Art Appreciation Midterm Review: 6-8

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan

Jan Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of

In Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance, a painting on the wall behind the woman depicts

In her painting Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through

Because Bernini’s David tells a story, it is said to have what kind of sequence?

When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with

Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?

Which of these artists created a work titled Pietà?

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

In Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas, to what purpose does the artist use symmetry?

Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour?

Alexander Calder’s “mobiles” move when air currents move through them, making them

According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet’s Corps de Dame can be read as

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

When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?

When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is

The Artist’s Mother is a work by which artist?

Who drew Banana Flower?

Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of

The word paper is derived from

When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows

Vija Celmin’s Untitled (Ocean) is an example of

The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of

Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves

Which of the following is not an aspect of texture?

When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a

Chartres Cathedral’s rose window best illustrates

What was early paper in the West made of?

In the kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana, pattern is associated with

Whitfield Lovell’s Whispers from the Walls is an example of