Art Appreciation Final

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In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.
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negative
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It is still not fully understood how the ancient Egyptians created such huge feats of engineering. The ________ form of the pyramids contrasts with the surrounding organic landscape, and shows the Egyptians' power and control over the natural world around them. [MC L2]
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geometric
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The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the Pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were: [MC L1]
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the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman
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In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of ________.
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Movement
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An upright stone that has an incised relief on its surface, such as the Maya sculpture (1.2.7), is known as ________.
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A stela
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The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits ________.
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Irregular line
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The artist Canaletto, in his drawing of the Ducal Palace in Venice, created an impression of three dimensions by using line to show the division between ________. [MC L1]
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planes
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The organic form and abstract quality of Lino Tagliapietra's sculpture, Batman, allow it to express the idea of ________. [MC L2]
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Freedom and life
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Because a form exists in "real" space, we can experience it not only visually, but also through our sense of ________.
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touch
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The positive and negative shapes in M. C. Escher's print Sky and Water I balance each other and are an example of ________.
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figure-ground reversal
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Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and ________. [MC L1]
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depth
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A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as ________ shape.
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geometric
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The Dutch design team Sauerkids used ________ lines of dots and dashes in its work to create exciting visual rhythms.
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implied
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In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Méret Oppenheim employed subversive texture to contradict conscious logical experience. She belonged to the ________ art movement, which drew on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.
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surrealist
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The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________.
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outline....shape
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Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.
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harmonious...relaxed
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Masaccio was one of the first artists to use one-point perspective. In his large fresco, Trinity, the ________ is centered in the middle of the horizon line, directly ahead of the viewer.
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vanishing point
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The Belgian Surrealist artist ________ created The Treachery of Images, a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.
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René Magritte
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The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.
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motion
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Beda Stjernschantz was a member of the Symbolists, who were interested in the relationship between art and music. This was exemplified in a physiological condition known as ________, in which one of the body's senses translates the experience into another sense.
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synesthesia
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In his film Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer extends the ________ of the storyline beyond the everyday passage of time by "rebooting" Lola's journey multiple times.
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scope
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Most commercial color printing is achieved using three primary colors and black. These primaries are ________.
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cyan, magenta, and yellow
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Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board in this New York museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The traditional primary colors are ________.
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red, yellow, blue
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This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
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prism
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The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.
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value
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When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.
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implied motion
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Nancy Holt created this work, which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of the sun.
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solar rotary
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This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.
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two-point
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The French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon created chiaroscuro by using ________ chalk on paper.
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black and white
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This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.
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golden section
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In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.
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small scale
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Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or ________ effect.
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supernatural
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated to create Mistos, a larger-than-life sculpture of this everyday item.
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a book of matches
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The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.
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proportions
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________ balance is achieved when both sides of a composition look exactly the same.
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symetrical
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The design by I. Michael Interior Design creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.
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harmonious
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The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.
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proportions
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Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant ________.
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spiral
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Compositional unity strikes an interesting balance between the monotony of too much similarity, and the chaos of too much ________ in a work of art.
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variety
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An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:
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unity and variety
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What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
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unity
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This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
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hierical
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Variety can ________ a design.
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invigorate
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The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.
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head
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On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a ________.
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bai
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Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point
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blood spurting from Holofernes's neck
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This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.
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Edward Weston
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The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
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field
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In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.
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contrast
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Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy, especially ________.
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taoism
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This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.
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Ando Hiroshige
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The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________
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pattern
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The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ________.
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indian
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There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
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two
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Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
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all of the above ( direction dramatic contrasts placement line)
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In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________
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subordination
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This female artist brilliantly used a rhythmic structure in her painting Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, an image of cattle at work in the fields
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Rosa Bonheur
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What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
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facade
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The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ________.
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wanted artists to be of high status
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This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.
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contour
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The French artist Georges Seurat created a study for his huge painting La Grande Jatte using this waxy medium.
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Conté crayon
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The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886.
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pastel
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Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.
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oil paint
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This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.
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fresco
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Painting that integrates many different painting media and materials is classified as ________ painting.
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mixed media
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One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
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water
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This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of paper to which it is commonly applied. Usually there is a small amount of gum arabic in this medium, and it most often uses only black pigment.
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ink
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By depicting full, dark hair and thinning, grayed hair in her drawing in charcoal and graphite titled Life Strands, Zhang Chun Hong successfully creates a metaphor for:
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the passage of time
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This German artist's naturalistic depiction A Young Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.
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Albrecht Dürer
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Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.
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detail
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When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.
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cartoon
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Sonia Delaunay used this medium for her lively illustrations accompanying Blaise Cendrars's poetry in their "simultaneous" artist's book.
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watercolor
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Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.
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Michelangelo
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This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.)
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watercolor
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This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.
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casting
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This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70.
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Robert Smithson
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This group of Soviet artists created an entire art movement out of the process of assembling artworks.
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Constructivists
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This architect designed the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Santiago Calatrava
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This type of printmaking is achieved by "collaging" materials to a surface that will later be inked and printed to paper:
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collography
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When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________.
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impression
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The remarkable load-bearing Maya pyramid Temple I at Tikal can be found in this modern country.
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guatemala
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This type of arched span was first used in ancient Babylon and Mycenae.
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corbeled
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For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________.
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create the block and cut the lines into it
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Objects found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ________
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readymades
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This type of window was used in Gothic cathedrals to enhance the religious experience of the worshiper.
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stained-glass
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Vaults that have an exposed structural beam protruding from them for decorative purposes are called ________.
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rib vaults
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The visionary church leader Abbot Suger sought to intensify the spiritual experience of worshipers by revolutionizing church architecture. He was instrumental in establishing the architectural style known as ________.
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gothic
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The tallest building in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is named ________
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Burj Khalifa
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What method of sculpture is the artist using when he or she gathers objects and fabricates them into an artwork?
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assemblage
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Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.
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keramos
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The use of metal was extremely important in this period of human history.
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bronze age
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Video-gaming tournaments create competitive sporting events for large groups of spectators to experience at the same time. The use of video monitors and digital projection devices make it possible to view competitions between players in such games as ________.
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starcraft
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Ceramic artwork from this Chinese era is highly regarded for its multiple glaze layers.
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ming dynasty
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When a metalwork artist works the front side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a texture from below it is called ________.
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chasing
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This American artist uses glass to create dramatic and colorful interior installations, such as the one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
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dale chihuly
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This is the name that refers to the empty space around type or other features in a layout.
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white space
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The division between art and craft began during this period.
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renaissance
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A piece of thrown pottery is created using this potter's tool.
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wheel
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The Portland Vase, an amazing piece of Roman glassblowing technique, used this method to create dual glass colors and high detail on a single piece.
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dip-overlay
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Clay that has a great deal of water mixed into it, making it very thin, is known as ________.
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slip
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The German designer Herbert Bayer created a sans-serif typeface called ________ that could not be immediately associated with any one culture.
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universal
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This Japanese artist knits large-scale structures, such as Knitted Wonder Space II (2.6.19), which viewers interact with as if they are children's playgrounds.
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Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam
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This medium has made it possible for designers to make their page design "come alive" by allowing interactivity through hyperlinks.
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world wide web
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When a metalwork artist works the back side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a design from behind it is called ________
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repoussé
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As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ________.
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the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see
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Movies were being shown all over Europe and the United States as early as ________.
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1896
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Vito Acconci is the artist who created ________.
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Following Piece
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Nam June Paik's ________ combines recognizable and distorted images made using a synthesizer to modulate video signals.
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global groove
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The film The Artist, released in 2011, comments on "the good old days" of the film industry by using ________.
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silence and black and white
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Jackson Pollock is known for:
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splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
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The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later by using ________ as a means of identification
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iris patterns from the original photograph
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Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane are:
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all of the answers (dramatic lighting, innovative editing, and natural sound elaborate sets and moving camera shots fabricated newspaper headlines and character flashbacks deep focus and low camera angles)
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David Fincher's House of Cards is known especially for being ________.
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a mini-series with a full season's episodes released simultaneously
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When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?
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1980
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Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.
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all (backgrounds proportion scale color)
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An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.
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an installation
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NEED T FIND What unconventional material does Jean Tinguely use in Homage to New York?
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(not fire wood)
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________ films often include innovative technology, unexpected subject matter, and/or manipulated images.
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Experimental
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Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to:
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raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil
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The Greek pediment on the temple dedicated to the god Zeus at Olympia (4.2.1) depicts a scene from ________.
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the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs
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Where were the Roman catacombs located at the time they were built?
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Outside the city of Rome
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The Stela of Naram-Sin is made of what material?
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pink sandstone
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Which of the following artworks did Diego Rivera make?
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Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future
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A shaman is a person who ________.
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acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans
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Who is the artist of The Ecstasy of St. Teresa?
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Why were the Roman catacombs of sacred importance?
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all of the answers (pagan, Christian, and Jewish Romans used them they were the burial places of many Romans' ancestors they served as temples for many religious observances the paintings there could be relevant for multiple religions)
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In order for The Gates to be made, ________, amongst others, had to get involved
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artists, engineers, politicians, and security guards
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Ziggurats were made of what material?
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mud brick
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Holy relics located in churches ________.
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inspired people to make pilgrimages to see them
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In ancient Egypt, what is a book of the dead?
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a collection of spells and incantations designed to help with navigating the afterlife
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Why are the bodies of the damned in the Last Judgment tympanum from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare so graphically grotesque?
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to give a strong warning to viewers that they should live a virtuous life
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NEED HEP Why might the paintings at Lascaux be considered sacred?
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(not because a particular, identifiable religion was practiced in the caves)
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Many ancient Greek artists made artworks to honor ________.
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their gods and deities
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What is the medium of "Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994"?
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colored photography
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Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god, is identifiable in the clay vessel (4.3.14) because of the ________ used.
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color and symbols
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Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror relates to the theme of vanitas through which of the following elements?
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the woman looks in a mirror to contemplate her beauty, which will fade over time
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How do practitioners cultivate mental calm in the Japanese zen garden?
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By raking the gravel ragularly
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Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ________.
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an abstract portrait
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Where is the Japanese zen garden (4.3.12) located?
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Ryoan-ji, Kyoto
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Who is the artist of Dead Christ?
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Andrea Mantegna
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What is the medium and form of Patrick Dougherty's Na Hale 'Eo Waiawi?
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saplings woven into various shapes
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Lord Pacal was the ruler of which place
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the Maya city-state of Palenque
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Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique, which means a dramatic use of light and dark:
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tenebrism
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The Aztec of central Mexico are responsible for making which of the following sculptures?
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the vessel with a mask of Tlaloc
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What is true about the Aztec Sun Stone (4.4.5)?
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all of the above ( it was originally painted in bright colors it is carved with symbols representing the ways Earth was previously destroyed it functioned like a calendar)
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The sculpture of the goddess Tlazolteotl giving birth to the maize god (4.3.1) was made by which culture?
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aztec
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Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?
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all (pointalism_
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Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy?
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all
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Julian Beever is ________.
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a sidewalk chalk artist working today
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What medium is Kehinde Wiley's Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu?
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painting
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French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows:
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portraits of firefighters, soldiers, and other heroic women in uniform