Mid-Term

Question 1

True or False?

The cave of Lascaux dates to the early Stone Age.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

true or False?

Scholars are not in agreement that all art has a purpose.

Answer 2

True??

Question 3

True or False?

Psychology is not traditionally associated with the humanities.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or False?
The nature of how art historians see art is different today than it was in the
past.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False?
According to Susan Lacy (Mapping the Terrain) experiencer, reporter and
analyst is a description of what an artist might be at a given time.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

True or False?

Creativity is the realm of art, science and craft.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False?

Aesthetics is the term defined by the phrase, “the study of the nature of beauty and of art”.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What were included in the ancient Greek concept of art.

Answer 8

Handcrafts

Question 9

What could be defined as a tangible emblem of something abstract?

Answer 9

A symbol

Question 10

True or False?
The difference between “fine art” and “applied art” lies in the fine arts being
prized for their purely aesthetic qualities.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What is a painting medium that is transparent and must be worked wet.

Answer 11

Watercolor

Question 12

Oils, perhaps the most popular of the painting media, were developed near
the beginning of what century?

Answer 12

the 15th century

Question 13

What is responsible for the fact that watercolors produce a delicacy
that cannot be produced by other media.

Answer 13

Transparency

Question 14

What is a modern, synthetic painting medium?

Answer 14

Acrylic

Question 15

What is a wall-painting technique in which pigments are applied to fresh,
wet plaster.

Answer 15

Fresco

Question 16

What is a watercolor medium in which gum is added to ground opaque
colors mixed with water?

Answer 16

Gouache.

Question 17

Because of the process used to produce them, prints and reproductions are
always considered to be what kind of works of art.

Answer 17

original works of art

Question 18

What is a planographic process?

Answer 18

Lithography

Question 19

What is an example of intaglio?

Answer 19

Aquatint

Question 20

Woodcut and wood engraving are examples of what?

Answer 20

relief printing

Question 21

What is a term for carved works of sculpture?

Answer 21

Subtractive

Question 22

Built sculpture uses what?

Answer 22

Addition

Question 23

Cast sculpture utilizes what process?

Answer 23

Substitution

Question 24

Sculptural worksthataremodeled utilize which processes.

Answer 24

manipulation processes

Question 25

The mold for sculpture is called what?

Answer 25

negative

Question 26

What best represents the additive method of execution?

Answer 26

The Bakota ancestor figure

Question 27

Sculpture is a ____-dimensional art.

Answer 27

Three

Question 28

Freestanding sculpture works are called what?

Answer 28

full round

Question 29

Sculpture designed to be seen from one side only is called what?

Answer 29

relief

Question 30

What is the term for sculpture that employs such materials as wire or neon tubing?

Answer 30

Linear

Question 31

Which is a structural system that consists of horizontal beams and vertical supports?

Answer 31

Post and Lintel

Question 32

What’s a structural system that defines space by transferring stress outward to its legs?

Answer 32

arch

Question 33

What is a structural system in which an overhanging beam or floor is supported at one end?

Answer 33

Cantilever

Question 34

What is a structural system in which the wall supports itself?

Answer 34

Bearing Wall

Question 35

what is a Greek architectural order with a simple slab as a capital?

Answer 35

Doric

Question 36

What is a Greek architectural order with a scroll-like capital?

Answer 36

Ionic

Question 37

What is a Greek architectural order with a complex acanthus leaf capital?

Answer 37

Corinthian