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Art test #2 Flashcards

1
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Vincent van Gogh’s Carpenter demonstrates_________.

A

careful attention to detail

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2
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Michelangelo created Study of a Reclining Male Nude as __________.

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prep for the Sistine Chapel

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3
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List the characteristics of Pastels.

A
  1. the softer, the darker

2. easier to work with

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4
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List examples of dry media.

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  1. pencil
  2. charcoal
  3. cante color
  4. pastel
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5
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What media used today is the most similar to drawing used by prehistoric people?

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charcoal

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6
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List types of liquid drawing media.

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ink, water color, wash, tempera, and gouche.

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7
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Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait is an example of _______.

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oil painting

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8
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Which artist is considered a leader in the revival of fresco painting in the 1920s and 1930s?

A

Diego Rivera

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9
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In painting media, the pigment most notable provides ________.

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color.

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10
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Opaque watercolor is also called______.

A

Gouche

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11
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The Chinese regard painting to derive from the art of __________.

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Caligraphy.

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12
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A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called_________.

A

glaze

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13
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A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is ______.

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Tempera

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14
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In buon fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to _____ _____ _____.

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wet lime plaster

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15
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Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in _____ ______.

A

bees wax

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16
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what does the term “impasto” refer to in painting?

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thick application of paint.

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17
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List the advantages of using oil painting.

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  1. dries slowly
  2. easily blended
  3. USE OF CANVASES
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18
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Identify the type of painting medium Michelangelo used for the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

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buon fresco

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19
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Whom, where and how was oil paint developed

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who: Flemish painters
where: 1400s
how: linseed oil

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20
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Why would Utagawa Hiroshige have needed to be careful in his registration in creating Shono hakuu.

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the use of multiple blocks

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21
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Elizabeth Catlett’s Sharecropper is an example of ________.

A

linocut

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22
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At various stages in the printmaking process, artists check on the developing image by making_____.

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proofs

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23
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The process of printing came to Europe from ______.

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China

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24
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The word “photography” literally means ____ _____.

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light writing

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25
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Margaret Bourke-White’s Louisville Flood Victims is an iconic image of ______ ______ _______.

A

American Great Depression

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26
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The camera obscura cannot do what?

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permanently fix an image to a surface

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27
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Who made photographs of national parks to increase public awareness of the beauty of nature?

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Ansel Adams

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28
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Why did people in the early twentieth century prefer black-and-white films over colored ones.

A

color films tended to fade.

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29
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In filmmaking, each unbroken sequence of movie frames, with the camera still rolling, is called a _____.

A

shot

30
Q

Oskar Fischinger’s Circles is considered to be the first ______ ______ ________.

A

experimental color film.

31
Q

What is an example of a Surrealist film?

A

Andalousan dog

32
Q

Director Ridley Scott states that his creative process is strongly aided by __________.

A

story boarding

33
Q

Film noir originated in _______.

A

Hollywood

34
Q

Donald Meeker was instrumental in updating the font of ___________.

A

interstate signs

35
Q

An identifying mark or trademark is referred to as a _______.

A

logo

36
Q

A 2009 building in Japan broke new ground by integrating into its façade a _____________.

A

quick response code(q.r. code)

37
Q

List the advantages of the QR5 wind turbine.

A
  1. yet to injure a single bird.
  2. quiet.
  3. smaller
38
Q

Robert Longo’s Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence is an example of _____________.

A

High-relief

39
Q

Due to its monumental size, Viola Frey’s Stubborn Woman, Orange Hands is supported using what?

A

armature

40
Q

What is also called a substitution process?

A

casting

41
Q

A typical example of a low-relief sculpture is a _____.

A

coin

42
Q

Julio Gonzalez was the first sculptor to use _________.

A

the welding torch

43
Q

Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project is an example of ________ _______.

A

sight-specific art

44
Q

What is a style of constructed sculpture – seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield – that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways?

A

assemblage

45
Q

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

A

William Morris

46
Q

To be a ceramist, one must _______________.

A

work with clay

47
Q

The potter’s wheel was invented in ____________.

A

Mesopotamia

48
Q

In Muslim regions of the Middle East, which craft was practiced with great sophistication?

A

metal inlay.

49
Q

Which material is said to possess a vitality, or living spirit?

A

wood

50
Q

What was sixteenth-century Persia noted for producing?

A

rugs

51
Q

What is a full-sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium?

A

cartoon

52
Q

What are the ORIGINAL main purposes of Printmaking?

A

influence social change
make are
more affordable

53
Q

What are the three main purposes of drawing?

A

Preparation
work of art
Notation

54
Q

Which medium allowed the use of canvases in painting?

A

oil

55
Q

Who destroyed Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera?

A

Nelson Rocafeller

56
Q

Who was an early pioneer of Oil painting?

A

Jan van Eyck

57
Q

What printmaking technique is based on the inability of oil and water to mix?

A

lithagrophy

58
Q

Who developed the first vague photographic image in 1826?

A

Joseph Niepce

59
Q

What film did Orson Welles coauthor, direct and act in?

A

Citizen Cane

60
Q

Which artist pioneered close-ups and lighting in photography?

A

Julio Margaret Cameron

61
Q

Who opened the first Photography art gallery and published the first Photography Art Magazine, called “Camera Work”?

A

Alfred Steiglitz

62
Q

What is a template of moving shapes with spaces for the insertion of dates of upcoming events and photos of performers?

A

Infopeal

63
Q

What is an early photographic process developed in the 1830, requiring a treated metal plate that was exposed to light, creating the first satisfactory photographs?

A

Daguerrotype

64
Q

What printmaking technique flourished in Japan from the 17th to 19th centuries?

A

relief

65
Q

What are the 4 types of Intaglio printmaking?

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  1. Engraving
  2. dry point
  3. etching
  4. aquatent
66
Q

What is Fresco Secco?

A

paint onto dry plasture

67
Q

Which artist created works depicting dignified images of African-Americans, such as “the Sharecropper”?

A

Elizabeth Catlett

68
Q

What is an artist’s tool to develop ideas or for taking notes in?

A

sketch book

69
Q

Albrecht Durer is considered the father of what form of art?

A

intaglio

70
Q

The total number of prints made and APPROVED by the artist, usually numbered consecutively. A limited number of multiple originals of a single design in any medium is called an __________.

A

edition

71
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In which media does the artist draw in image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

A

lithagrophy

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