Midterm Review Living with Art

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

The carving method:

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

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

The oldest drawings and paintings found in the Chauvet cave:

Serigraphy means, literally:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The two basic families of structural systems in architecture are:

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

Annette Messager's MesVoeux demonstrates the use of:

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

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

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

Stacking and piling is another term for:

What separates the art object from the craft object?

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

Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh’s:

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

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

The work Fractal.MGX was created using:

Nam Jun Paik is best known for:

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

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

Singing Their Songs was created by:

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

The Tree of Jesse is a work from:

The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended:

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

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

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

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relief sculpture is:

In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography:

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

Wheel of Fortune was created by:

A necessary feature of pattern is:

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

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

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

________ 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?

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

Andy Warhol’s film Empire:

The Lumière brothers:

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

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

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in:

Minimalists:

Forging:

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

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

Artists primarily used the camera obscura to:

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

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

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

The design principle that is based on repetition is called:

The chair of Hetepheres:

Scale is defined as:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:

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

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

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

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

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

Lines are used in art to indicate:

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

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

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

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

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

Fired clay is sometimes called:

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