Art chapter 2

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Art chapter 2

Deer's Skull with Pedernal

O'Keefe
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Deer's Skull with Pedernal
O'Keefe
Death and Life
Klimt
The Banjo Lesson
Tanner
Still Life with Fruit
Cezanne
Execution of the Third of May 1808
Goya
Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper
Degas
The School of Athens

[fresco]

Raphael
Mountain Stream

[watercolor]

Sargent
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

[woodcut]

Dürer
Le Boulevard du Temple

[daguerreotype]

Daguerre
Autumn Tree against Cathedral Rocks

[ Yosemite ]

Adams
Logos for IBM, UPS, and ABC
Rand
La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge

[illustration]

Toulouse-Laurec
Campbell's Soup Cans

[pop art]

Warhol
The Burghers of Calais
Rodin
The Gates
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Jar

[blackware]

Martinez
Pantheon

[oculus]

Rome, Italy
[oculus]
Taj Mahal
Agra,India
Eiffel Tower

[cast-iron]

Eiffel
Wainwright Building

St. Louis,MO
[first modern building]

Sullivan
Sydney Opera House

Australia
[ferroconcrete]

Utzon
U.S. Pavilion, Expo 67 Montréal

[geodesic dome]

Fuller
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

,Spain

Gehry
Fallingwater House

Bear Run Pennsylvania

Wright
In a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is along the vertical axis down the center of the composition.
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of symmetrical balance.
Because she painted it repeatedly and because she lived out her life there, Georgia O'Keeffe is most closely associated with New Mexico.
Another term for asymmetrical balance is informal balance.
In art, the design principle of balance functions to All these answers are correct.5.5
Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through All these answers are correct5.6
The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of the circle and square
The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale. hierarchical
The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon the golden section
Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art. variety
Edgar Degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to make the drawing easier to copy
The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 5 C.E. Chinese
The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as pigment.
The difference in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels is due to the use of different binders.
An example of a liquid medium in drawing is pen and ink
What is pigment in paint? powdered color
Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium? oil paint
The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is encaustic
In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to wet plaster
After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of primer.
In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment. cartoon
Watercolor's primary characteristic is its transparency.
In oil painting, linseed oil acts as a binder.
The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was Jan van Eyck.
One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for All these answers are correct. 7.10
In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called an impression.
If a print is numbered 4/100, what information can be deciphered? There are 96 other prints in the edition.
Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes? gouache
A rubber stamp creates what type of print? relief
Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignment of the paper, known as registration.
The supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group is known as censorship
In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that galloping horses occasionally have all four hooves off the ground.
The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in the Italian Renaissance
A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a copper plate covered with silver iodine.
Artists primarily used the camera obscura to produce naturalistic drawings of the world.
The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid photographers to document the Great Depression.
Despite an enthusiastic public acceptance, the success of the daguerreotype was limited by the inability to make multiple images from one negative.
One of the most celebrated 19th-century artists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, created posters for the famous dance hall called the Moulin Rouge.
The ________ first made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely. printing press
Although symbols convey information and embody ideas, they have no meaning in themselves; their meaning is invented by cultural use; and the ideas they embody may change radically with time.
According to the author, graphic design as we know it today has its roots in two developments. They are the printing press and the Industrial Revolution.
A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity. logo
An image created to accompany words is called an illustration.
A designer's blueprint for books and magazines and other works in print is called a layout.
Graphic design used to be known as ________ art. commercial
Four basic methods for making a sculpture are modeling, casting, carving, and assembling.
The additive process of sculpture includes both assembling and modeling.
The subtractive process involves carving.
High-relief sculpture is different than low-relief sculpture in that high-relief projects boldly from the background, and elements of high-relief may be in the round, unattached to the background.
What separates the art object from the craft object? There is no definite line.
Fired earthenware is often referred to by its Italian name, terra cotta.
An archaeologist asked ________ to reconstruct an entire pot from a broken piece he had found, thus launching her career and the revival of Pueblo pottery. Mar'a Mart'nez
Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building. Wainwright Building
Stacking and piling is another term for load-bearing construction.
The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as the Greek orders.
The ability of a material to span horizontal distances with a minimum of support is called tensile strength.
Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction. Eiffel Tower
________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome. R. Buckminster Fuller
The International style emphasizes all of these: clean lines, geometric form, and avoidance of superficial decoration.
A ________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end. cantilever


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