Midterm Review Living with Art

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

Stacking and piling is another term for:

Fired clay is sometimes called:

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

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

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

Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh’s:

The design principle that is based on repetition is called:

Serigraphy means, literally:

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

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

A necessary feature of pattern is:

Forging:

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

In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography:

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

What separates the art object from the craft object?

Lines are used in art to indicate:

Annette Messager's MesVoeux demonstrates the use of:

Minimalists:

The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended:

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

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

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

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

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

The Lumière brothers:

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

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:

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

The oldest drawings and paintings found in the Chauvet cave:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

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

Scale is defined as:

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

Nam Jun Paik is best known for:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wheel of Fortune was created by:

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

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

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

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

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

Relief sculpture is:

The work Fractal.MGX was created using:

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called:

Andy Warhol’s film Empire:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The carving method:

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

The chair of Hetepheres:

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

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

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

The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are:

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

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

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

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

Artists primarily used the camera obscura to:

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in:

The Tree of Jesse is a work from:

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

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

Singing Their Songs was created by:

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