Chapters 1-8

The word sfumato

The Mona Lisa came to be at the Louvre Museum in Paris because the painting was ____.

The Japanese sculptural group the Amida Buddha reflects the tastes of its aristocratic patrons by

What subject in prehistoric cave art was rarely shown?

The early prehistoric sculpture, The Venus of Willendorf, is believed to have been ____.

The art of any area of the world where people live or lived in a pre-industrial or pre-agricultural state is

The purpose of a portrait of a king was to

Futurism is a movement that celebrated

Maya Lin called the concept of her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Zhan Wang’s Urban Landscape is a comment on

The $21 million cost of The Gates by Christo and Jean-Claude were entirely funded by

An artist who used the power of art to be self-expressive and cathartic after being in a terrible accident was

Marc Chagall’s artwork combines the influence of modern art with

Paul Klee’s Dance You Monster to My Soft Song! is an example of

Another word for folk art is

Jewelry and woven rugs are considered

Andy Warhol produced work in his studio, which was known as

Tony Oursler was referencing the nineteenth century artists __ in his work Studio: Seven Months of my Asethetic Experience (and then some).

Three-dimensional space

A gestural line

Diagonal lines in a work of art convey

Another word for organic shape

An example of a geometric shape is

Simplified shapes are called ___ shapes.

Geometric forms suggest

Chiaroscuro in a work of art relates to

James Turrell’s artwork is surprising in that it

If an object has a tactile quality, the object has

Black, white, and gray are considered

A tint is made by mixing a hue with

The discovery that white light creates the spectrum when refracted was done by

Analogous colors are colors

If placed on a black background, an orange shape appearing reddish is an example of

The empty space around an element in the picture plane is called the

The yin/yang symbol is a perfect balance of black and white, and it is a good example of

The visual weight in a work of art is affected by

Another word for symmetrical balance is

The main way to create unity in a composition is by

The Golden Mean is

The ratio 1:1.618 is known as the Golden __.

The modern sculptor Alberto Giacometti used proportion in his figurative works by

The commission Richard Serra received for the sculpture Tilted Arc was funded by the

Tilted Arc was 12 feet tall and ___ feet long.

The sculpture, Tilted Arc, was originally placed in the Federal Plaza in 1981, but it was ___.

In atmospheric perspective, what happens to the background the further back the depth goes?

How is depth implied in the Persian illuminated manuscript, The Court of Gayumars?

Linear perspective was discovered by the architect ___.

Th place where the lines of convergence end is called the __.

In linear perspective, what determines where the horizon line is located?

Artists’ materials, like oil paint or clay, are referred to as

Graphite sticks became popular among artist for the following reason(s)

___ charcoal is created when wood is heated until only carbon remains.

When an artist works with charcoal, which can be easily erased, what can be done to ensure a permanent bond between the charcoal and the paper?

__ is credited with having kept the first modern sketchbook, which was filled with a collection of the artist’s current ideas and interests.

The substance that holds together the loose, dry pigment of pastels is referred to as the

According to the text, many artists like working in pastels because

___, which come in a variety of colors and degrees of hardness, have a waxy binder that enables them to adhere to paper better than charcoal or pastel.

Pens have been in use since ancient times. The oldest pens were made from

In ___, a series of parallel lines cross a netlike fashion as they describe the contours of the subject’s surface.

__ pens are made from bird feathers, and have been popular since the Medieval period.

Modern Chinese and Japanese artists continue to be trained in centuries-old brush techniques, which requires years of study because

Diluted ink applied with a brush to add tonal values to a drawing is called a(n)

The essential part of William Kentridge’s drawing process is

___ uses the silhouette to examine the conflict between images of slavery and romantic love in the South.

The epic novel that served as a basis for Kara Walker’s work entitled Gone, An Historical Romance of Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of Young Negress and Her Heart was

Kara Walker uses a folk art technique, traditionally used for portraits and small landscapes, yet the size of her own work is

Which artist discussed in this chapter uses Japanese papers, gunpowder, and gunpowder fuses in their drawings?

When Cai Guo Quiang exploded a giant red flag on a Soviet-era truck, he stated that this symbolized

Cai Guo Quiang’s work at an air show in San Diego where he directed planes to draw a Chinese landscape, which then floated away, illustrates

Paints is a combination of what two materials?

The ground in a painting is the

Encaustic painting uses ___ as a binder.

The most permanent painting medium is

The word fresco means ___ in Italian.

To create a modeled effect with tempera paint, values need to be built up by

The binder in tempera is usually

Gesso is a white paste that helps to seal a surface and is made of

The most common support for egg tempera is

Thick, stiff paint that creates a raised surface is called

Watercolors are often used for studies for larger works because

Gouache is essentially watercolor with ___ added to it.

Acrylic paint is a relatively new painting medium that

Helen Frankenthaler manipulated acrylic paint in the ___ method.

Collage was legitimized as a fine art form by

The technique of __ incorporates pasted paper.

The art work of Vik Muniz deviates from traditional painting media in that Muniz

The number of prints that an artists limits in one printing in called a(n)

The first and simplest printmaking form is

In Japanese printmaking, the characters at the sides of a print

Registration in printmaking means__.

Wood engraving is different than wood cut in that wood engraving

In a relief print, what prints is the area that was

Intaglio printmaking

Paper was first invented in

Burins are

The two printmaking processes that use acid to remove lines in metal plates are ___.

Mary Cassett was influenced by ___ prints in her work The Letter.

Lithography was first invented

The traditional material used as a printing plate in lithography is

The nineteenth century artist that helped to elevate color lithography to a fine art status was

In contemporary art, an appropriated means that an image

The dark field is

A single test print made by the artist to see what the image will look like when printed is called a

A(n)___ is a room-sized camera that was first used to study eclipses.

The first permanent photographic image was called a

The individual responsible for introducing the world to the first photographic image was a French painter named

The first photographic film using the \”negative-positive\” principle was invented by an Englishman named

__ was a middle class Victorian wife and mother who attempted to capture the essence of beauty through her photographic portraits.

The function of the light-tight box that forms the main structure of a camera is

The___ is an adjustable opening that controls the amount of light entering the camera.

George Eastman introduced a box camera in 1887 called the

One of the pioneers of expeditionary photography, the precursor to landscape photography, who began his career as a Civil War photographer was

After receiving his first camera when he was seven years old, __ used it to record and hold onto the joys of upper-middle-class life in France before WW II.

Henri Cartier- Bresson is best known for capturing

A straight photographer is defined as

Authentic, unretouched photographs that record important social conditions and political events are called

In 1902, the Photo-Secession group was founded by

Man Ray created images by placing objects on photographic paper in a darkroom and then exposing the paper to light. He called these images

The imaginative combination of photographic images in collages, an approach used by artists like Hannah Hoch, is called

Contemporary photographer __ is best known for recording the plight of the poor and refugees at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In the photograph ___, Sandy Skoglund constructed a set, clothed and posed models to create an image depicting a vivid fantasy of what the world might be like after a nuclear war.

Jerry Uelsmann creates his other worldy photographs such as Meditation Mystery by

___ was a professional photographer who created exhaustive studies of figures and animals in motion.

Feeling the heavy burden of trying to create new art surrounded by the grandeur of Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art, the Futurists saw the new age as the opportunity to

The first motion picture camera was called the

When Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali created Un Chien Andalou, their goal was

Surrealist artists believed in an art that

According to the text, television did not take its place as the center of American cultural life until the

The art for known as video art was originated by

The Crossing, which highlights the artist’s belief that video is a medium that deals with movement, change, and transformation, was created by

For Pipilotti Rist, the themes of __and___ are recurring ideas in her work.

The art form created with the aid of computer technology is referred to as

In the early 1950’s, an impressive demonstration of a ball bouncing and the playing of \”Jingle Bells\” was shown on CBS in 1951. This project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was called

During the early stages of computer graphics, printing images too several hours and required expensive___,

In 1962, a graduate student at MIT, Ivan Sutherland developed a hardware and software system that included a nine-inch monitor and a light pen, which enabled Sutherland to draw directly on the screen. This hardware and software system is called

The first exhibition of computer graphics was held at a gallery in Stuttgart, Germany in

When an artist prefers to creat their imagery by hand they can use a graphics or digitizing tablet rather than a mouse. To draw on the tablet, a pen or __ is needed.

__uses a scanner like a camera to create images described as \”dream- like worlds inhabited by everyday objects.\”

A revolution in graphic and type design began with a computer program called Adus PageMaker. This new approach to design and layout became known as

___is an artist who is best known for editing video of sporting events by removing the athletes.

John Lasseter’s first fully computer-animated film at Pixar was