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Art 111 final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is value, hue, and saturation | Color |
| Is a depiction of everyday life | Genre |
| Complementary colors are ___ on the color wheel | Opposite each other |
| Atmospheric Perspective is caused by | dust and moisture |
| Paleolithic art appears to be mainly concerned with | Food and Fertility |
| Allows us to see things | Light |
| Neolithic | New Stone age |
| The Birth of Venus | Botticelli |
| Nonrepersentational art is | totally abstract |
| Linear Perspective | A technique refined by Renaissance artis where parallel lines converge at a vanishing point to create an illusion of depth |
| Megalith is greek for | Large Stones |
| Duchamp;s fountain raised what issue | what can be considered are, art can be free of any consideration, and taking an already made object and forcing a veiwer to reconsider it |
| A type of art that depicts inanimate objects | Still-Life |
| Primary Colors are | Red Blue and Yellow |
| Art | is difficult to define |
| informal drawings often done in a classroom or during long phone conversations, when a person's attention is directed elsewhere | Doodles |
| The Steele of Hammurabi is associated with | One of the first written code of law |
| Mesopotamia is derived from the Greek word for | Between the Rivers |
| The use of closely spaced dots to create a form | Stippling |
| A drawing implement made of a rod of graphite encased in wood | Pencil |
| the study of the themes and symbols in art | Iconography |
| considered one of the seven wonders of the sncient world | The great Pyramid of Khufu |
| abolished all Egyption god save the sun god aten, who became the sole god in Egyptian religion | Akhenaten |
| Pencils, colored pencils, pastel, charcol, and conte crayons | Dry drawing mediums |
| The Gates of Ishtar was moved for iraq to | Berlin, Germany |
| A type of paper in the acient world made from reeds | Papyrus |
| The tomb of Tutankhamen was an important discovery because | it was still entact |
| The Palette of Narmer is | two sides, relief carving, ceremonial make up palette |
| itersecting sets of closely spaced parallel lines that creat modeling and the illusion of 3 dimensional form on a 2 demsional surface | Cross-Hatching |
| A thick application of paint | Impasto |
| Ancient Greeks date their beginnings in 776 bce the yr of the first | Olympic Games |
| an influential building, dedicated to aten's patron goddess athena | Thr Parthenon |
| a medium in which pigment is mixed with molten wax and applied to a surface while hot | Encaustic |
| a pigment mixed with water and applied to wet lime-plaster | A fresco |
| The traditional binder for tempera | Egg yolk |
| Aphrodite of Melos (Venud de milo), the old market women, and laocoon are examples of art from | the hellenistic period |
| What is contrapposto | the natural, slightly twisted stance of the human body in which one leg is relaxed while the other bears most of the weight |
| The development of ___ as a painting medium allowed renaissance artist to better blend colors and create more realistic depth and texture | Oil |
| What elegant and refined architectual order became popular in the Hllenistic period and is still used on banks churches and court buildings in the modern era | Corinthian |
| Kouros is greek word meaning | male youth |
| is an additive sculptural process in which various materials and objects are combined | Assemblage |
| Relief Sculpture can be | low, high, and sunken relief |
| sculputures can be walked around and viewed from many different angles | FreeStanding |
| a sculptural process in which material is taken away to form the final image | Carving and Subtractive |
| A structure for transporting water from its source to a city or town | An aqueduct |
| The round central opening in a dome | An Oculus |
| a depiction of a person on horseback | an equestrian portrait |
| What does not describe the figure style in the mosaics of justinian and theodora and their attendants | Realistic |
| The colosseum was the sit of | naval reenactments, gladiator combat, and criminal executions |
| achieved high civilization in Iitaly before the Romans did | Etruscans |
| the floor plan of a building | Ground plan |
| Post and lintel consist of | two veritcal elements that support a horizontal beam |
| Is a vault formed by two intersecting barrel vaults | A groin vault |
| architecture comes from the greek word for | Master builder |
| issued in 313 the Edict of ____ granted full tolerance to all religions within the Roman Empire | Milan |
| The earlist known Christian aret was painted in | Catacombs |
| Islamic art, because of religious beliefs, mostly depicts | Geometric Patterns |
| Gothic architecture was able to reach soaring heights because of | pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses |
| The reim Cathedral is a good example of | Gothic architecture |
| the 230 foot long ____ depicts the Norman conquest of Englan 1066 by William the Conqueror | Bayeux Tapestry |
| A process that darkens areas of silver objects | Niello |
| a thin liquid mixture applied to pottery that when fired forms a glassy surface in ceramics | Glaze |
| An oven used to bake ceramics at very hot temoeratures | Kiln |
| Indians of central Mexico who made paintings using yarn dued with intense colors | Huichol |
| First invented in China, Paper was introduced to Europe through ____ and rapidly replaced parchments and vellums | Islamic Spain |
| Is a supercool liquid in its solid state, it does not crystallize when it cools, leaving it totally transparent | Glass |
| The venus of urbino was painted by | Titian |
| Renaissance is French for | Rebirth |
| The Garden of Earthly Delights was painted by | Hieronymus Bosch |
| The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by | Michelangelo |
| a print making process in which the image is eaten into a metal plate by acid | Etching |
| a print where the image is printed from a flat surace rather than raised or incised | Planographic |
| Intaglio printing techniques include | engraving and etching, dry point and aquatint |
| Printmaking revolutionized art during ____ because it made art avaliable to more people then previously | Reniassance |
| a printimaking process where paint or ink is forced through the open areas of a stencil that has been applied to a fine mesh of fabric, such as silk, stretched taut on the frame | Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen |
| ** The late 18th early 19th century French movement used histroical materical in acalm style to communicate political and/ or moral message | Neo-Classicism |
| an artistic style of the 18th century characterized by delicate curvilinear forms, pastel colors, and often frivolous subject matter. | Rococo |
| Court painter to Philip IV was not well known outside of Spain till many centuries after his death. Painted Las Meninas | Diego Velasquez |
| An art period of the 17th century, it is a multiplicity of national and regional variations ranging from energetic melodrama to classical calm | Baroque |
| Painter of Death of Marat | Jacque-Louis David |
| Reformation, which led to the founding of the protestant dominations was begun in 1517 by | Martin Luther |
| Death of Sardanapalus was painted by | Eugene Delacroix |
| a post-impressionist who invented a new technique called divisionism (today, pointillism) | Georges Seurat |
| Epitomizes the romantic movemnet in England, work :Slave Ship | JMW Turner |
| a late 19th century art movement that began in France and was characterized by capturing fleeting movements and the effects of light | Impressionism |
| Pst-impressionist artist known for his use of vibrant colors thick paint which often resulted in a painting with strong emotional impact | Van Gogh |
| in photography is the camera lens opening, how wide the opening is when the button is depressed | Aperture |
| is how long the shutter of a camera stays open | Shutter Speed |
| Is a trasparent object with at least one curved surface that results in convergence of rays passing through it, in acamera it is used to focus | Lens |
| Albert Magnus discovered ____ one of the chemicals used in traditional photographic development processes in the 13th century | Silver Nitrate |
| Photography derives from the greek words from | Light and Writing |
| Fauve is a french word meaning ___ and was originally meant as an insult to the artists of what would later be known as fauvism | Wild beast |
| Willem de Kooning was an | Abstract expressionist |
| an art style from the late 50s and 60s that uilized commercial and popular imagery | Pop Art |
| Picasso's masterpiece Guernica 1937 is the artist's way of protesting the atrocities caused by | The Spainsh Civil War |
| ** The DADA movement was | An anti-art movement in reaction to the disillusionment after WW1 and a movement that freed art from the convention and was influential for later art |
| With his action painings Jackson Pollock | Controlled the thickness of paint, its color and it application |
| The art of arranging and setting type for print | Typography |
| A symbol or design used as a company Trademark | A logo |