Exam 2

Question 1

What are the purposes of drawing?

Answer 1

Personal notation
Preliminary sketch
What it is intended to be

Question 2

What are the componets of paint?

Answer 2

Pigment -
Binder - What holds pigment together
Vehicle - What spreads the pigment

Question 3

What are the different types of painting and who used them?

Answer 3

Fresco Secco - Egypt
Tempera - Egg yolk to bind pigments
Oil - On panel
Encaustic - Pigment bound with wax
Watercolor - 
Gouache - Like watercolor but opaque
Collage - to paste together

Question 4

What is impasto?

Answer 4

Thick build up of paint

Question 5

Who and where was oil paint first used?

Answer 5

Jan Van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden

Netherlands

Question 6

What is chiaroscuro?

Answer 6

Treatment of light and shading

Question 7

What is sfumato?

Answer 7

the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms

Question 8

Who did the portraits on the walls?

Answer 8

Jim Dine

Question 9

What is a relief printmaking?

Answer 9

Image protrudes from the surface

Woodcut or linoleum cut

Question 10

What is an intaglio printmaking?

Answer 10

Image incised into surface

Question 11

What is a planographic printmaking?

Answer 11

Image on the surface plane

Question 12

What is the edition?

Answer 12

Number of prints made

Question 13

What is the difference between a print and a reproduction?

Answer 13

A print was made by the artist themselves

Question 14

Who was Albrecht Durer?

Answer 14

First commercial artist

Relief and intaglio printmaking

Question 15

Who is Toulouse Lautrec?

Answer 15

Used printmaking for advertising

Question 16

Who is Robert Rauschenberg?

Answer 16

Made collages

Question 17

What are the four components of graphic design?

Answer 17

Type - font
Symbolism
Illustration
Photo/ film

Question 18

Define the root word of photography

Answer 18

Photo - sun

Graphos - writing

Question 19

When was photography invented?

Answer 19

1825 - 1839

Question 20

Where and who invented photography?

Answer 20

Louis Daguerre and Joseph Niepce

Paris

Question 21

Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?

Answer 21

Brought photography to U.S.

Question 22

Who is Matthew Brady?

Answer 22

First American to use photos to chronicle history

Question 23

Who is Dorothea Lange?

Answer 23

Migrant mother picture

Question 24

Who is Alfred Stieglitz?

Answer 24

Modern art promoter

Question 25

What are the two types of sculpture?

Answer 25

Relief

Freestanding

Question 26

What is materials + technology?

Answer 26

Mass vs Space = technology

Domestic vs public = materials

Question 27

What are the three components of architecture?

Answer 27

Form
Function
Aesthetics

Question 28

What is a basilica?

Answer 28

Roman lawcourt

Question 29

What is classical style?

Answer 29

Sense of proportions
Symmetrical balance
Measured harmony
Geometric calrity

Question 30

What are the different structural devices and when were they used?

Answer 30

Stacking and piling - pyramids
Post and lintel - stone hedge, greece
The arch - Romans
Balloon Frame - houses
Steel Frame - modern buildings

Question 31

What is the parthenon?

Answer 31

Greek temple for athena

Question 32

What is the pantheon?

Answer 32

Roman building for gods

Question 33

What is the wainwright building?

Answer 33

Building built with steel built by louis sullivan