Intro Visual Arts Midterm Practice

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise.

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is not an element of art?

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

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

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

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

Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tools of formal analysis help us to:

This principle of design arises from repetition of a pattern.

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

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

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

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

A representational work of art ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which group contains all three primary colors?

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

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.

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

Line can be used as a tool to:

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

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

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

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:

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

Installation artworks: