Art Midterm

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What is the definition of naturalistic?

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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience

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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about...

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the artist, the audience

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What are the role artists fill?

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to create places for some human purpose and extraordinary versions of ordinary objects to record and commemorate, to give tangible form to the unknown.

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What did you learn about Jeff Wall's "A sudden Gust of Wind?"

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It shows him thinking of Hokusai and that photography has taken over from painting the project of depicting modern life.

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Themes in Art found in your textbook

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The Sacred realm, Politics and the social order, stories and histories, looking out ward the here and now, looking inward, the human experience, inventions and fantasy, the natural world.

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What do these have in common? Saint-Chappelle, the great Mosque at Cordoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

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designed as a place for worship or meditation

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Relate theories regarding the purpose of stonehenge

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graveyard, religious complex, ley lines, or stargate

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We know about Van Gogh's life dues to this fact

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he wrote many letters to his friends and relatives

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The Sculpture Shiva Natarja represents

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giving tangible form to the unknown

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Methods used by prehistoric paints

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Animal fats and pigments were were mixed together, reed brushes were used, powdered pigments were blown into hollow reeds

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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as

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tombs

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Hieronymus Bosh best known work of art

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

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When discussing a work of art's ________ we are discussing the size, shape, material, color and composition

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form

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What is the 'Pieta' in Christian art?

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Mary ( the mother of Jesus) holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

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To discover why the Sculptor of the "aMida Nyoral" depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hang gestures, and a bun atop his head, requires the use of

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iconography

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Art created by non professionals is referred to with these labels

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folk art, naive are, intuitive art, and outsider art

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Maya Lin major work is

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Things you know about the drawings and paintings found in Chavet Cave

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created over 32000 years ago, prehistoric methods were used, over 3 hundred animal pictures were found, pictures were drawn, carved or sprayed

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Frida Kahlo used her own lifes event as her subject

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street car accident, self portrait with monkeys

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What is learned from the inscription in the painting white clouds over Xiao and xiang by Wang Jian

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his painting was inspired by a work by the earlier 14th century master Zhao Menfu, who in turned admired Dong Yaun, a 19th century painter known for a view of this same region

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The Rocky mountains, Landers peak and atmospheric perspective

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is used to maximum effect in the work

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What are some of the ways line is used in art?

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boundaries between forms

Direction and motion

shadows and highlight

spatial depth on flat surfaces

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Relate the ways the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vincis the last supper

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It is at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, on the horizon line.

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Mixing two primary colors produces a _______ color

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secondary

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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and who work increases our awareness of light as presence in the world?

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James Turrell

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The 18th century India painting of Maharan Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. What are they?

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position and overlap

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The path of a moving point is a

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line

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The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modular what was its purpose

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a tool he used for calculating human proportions based upon the golden section

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Another term of asymmetrical balance is

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informal balance

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Artists will often add ______ to provide interest

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variety

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The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale

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Hierarchical scale

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the design principle of balance functions in these ways

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encourage our active participation

help communicate a work's moods

lead our eyes around a work

help communicate a works meaning

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Claesoldon burg and Coosje van Bruggen create shock value through use of

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Scale and proportion in the Sculpture Plantoir

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Symmetrical balance is used to express

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order, harmony, and authority

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The implied center of gravity is in a 2d work that is balanced symmetrically is where

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along the vertical axis down the center of the composition

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Pablo Picasso's girl before a mirror explores the traditional theme of

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relieved symmetry

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In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved how?

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distributing visual weight accordingly

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What medium is used in Vonne Jacquette's 'Three Mile Island, Night.

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Charcoal on laminated tracing paper

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Name some other materials used by artists to draw upon ( other than paper )?

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Silk, fired clay, cave walls, papyrus

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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?

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Michaelangelo and Raphael