Art Mid Term – Flashcards

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No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse and respond of art appears to have the ability to.
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Paleothic Period
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Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans back to the.
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Anthony Caro
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All art is basically Paleothic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on.
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Shiva
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The 10th century copper sculpture illustrated in this chapter is the work on an artist performing the role of "giving tar unknown". The unknown in this case physical form of the deity
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The Starry Night
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Although Vincent Van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible from.
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Audrey Flack
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The Wheel of Fortune was created by
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Theo Van Gogh was Vincent Van Gogh's
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Van Gogh's paintings are high of value because
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The field of philosophy called aesthetics ask the question
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Claude Monet
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Fishermans Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by
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What term describes work by nonprofessionals
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Iconography
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To discover why the sculpture of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated, specific hand gestures head requires the use of
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Visual characteristic
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The term style is used to categorize a work of art is
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The artist and audience
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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about
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Were felt to provide pleasure
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During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both
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Pieta
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Is the name for a standard subject in Christan art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after the cross
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Naturalistic
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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, it's style is
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Form
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When discussing size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its
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Painting, sculpture, and architecture
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During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ____ came to be regarded as the more elevated of arts.
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They still debate the works iconography
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After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that
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Context is a factor that ties that bind a work of art to the
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Installation
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Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of
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Representational art with an approach to naturalism covers
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They share the same iconography
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Cimabues Madonna enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the transcendent Buddha of the south are similar in all these
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Bodhisattvas
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Whereas the Christan image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in the central figure surrounded by
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Tombs
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The pyramids of Giza in Egypt where built as
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Romans
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The ____ often created equestrian statues of their emperors
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The Spanish pavilion Paris world fair
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Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for
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Line
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Which of the visual elements can best be described as " the path of a moving point"?
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Motion
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During the 20th Century, which of the following became a recognized element of art
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Lines are used in art to indicate
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Organic
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In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ___ shapes.
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Triangle
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Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a
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Position and over lap
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The 18th century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are
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Values
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A black and white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensifies of the scenes color
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Outlines, contour lines
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In drawing, the outer boundaries of two dimensional forms are defined by ____
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Chiaroscuro
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In painting and drawing, artists often use the the technique of___ to describe the way shadows and light define.
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Hatching
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Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of
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James Turrell
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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence?
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White
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In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light, combine to produce ____ light.
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Secondary
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Mixing two primary colors produces a _____ color.
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Seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of colors effects upon the mind and body
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"Passive pink" refers to the color that
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Repetition
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A necessary feature of pattern is
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All of these: at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus
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The vanishing point in Leonardo de Vinic's The Last Supper
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One common issue facing those who work to conserve work of art is
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Foreshortening
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In Albrecht Durer's woodcut The Draftman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him
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The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak by Albert Bierstadt
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The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?
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Visual
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Artist can portray ____ textures that are created to look like something often than a flat painted surface.
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Disturbing visual weight accordingly
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In a two dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by
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Conceptual
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Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create ____ unity the ideas.
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Along the vertical axis down the center of the composition
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In a two dimensional work of art is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is:
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Symmetry
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The thirteen- diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ____ to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.
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Conceptual unity
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Annette Messager's Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Eden both demonstrate the use of:
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Squared grid
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The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create images of the "correct" or "perfect"
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Symmetrical balance
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Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deers Skull with Pedermal is a prime example of:
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Vanitas
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Pablo Picassos Girl before a mirror explores the traditional theme of:
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Order and authority
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Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses:
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Informal balance
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Another term for asymmetrical balance is
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In art, the design principle of balance functions to:
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Henry Ossawa Tanner The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through:
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Scale
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen created shock value through use of:
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A royal altar to the hand
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Which word of art uses hierarchical scale?
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The circle and square
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The ancient Roman Architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect
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Hierarchical
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The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ____ scale.
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