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This imagery in this work was inspired by the:
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Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

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Bierdstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American

vista with his:
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European experience

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In the painting Central Mountain, Chinese artist Wu Chen uses landscape elements to express the
contradictory principle of _______, which is central to the philosophical tenets of Tao.
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Nirvana

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Jasper Johns chose to paint this image of the American flag to express:
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a universal concept of freedom

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The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

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detection, processing, reference

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Aesthetics is defined as an urge to respond:
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to that which we find beautiful

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How is Erna Motna's Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming similar to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty?
Selected Answer:

each uses abstract symbols

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This work is/was in:
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Great Salt Lake, Utah

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Scott Tyler's Proper Way to View the American Flag, features an American Flag on the floor. The
U.S. flag, thought to represent freedom, plays an ironic role. What is it?
Selected Answer:

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it prevents you from signing the book

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In this photograph, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging
the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:
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Rene Magritte

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In a work of art "content" refers to the:
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what the work expresses or means

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This sculpture illustrates a type of art called ________ art.
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abstract

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Jan van Eyck's painting depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these
symbols is called:
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iconography

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The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference
of word over image in ________ art.
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Islamic

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When works of art like Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle
shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:
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nonrepresentational

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Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?
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depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator"

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The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe:
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representational art

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Kenneth Clark illustrates an ________ reading with his comparison between an ancient Greek statue
representing a "higher state of civilization" than a mask from West Africa.
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ethnocentric

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Abstract art reduces the world to its ________ qualities.
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structural
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What might have affected Picasso's severe style of representation used in The Women of Avignon?
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Africa masks he saw at a museum in Paris

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Objects which are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be ________
rather than functional.
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aesthetic

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In this painting, Renoir has captured an experience from his everyday life. This type of art is part of a
traditional theme called:
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super realism

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Aesthetics is defined as an urge to respond:
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to that which we find beautiful

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Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory provides the viewer with the illusion of the 3dimensional world on a 2-dimensional surface in the style of:
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Surrealism

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This work is both aesthetic and functional. It is:
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a coffin

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The artist ________ painted a somewhat subjective portrait of the avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein.
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Pablo Picasso
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One of the most beautiful examples of stained glass serving to elevate the aesthetics of architecture is
________ in Paris.

Selected Answer:

Sainte-Chapelle

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The paintings De Champaigne's Still Life and Robert Mapplethorpe's Self-Portrait have the same
theme. What is it?
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vanitas

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________ were meant to remind us of the fleeting quality of the material world.
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Vanitas paintings

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What specific component of the NEA made works of art available to the general public?
Selected Answer:

The Arts in Public Places program

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Alexander Calder's large red public sculpture, La Grande Vitesse, in Grand Rapids, Michigan is so
much a source of civic pride that the city has painted an image of the sculpture on the side of:
Selected Answer:

the sanitation trucks

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Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?
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Richard Serra

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Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Temple of Confessions could be defined as ______ art.
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activist
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Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) was rejected from the annual salon exhibition
in Paris in 1863. Where was it exhibited?
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at the Salon des Refuses

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Which artwork was referred to as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?
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Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

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The artist's relation to the public quite often depends upon:
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what the artist is trying to say

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Historically, why has the public received new and innovative work with such reservation?
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there is little historical context to judge against it

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How was Maya Lin's Vietnam War Memorial similar to works by Manet and Duchamp?
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all were misunderstood by the public

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Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Temple of Confessions could be defined as ______ art.
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activist

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The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's _______ line.

Selected Answer:

expressive

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Hung Liu studied and was taught to paint with a strict classical line that is associated with:
Selected Answer:

Russian Social Realism

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Many kinetic works of art utilize movement to create what type of line?
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contour line

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Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements:
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her love of Mao's cultural Revolution and her need to paint

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It has been suggested that "probably no painter explored the expressive qualities of the curve as it
relates to the female form" more than:
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Jacques Louis David

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Alexander Calder's Dots and Dashes is an excellent example of _______ art.
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kinetic

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This work is a typical work by the artist:
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Keith Haring

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Analyitic line is closely related to classical line.
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True
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J. A. D. Ingres's The Turkish Bath uses contour line, outline, and implied line. What compositional
device is employed to organize the work?
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circles within circles

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Horizontal and vertical lines in an artwork suggest motion.
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False

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Pat Steir's series The Drawing Lesson, is about what type of line?
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various artists' unique expressive lines

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Lines that are suggested but not literally visible are called:

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implied lines

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This painting by Titian demonstrates the power of:
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lines of sight

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Expressive line is not emotionally charged.
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False

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Analytical line is imprecise.
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False

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How is Sol LeWitt's line best described in his work Lines From Four Corners to Points on a Grid?
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analytical

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When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is:
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autographic

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Lines that are suggested but not literally visible are called:
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implied lines

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Lines that seem to be formed by volumes, and indicate movement or three-dimensional shape are
called:
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continuous line

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__________have an agressive and sharp quality.
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Zigzag

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This painting is based on what specific type of perspective?
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isometric perspective

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In Mantegna's painting The Dead Christ, the artist utilizes the technique of ______ in order to adjust
the distortion created by the point of view.
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foreshortening

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In the Rubin Vase, the black shape can only be looked at alternately as a foreground object

resembling a vase, or, as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this
relationship called?
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figure-ground reversal

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This painting is based on what specific type of perspective?
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one-point linear perspective

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A photograph is an example of three-dimensional space.
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False

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In this painting, Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?
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his interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude

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The surface of a painting or drawing is called:
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the picture plane

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This work is a painting by the 17th century artist:
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Peter Paul Rubens

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A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called:

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monocular vision

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Shape has both mass and volume.
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False

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The range of colors that an artist tends to favor in painting is referred to as the artist's:
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style

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The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as:
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"lusterless" and "murky"

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One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to render the effects of light is:
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chiaroscuro

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On Newton's color wheel, color that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called:
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intermediate colors

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist painting?
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realist subject matter

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Charles Searles's painting Filas for Sale uses a color scheme called:
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polychromatic

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By the nineteenth century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J. M. W. Turner's Rain,
Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway had come to dominate the thinking of landscape
painters. What type is it?
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aerial or atmospheric perspective

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Artists sometimes choose to paint something in colors that are not "true" to their optical or local
colors. When this occurs it is an example of the expressive use of:
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arbitrary color

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A color's brightness or dullness is called:
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its tint or shade

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Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr utilizes:
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cross-hatching

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Define the term perspective.
Selected Answer: The angle by which you view
something

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On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as:
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cool colors

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The artist Gentileschi heightens the drama of this scene by using a technique that means "murky."
This painting technique is called:
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tenebrism

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What happens when all the different spectrum colors of light are mixed together?
Selected Answer: Different colors are made

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Discuss the function of the color wheel. What is the significance of the primary colors? What are
some color schemes artists have used in their work? Explain.
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Answer:

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A color wheel shows the differences between colors, and degrees between them.
Color schemes include chromatic, achromatic and monochromatic.
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One of the most dramatically lit spaces in modern architecture, the church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut
was created by the French architect:
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Mies van der Rohe

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Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in this painting to emphasize:
Selected Answer:

the division between male and female spaces

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A friend of Monet's described his great paintings of Waterlilies in the Musee de l'Orangerie as
demonstrating ________ motion.
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Brownian

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Which of the following is not an aspect of texture?
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content

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Hans Namuth's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in:
Selected Answer:

the process of painting

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The artist of this sculpture, _______, was able to transform marble into lifelike form.
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Michelangelo

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In what way can a large-scale work be considered a "temporal" art form?
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the spectator moves through time and space to view it

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Early manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels were said to be ________ because they were
elaborately illustrated and decorated.

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illuminated

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The systematic and repetitive use of the same motif or design creates a pattern on this carpet
illustrating that pattern is an especially important ________ tool.
Selected Answer:

decorative

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Sculptures that move are called ________ sculptures.
Selected Answer: kinetic
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Sculptors and architects use and manipulate actual texture whereas painters create ________ texture.
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local

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Define the term impasto.
Selected Answer: layers of texture on one
another

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Discuss the aims and goals of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. What is significant about his
work?
Selected Answer: it's relationship to native american art.

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Actual textures are those we can feel by actually touching them.
Selected Answer:

True

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The use of a repetitive motif or design is called:
Selected Answer:

pattern

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In a 1960 event at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York was
designed to:
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self-destruct
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Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style
of art is called:
Selected Answer:

Op Art

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What aspect of television has caused it to be called the most realistic of media?
Selected Answer:

all of the above

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________ refers to size relationships between parts of a whole.
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Proportion

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Define the term design.
Selected Answer: the placement of objects on the page
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________ is a term that describes an artist's attempt to draw our eyes to one area of a composition.
Selected Answer:

Emphasis

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Leonardo da Vinci's Proportions of the Human Figure embodies both:
Selected Answer:

all of the above

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Rhythm in the visual arts is created mostly by repetition.
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True

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When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with:
Selected Answer:
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proportion
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In ________ balance, the two sides of a composition on either side of an imaginary vertical dividing
line correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form.

Selected Answer:

symmetrical

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The ________ was made famous by the ancient Greeks as a model of architectural proportion.
Selected Answer:

golden section

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When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it is called:
Selected Answer:

absolute balance

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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of:
Selected Answer:

rhythm

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What objects form the dominant focal point in David's Oath of the Horatii?
Selected Answer:

swords and outstretched arms

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The Rose window, west facade, Chartres Cathedral stained glass window best illustrates:
Selected Answer:

radial balance

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When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is:
Selected Answer:

afocal

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Artist's Joel Shapiro (Untitled) and Claes Oldenburg (Trowel) created sculptures that intentionally
manipulated______.
Selected Answer:

scale

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Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because:
Selected Answer:

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everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji

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The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, is called:
Selected Answer:

scale