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Art Appreciation
Exam 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A relief sculpture is viewable from all sides. T/F | False |
| Chalk, pastel and conte' are all made from ground stone. T/F | False |
| In a relief print, the artist carves away the image area of the block. T/F | False |
| Keith Haring first received recognition for what type of artwork? | chalk drawings on NY subways |
| Name this photographer who was one of the early champions of photography as an art for | Alfred Stieglitz |
| Beeswax resin is the medium for what type of paint? | Encaustic painting |
| Fresco paintings, such as this work by Raphael "School of Athens", would involve. | All above |
| George Eastman invented the Kodak Camera. T/F | True |
| The first public showing of a motion picture occurred when ____________________ invited a group of friends to a cafe to watch this film of a train enterring a station | Edson or Lumiere |
| What type of motion picture experience are we likely to find real people speaking in their own words, rather than actors reading from a script? | documentary |
| In the production of paint, what ingredient holds the particles of pigment together as a mass without dissolving them? | medium or vehicle |
| The term "camera obscura" means "dark room. T/F | True |
| What term refers to color with regard to sculpture or architecture? | |
| The original Kodak Camera boasted how many exposures | 100 exposures |
| Ephemeral Art can .. | temporary or shortlived |
| Casting involves what type of sculptural process? | substitution |
| Name the artist responsible for inventing the sculptural form known as the Mobile | DW Griffith Marcel Duchamp Alexander Calder |
| Name this artist who's work is closely associated with "ephemeral art" | Augustine Lynas Duthain Dealbh |
| The Chinese invent the printed image after their invention of. | paper |
| What was the first major world event to be fully documented by the camera? | Crimean war?? |
| What is the oldest form of Printmaking? | woodblock(woodcut) |
| Which critical style allows us to peel back the surface image of a painting, book or film in order to find clues as to the time, the people and the culture that created it? | |
| This American film director is considered to be the "father of modern motion picture camera technique | DW Griffith |
| In traditional bronze casting, every piece made in bronze must originally be made in ________________. | wax |
| What audience did Keith Haring not primarily wish to target with his work? | kids |
| Watercolor is a painting medium. T/F | True |
| A typical exposure time for a daguerreotype is 3-5 minutes. | True |
| In Printmaking, what do we call the group of like impressions made of a given image? | monotype??? |
| Digital media have had a major impact upon drawing, painting, photography, film and graphic design. T/F | True |
| What do we call the drawing system where we break down the drawn image into smaller squares, for the purpose of transferring and enlarging the information to larger squares on our canvas? | grid system |
| Which artist became somewhat of a mentor to Keith Haring? | Andy Warhol |
| Linseed oil is the medium for acrylic paint. T/F | False |
| Who is the director considered to be the father of "modern motion picture editing techniques"? | Sergi Eisentstein |
| The three basic shots of the motion picture are.. | Long, Medium, Closeup |
| The main purpose of Graphic Design is "communication"'. T/F | True |
| What do we call the phenomenon unique to human vision, which allows us to perceive motion in a motion picture? | Brain/Snapshot |
| Most of the photographs that exist in the world today are called "snapshots". T/F | True |
| The primary component of glass is sand. T/F | True |
| The first modern form of graphic design was the..... | Typography |
| What term refers to the family of surfaces, such as canvas, wood or plaster, that we can apply paint to? | support |
| Which drawing medium is made from burned wood? | charcoal |
| In all but one of these intaglio methods, the artist creates the image through the use of line. Which method does NOT involve line? | linocut |
| Who is credited with taking the first photographic image in 1824? | Nicephore Niepce |
| What was unique about the way that Keith Haring would draw? | use of lines, symbolic separation of figure and environment |
| A "one-of-a-kind" print is referred to as a | monotype |
| Which drawing medium is made from carbon? | pencil |
| A daguerreotype could be easily reproduced. T/F | True |
| Sculpture that involves motion is referred to as ___________________ | mobile |
| Name the photographer famous for his studies of humans and animals in motion | Edweard Muybridge |
| This early Renaissance artist was one of the first "Masters" of the revolutionary new medium of oil paint | Van Eyck |
| Which is NOT a characteristic of oil paint? | These are transparent, must be sealed on canvas, by size, panels, slow drying |
| Craft artists, such as Dale Chihuly, often work in multiple mediums, rather than one exclusive medium. T/F | False |