ART 100 Midterm Flashcards
blue and orange are examples of which type of color scheme?
complementary
what is the material that gives any medium color called?
pigment
Whose drawing did Robert Rauschenberg erase?
Willem de Kooning
what is the binder in encaustic painting?
hot wax
what does buon fresco mean?
that it was done on wet plaster (true fresco)
what does fresco secco mean?
that it was done on dry plaster (dry fresco)
which medium would you choose if you wanted to make something that had the same characteristics of a color painting?
pastel
what is an ingredient that ensures pigment will adhere to the surface?
binder
what medium is the most transparent?
watercolor
what binder does tempura require?
egg yolk
if you needed a white highlight on a watercolor painting which medium would you choose?
gouache
a glaze is typically made with which medium?
oil
a rubber stamp creates which type of print?
relief
etching requires the use of a ground and?
acid
what kind of stone is traditionally used in lithography?
limestone
the three primary historical methods of printmaking are?
relief, intaglio, and planographic
a print made from the wood on the end of the tree rather than the wood from the long side is called?
wood engraving
an image whose meaning is agreed upon and which can change over time is called what?
sign
who was the 19th century artist who was both a painter and graphic designer?
Henri de Toulousse - Lautrec
who was the graphic designer of ABC, IBM, and UPS logos?
Paul Rand
the earliest camera prototype was known as what from the Latin “dark room”
camera obscura
what is a photographic print made from a negative image
calotype
Alfred Stieglitz believed that for photography to be art it
should be true to its own nature
what method of making sculpture is mainly subtractive
carving
which term best describes a sculpture that is lightly carved onto a flat surface?
low relief
the pose that describes a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane
contrapposto
which term best describes a sculptural work that has figures or elements that are significantly raised off the surface from which they are carved, but still remain attached?
high relief
what did the Romans use in the Pantheon that was lost during the “dark ages”?
concrete
who was the father of modern architecture (designed the first skyscrapers)
Louis Sullivan
which is not one of Le Corbusier’s five points of modern architecture?
curtain wall
the carved ochre stones from Blombos Caves in Southern Africa suggest to some archaeologists that
Homo sapiens were capable of abstraction
when an object what it means they have been cut into the surface for decorative purposes
incised lines
in upper paleolithic, or most recent time, what use were caves most likely put to?
ritual and religion
what is a composite animal guardian from the Assyrian empire?
lamassu
which Mesopotamian culture is responsible for the first form of language?
Sumerian
what is an Obelisk?
a tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, typically used as a monument
what event is believed to be represented on the palette of Narmer?
the uniting of the upper and lower Nile valley
when did the kings of Egypt begin to be called “pharaoh”?
New Kingdom
when did the traditional way of picturing Egyptian Pharaohs change?
during the Amarna period
the convention for showing figures from both side and frontal views is what?
composite
the Minoan civilization reached its peak during which period?
Neopalatial
what were Minoan columns made of
wood
the repetition of geometric forms and proportions - like those of Egyptian figures, all what term to be applied to the early Cycladic figures
schematic
the biggest difference in Hellenistic sculpture from that of earlier periods is the inclusion of what?
emotion
what event preceded the funding of the rebuilding of the Athenian Acropolis?
the Persian War
Kritios Boy is an example of what and the what style
contrapposto, severe
who was the leader of Greece during its “golden age”?
Pericles
during the Roman republic, what was a style of Portraiture that portrayed its subjects in exaggerated age or hyper-realism?
Verism
during the republic, which roman citizens were most honored?
elder citizens (senior citizens)
