Art chapter 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
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 BuildingSt. 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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