Final Flashcards
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ______
All of the previous answers
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings and plans would best be described as ________
Conceptual Art
An artwork that consists of cutting off someone’s tie and pouring shampoo on his head would be described as ________
Performance Art
An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best described as ______-
An installation
True or False: An artwork can fit in only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
False
Jackson Pollock is known for:
Splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ___ but often exist only in the form of _____
direct experience… visual documentation or personal accounts
In Joseph Beuys’s coyote, i like America and America likes me, The artist:
Wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in the gallary with a coyote
Vito Acconci is the artist who created _____
Following piece
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her
extreme performance pieces
Marina Abramovic’s the house with the ocean view took _____ to complete.
Twelve days
The work of _______ was directly influential on the conceptual art movement.
Marcel Duchamp
What unconventional material does Bruce Nauman use in the true artist helps the worlds by revealing Mystic Truths?
Neon Tubing
Yoko Ono often utilizes ______ to complete her artworks, such as wish tree
Instructions for viewers to perform or imagine
Kara Walker’s installation insurrection! What are the tools. (our tools were rudimentary, yet we pressed on)
Silhouette drawings and projects
Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?
All of the above
All sculptures have this characteristic in common
They exist in three-dimensional space
Another name for freestanding sculpture is ______
in the round
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.
Relief
in freestanding sculpture, the artist entices the viewer to move around the work by creating a series of changing _______
Planes
True or False: If a sculpture wanted to create a relief that was visible from more than one angle, bas-relief would be good method to use.
False
Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?
Casting
Which is not an additive method of sculpting?
Chiseling
Michelangelo believed _____ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.
Sculpture
What is one of the main reasons that the creation of Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?
They were created without metal tools
In Taos Puebla, New Mexico, an architect might opt to use this construction material in order to keep the aesthetic appearance consistent with the surrounding architecture.
Adobe Brick
This architectural term means creating a structure out of a pile of material.
Load Bearing
In order to create an interior space, an architect must design a distance between two supports called a ______
A span
This is a ceiling based on the structural principals of an arch.
Vault
This feature of gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built
Flying buttresses
The architect Le Corbusier’s international style favors a strongly ____ organization of forms
Geometric
Frank Lloyd Wright’s falling water cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:
all of the above
Compare two of the interactive works, Vito Accanci’s following piece and Yoko Ono’s wish tree. Describe the roles of the artists, the viewer, and the environment in each piece. What did each artist do? What did the Viewers in each artwork? what does each artwork look like? What does this comparison reveal to you about these artworks that you had not considered before making it?
Vito Acconci’s role in the artwork was following the viewers and documenting them. In the Wish Tree Ono is not in the artwork, but does provide materials and instructions for the piece. The viewers in the following piece are witnessing it and in the wish tree they are interacting with it. The environment in the Following piece is anywhere the person he is following goes while in the wish tree they have to involve themselves. The following is conceptual while the wish tree is the photos are just evidence
What are the attitudes displayed in sarcophagus from Cerveteri. Why did the researchers come to this conclusion?
In this artwork it was the sarcophagus of the king and Queen and during that time women were not sculpted. So to have the Queen Sculpted shows how important of a person she was.
What are the philosophies that Corbusier and Lloyd reflected? Which of the two houses, Villa Savoye or Falling Water, would you prefer to live in? Why?
Corbusier wanted buildings to be highly functioned in any place while Lloyd was commissioned to build a house specifically around the environment. The water moves through the house. I prefer the Falling water house because i love the way it was designed architecturally and i love that the waterfall is in the house
