photography and the asymmetry of

Japanese prints

In painting media, the pigment most notably provides

color

A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

tempera

A mixed-media artwork is made

with different materials

Which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

charcoal

Which nineteenth-century artist attempted to bring craft and fine art together by creating a design company?

William Morris

Which structure features a ring of posts and lintels?

Stonehenge

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was unable to include people in his photographs, because in his time

exposure rates were very long

Early Christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called

catacombs

Which artist used straight lines, primary colors, and rectangles as universal elements?

Piet Mondrian

The name "Impressionism" derives from a critics's derogatory remark about a painting by

Claude Monet

The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

iconography

Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of

Roman Sculpture

Size relationships between parts of a whole are known as

proportion

A full-sized drawing made as a guide for a work in another medium is a

cartoon

Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

design

A typical example of a low-relief sculpture is

a coin

In the evolution of Buddhist architecture, early burial mounds led most directly to the Indian

stupa

A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

a glaze

The Terra Cotta Warriors were found in the tomb of

Qin Shihuangdi

Julia Margaret Cameron pioneered the

use of close ups in portrait photography

Any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

rhythm

When the two sides of a composition correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form, the work has

symmetrical balance

The purity or saturation of a color is its

intensity

Two-dimensional artists create the illusion of volume with light by using

chiaroscuro

Fauvist artists extended the visual vocabulary of Post-Impressionism by making their primary subject matter

color

The term used to discuss how a building stands up is

structure

One of the earliest types of photograph was the

daguerreotype