PTQ: FA Flashcards
Will Wilson’s Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds shows two ponds used to evaporate water contaminated with ________, which is a radioactive waste product from uranium mining that contains heavy metals and radium.
tailings
Alma Woodsey Thomas’ painting Snoopy – Early Sun Display on Earth is part of a series Thomas called what?
“Space Paintings”
In Pictures of Garbage, what materials did Vik Muniz use to fabricate the photographs in his collaboration
with the garbage pickers?
trash from the dump
In The Fourth World, what does artist Kent Monkman blur in his paintings?
Time periods of cultural encounters
What is the highness or lowness of a sound?
pitch
Paint is usually composed of three different materials: pigments, _______, and solvents.
binders
Who was the instigator of the endeavor to “write music down” by means of musical notation?
the Catholic Church
How did Tōru Takemitsu first become exposed to Western music?
by secretly listening to a recording of a popular French song
Agnes Denes’s work Rice/Tree/Burial of 1968 is one of the foundational works of ecological contemporary
art and described by her as a “_________,” meaning, a creative work that sets out an agenda for radical
change.
manifesto
What term is often used to refer to the vocalization of birds?
birdsong
What type of view does the Church Rock Spill photograph represent?
aerial view
Why did repressive governments find jazz threatening?
because of its emphasis on the “free expression of the individual”
What is wordless music that is meant to evoke or suggest a specific idea or theme?
programmatic music
The Fundred Project began in the aftermath of which event and the crisis it posed for lead-polluted water?
Hurricane Katrina
Allora and Calzadilla is the name used by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla for their artistic
partnership, which creates artwork through _________.
collaboration
In which city was Motown Records founded?
Detroit, MI
Whose photos are included in Notion of Family?
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Why was the Grand Canyon region eventually taken under government protection?
Awareness of its magnificence grew more widespread
For the first time in Motown’s history, this album released in May 1971 included lyrics for each of the songs and also listed all the performing musicians.
“What’s Going On”
What does the “key” of a piece of music refer to?
the set of seven notes, or scale, selected for the piece
What is a prepared piano?
a piano with objects inserted within its strings to alter its sound
What does “R&B” stand for in terms of music??
rhythm and blues
Beethoven had the distinction of being one of the first composers to succeed in working “______” rather than as an employee.
freelance
The subject matter of Michael Abel’s Global Warming was inspired by the fall of the _________ __________.
Berlin Wall
In the context of two-dimensional art, what does perspective help to achieve?
the illusion of depth
What is an overture?
an orchestral work, usually shorter than a symphony
What is another term for “absolute pitch?”
perfect pitch
Rebecca Belmore’s artistic methods and displays are a response to what?
the political and social condition of Indigenous communities
Kent Monkman’s artworks address histories of ______ and Indigenous culture.
colonization
In 450 BCE, the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno declared, “The goal of life is living in agreement with
______.”
nature
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring documents the horrific effects of the chemical pesticide ______.
DDT
The Classic period superseded the _______ style and persisted into the start of the nineteenth century.
Baroque
During the _____________ ___________, many new materials and processes for building were developed.
Industrial Revolution
What is a defining feature of Ana Mendieta’s “Silueta” series?
tracing or sculpting outlines of her body on the ground
In what year was one of the earliest scientific notations of birds’ singing patterns published?
1650
Vik Muniz’s replication, Action Photo, after Hans Namuth, used __________ to refashion an iconic
documentary photograph by Hans Namuth in 1950 that depicts the postwar American artist Jackson Pollock
at work in his studio.
chocolate syrup
Who was the first singer of the iconic song “What a Wonderful World”?
Louis Armstrong
Undiluted ink has what characteristic?
it is opaque, or high opacity
Even though Rimsky-Korsakov’s first symphony received exuberant applause, as did most of his subsequent
orchestral works, he really wanted to compose ______.
operas
The segment of _____________ art within the larger history of environmental art has a strong tradition of
documentation that depicts, in some instances, landscapes being polluted or in other instances, the effects of
that pollution on specific communities.
environmentalist
What was Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth-century United States?
the idea that settlers were destined to take possession of the North American continent from east to west
In some of her works, such as Silueta, Ana Mendieta left marks of her movement and presence, such as _________.
handprints
One of the most important things Rebecca Belmore’s “Speaking to Their Mother” does is invite its participants to do what?
question the seizure and possession of its sites
What perspective is “Caribou Migration I” shot from?
aerial perspective
Messages in both English and what language were printed on the bottoms of custom-made shoes in “Land Mark (Foot Prints)”?
Spanish
“Battle for the Woodlands” is a(n) _____________ installation that addresses land use and environmental harm in the Eastern Woodlands of North America in the 19th century.
multimedia
In reference to music, what is a phrase?
a cohesive musical thought
What did the program Artists in Social Institutions do in California?
it brought art into California’s state prison system
What effect does adding a color to its complement have?
It lowers the intensity, making it more dull or neutral in tone
Michael Abels’ “Global Warming” is an example of ______________.
blended cultures
What year did Ferde Grofe’s “Mississippi Suite: A Journey in Tones” premiere in NY?
1926
__________________ has played a foundational role in establishing a tradition of art that records and communicates the environmental damages of pollution and extraction.
Documentary photography
A rain tree’s typical diameter is _________ feet.
100
What year was a particularly important year for addressing ongoing Indigenous social and environmental issues, as it marked a distinct anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s first landing in the Americas?
1992
“Land Mark (Foot Prints)” is part of an extended series of artworks that Allora & Calzadilla have created about land use on the island of ___________________.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
The first European attempts to write music down by means of musical notation began at the start of the ________ century, during the Middle Ages.
9th
Ferde Grofe regarded himself as a “composer of ___________.”
Americana
Many early American environmental writers, such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, wrote about their experience of nature from a _____________________.
city apartment
Originally installed in Lower Manhattan in 1981 using public funds, this large work of art by Richard Serra cast controversy following complaints from a small number of federal white-collar workers employed in the area.
Tilted Arc
What famous Motown singer had a slow but steady rise to fame?
Marvin Gaye
What does picturesque mean?
a view worthy of being seen and appreciated as a picture
Alma Thomas’s series “Space Paintings” and “Earth Paintings” coincided with the rise of a(n) _____________ movement in the US.
environmental
What is the name of the companion piece to “Hermit Thrush at Eve”?
“Hermit Thrush at Morn”
“They Paved Paradise and Put in a Parking Lot” is the alternative name for this Joni Mitchell hit.
“Big Yellow Taxi”
If a musical idea is repeated at a different __________ level, it is called a(n) ____________.
pitch, sequence
What song did Louis Armstrong sing a version of that became a number-one hit on the 1964 Billboard charts?
“Hello, Dolly!”
In the English-speaking world, writers began having an environmental impact in the _________ century.
19th
What event happened in 1920 that helped make Ferde Grofe well known?
He joined the Paul Whiteman Orchestra as an arranger
It is possible that this joyful secular piece was preserved around the year ________ because a sacred Latin poem had been devised that would fit the _________ melody.
1250, rota’s
The speed of the beat is called the __________.
tempo
Despite the message of unity in this song’s lyrics, there was a great deal of struggle to make the recording of this 60s hit happen.
“What a Wonderful World”
Who composed “Le quatouor pour la fin du temps”?
Olivier Messiaen
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s early project “A Notion of Family” reveals the ways in which she draws upon the __________________ of the family album, as a means to explore and critique broader cultural and __________ issues.
interpersonal closeness, systemic
Monkman’s “The Fourth World” both _________ the artwork of other artists and _________ the time periods of cultural encounters.
appropriates, blurs
Why did King Edward I ban the burning of coal in London in 1306?
to reduce the noxious smoke
The relationship between organisms and their physical environment is known as what?
ecology
Why is vegetation considered critical in supporting life on our planet?
because it supports the cycle of life
__________ is what defines the 2D area of an object, whereas ______ are objects that are 3D.
shape, forms
What medium did Ana Mendieta frequently use to convert a sense of displacement in her art?
multimedia performance
The Phillip Morris Radio Show used what song as its signature tune for 20 years?
“On the Trail”
Subhankar Banerjee’s book caught the attention of the curators at the _________________, which arranged for an exhibition of his arctic photographs to open in Spring 2003.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
The writer Ansel Pereira made a ranking of 100 songs addressing the _________, and he noted that people react in different ways to the various time periods of the _____.
seasons, year
The famous Greek Parthenon is an example of _____________ construction.
post-and-lintel
Which river has been featured in a vast number of musical works in the US?
the Mississippi River
What does the term sublime refer to?
an overwhelming sense of awe at magnificence
In “Canoe” of 2003, Bonnie Devine stitched together ____________ to form a 16-foot canoe.
hundreds of pages of paper from her MFA thesis
