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Practice Test 2 Flashcards

1
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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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6
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Fabrication

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Sculpture made from found objects
Pablo picasso

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7
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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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9
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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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11
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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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12
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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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25
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Guerilla girls

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Speak out against racism and sexism in the art world

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26
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Icon in artwork

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A religious painting

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27
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Foreshortening

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Compresses

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28
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Graphic designer should not send

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29
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Kylix

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A wine drinking cup that is wide shallow

30
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Likely to include figurative subjects

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Mannerism

31
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Brazing in metal working

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Joining 2 or more metals by melting and flowing a filler metal with a lower melting point

32
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Azulejos

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Painted tin glazed ceramic tiles

33
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Emanation of light

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Nimbus
Mandorla
Aureole

34
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Technique used on coated paper

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Silver point (silver dripped drawing instrument coated paper)

35
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Pagoda

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Multistory tower in south or east asia

36
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Hellenistic

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Perfecting naturalism in sculpture

37
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Outsider Art

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Art created by self taught artists outside of mainstream art world

38
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Art movement that didn’t fight against the commodification of art

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Pop Art

39
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Fiber art Tatting

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Using a needle to shuttle to create lace with knots and loops

40
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Creating a Pastiche is

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A work of art in the style of another artist

41
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Focus of Fluxus Art Movement

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Conceptual performances and emphasis on the process rather than the product

42
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Anamorphisis

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Drawing viewed with a mirror or lens

43
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Most straight forward of theories on critique

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Formalism

44
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A critical response to Minimalist

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Undervalued art by blurring the line between art and everyday objects

45
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Spandrel

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Triangular area between outer curve of an arch

46
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Heads all at the same height

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Isocephaly

47
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Christian art of eastern Roman Empire

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Byzantine Art(religious expression)

48
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Pyramidal composition

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Grouping figures into triangle

49
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Zinc white

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Transparent

50
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Scumbling

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Thin layer of opaque color to produce a softened effect

51
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Aquarelle

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Another term for watercolor painting

52
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Bahaus architecture

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Steel frames
Open floor plans
Primary colors

53
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Tintype process

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Direct positive image made in a thin plate of metal

54
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Greenware clay

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Clay that has been shaped and dried but not fired

55
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Leatherhard

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Partially dried not completely dried

56
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Bisque

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Clay that has been fired once

57
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Plastic clay

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Soft and easily worked

58
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Benefit of dry mounting artwork

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Uniform coat of adhesive that keeps artwork from slumping

59
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Sublime

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Greatness and magnitude

60
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Buildings shown from above

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3point

61
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Maniere Criblee

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Design punched in a metal plate white spotted background

62
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Armature

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Rigid form in a sculpture

63
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Canting

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Tool used to draw in hot wax on fabric

64
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Image sensor in a camera

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Converting the information of the image into a electronic signal

65
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Advantage of lossy file compression

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Size of the file is reduced but it’s still recognizable

66
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Panel paintings used in

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Middle ages

67
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Institutional

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Based only on its context

68
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Tesselation

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Tilting of a shape with no overlapping or gaps

69
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Triadic

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3 colors evenly spaced on the color wheel

70
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Encaustic

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Paint made from pigment added to heated beeswax

71
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Applying sizing before painting

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Protect canvas from acids

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