Art-111 – Flashcards
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Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
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his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
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Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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According to Sayre (the author of our text), what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
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reception, extraction, inference
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Three Studies of Lucian Freus by Francis Bacon
The art work above, Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, is considered to be
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a. one of the highest-valued paintings of all time.
b. a triptych.
c. a documentation of the artist's friendship with it's subject.
d. an expressive image of tension.
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What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
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African masks he saw at a Paris museum
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Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but
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aesthetic.
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Michelangelo's David
How did Michelangelo's David become political?
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It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici family.
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The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was
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to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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Richard Estes's Table Top
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
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photorealistic.
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Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with
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images that are not literally what they appear to be.
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North Atlantic Light by Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light would be considered what type of painting
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Abstract
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Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
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The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.
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In a work of art, ______ refers to what the work means.
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Content
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The pipe, in The Treason of Images by Rene Magritte, is
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the subject of the painting.
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Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist
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retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view.
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Charles the First by Basquiat
Charles the First by Jean-Michel Basquiat uses many symbols such as
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a. the crown, which represents success.
b. X-MN, which refers to the X-Men comics.
c. X, which suggests that everything is OK or All Right.
d. feathers, which represent racisim toward Native Americans, Charlie Parker, and the violent act of taring and feathering.
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The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's
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xpressive line.
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In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?
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analytic
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Wall Drawing No. 681 C by Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing No. 681 C by Sol LeWitt can best be described as
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Non-Objective
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The Brueghel Series:A Vanitas of Style by Pat Steir relies heavily on the
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grid
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Hung Liu's Relic 12
The subject of Hung Liu's Relic 12 is
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the Chinese courtesan.
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A line where the connection is visually suggested is called a/an
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implied line
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How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night similar?
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They both use expressive line to convey emotion.
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How is a viewer's experience of the Rubin vase (page 68) similar to that of experiencing Olafur Eliasson's Suney (page 73)?
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Perception changes in response to light.
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In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?
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overlapping images
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What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci's perspective system in The Last Supper and the painting's actual location?
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The painting's perspective is directly linked to the architectural space of its location.
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The Dead Christ by Mantegna
What visual technique is used in this image to create the illusion of the awkward point of view?
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foreshortening
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Color and information by Terry WInters
To create this painting, Terry Winters started by
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scanning wood cuts into a computer.
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Which medium is preferred by time-based artists for its high image quality?
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film
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Feast Making Spoon and Two Figures
What do these two sculptures have in common?
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They are both positive forms that contain negative space.
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In a one point perspective, lines are drawn on the picture plane to a single point on the viewer's horizon called the
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vanishing
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Red, Yellow, Orange
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Warm Color Scheme
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Red with Green, Yellow with Violet, Blue with Orange
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Complementaray Color Scheme
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Red-Violet, Violet, Blue-Violet
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Analogous Color Scheme
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Yellow-Green, Red-Violet, Yellow-Orange
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Intermediate Color Scheme
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Red, Yellow, Blue
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Primary Color Scheme
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Orange, Green, Violet
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Secondary Color Scheme
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Atmospheric or Aerial Perspective
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The objects farther form us and the closest from us. How depending from our point we can differentiate the contrast between the light and the dark depending our distance.
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Chiaroscuro
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is the contrast that the light and the darker part differentiate in the drawing
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Hatching or Cross Hatching
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hatching are parallel lines, the closer the lines are means there is more of a shadow wise, and the more space there is there's more light to the figure
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Pointillism
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is a piece of art made up of tiny dots, or points
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Arbitrary Color
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is a color applied to something that would not be that color in real life.
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William A. Garnett took photographs of American landscapes
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from the window of an airplane he was piloting.
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Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Morning: Willows and Bridget Riley's Drift No. 2 are similar in that both
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allude to the movements of water.
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Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called
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Op Art
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Which of the following is not an aspect of texture?
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content
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In what way can a large-scale work be considered a temporal art form?
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The spectator moves through time and space to view it.
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Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them
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kinetic
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Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves
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rubbing a sheet of paper over a textured surface.
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Unlike a Renaissance painting, time-based media like Teresa Hubbard's and Alexander Birchler's Detached Building can utilize the element of
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sound
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Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini's David and Michelangelo's David?
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Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action.
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Rudy Burckhardt's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in
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the process of painting.
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Where is the focal point in this Baroque painting?
Joseph the Carpenter by Geroges de La Tour
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in the child's (Jesus') face
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Which of these pieces best illustrates the use of variety over unity?
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Louise Lawler's Pollock and Tureen
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When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is
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afocal
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In her painting Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through
Still Life with Lobster by Anna Vallayer-Coster
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the manipulation of light and color.
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What idea was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion?
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The Canon
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When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with
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visual weight.
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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of
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rhythm
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Proportion is defined as
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the relationship between the parts of a composition and the whole.
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Symmetrical Balance:
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means that if something is cut down the middle it would be the same illusion of the other side. They would end up looking similar to the other half
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Is the appearance of something from lateral sides that end up looking like if it had the same weight. It balanced out with the weight it appeared to be, if it were lots of little balls on one side one would try to balance it out with a lot of little balls or with a bigger ball that seemed to weigh the same.
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Radical Balance:
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Is the balance that the central point has everything moving outwards. It extends/ expands from the central point.
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Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?
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binders
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A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called
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metalpoint
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Matisse at ork
The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a pencil or charcoal was
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Henri Matisse.
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When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a
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wash.
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Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?
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graphite
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pastel
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is essentially a chalk medium with colored pigment and a non-greasy binder added to it.
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Which drawing media became popular during the Napoleonic Wars, due in large part to Napoleon himself?
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Conte crayon
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Which of these statements about drawing is NOT true?
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It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation.
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Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin and his workshop of artists, are called
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triptychs
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Winslow Homer's A Wall, Nassau was made using
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watercolor washes.
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One of the oldest painting media, used by the Greeks and found in the ancient world, is
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encaustic
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With the technique of fresco secco, as illustrated in the Buddhist caves in Ajanta, India, the artist
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The correct answer is: applies the paint onto a dry ground, making it easier for the artist to get a high degree of detail.
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Antonio Lopez Garcia's New Refrigerator may seem like odd subject matter for a painting, but it actually falls within a long line of which of these artistic traditions?
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still-life
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A traditional ground for tempera paintings, which consists of a mixture of glue and plaster of Paris or chalk, is
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gesso
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The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called
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oil painting.
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When an artist paints with a mixture of watercolor pigment and Chinese white chalk, the process is called
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gouache
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Oil paint is an exception in that it allows the user to do all of the following EXCEPT
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to work more quickly than in other media.
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Mixed media artists have achieved what important innovation in art?
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the extension of a painting's "space" from two dimensions to three
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A wood cut such as this image called The Prophet is an example of:
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a relief print
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Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking?
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a stamp
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Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as
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planographic
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Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces
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only one print from the plate.
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Which process best describes intaglio printing?
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The area that prints is below the surface of the plate.
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When and where was printmaking first developed?
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in the ninth century in China
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In______ an intaglio printmaking process, the line is scratched into a plate with a metal point that is pulled across the surface.
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drypoint
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What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking, and what special effects does this advantage offer?
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t is easier to cut into linoleum than wood and therefore the artist can create more flexible, fluid lines.
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What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media?
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The artist can make multiple copies of a single image.
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An early form of printmaking used in the West was
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movable type with a wooden printing press.
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Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?
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camera obscura
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Despite the success of the daguerreotype, the process had its drawbacks, primarily
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that the image could not be reproduced.
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A problem posed by video installations is that
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as they age, replacement parts are difficult to find.
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D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?
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editing
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Sound was introduced into film in
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1927
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In filmmaking, each unbroken, continuous sequence of movie frames with the camera still rolling is called a
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shot
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What is defined as the size of the opening in the lens when exposing a photograph to light?
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aperture
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Jerry Uelsmann was a master of dodging and burning, a darkroom processes by which the photographer can manipulate which aspect of a photo?
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value
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When and where were the earliest photographs developed?
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in the nineteenth century in France and England
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How does the use of the camera obscura differ from contemporary photography?
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It captures but does not preserve the image.
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Wood and stone carvings are examples of
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subtractive sculpture
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When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material such as clay, the process is called
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additive
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One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is
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the wood's grain
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Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these
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happenings
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Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of
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firing it.
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as
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an environment.
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How does assemblage primarily differ from other sculptural processes?
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It utilizes "found" objects
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The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is
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clay.
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The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is
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bronze.
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add?
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naturalism
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Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates which ancient sculptural convention
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frieze
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Giambologna's The Capture of the Sabine Women is an example of
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in the round.
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Jeff Koons's Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials
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live flowering plants.
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The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi includes an extraordinary grouping of what type of work?
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ceramics
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Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The Burghers of Calais?
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It was cast in several pieces and then welded together.
