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in weaving, fibers are held in place on a

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loom

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in his image monkey puzzle, keith haring creates a bold dynamic effect by using

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complementary colors

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the appearance of oneness in a work of art is

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unity

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claes oldenburg and coosje van bruggens sculptures, such as shuttlecocks affect us immediately through

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scale

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to be a ceramist on must

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work with clay

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which building was designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare

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the parthenon

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michelangelo created study of a reclining male nude

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in preparation for a larger work

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artists associated with which movement most stressed that viewers should see their paintings as objects not pictures?

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minimalism

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encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in

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beeswax

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marcel duchamp was responsible for bringing motion to

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cubism

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the potter's wheel was invented in

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mesopotamia

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in an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the

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form

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michelangelo's david has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto, demonstrating the influence of

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greek sculpture

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sculpture that tis meant to be seen from all sides is called in-the-round- or

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freestanding

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romantic artists emphasized

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emotion

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all of the following are true of pastel except

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it differs greatly from chalk

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opque watercolor is also called

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gouache

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dale chihuly is noted for his inricate and colorful works in

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glass

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an identifying mark or trademark is referred to as

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a logo

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which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer

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aesthetics

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the term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of william harnett's painting a smoke backstage is

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trompe l'oeil

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the word photography literally means

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light-writing

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figure-ground reversal can best be seen in

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M.C. Escher's Sky and Water I

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the chinese regard painting to derive from the art of

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calligraphy

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the mesopotamians built their temples such as that of ur-nammu on a type of structure called a

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ziggurat

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which artist is known for creating story quilts

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faith ringgold

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petroglyphs are made by

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scratching an image onto a stone surface

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eadweard muybridge is known for

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photographing people and animals in motion

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a print in which an artist is physically involved with production is known as

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an original print

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gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows, because they used pointed arches and

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flying buttresses

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jackson pollock's autumn rhythm is an example of

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abstract expressionism

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in jan van eyck's the arnolfini portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize

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fertility

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in art the term "value" refers to the

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lightness and darkness of surfaces

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the first christian churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by the romans as

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government buildings

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which artist wanted viewers to see the natural rhythms present in a flower

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georgia o keeffe

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figurative art is a type of

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representational art

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a subcategory of constructed sculpture--seen in the works of deborah butterfield- that involves the use of familiar objects in a new way is

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assemblage

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architects are generally most concerned with qualities of

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space

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the process of printing came to europe from

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china

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all of the following are characteristic of international style architecture EXCEPT

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decorative ornamentation

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jacob lawrence was a product of a community art center in

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harlem

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one feature that set gothic architecture apart from romanesque was the extensive use of

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stained glass

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some believe that the sculpture woman of willendorf was associated with

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the great mother goddess

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when a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

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nonrepresentational

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background shapes are referred to as

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negative shapes

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the ancient sumerians developed the worlds first wheel, plow, and

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writing system

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the technique of papier collle is most closely associated with

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synthetic cubism

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what is also called a substitution process

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casting

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edgar degas's paintings reveal his interest in the candid attitudes found in street photography and the asymmetry of

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japanese prints

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in painting media, the pigment most notably provides

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color

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a type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

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tempera

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a mixed media artwork is made

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with different materials

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which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people

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charcoal

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which nineteenth century artist attempted to bring craft and fine art together by creating a design company

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william morris

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which structure features a ring of posts and lintels

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stonehenge

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louis jacques mande daguerre was unable to include people in his photographs because in his time

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exposure times were very long

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early christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called

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catacombs

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which artist used straight lines primary colors and rectangles as universal elements

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piet mondrian

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the name impressionism derives from a critic's derogatory remark about a painting by

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claude monet

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the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

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iconography

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portrait head of an old man is an example of

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roman sculpture

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size relationships between parts of a whole are known as

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proportion

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a full sized drawing made as a guide for a work in another medium is a

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cartoon

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which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting and ordering?

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design

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a typical example of a low-relief sculpture is

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a coin

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in the evolution of buddhist architecture, early burial mounds led most directly to the indian

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stupa

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a very thin transparent film of color painted over an already painted surface is called

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a glaze

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the tera cotta warriors were found in the tomb of

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Qin Shihuangdi

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julia margaret cameron pioneered the

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use of close-ups in portrait photgraphy

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any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

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rhythm

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when the two sides of a composition correspond to one another in size shape and placement of form the work has

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symmetrical balance

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the purity or saturation of a color is its

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intensity

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two dimensional artists create the illusion of volume with light by using

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chiaroscuro

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fauvist artists extended the visual vocabulary of post impressionism by making their primary subject matter

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color

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the term used to discuss how a building stands up is

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structure

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one of the earliest types of photograph was the

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daguerreotype

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