Ttle: The concept of the "
The concept of the "vanishing point" is the key to atmospheric perspective.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Futurism was an art
Futurism was an art movement of the early 20th century which emphasized motion and speed.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Mondrian-shape-paintings
The paintings of Piet Mondrian emphasize organic shapes.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Noguchi- sculptures
The sculptures of Isamu Noguchi nearly always incorporate actual motion.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael
The Renaissance artist Raphael was not appreciated until after his death.
a. True
*b. False
Title: In B&Wphotography grays
In black-and-white photography, colors are translated into many different values of gray.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Define chiaroscuro
The term "chiaroscuro" refers to blurred, hazy background forms that can give a sense of depth to a painting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael and Michelangelo- Vatican
Raphael and Michelangelo worked on paintings in the Vatican at the same time.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Oil painting notwater-soluble
Oil painting is not an aqueous (water-soluble. medium.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Fresco is not easy corrections
Fresco is a convenient medium for wall paintings because it allows for easy correction when the artist makes a mistake.
a. True
*b. False
Title: The "picture plane"
The "picture plane" is the level at which paintings are hung on the wall.
a. True
*b. False
Title: In both linear and isometric perspective
In both linear and isometric perspective, forms meant to be understood as background are made smaller than forms meant to be seen as foreground.
*a. True
b. False
Title: The School of Athens
The School of Athens was an important Greek center for teaching the art of fresco painting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Restoration Leonardo-Last Supper
When Dr. Pinan Bramibilla Barcilon finishes restoring The Last Supper, it will look almost exactly as Leonardo left it.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Oil paint is valued
Oil paint is valued for its luminous colors and quick drying.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Joan Mitchell's brushwork
Joan Mitchell's brushwork is similar to the brushwork of Andrew Wyeth.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Goya-art types
The Spanish artist Francisco de Goya is best known for his ______.
a. portraits of the nobility
b. sculptures
c. prints
d. collages
*e. a and c
Title: Synthetic paints are acrylics
Synthetic paints are often referred to as polymer or acrylic paints.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Winslow Homer used wc
Winslow Homer avoided the watercolor medium, because he did not think it sufficiently "serious" for his paintings.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Kahlo- 3 Fridas
The artist Frida Kahlo used symmetrical balance in The Two Fridas to express her dual nature as ______:
a. male and female
b. upper and lower class
c. American and Spanish
*d. European and Mexican
e. schizophrenic
Title: Define non-repres- non-objectve
The terms non-representational, non-objective, and non-figurative refer to abstract art.
a. True
*b. False
Title: iconography
In works that contain iconography, it's usually the symbolism that offers the deepest level of meaning.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Vermeer-17th -glazes
Jan Vermeer was a 17th-century artist known for his rich, glowing colors achieved through the application of thin glazes of oil paint.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Rauschenberg
What artist created a lithograph from a collage of reproductions and commentary which commemorated the centennial of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?
a. Picasso
b. Kollwitz
c. Stella
*d. Rauschenberg
e. Kent
Title: What French artist c
What French artist created a series of color lithographs as posters that illustrate Parisian nightclubs and entertainers?
*a. Toulouse-Lautrec
b. Picasso
c. Cassatt
d. Nolde
e. Raimondi
Title: Dürer is German
Albrecht Dürer was born in ______.
*a. Germany
b. Romania
c. Switzerland
d. Norway
e. Denmark
Title: Goya left Spain worked in Paris
Like Picasso, Francisco de Goya left Spain, his birth country, to live and work in Paris most of his life.
a. True
*b. False
Title: O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous painter of biblical subjects.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Gauguin NOT spent life painting in Europe
Gauguin spent all of his life painting in Europe.
a. True
b. False*
Title:van Gogh born Holland
Vincent van Gogh was born in ______.
*a. Holland
b. France
c. Spain
d. Germany
e. Italy
Title: Shapiro-sculpt-rect wood blocks
This sculptor plays with our tendency to find images in rectangular units of wood or metal assembled somewhat like children's blocks.
a. Schabel
b. van Gogh
c. Turrell
d. Matisse
*e. Shapiro
Title: van Gogh-Starry night
An artist who created a memorable image of a French village beneath a night sky of stars was:
a. Henri Matisse
b. Joel Shapiro
c. Herbert Vogel
d. Constantin Brancusi
*e. Vincent van Gogh
Title: van Gogh Gauguin- Arles
Two artists who worked together in the French provincial city of Arles were:
a. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
b. Matisse and Brancusi
*c. van Gogh and Gauguin
d. Schnabel and Weston
e. Hampton and Rath
Title: Rembrandt -The Polish Rider
The Polish Rider, once considered an extremely valuable work, may instead have been created by Willem Drost, a pupil of this artist:
a. van Gogh
b. Picasso
c. Reynolds
*d. Rembrandt
e. van Eyck
Title: Goya-prints satirie-human vanity-eccentricity.
Many of Goya's prints satirized human vanity and eccentricity.
*a. True
b. False
Title: linear perspect-vp
In linear perspective, parallel lines receding into the distance seem to converge, until they meet at the______.
a. focal point.
b. epicenter.
c. picture plane
d. 10vanishing point
e. perspective line
Title: chiaroscuro
The term "chiaroscuro" means______.
a. personal magnetism
b. clarity of colors
c. a hazy or misty effect
*d. light/dark
e. a fresco technique
Title: Rauschenberg- not engrav
Robert Rauschenberg is a German artist who works only in the technique of engraving.
a. True
*b. False
Title: linear persp-diminish size
In linear perspective, forms meant to be seen as farther away from the viewer are______.
a. larger
*b. smaller
c. higher
d. lower
e. lighter
Title: Guernica sketches
Extensive sketches and composition studies for the painting Guernica exist because of this artist's decision to save his sketches as "glimpses" into the creative process.
a. Degas
b. Ingres
*c. Picasso
d. Daumier
e. Gehry
Title: Dürer travel Italy
Albrecht Dürer traveled and worked in Italy and was later appointed court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Rembrandt- print-paint
Rembrandt is famed as both a printmaker and a painter.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Toulouse-Lautrec litho
Toulouse-Lautrec's lithographs have complex subject matter and were meant to appeal primarily to intellectuals.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Picasso –born Spain
Pablo Picasso was born in______.
a. Italy
b. France
c. Germany
d. Brazil
*e. Spain
Title: Theo van Gogh earned
Theo van Gogh earned his living as a(n) ______.
a. painter
b. sculptor
*c. art dealer
d. psychiatrist
e. historian
Title: Ingres pencil drwg
The French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was considered a great master of drawings, especially portraits, done in ______.
a. pen and ink
b. watercolor
*c. pencil
d. pen and wash
e. pastel
Title: iconography-story-symbol
The story and symbols in a work of art make up its\: ______
a. anthropomorphism
b. representation
*c. iconography
d. iconoclasm
e. synthesism
Title: Warhol - Pop
Andy Warhol is associated with the art movement known as ______.
*a. Pop Art
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Neo-Expressionism
d. Post-Modernism
e. Renaissance Naturalism
Title: JReynolds-romant Engl portrait
The artist Joshua Reynolds is associated with the romantic style of English portraiture in the 18th century.
*a. True
b. False
Title: prep drwg fresco cartoon
The preparatory drawing for a fresco is called a ______.
a. sketch
b. mural
c. mockup
*d. cartoon
e. tempera
Title: Fresco define
Fresco can best be defined as______.
a. a method of painting that employs hot wax
b. a watercolor
*c. a method of painting in wet plaster
d. a type of oil painting
e. a printmaking technique
Title: Kollwitz
In a time when most artists were men and mainly sculpture and painting were the media of art, this Prussian-born female artist concentrated on prints and drawings in black and white. Who was this artist?
a. Julian Schnabel
*b. Käthe Kollwitz
c. Dominique Ingres
d. Basho
e. Elise Engler
Title: Rembrandt drwg not crude
Because Rembrandt used a stiff reed pen for drawing, his style is rather crude and gives little sense of form.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Picasso Guernica many sketches
Picasso made a great many preliminary drawings for his famous painting Guernica.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Leonardo advised drw nature
Leonardo da Vinci advised artists in his Treatise on Painting never to sketch from life or nature.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Van Eyck Arnolfiniiconography
Van Eyck's painting "The Arnolfini Wedding" contains iconography related to the era and culture in which the work was created.
*a. True
b. False
Title: van Gogh –Gauguin-together
Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin worked in France at the same time, but they never met.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Rembrandt ques authorship
The Rembrandt Research Project has questioned the authorship of many paintings once thought to be by Rembrandt.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Kollwitz Prep drwgs
Käthe Kollwitz was a famous German painter who seldom used preparatory drawings.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Abstract artists may draw well
Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot draw well.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Warhol-lees quality after shot
Andy Warhol's art seemed to many observers to lose its edge and excitement after a woman shot and nearly killed him.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Felix Gonzalez' viewers take part of work
Felix Gonzalez' works are unusual because viewers are encouraged to take portions of the works.
a. True*
b. False
Title: contrapposto-s curve
The word ______is used to describe sculptures in which the figure is portrayed in a natural, relaxed, S-curve suggestive of motion.
a. frontality
b. sinuous
c. flexible
d. relief
*e. contrapposto
Title: Casting sculp method
The sculptural method that generally involves the use replacement of a non-permanent material such as clay, wax, or plaster with molten (superheated. metal is called______.
a. modeling
b. carving
c. assembling
*d. casting
e. equestrian
Title: environmental sculpture
The term "environmental sculpture" refers to ______.
a. sculptures you can walk into and through
b. sculptures displayed outdoors
c. sculptures that are part of the natural landscape
*d. all of these
e. a and b only
Title: Moore-Engl-abstract figures
Which 20th-century English artist sculpts abstract human forms to explore the body's visual harmonies with landscape?
a. Red Grooms
b. Christo
*c. Henry Moore
d. Jeff Koons
e. Alexander Calder
Title: patina
______is the term used to describe the desirable surface color that metal sculptures acquire over time when they are exposed to the weather.
a. rust
b. panache
c. gilding
*d. patina
e. glaze
Title: mobile has motion
A mobile is a sculpture that ______.
a. can be exhibited outdoors
*b. incorporates motion
c. is made from metal
d. should best be viewed from all sides
e. deals with the family
Title: vp not key to atmos perspect
The concept of the "vanishing point" is the key to atmospheric perspective.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Casting
The sculptural method that generally involves the use of molten (superheated. metal is called ______.
a. modeling
b. carving
c. assembling
*d. casting
e. equestrian
Title: Picasso many styles
Pablo Picasso worked in many styles, from the highly abstract to the naturalistic.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Fresco wet plaster
Fresco can best be defined as ______.
a. a method of painting that employs hot wax
b. a watercolor
*c. a method of painting in wet plaster
d. a type of oil painting
e. a printmaking technique
Title: Quinten Massays-Grotesque Old Woman
Quinten Massays painted Grotesque Old Woman to satirize pride, vanity, and human folly.
*a. True
b. False
Title: "Pietà defined
"Pietà," a standard subject in Christian art, depicts the mother of Jesus holding her son's body.
*a. True
b. False
T
Title: Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's father.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Picasso-Guernica
The painting called Guernica was made by ______.
a. Paul Cézanne
b. Jacob Lawrence
c. Robert Rauschenberg
*d. Pablo Picasso
e. Honore Daumier
Title: Abakanowicz Polish repeat bodies
The Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz is best known for complex works featuring the repetition of many ______.
a. boxes
b. curves
c. geometric shapes
*d. parts of human bodies
e. cast elements from the sea
Title: Cellini not life size Shakespeare
Cellini created a life-size sculpture that depicted the story of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Richard Hunt-Jacob's Ladder
Richard Hunt's large scale sculpture Jacob's Ladder is iconographically based on a theme from the Koran.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael Sch Athens fresco
Raphael's School of Athens was created in what medium?
a. gouache
b. mosaic
*c. fresco
d. watercolor
e. acrylic
Title: Michelangelo - carving
A marble sculpture by Michelangelo would be a good example of the carving method.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Marin Homer WC
Both John Marin and Winslow Homer were noted for major works in ______.
a. fresco
b. egg tempera
c. impasto
*d. watercolor
e. Detroit
Title: Fresco
Fresco is ______
a. Painting with hot colored wax
b. Water soluble colored plastic polymer paint
c. Egg and water emulsion
*d. Watercolor on fresh lime plaster
e. Utilization of tusche in serigraphy
Title: TemperaEgg water emulsion
Tempera is ______.
a. Painting with hot colored wax
b. Water soluble colored plastic polymer paint
*c. Egg and water emulsion
d. Watercolor on fresh lime plaster
e. Utilization of tusche in serigraphy
Title: Frankenthaler stain
Helen Frankenthaler is often associated with diluted synthetic paints used as ______.
a. impasto
*b. stain
c. fresco
d. background
e. self-portraits
Title: Cellini -lostwax
Cellini's recounting of his creation of Perseus and Medusa relates the difficulty of creating large scale works using the lost-wax technique.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Diego Rivera Mex murals large
The Mexican artist Diego Rivera is noted for his ______.
a. murals
b. frescoes
c. large-scale paintings
d. social commentary
*e. all of these
Title: Butterfield- Vermillion
Deborah Butterfield's Vermillion depicts a horse made entirely of flowers.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Wyeth Helga
Andrew Wyeth's "secret" paintings of the 1970s and 1980s depict a woman known only as ______.
*a. Helga
b. Christina
c. Olga
d. Helen
e. Madame X
Title: Serra Tilted Arc vote
The public viewers of Richard Serra's Tilted Arc overwhelmingly voted to keep the work in its original setting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Jacob Lawrence Harlem
Jacob Lawrence grew up and received his artistic training in ______.
a. England
b. California
c. Mississippi
d. Brooklyn
e. 10Harlem
Title: Malevich sumpremacy
This artist resisted the idea that art should serve religious purposes, instead calling for an art which represented "the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art." The artist was ______.
a. Picasso
b. Goya
*c. Malevich
d. Seurat
e. Bosch
Title: Picasso Braquecollage
In the early 20th century both Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque experimented with the technique of ______.
a. fresco
*b. collage
c. mosaic
d. automatic writing
e. tempera
Title: Hockney-paper pulp
The artist who used pressed paper pulp to create images such as Diving Board with Shadow was which of these artists?
*a. Hockney
b. Lin
c. Picasso
d. Pippin
e. LeWitt
Title: Kapoor At Hub of Things
At the Hub of Things, a minimalist sculpture which is associated with the dark power of the goddess Kali, was created by this artist:
a. LeWitt
b. Pei
c. Noguchi
d. Rodin
*e. Kapoor
Title: Jacob Lawrence pted Harlem
Jacob Lawrence's paintings depict people he saw while living and working in Harlem.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Smithson Spiral Jetty
Smithson's Spiral Jetty, which was created from rock, salt crystals, algae, and earth in Great Salt Lake, Utah, is now ______.
a. in Utah's most famous museum
b. rebuilt in the Everglades
*c. submerged
d. copied in several other locations
e. extended to form a land bridge
Title: Cole-The Oxbow
The Oxbow (Connecticut River Near Northampton. presents a realistic view of nature seen by which artist?
a. Georgia O'Keeffe
b. Kapoor
c. Maya Ying Lin
d. Schumann
*e. Cole
Title: Nevelson-white-wed chapel iv
What artist created the sculpture Wedding Chapel IV from found objects which were later painted white?
a. Thomas Cole
*b. Louise Nevelson
c. Henri Rousseau
d. I.M. Pei
e. Maya Lin
Title: Lin Vietnam Memorial
The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D. C. , designed by Maya Ying Lin, was at first considered disrespectful of the war dead it was supposed to honor.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Sol LeWitt not AE
Sol LeWitt's Untitled Cube is an example of Abstract Expressionism.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Hockney print pulp
David Hockney worked with a master printer and experimented with using colored paper pulp to paint images.
Burghers of Calais a. True
b. False
Title: Koons puppy not castl
Jeff Koons had his large sculpture Puppy cast in bronze to make it permanent.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Kiki Smith media Honeywax
Kiki Smith works primarily in wood, especially in the work entitled Honeywax.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael Leo X portrait
Raphael painted a splendid portrait of Pope Leo X posed with his nephews, both cardinals of the church.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Rodin-Burghers of Calais
Rodin's sculpture called The Burghers of Calais shows six men who have offered to give up their lives to ransom their captured city.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Alice Aycock's sculp stencil words
Alice Aycock's sculptures sometimes have words stenciled onto them, as part of her own personal symbolism.