Art Appreciation Unit 4 Review

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The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called ________.
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A glaze
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Yoko Ono often utilizes ________ to complete her artworks, such as Wish Tree.
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poetic instructions
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The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas.
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symbols
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Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.
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Keramos or pottery
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What is the process that a ceramist uses to knead and remove pockets of air from the wet clay?
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Wedging
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What is the name of the oven used to fire clay objects so that they become ceramics?
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Kiln
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These handwritten, illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages.
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Illuminated Manuscripts
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The division between art and craft began during this period.
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Renaissance
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An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________.
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Performance Art
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Egyptian picture symbols are called ________.
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hieroglyphics
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Videos designed to be art are often made to be presented ________.
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- On TV - In galleries or art events - In transformed space - Projected on walls
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Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?
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Johannes Gutenberg
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What unconventional material does Jean Tinguely use in Homage to New York?
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Mechanized junk
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What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?
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snapshot aesthetics
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When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?
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1950's or 1980's
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The Ford Motor Company created a logo from this handwriting style, which was practiced in nineteenth-century America.
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Spencerian script
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Ed Kienholz's The Beanery includes sculptural replicas of ________.
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Bar Inhibition
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Mies Van der Rohe, who was Head of the Bauhaus, is often remembered for saying:
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Less is more
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The nineteenth-century artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris created a handcrafted version of this writer's works as a rejection of rampant industrialization.
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chaucher
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The process of using wood to create mosaic images, as used in the design by Francesco di Giorgio Martini to decorate a private studio for the Duke of Urbino around 1480, is called ________.
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intarsia
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This is the art of organizing type, logos, and illustrations in traditional print media:
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layout design
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D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda tool by ________.
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THE KKK
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The primary colors that make up the basis for commercial printing are ________.
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Cyan, magenta, yellow
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This craft medium uses threads, fabrics, and other textiles.
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Fiber
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One of the first popular films to use color imagery was ________.
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The Wizard of Oz
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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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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, fiori di comรฒ
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Stained glass was integral to the development of this medieval French architectural style.
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Gothic
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What does the word "photograph" mean?
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writing with light
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The process of glassblowing was perfected in this ancient culture.
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Rome
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An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.
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conceptual
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Using a sequence of specially generated drawings to create scenes in a movie is called ________.
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cel animation
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Glass was probably first used by this ancient culture.
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Mesopotamia
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This twentieth-century American ceramist created large expressive works using the slab method of clay construction.
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Peter Voulkos
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The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________.
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the aperture
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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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Daguerreotypes are made on ________.
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Polished metal plates
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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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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.
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Calotypes are negatives that can be easily reproduced