Intro Visual Arts Midterm Practice

This is a of color "map" that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other

Nearly all printmaking is done in editions, but some artists will opt to create unique prints. These are called:

19. Paper was invented by Cai Lun in China around 1st century CE. He used _________________ suspended in water.

This is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art.

Which group contains all three primary colors?

This principle of design arises from repetition of a pattern.

Which Edward Hopper Painting uses formal devices to convey a sense of loneliness and vacancy?

Clay used to make earthenware has a good ________: it is pliable and can be easily formed into almost any orientation.

These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range.

Optical sensations of movement through the repetition and manipulation of color, shape, and line. Also an art movement

Garry Winogrand’s practice of taking photographs that were not posed or set up in advance was known as:

Line can be used as a tool to:

The rules artists follow when composing the elements; unity, variety, emphasis,focal point, balance, rhythm are called

Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:

Which painter and watercolorist was the first woman to have her work shown at the Louvre during her lifetime?

Ai Weiwei created a series of photographs of himself dropping a 2,000-year-old object. What was it?

An artist creates compositional unity by:

Printing with inks was first practiced in which country in the third century CE?

The focal point of Robert Rauschenberg's sculpture Monogram is:

The Roman-era encaustic portraits from Fayum are examples of Roman painting. What is the primary material in encaustic?

This twentieth-century artist, and creator of Fountain(a factory-made urinal), was very influential for later artist ___

The tools of formal analysis help us to:

The practice of gathering objects and fabricating them into a work of art is called:

The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ________.

When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, _______ image is formed.

Among artistic media, one that developed relatively recently is ________.

This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of large boulders or the sculpture House

When an artist is making pottery by hand-throwing, the first step when forming the clay on a potter’s wheel is to ___

When Tibetan Buddhist monks create a sand mandala, they are creating a composition that has this kind of balance:

 __________ is the line where the line of sight stops and on which the artist often places the vanishing point.

When creating a multi-color print, aligning the blocks so that the colors will appear in the correct location is called

Installation artworks:

The word "type" derives from a Greek word meaning _________.

Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.

The two kinds of relief sculpture are: ________, which is deeply cut, and ________, which has little depth.

This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.

Processing plant fibers begins with separating the fiber from the plant, then by spinning the fiber into a long ____

Illustrator J. Montgomery brought this character to life, creating memorable icon, in his poster I Want You for US Army

When M. Abramović performed The Artist is Present, she didnt speak/move, but made what she called "__" with participants

A representational work of art ________.

Andy Warhol produced silkscreen prints depicting many celebrities, including a work titled Four ________.

Which of the following is not an element of art?

Pigment names are often derived from their source. For example the pigment that we call umber is named after _______

This material, derived from tree sap, is used in aquatint printmaking: a process that emulates the appearance of wate

Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.

The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ________.

Which African American artist created the fiber artwork Tar Beachas an autobiographical work about her own experience?

One of the first moving subjects to be captured on camera was ________.

This attribute of time is a measurement of the speed at which time elapses