Test 2 Review (ARTS 1301)

1.

The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's _______ line.

2.

Pat Steir's series The Drawing Lesson Part 1, Line # 1 is about what type of line?

3.

Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of:

4.

How is Sol LeWitt's line (p. 64) best described in his work, Wall Drawing No. 681 C?

5.

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins (p. 69), rely on contrasts between two very important elements:

6.

The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called:

7.

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called:

8.

In House (p.57), how does Jaune Quick-to-See Smith evoke the simplicity of traditional Native American lifestyles that have disappeared?

9.

What cultural conventions (p. 74) did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder, Lisa Lyon?

10.

Hung Liu studied and taught to paint with a strict classical line that is associated with the style of:

11.

When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is:

12.

Cezanne's The Basket of Apples is full of what appear to be "mistakes" but are actually________.

13.

What is generally the preferred medium of Andy Goldsworthy?

14.

Which of these visual elements is most obvious in Andy Goldsworthy's Hazel Leaves?

15.

Line can define space by _____________.

16.

In Giacometti's Man Pointing, our eye is directed down his right arm and past his pointed finger to some imagined point of interest beyond. This is an example of which formal element?

17.

Line can be used to delineate edges of form in space, imply movement, and ____________.

18.

When an artist's mark-making style, particularly his/her use of line, is recognizable, like Van Gogh's in The Starry Night, we say it is _____________.

19.

How would you describe Sol LeWitt's use of line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C?

20.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?

21.

Which of these pieces illustrates the use of "expressive" line?

22.

Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into______________, or three-dimensional, modeled space.

23.

Historically, many cultural assumptions have been made about line. The concept of "analytic" or "logical" line is historically associated with _______ art.

24.

According to Sayre, line is above all "an artist's most _______ tool."

25.

What is the content of Jaue Quick-to-See Smith's House?

26.

Matthew Ritchie's No Sign of the World is a multi-layered drawing that makes use of many types of lines. What do you think he means when he says, "Often, you'll see figures being pierced by multiple fates that are sort of embedded in the lines. It's like the lines in your destiny. Who would want a straight-line destiny? It'd be rotten, right"?

27.

Hung Liu's Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for "female" and "Nu-Wa" in a red box in the middle of the canvas. Who is Nu-Wa?

28.

Compare and contrast the use of line in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Sol LeWitt.

29.

Compare and contrast figures 88 and 89. How do these 2 images challenge our expectations and preconceptions about the figure in the Western world? How does the use of line in these two images contribute to our understanding of the figures intentions?

30.

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

31.

Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day (fig. 104; p. 83) is based on what specific type of perspective?

32.

In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?

33.

Paul Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (fig. 114; p. 89) illustrates that the artist was more interested in:

34.

What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast (fig. 94)?

35.

Where is the negative space in the Rubin vase?

36.

Where is the vanishing point in Duccio's Perspective Analysis of Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maestá Altarpiece?

37.

In Steve DiBenedetto's Deliverance, the artist is able to use ___________to create a sense of space.

38.

What is the most obvious visual element in Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room)?

39.

Where is the vanishing point in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci?

40.

As is common in Japanese art, the Kumano mandala creates the illusion of space by utilizing:

41.

In The Dead Christ (p. 86), Andrea Mantegna utilizes the technique of ______ in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view.

42.

In the Rubin vase illustration (p. 76), the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase, or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

43.

Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon (pp. 77) share a similar trait. What is it?

44.

A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called:

45.

Why is the stereoscope (p. 85) such an effective means of describing "real" space?

46.

The surface of a painting or drawing is called:

47.

On axonometric projection (p. 84), all lines indicating height, width, and depth remain:

48.

According to Sayre, our notion of space has changed abruptly and even become "fluid" since the beginning of the twentieth century due to:

49.

There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it?

50.

As in Suney, Olafur Eliasson is known for mainly using what "materials" in his work?

51.

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

52.

DaVinci's The Last Supper is a perfect example of ____________.

53.

Paul Strand's Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a 20^th century effort to challenge the viewers perspective with ____________.

54.

What media does Terry Winters use in his work, like Color and Information?

55.

What is the outcome, or the content of Mary Flanagan's (collection)?

56.

In the 15^th century in Italy there was a profound redefinition of space with the codification and usage of linear perspective. Some see the same thing happening today with______________.

57.

In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

58.

Would you consider Jane Hammond's Fallen to be an overall warm or cool "composition"?

59.

Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces, sewn together as a whole. What is it made of?

60.

What is yellow's complementary color?

61.

List three different techniques artists have used to convey the illusion of deep space on a flat, two-dimensional surface.

62.

The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called:

63.

The artist that painted La Chahut, The Can-Can was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as:

64.

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize:

65.

JMW Turner uses 2 types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway. What are they?

66.

Figure of a Woman by Paul Colin probably derives from his____________.

67.

In Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentilieschi makes use of a high-contrast technique of painting called___________, Italian for "murky."

68.

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear ____________.

69.

Nikolai Buglaj's "Race"ing Sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of_________.

70.

By the 19th century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway (p. 96) had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters. What type is it?

71.

Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr (p. 100) shows the use of:

72.

The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley (p. 119) as:

73.

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light (p. 97) is:

74.

A color's brightness or dullness (p. 107) is called:

75.

On the color wheel, blues and greens (p. 109) are usually thought of as:

76.

On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary (p. 107) are called:

77.

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the:

78.

Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors (p. 117). This is an example of the expressive use of:

79.

Which of these elements helps to create space in art?

80.

What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Flavin?

81.

What is the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin?

82.

DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called________________.

83.

The background mountains in DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of ___________.

84.

In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by ________.

85.

What are the three types of axonometric projection?

86.

During what period was true scientific perspective perfected?

87.

In linear perspective systems, where is the vanishing point located?

88.

What is created the instant a shape is placed onto a ground?

89.

What do Umbo's Weird Street and Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) have in common?

90.

Discuss how Renaissance artists interpreted the use of scientific perspective systems.

91.

Define the term impasto.

92.

What is the function or use of African kente cloths?

93.

Consider the work of Bill Viola. What are the different ways that time is experienced in his Room for St. John of the Cross?

94.

Explain the aims and goals of Jackson Pollock. What is significant about his work?

95.

Explain how Roni Horn explores both time and motion in her photographic installation This Is Me, This Is You.

96.

What is the difference between one-point and two-point linear perspective?

97.

Use examples from the chapter to explain the difference between shape and mass.

98.

Discuss how new technologies are redefining our sense of space.

99.

What are the three basic areas of shadow?

100.

Which of the artists below created a work titled Pietà?

101.

The systematic and repetitive use of the same motif or design creates a pattern on the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, illustrates that pattern is an especially important _______ tool.

102.

Because Gianlorenzo Bernini's David tells a story—of David slaying Goliath—it is said to have a _______ sequence.

103.

Max Ernst's Forest and Dove uses a process called _______ to create a variety of textural effects.

104.

What is the subject matter of Isidro Escamilla's Virgin of Guadalupe?

105.

What was the inspiration for Grace Ndiritu's Still Life: White Textiles?

106.

Early manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels (p. 128) were said to be ______ because they were elaborately illustrated and decorated.

107.

A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Musée de l'Orangerie (pp. 132-133) as demonstrating _______ motion.

108.

Hans Namuth's photos (p. 134-135) teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in:

109.

Because of its application to crafts, folk art, and women's work, _______ is associated with the beautifying of utilitarian objects.

110.

Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called:

111.

Which of the following is not an aspect of texture (pp. 124-127)?

112.

In what way can a large-scale work be considered a "temporal" art form?

113.

Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled (p. 123), move when air currents move through them, making them _____________.

114.

Thick paint applied to a canvas, like on Robert Ryman's Long, creates actual texture known as _______.

115.

The Kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana provide a perfect example of which art element?

116.

Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini and Michelangelo's David?

117.

The act of painting outdoors, often practiced by Claude Monet and other impressionists, is known by what technical term?

118.

What happens when all the different spectrum colors of light are mixed together?

119.

How can an artist decrease a hue's intensity or saturation?

120.

Name the three primary colors.

121.

Give an example of complementary colors.

122.

What is the content of Jane Hammond's Fallen?

123.

How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo's palette? Do you think Michelangelo used color to help define form?

124.

Discuss the emotional effects of warm and cool colors by citing examples from the chapter.

125.

Explain Artemisia Gentileschi's use of tenebrism and modeling in her painting, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, and discuss the effects these techniques produce.

126.

The surface quality of a work is referred to as its _______.

127.

Explain the two ways to define "Action Painting."

128.

What is the primary element of temporal artworks?