ART 100 Midterm

Question 1

blue and orange are examples of which type of color scheme?

Answer 1

complementary

Question 2

what is the material that gives any medium color called?

Answer 2

pigment

Question 3

Whose drawing did Robert Rauschenberg erase?

Answer 3

Willem de Kooning

Question 4

what is the binder in encaustic painting?

Answer 4

hot wax

Question 5

what does buon fresco mean?

Answer 5

that it was done on wet plaster (true fresco)

Question 6

what does fresco secco mean?

Answer 6

that it was done on dry plaster (dry fresco)

Question 7

which medium would you choose if you wanted to make something that had the same characteristics of a color painting?

Answer 7

pastel

Question 8

what is an ingredient that ensures pigment will adhere to the surface?

Answer 8

binder

Question 9

what medium is the most transparent?

Answer 9

watercolor

Question 10

what binder does tempura require?

Answer 10

egg yolk

Question 11

if you needed a white highlight on a watercolor painting which medium would you choose?

Answer 11

gouache

Question 12

a glaze is typically made with which medium?

Answer 12

oil

Question 13

a rubber stamp creates which type of print?

Answer 13

relief

Question 14

etching requires the use of a ground and?

Answer 14

acid

Question 15

what kind of stone is traditionally used in lithography?

Answer 15

limestone

Question 16

the three primary historical methods of printmaking are?

Answer 16

relief, intaglio, and planographic

Question 17

a print made from the wood on the end of the tree rather than the wood from the long side is called?

Answer 17

wood engraving

Question 18

an image whose meaning is agreed upon and which can change over time is called what?

Answer 18

sign

Question 19

who was the 19th century artist who was both a painter and graphic designer?

Answer 19

Henri de Toulousse - Lautrec

Question 20

who was the graphic designer of ABC, IBM, and UPS logos?

Answer 20

Paul Rand

Question 21

the earliest camera prototype was known as what from the Latin “dark room”

Answer 21

camera obscura

Question 22

what is a photographic print made from a negative image

Answer 22

calotype

Question 23

Alfred Stieglitz believed that for photography to be art it

Answer 23

should be true to its own nature

Question 24

what method of making sculpture is mainly subtractive

Answer 24

carving

Question 25

which term best describes a sculpture that is lightly carved onto a flat surface?

Answer 25

low relief

Question 26

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

Answer 26

contrapposto

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

high relief

Question 28

what did the Romans use in the Pantheon that was lost during the “dark ages”?

Answer 28

concrete

Question 29

who was the father of modern architecture (designed the first skyscrapers)

Answer 29

Louis Sullivan

Question 30

which is not one of Le Corbusier’s five points of modern architecture?

Answer 30

curtain wall

Question 31

the carved ochre stones from Blombos Caves in Southern Africa suggest to some archaeologists that

Answer 31

Homo sapiens were capable of abstraction

Question 32

when an object what it means they have been cut into the surface for decorative purposes

Answer 32

incised lines

Question 33

in upper paleolithic, or most recent time, what use were caves most likely put to?

Answer 33

ritual and religion

Question 34

what is a composite animal guardian from the Assyrian empire?

Answer 34

lamassu

Question 35

which Mesopotamian culture is responsible for the first form of language?

Answer 35

Sumerian

Question 36

what is an Obelisk?

Answer 36

a tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, typically used as a monument

Question 37

what event is believed to be represented on the palette of Narmer?

Answer 37

the uniting of the upper and lower Nile valley

Question 38

when did the kings of Egypt begin to be called “pharaoh”?

Answer 38

New Kingdom

Question 39

when did the traditional way of picturing Egyptian Pharaohs change?

Answer 39

during the Amarna period

Question 40

the convention for showing figures from both side and frontal views is what?

Answer 40

composite

Question 41

the Minoan civilization reached its peak during which period?

Answer 41

Neopalatial

Question 42

what were Minoan columns made of

Answer 42

wood

Question 43

the repetition of geometric forms and proportions - like those of Egyptian figures, all what term to be applied to the early Cycladic figures

Answer 43

schematic

Question 44

the biggest difference in Hellenistic sculpture from that of earlier periods is the inclusion of what?

Answer 44

emotion

Question 45

what event preceded the funding of the rebuilding of the Athenian Acropolis?

Answer 45

the Persian War

Question 46

Kritios Boy is an example of what and the what style

Answer 46

contrapposto, severe

Question 47

who was the leader of Greece during its “golden age”?

Answer 47

Pericles

Question 48

during the Roman republic, what was a style of Portraiture that portrayed its subjects in exaggerated age or hyper-realism?

Answer 48

Verism

Question 49

during the republic, which roman citizens were most honored?

Answer 49

elder citizens (senior citizens)