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Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ________ but often exist only in the form of ________.
a. direct experience . . . visual documentation or personal accounts
b. the Internet . . . still pictures
c. rooftop . . . postcards
d. videos . . . handwritten letters
e. artworks made using alternative media can never be accessed after they are completed
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In the drawing Mutter und Kind, the artist uses only contour lines because it is impossible to create areas of value using black Cont crayon.
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Why did Zaha Hadid decide to use glass as the primary building material for the ground level of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio?
a. to give the building a weightless quality
b. because glass is stronger than concrete
c. to match all the other buildings in Cincinnati
d. to disconnect the building from the city
e. to copy the ancient Greeks
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The work of ________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.
a. Albert Einstein d. Michelangelo
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart e. the ancient Egyptians
c. Marcel Duchamp
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The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, co-directed by the architects Vittori and Fisk since 1991, was created to make buildings more ________.
a. transparent d. efficient
b. interesting e. environmentally friendly
c. urban
Q:
What unconventional material does Jean Tinguely use in Homage to New York?
a. firewood d. neon tubing
b. mechanized junk e. toothpaste
c. railroad ties
Q:
What style of building would you propose for the government center of your city, town, or region? Why?
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This Postmodernist building was designed by Michael Graves and is located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
a. the Persona Building d. the Graves Building
b. the Humana Building e. none of the other answers
c. the New Building
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Jackson Pollock is known for:
a. delivering an important speech to Congress on behalf of the art world
b. hanging upside-down from the Brooklyn Bridge for two days
c. splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
d. his miniature paintings
e. all of the other answers
Q:
This Austrian artist focused on the contoured outline of a mother and child in his/her drawing Mutter und Kind.
a. Egon Schiele d. Georges Seurat
b. Claude Lorrain e. Mary Cassatt
c. Edgar Degas
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This architect designed the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
a. Santiago Calatrava d. Le Corbusier
b. Michael Graves e. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. Jrn Utzon
Q:
This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.
a. genre d. gesture
b. contour e. fantasy
c. life
Q:
Reinforced concrete is a raw material that has always been available, architects just did not like the look of it until the nineteenth century.
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An artwork that consists of cutting off someones tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________.
a. performance art d. a readymade
b. conceptual art e. none of the other answers
c. an installation
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This Swiss artist, who drew the work The City Square, captures the moment by focusing on and quickly recording the scene in front of him/herself.
a. Alberto Giacometti d. Georges Seurat
b. Claude Lorrain e. Mary Cassatt
c. Edgar Degas
Q:
The Danish architect Jrn Utzon designed this eye-catching structure in Sydney, Australia, using reinforced concrete.
a. Sydney Opera House d. Strand Arcade
b. Sydney Harbor Bridge e. Chifley Tower
c. Parliament House
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An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.
a. performance art
b. conceptual art
c. an installation
d. a readymade
e. none of the other answers
Q:
In the gestural drawing Muscular Dynamism by Umberto Boccioni, the artist used chalk and charcoal to depict the undulating surface of ________.
a. the human body d. a landscape
b. machinery e. a cityscape
c. architecture
Q:
This style of architecture, which began in the 1980s, combines the hard rectangles of Modernism with unusual materials and stylistic features from the past.
a. Art Nouveau d. Old Empire
b. Postmodernism e. Pop art
c. Federalist
Q:
An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
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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.
a. contour d. genre
b. gesture e. fantasy
c. life
Q:
This building material is a mixture of cement and ground stone.
a. wood d. stone
b. brick e. concrete
c. steel
Q:
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.
a. performance art d. a happening
b. conceptual art e. none of the other answers
c. an installation
Q:
The exterior of the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, reflects the elements of this architectural form.
a. a flying buttress d. a vault
b. a column e. a dome
c. an arch
Q:
In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?
a. India d. Japan
b. China e. Turkey
c. Korea
Q:
The tallest building in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is named ________
a. Burj Khalifa d. Willis Tower
b. Freedom Tower e. Tapei One
c. Skidmore Tower
Q:
Hishikawa Moronobus seventeenth-century woodblock print depicts the art of ________.
a. harvesting crops d. making quill pens
b. firing clay e. papermaking
c. pen-and-ink drawing
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The architect Le Corbusiers International Style favors a strongly ________ organization of forms.
a. organic d. geometric
b. random e. natural
c. incongruent
Q:
Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?
a. flax d. wool
b. hemp e. cotton
c. abaca
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Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:
a. using materials chiefly from the surrounding countryside
b. coloring the concrete to match the rocks
c. mimicking the layers of the rocks in his design
d. letting the underlying rock jut into the living space
e. all of the other answers
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In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is also classified by its surface texture. What is the type of paper that is created on a screen with a grid-like structure?
a. wove d. graph
b. laid e. carbon
c. ridge
Q:
Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright were architects with strong visions who both designed houses that were meant to be lived in. Which of the two houses, Villa Savoye or Fallingwater, would you prefer to live in? Why?
Q:
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.
a. break down categories of traditional artworks
b. break down the traditional boundaries between art and life
c. focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook
d. all of the other answers
e. none of the other answers
Q:
This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects.
a. fantasy drawing d. genre drawing
b. gesture drawing e. life drawing
c. contour drawing
Q:
Artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.
a. dipping the pen more often d. lightly touching the paper
b. using the other end of the pen e. adding water
c. pressing harder
Q:
This cataclysmic event, which led to the rebuilding of the downtown area of a major city, provided an opportunity for creative young architects to experiment.
a. the New York City Blizzard of 1888
b. the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
c. the Great Fire of London of 1666
d. the Library of Congress Fire of 1851
e. the Chicago Fire of 1871
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The techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can be used only in dry media.
Q:
Architect Louis Sullivan used this famous phrase to express his design philosophy.
a. form follows function d. reach for the stars
b. less is more e. look up
c. machine for living
Q:
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.
a. animal hide d. wood
b. papyrus e. all of the other answers
c. cloth
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Match the alternative medium or process with its definition: a. artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production b. artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks c. an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology d. a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas e. impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance performance art
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Quills are a common tool for ink drawing. They were originally made from ________.
a. rocks d. metal tubes
b. tree branches e. plastic
c. bird feathers
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This architect, who pioneered the use of steel in architecture, is sometimes called the father of Modernism.
a. Louis Sullivan d. Joseph Paxton
b. Walter Gropius e. Frank Lloyd Wright
c. Gustave Eiffel
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Because additive color mixtures are made using light, they rely heavily on pigment.
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Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.
a. tints d. hues
b. analogous colors e. complementary colors
c. neutrals
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When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.
a. vibrate d. darken
b. neutralize e. lighten
c. disappear
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By using ________ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.
a. a Fauvist d. a complementary
b. a neutral e. a primary
c. an analogous
Q:
Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.
a. analogous d. primary
b. complementary e. grayscale
c. neutral
Q:
Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatts The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.
a. strange . . . uneasy d. tense . . . angry
b. jarring . . . stressful e. hot . . . erotic
c. harmonious . . . relaxed
Q:
In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen, the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.
a. Hinduism d. Christianity
b. Taoism e. Islam
c. Jainism
Q:
Cast iron was only invented in the eighteenth century
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The album of ink brush paintings of bamboo by the Chinese artist Wu Zhen was created as an instructional model to help this person learn the art of brushwork.
a. his student d. his son
b. the Emperor e. his wife
c. Confucius
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This cast-iron building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and was more than a third of a mile long.
a. Crystal Palace d. Wainwright Building
b. Hagia Sophia e. Empire State Building
c. Eiffel Tower
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This French artist created a sense of depth in the work The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South using thoughtful brushstrokes and ink wash.
a. Claude Lorrain d. Vincent van Gogh
b. Mary Cassatt e. Edgar Degas
c. Georges Seurat
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The Crystal Palace inspired other architects, including ________, who created a tower in Paris that was originally intended to be temporary.
a. Abbot Suger d. Joseph Paxton
b. Louis Sullivan e. Walter Gropius
c. Gustave Eiffel
Q:
Most commercial color printing is achieved using three primary colors and black. These primaries are ________.
a. red, yellow, and blue d. orange, green, and purple
b. red, green, and blue e. yellow, green, and blue
c. cyan, magenta, and yellow
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This German artist illustrated how a figure can be drawn from an oblique angle for his own text on drawing.
a. Albrecht Drer d. Edith Hayllar
b. Ren Magritte e. Pierre-Paul Prudhon
c. M. C. Escher
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In the DC Comics image of Superman, the figure is portrayed at an extreme angle. This ________ view creates an unusual perspective and grabs the viewers attention.
a. birds-eye d. obscured
b. foreshortened e. far-away
c. isometric
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If an artist were to draw a figure whose arm was pointing directly toward the viewer, what technique would the artist have to use when drawing the outstretched arm?
a. foreshortening d. cross-hatching
b. highlight e. Surrealism
c. chiaroscuro
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This is the most vivid element of art and design.
a. color d. line
b. value e. mass
c. shape
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This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
a. color wheel d. color chart
b. prism e. microscope
c. electromagnet
Q:
Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.
a. absorb d. neutralize
b. reflect e. lighten
c. subtract
Q:
If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?
a. orange d. green
b. white e. blue
c. red
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When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.
a. optical d. warm
b. additive e. subtractive
c. grayscale
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The traditional primary colors are ________.
a. red, yellow, blue d. red and blue
b. blue, green, yellow e. green and yellow
c. green, orange, violet
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The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors, which cannot be mixed from any other color combination.
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This is the area that is visible when a viewer is staring at a fixed point in space.
a. cone of vision d. horizon line
b. highlight e. orthogonal
c. vanishing point
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If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision.
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The artist can more readily reflect the complexities of the real world by using more than one vanishing point. This is known as ________ perspective.
a. one-point d. linear
b. skewed e. isometric
c. multi-point
Q:
Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.
a. atmospheric d. three-point
b. two-point e. one-point
c. isometric
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If an artist were to depict five people each running toward a different tree, from different starting points, the artist would have to use multi-point perspective.
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When the rules of perspective are applied in order to represent unusual points of view, we call this: ________.
a. overlapping d. convergence
b. chiaroscuro e. foreshortening
c. highlight
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A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.
a. orthogonals d. hatched lines
b. highlights e. chiaroscuro
c. palettes
Q:
One-point perspective does convey depth, but it has limited applications due to its reliance on a single ________.
a. color d. medium
b. shape e. volume
c. vanishing point
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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.
a. vanishing point d. patron
b. holy spirit e. composition
c. camera obscura
Q:
This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.
a. isometric d. atmospheric
b. one-point e. foreshortening
c. two-point
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This Italian artist used two-point combined with one-point perspective in his painting The School of Athens.
a. Raphael d. Alberti
b. Brunelleschi e. Caravaggio
c. Michelangelo
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Match the methodological approach with its definition: a. analyses the use of formal elements in a work. b. considers the role of women in an artwork c. interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols d. considers the artists personal experiences e. considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed iconographical analysis
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When objects are far away they lack contrast, detail, and sharpness of focus because of the interference of air. Artists take advantage of this when they use the process called:
a. atmospheric perspective d. highlight
b. isometric perspective e. cross-hatching
c. chiaroscuro
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An artist paints a scene with a large mountain, which lacks detail and is out of focus, and a tree, which is sharply defined and bright green. The viewer might assume that the mountain is ________ than the tree.
a. more important d. further away
b. much closer e. older
c. smaller
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Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand uses the effects of ________ to give a sense of the vastness of the American landscape.
a. pencil drawing d. foreshortening
b. atmospheric perspective e. color
c. geometry