The Artist's Material and Tools Flashcards
What did Rembrandt van Rign use on Sleeping Woman to dilute his wash and add tonal values to his drawing?
Ink and water
Which artists were involved in the creation of Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican?
Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno, Giacomo della Porta
The part of the camera that shows the area of the subject to be included in a photograph is called the
viewfinder.
Like the decorative arts and design, architecture is meant to be useful. Like sculpture, architecture
must be seen from multiple perspectives to be appreciated.
In the history of stone buildings, the chronological order of development of architectual features is
post and lintel construction, groin vault, pointed arch.
The interiors of Victor Horta are examples of
Art Nouveau
Wood engravings such as those created by Gostave Doré for Samuel Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are good examples of
reliefs prints.
The Taos Pueblo, in Taos, New Mexico used adobe, instead of
arches.
Modeling a flexible material like clay is an ________ type of sculptual method.
additive
The oldest form of intaglio printmaking is called
engraving.
Regarded as one of the highest forms of art in the twelfth century by the Chinese.
Ceramics
What is the quality of the site upon which the Pathenon was built that underlines the ancient-Greek belief that such a building speaks of human intellect, separate and above earthly concerns?
It’s a hill above the city.
In Japan, animation is known as
anime.
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare is an example of
performance art.
If you were to spend a week in Athens visitin the major architectural achievements of the ancient Greeks, which type of column would you see the least number of during your visit?
Corinthian
An example of sculptural carving would be
Unkei’s Knogorinkishi.
If Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne were to be oved from the Galleria Brghese in Rome where it now stands into the Ufizzi Gallery, to\he most ideal place to install it would be
in the center of the gallery.
What eighteenth- and nineteenth-century folk art technique was revived by Kara Walker in her large-scale works about the South and the Civil War?
Silhouettes
Spirited Away, Astro Boy, and Princess Mononoke are classic examples of what artistic form?
Anime
Ceremonial knives with which Peruvians often buried their dead are called
tumi.
