Practice Test 2 Flashcards

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Fugitive Pigment

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A pigment that changes when exposed to environmental conditions

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2
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Subtractive Color

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CMYK

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3
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Putti in Renaissance work

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Naked chubby male children some with wings

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4
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Der Blaue Reiter related to

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German Expressionism

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5
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Archaic Greek Sculpture

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Stiff and formal pose

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Fabrication

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Sculpture made from found objects
Pablo picasso

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Liberty Leading the people

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Delacroix best known Romanticism painting

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8
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Antialiasing

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Computer graphics term for smoothing the edges

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Rasterization

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Dots placed at various sizes to create a gradient effect

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10
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Heliograph

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First type of photograph created by Niepce

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Underpainting

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Establish tone
Lay out hilights
Build foundation
DOES NOT build up texture

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Ancient Egyptians attitude toward art

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Art was functional
Idealized view of the world
Maintained order

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13
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Phthalocyanine pigment

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Blue and green

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14
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Dots Roy Lichtenstein used in comic artwork named after

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Benjamin Henry Day jr developed process of dots

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15
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Motivation of deconstructionism architectural movement

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To undermine preconceived notions of meaning and symbols

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16
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Iconography

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Shows what the artwork is about

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17
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To make a shade

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You would add black

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18
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Macrame

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Tying knots in a thread or cord in a geometric pattern

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19
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East Asian sumi brush painting

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To capture the spirit of a subject

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20
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Civil war photographer Matthew Brady often

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Moved his subjects and staged for better composition

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21
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Representation in artwork

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Using signs that stand for something else

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22
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Helen Frankenthaler

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Focused most on color within abstract expression movement

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23
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Cadmium red hue

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Not toxic

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24
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Deckle

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Frame that controls size of paper

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Guerilla girls
Speak out against racism and sexism in the art world
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Icon in artwork
A religious painting
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Foreshortening
Compresses
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Graphic designer should not send
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Kylix
A wine drinking cup that is wide shallow
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Likely to include figurative subjects
Mannerism
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Brazing in metal working
Joining 2 or more metals by melting and flowing a filler metal with a lower melting point
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Azulejos
Painted tin glazed ceramic tiles
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Emanation of light
Nimbus Mandorla Aureole
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Technique used on coated paper
Silver point (silver dripped drawing instrument coated paper)
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Pagoda
Multistory tower in south or east asia
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Hellenistic
Perfecting naturalism in sculpture
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Outsider Art
Art created by self taught artists outside of mainstream art world
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Art movement that didn’t fight against the commodification of art
Pop Art
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Fiber art Tatting
Using a needle to shuttle to create lace with knots and loops
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Creating a Pastiche is
A work of art in the style of another artist
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Focus of Fluxus Art Movement
Conceptual performances and emphasis on the process rather than the product
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Anamorphisis
Drawing viewed with a mirror or lens
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Most straight forward of theories on critique
Formalism
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A critical response to Minimalist
Undervalued art by blurring the line between art and everyday objects
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Spandrel
Triangular area between outer curve of an arch
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Heads all at the same height
Isocephaly
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Christian art of eastern Roman Empire
Byzantine Art(religious expression)
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Pyramidal composition
Grouping figures into triangle
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Zinc white
Transparent
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Scumbling
Thin layer of opaque color to produce a softened effect
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Aquarelle
Another term for watercolor painting
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Bahaus architecture
Steel frames Open floor plans Primary colors
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Tintype process
Direct positive image made in a thin plate of metal
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Greenware clay
Clay that has been shaped and dried but not fired
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Leatherhard
Partially dried not completely dried
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Bisque
Clay that has been fired once
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Plastic clay
Soft and easily worked
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Benefit of dry mounting artwork
Uniform coat of adhesive that keeps artwork from slumping
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Sublime
Greatness and magnitude
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Buildings shown from above
3point
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Maniere Criblee
Design punched in a metal plate white spotted background
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Armature
Rigid form in a sculpture
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Canting
Tool used to draw in hot wax on fabric
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Image sensor in a camera
Converting the information of the image into a electronic signal
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Advantage of lossy file compression
Size of the file is reduced but it’s still recognizable
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Panel paintings used in
Middle ages
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Institutional
Based only on its context
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Tesselation
Tilting of a shape with no overlapping or gaps
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Triadic
3 colors evenly spaced on the color wheel
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Encaustic
Paint made from pigment added to heated beeswax
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Applying sizing before painting
Protect canvas from acids