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Stonehenge

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1. The famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths.

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Anthony Caro

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2. "All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone" was said by ______________________.

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Creative people have the ability to generate numerous ideas, many of them quite original, then to analyze their ideas, selecting the most promising ones to develop. They redefine problems and seek connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. They tend to have a playful side, but they are also capable of long periods of intense, concentrated work. They take risks, remain open to experience, and do not feel restricted by existing knowledge or conventional solutions.

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4. The list of traits that creative people seem to possess are ..

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It alludes to the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, a meditation on the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness in which we read that in the end, "all is vanity."

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6. What are Vanitas? (page 16)

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Appeared almost lifelike

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7. According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his cont..

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What is the nature of art? Is there a correct way to appreciate art? Are there objective criteria for judging art? Can we apply our concept of art to other cultures? Can we apply it backward to earlier eras in our own culture?

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8. The field of philosophy called aesthetics means?

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describes representational art that conforms to a preset style or set of conventions for depicting the world.

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10. The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its:

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Were felt to provide pleasure

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11. During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both:

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Naturalistic

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12. If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is:

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Painting, sculpture, and architecture

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13. During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ________ came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts.

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life of its creator, to the tradition it grows from and responds to, to the audience it was made for, and to the society in which it circulated. These circumstances form the context of art, the personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which it was created, received, and interpreted.

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14. Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the:

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Distruction

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15. Iconoclasm means the ________ of images based on religious beliefs.

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Themes are not intended to reduce art to a set of neat categories. Rather, they provide a framework for exploring how complex a form of expression it can be.

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16. Which of the following is an example of a theme in art?

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Afterlife

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17. The Egyptians imagined the ________ as resembling earthly life in every detail

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Brutality of war

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18. Pablo Picasso's Guernica was a protest against:

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The range of Rauschenberg's work makes him difficult to categorize. In addition to paintings, prints, and combination pieces, he did extensive set and costume design for dances by Cunningham and others, as well as graphic design for magazines and books.

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19. The range of ________'s work makes him difficult to categorize. In addi..

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Time and motion

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22. During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element o...

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Organic

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23. In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

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Outlines (3-dim: Contour lines)

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25. In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ____

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Subtractive process

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26. What is the additive process of color mixing?

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foreshortening

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28. Review Albrecht Dürer's woodcut, The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude.

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Literally tactile, a quality we could experience through touch

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29. What is ACTUAL texture?

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Unity and variety, balance, emphasis and subordination, proportion and scale, and rhythm

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30. List all of the principles of design, found in Chapter 5.

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Emphasis and subordination

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31. Drawing attention to an area by contrasting dark and light is known as?

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Symmetry, to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe

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34. The Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ________ to suggest that there is...

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Square grid

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35. The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create ...

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not symmetrical, 2 sides that don't match

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37. Definition of asymmetrical balance. (page 118)

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Size and placement to emphasize the figures of the old man and the young boy.

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38. Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis. (page 126)

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Chinese

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39. The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.

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Pigment: Powdered coloring material.

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40. The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as:

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The use of liquid pigmentation.

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42. The difference in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and and pastels is due to:

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Ink

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43. An example of a liquid medium in drawing is:

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silk, papyrus, fired clay, cave walls

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44. List some ot the many materials besides paper that have provided support for atists drawings.

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mixture of bone ash , glue, and white pigment in water

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45. A traditional metalpoint ground recipe calls for a mixture of what?

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A coloring material made from various organic or chemical substances. When mixed with a binder, it creates a drawing or painting medium.

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46. What is pigment in paint?

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Encaustic

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47. The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax and resin

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Primer

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48. After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies what?

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Transparency

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49. Watercolor's primary characteristic is what? (page 166)

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A binder

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50. In oil painting, linseed oil acts as what?

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acrylic

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52. By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oils.

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Impression

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54. In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design,...

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NOT: gouche ARE: Relief, lithography, intaglio, screenprinting

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55. Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes?

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China

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58. The earliest-known woodcut was made in?

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no more prints can be made from it

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59. In printmaking, a plate or block will be canceled. Why?

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Planographic process, which means that the printing surface is flat, not raised.

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60. Lithography is a __________ process. Understand the printing process.

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galloping horses occasionally have all four hooves off the ground

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61. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse and discovered that ...

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video signals could be electronically manipulated into interesting images

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62. Artists like Peter Campus became interested in video because:

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photojournalism

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63. The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as what?

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the different intentions of each photographer

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64. What is the difference between the work of a "pure" photographer and a "documentary" photographer?

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Narrative form of Painting

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65. Early examples of art photography often imitated what?

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paid photographers to document the Great Depression

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66. The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture hired photographers for what purpose?

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The Steerage

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67. ________ is closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz's assertion that for photography to be an art, it should be true to its own nature.

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Portraits

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68. Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her what?

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printing press

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69. What made reproduction in large numbers first possible?

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Cook and Shanosky

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71. Which graphic design team developed the familiar set of symbols used today to cross language barriers?

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an illustration

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72. An image created to accompany words is called what?

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location and time

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73. Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology is organized in what way?

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color lithography, widespread use of color in posters.

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74. The development of ________ in the 19th century introduced the widespread use of what?

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best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs's NeXT

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76. What is Paul Rand, graphic designer, known for?

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high-relief sculpture

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77. The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of:

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both assembling and modeling

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78. The additive process of sculpture includes:

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carving

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79. The subtractive process involves:

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installation art

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81. What concept conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

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an indirect

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82. Casting is known as ________ method.

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Today, multiples can be created from the process

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83. What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?

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cold and heat distort it; water rots it; and insects can eat it away

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85. Wood is not very durable because:

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sand

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86. The principal ingredient of glass is:

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preceded the field of design; set about to design objects that could be machine produced; and encouraged cooperation between artists and manufacturers.

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89. Review Industrial art as discussed by Gustav Stickley in The Craftsman.

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weight and tensile strength

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93. Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are:

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Greek orders

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94. The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as the:

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tensile strength

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95. The ability of a material to span horizontal distances with a minimum of support is called:

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Eiffel Tower

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96. Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.

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hypostyle hall

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99. When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a:

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barrel vault

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100. According to the author, a ________ is actually an arch extended in depth, as if there are "many arches placed flush one behind the other."

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Vietnam Veteran Memorial or Wave Field???

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3. The most famous of Maya Lin's works

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To become aware of the process of looking itself.

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5. The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is

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Folk, naive, intuitive, primitive, art brut "outsider"

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9. What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

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Self portrait

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20. Artist Frida Kahlo is well-known for her

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Position and overlap

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24. The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. What are they?

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Behind Jesus' head at the exact center of the picture

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27. The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is?

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Radical shift in Scale

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32. Sculptor Claes Oldenburg tends to challenge viewers' how?

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Golden section

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33. The Parthenon and the Modulor were both designed according to a ratio known as:

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Vanitas

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36. Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional theme of:

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Wire

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41. In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ .

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- Wet on wet, can be scraped away for revisions or effect

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51. One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. Why?

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- Oil

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53. A nonaqueous paint is one that dissolves in something other than water.

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- Relief

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56. A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

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- Prints are made using an indirect process and results in multiples of the same image.

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57. What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?

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- Yin-Yang

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70. The ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy that equates to mutual interdependence is?

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- Albrecht Durer

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75. In 1525, _______ created a unified alphabet for mass production.

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- Clay

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80. In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

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- Low relief figures project slightly, high relief figures project boldly

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84. High-relief sculpture is different from low-relief sculpture in that:

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- Potter's wheel

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87. The most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel is by:

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- The Industrial Revolution

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88. The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to:

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- It is widely available, renewable, and relatively easy to work with

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90. Wood is a popular craft material because:

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- Green jade

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91. The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which..

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- Maria Martinez

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92. An archaeologist asked ________ to reconstruct an entire pot from a broken pi...

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- Clean lines, geometric form, avoidance of superficial decoration.

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97. The International style emphasizes:

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- Cantilever

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98. A ________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end.

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