Art Appreication
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According to Sayre what are the three steps int he process of seeing
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reception, extraction, inference
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Jan and Hubert van Eyck's \"The Great Altarpiece\" is an example of
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artists giving form to the immaterial: hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces or personal feelings
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Kane Kwei's \"Coffin Orange in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod\" is an example of
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artists making functional objects and structures more pleasurable and elevating them or imbuing them with meaning
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Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of \"green architecture\" Such buildings are praised for their
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self-sufficiency
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Portraiture, such as John Ahearn are Rigoberto Torres' \"Pat\" is an example of
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artists making a visual record of the people, places, and events of their time and place
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Where does Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama draw inspiration for her work
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from very personal visual and existential experience of her surroundings
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What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure
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it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it
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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 1960's
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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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Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of \"Les Demosielles d'Avignon\"
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African ritual masks
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Rene Margitte's \"The Treason of Images\" asks of to consider
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that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves
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In a work of art, content, refers to
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what the work expresses or means
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The term naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe
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representational art
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Jan van Eyck's \"Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanni Cenami\" depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called
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iconography
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While in prison, Howling Wolf made drawings called
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ledger drawings
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In a work of art, form, refers to
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the way it looks
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Beatriz Milhaves \"Carambola\" is based on
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the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture
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When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's \"Black Square\" shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called
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nonrepresentational
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Which of these statements best defines visual literacy
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the abililty to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images
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What is the content of Albert Beirstadt's \"Rocky Mountains\"
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It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that we can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West
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Maya Lin's Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style
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In Chapter 3, Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art. What are they?
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monetary and intrinsic
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Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed
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Richard Serra
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Guillermo Gomez-Pena's \"The temple of Confessions\" can be defined as what kind of art
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performance and installation
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Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation
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They have little context which to view the work
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What is it that motivates most collectors to buy contemporary art
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the pleasure of owning art and the prestige that confers upon them
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Chris Ofili's \"The Holy Virgin Mary\" displays aspects of the artist's life, his African heritage and what else?
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his Catholic upbringing
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In 1860, Edouard Manet's Dejeuner sur Iherbe\" was rejected by the public due to its
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modernity
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Which artwork was described as \"an explosion in a shingle factory\"
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Marcel Duchamp's \"Nide Descending a Staircase\"
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Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's \"David\" came under attack upon first viewing due to its
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political symbolism
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When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows
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absolute symmetry
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When dealing with balance in a two dimensional composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with
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visual weight
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The process of organizing the formal elements of art into a unified composition is called
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design
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Proportion is defined as
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the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition
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Jan Vermeer's \"Women Holding a Balance\" is a perfect example of
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an asymmetrically balanced composition
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The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as its
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scale
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The process of organizing the formal elements of art into unified composition is called
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desgin
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What is a term that describes an artist's attempt to draw our eyes to one are of a composition
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emphasis
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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of
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rhythm
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In her painting \"Still Life with Lobster\" Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through
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the manipulation of light and color
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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. The process was called
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metalpoint
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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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The word paper is derived from
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Egyptian papyrus
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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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In Kathe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, \"Drawing\" the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of what medium
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charcoal
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Whitefield Lovell's \"Whispers from the Walls\" is an example of
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installation art
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What was early paper in the West made of
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cloth rags
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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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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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Who drew \"Banana Flower\"
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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When and where was printmaking first developed
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in the 9th century in China
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Because lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as
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planographic
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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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What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking
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it is easier to cut into linoleum than wood
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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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Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking
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woodcut
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What printmaking technique was used in The Nuremberg Chronicle
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woodcut
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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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What is the process that assures that the colors of linocut or other relief print will align perfectly
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Registration
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If an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in silver in front of the burin, the process is called
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engraving
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Painting was largely considered a craft, lesser than other \"arts\" like poetry and music until
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The Renaissance
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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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a gouache
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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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Artists can create a sense of luminous materiality in oil painting by brushing thin films of transparent color onto the surface, a process called
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glazing
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What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media
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It dries slower allowing more naturalistic development
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What is the substance in paint that holds the particles of pigment together and often defines the characteristics of the various painting media
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binder
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Winslow Homer's A Wall, Nassau was made using
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watercolor washes
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Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation (Merode Altarpiece) by Robert Campin, are called
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Triptychs
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Where is focal point in Giotto's Lamentation
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Jesus' head
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What is the binder in \"encaustic\" painting
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wax
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The drawings by William Cameron Menzies are examples of a vital part of the film-making process called
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storyboards
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Color was introduced into film in what year
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1939
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Sound was introduced into film in what year
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1927
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Dodging and burning are darkroom processes by which the photographer can manipulate which aspect of a photo
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value
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The device invented in the sixteenth century as means of capturing images from the natural world is called
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camera obscura
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Nam June Paik was an innovator in which of these media
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video sculpture
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Still images from the film Battleship Potemkin demonstrate the montage technique of which filmmaker
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Sergei Eisenstein
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What film process was D.W. Griffith was the first great mater of
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editing
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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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What is defined as the size of the opening in the lens when exposing a photograph to light
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aperture
