Art Appreciation Midterm Review: 9-11

Question 1

According to the text, Jerry Uelsmann’s Untitled has the character of which artistic movement?

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 2

Paintings that consist of 3 painted panels, such as The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece)

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triptychs.

Question 3

When and where were the earliest photographs developed?

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in the nineteenth century in France and England

Question 4

Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?

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acrylic

Question 5

What is the binder used in tempera paint?

Accepted Answer

egg yolk

Question 6

What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media?

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The artist can make multiple copies of a single image.

Question 7

Where is the focal point in Giotto’s Lamentation?

Accepted Answer

Jesus’ face

Question 8

Which process best describes intaglio printing?

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The area that prints is below the surface of the plate.

Question 9

What is the binder in encaustic painting?

Accepted Answer

hot wax

Question 10

Which artist created Video Flag?

Accepted Answer

Nam June Paik

Question 11

Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using which medium?

Accepted Answer

encaustic

Question 12

D. W. Griffith was the first great master of which film process?

Accepted Answer

editing

Question 13

Kara Walker’s installation Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary...) uses the device of

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silhouette.

Question 14

What is defined as the size of the opening in the lens when exposing a photograph to light?

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aperture

Question 15

When and where was printmaking first developed?

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in the ninth century in China

Question 16

A woodcut print such as Erich Heckel’s Fränzi Reclining is an example of

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a relief print.

Question 17

Which of these was normal subject matter for ukiyo-e or nishiki-e prints?

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women engaged in everyday activities

Question 18

Winslow Homer’s A Wall, Nassau was made using

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watercolor washes.

Question 19

Painting was largely considered a craft, lesser than other “arts” like poetry and music, until

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the Renaissance.

Question 20

Kitagawa Utamaro’s The Fickle Type represents what can be described as a(n)

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ukiyo-e print.

Question 21

Oil paint is an exception in that it allows the user to do all of the following EXCEPT

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to work more quickly than in other media.

Question 22

Roger Shimomura’s Enter the Rice Cooker is an example of what kind of printmaking?

Accepted Answer

silkscreen

Question 23

Muybridge’s photographs, such as Annie G., Cantering, Saddled, are early examples of artists

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capturing an object in motion.

Question 24

Sound was introduced into film in

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1927.

Question 25

Despite the success of the daguerreotype, the process had its drawbacks, primarily

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that the image could not be reproduced.

Question 26

Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces

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only one print from the plate.

Question 27

The techniques used by Jerry N. Uelsmann in photographs like Untitled can best be described as

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collage.

Question 28

A problem posed by video installations is that

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as they age, replacement parts are difficult to find.

Question 29

What is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut will align perfectly?

Accepted Answer

registration

Question 30

Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking?

Accepted Answer

woodcut

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