Midterm Review Living with Art

Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ________.

Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.

The style used by Georges Seurat in Café-concert is:

Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are:

The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing his plays is:

Which of the following media is the most common of all drawing media?

Although wood engraving sounds like an intaglio process, it is actually a ________ process.

Which ancient Roman's writings on architecture related the human body to geometric shapes?

The Taj Mahal was built by the 17th-century Moslem emperor for what purpose?

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:

One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is:

Serigraphy means, literally:

Fired clay is sometimes called:

Stacking and piling is another term for:

What part of the pen conveys the ink to the drawing surface?

Man Ray created mysterious images, called _________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera

The Lumière brothers:

Lines are used in art to indicate:

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called:

The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are:

In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by:

Sculptors will often create a “sketch” out of ________ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice.

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms that were:

Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?

________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.

By far the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form is by means of the:

________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

________ was a photographer who promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature.

Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the “organic” architecture of:

The supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group is known as:

In Shahzia Sikander’s I from 51 Ways of Looking, _________ was used as the medium.

In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography:

In a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is:

Vonne Jacquette’s Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of:

In oil painting, thin veils of translucent color applied over a layer of opaque paint are known as:

The work Fractal.MGX was created using:

No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as d

The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in:

According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is:

Vincent van Gogh was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as:

The 20^th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is:

The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended:

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on:

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

Scale is defined as:

According to the author, the impulse to create art comes from basic human interests in:

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.

The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of:

The oldest drawings and paintings found in the Chauvet cave:

Except in the case of ________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the Renaissance, is:

Which artist uses light itself as the main material and increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world:

Raphael’s The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a:

The chair of Hetepheres:

Relief sculpture is:

Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses:

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink _______

Wheel of Fortune was created by:

Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in:

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues of the scene’s colors but captures the _____ of the colors.

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to:

The Tree of Jesse is a work from:

This bronze sculpture is the work of an artist performing the role of “giving tangible form to the unknown"

Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________ is thought by many to be the first modern building

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

The design principle that is based on repetition is called:

Builders of Gothic cathedrals reinforced the walls of their architecture from the outside with:

Singing Their Songs was created by:

Which of the following printing techniques is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray?

Traditional Chinese artists used _________, the oldest painting medium in continuous use.

The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in:

The ________ process of casting metal dates back to the 3^rd millennium B.C.E.

Which of the visual elements can best be described as “the path of a moving point”?

A necessary feature of pattern is:

The carving method:

Minimalists:

Technically, tempera is paint in which the vehicle is in:

Which of the following is NOT one of the techniques of intaglio printing?

A dome is generated by rotating ________ 360 degrees about a vertical central axis.

Nam Jun Paik is best known for:

Pen and ink was the favorite sketching medium of ________, one of the greatest draftsmen of the 17^th century.

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of:

Artists primarily used the camera obscura to:

What separates the art object from the craft object?

Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to:

Which of the following is made from the sap of a tree?

To achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignment careful alignment called:

 the chemical composition of ________ changes when exposed to extreme heat, ________ doesn’t change chemically

The organization of visual elements in two-dimensional art is called:

Forging:

Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh’s:

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the shadows and light

Annette Messager's MesVoeux demonstrates the use of:

Chris Ofili created Prince among Thieves with Flowers using ________ as his medium.

________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.

In weaving, the set of fibers that is held taut on a loom or frame is called the:

Andy Warhol’s film Empire:

Georgia O'Keeffe's Deer's Skull with Pedernal, which is set directly on the vertical axis, utilizes ___________ balance.

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?