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Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.
a. three-dimensional d. unexpected
b. colorful e. textural
c. actual
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Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understanding the meaning of Velzquezs Las Meninas.
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In order to create value in his drawing Head of a Satyr, Michelangelo used both hatching and ________, a variation where the lines overlap, allowing for the depiction of darker tones.
a. atmospheric perspective d. cross-hatching
b. perspective e. highlight
c. chiaroscuro
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Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.
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When using a series of squares that are exactly the same shape, implied depth can be achieved by ________.
a. alternating value d. relative position
b. relative size e. all of these answers
c. overlapping
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Thomas Struth photographs ________.
a. famous artworks d. paintings in the Prado museum
b. people looking at art e. all of the other answers
c. the inside of museums
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This method of applying value to a two-dimensional artwork in order to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form is called ________.
a. film noir d. perspective
b. value range e. palette
c. chiaroscuro
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Edvard Munchs The Scream depicts a suicide witnessed by the artist.
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The chiaroscuro method uses five defined values: cast shadow, reflected light, core shadow, light, and ________.
a. scale d. palette
b. plane e. highlight
c. film noir
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Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?
a. A museum website
b. An essay found on the internet from a person who saw the artwork
c. A bestselling fictional book based on the artwork
d. None of the other answers
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The French artist Pierre-Paul Prudhon created chiaroscuro by using ________ chalk on paper.
a. black and white d. black and blue
b. blue and gray e. blue and silver
c. red and green
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Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.
a. tension d. depth
b. humor e. height
c. fear
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingress portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.
a. depicts accurately d. represents a feminist analysis of
b. distorts e. none of the other answers
c. depicts the flaws of
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Triangular planes make up the surface of a geodesic sphere. Planes that are closer to and facing toward the light source tend to be lighter than planes that are further from it and facing away.
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Feminist analysis of Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres considers the role of women in nineteenth-century France, but not viewers perspectives on gender.
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A series of different values that are grouped together is called a ________.
a. value range d. value sampler
b. palette e. film noir
c. highlight
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Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past.
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Palmer Haydens Midsummer Night in Harlem is about:
a. A play by Shakespeare
b. Summer in the Netherlands
c. A community in Harlem, New York
d. A community on the Upper East Side, New York
e. None of the other answers
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The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called ________.
a. value d. shape
b. space e. color
c. line
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The neighborhood shown in Palmer Haydens Midsummer Night in Harlem could represent any neighborhood in America in the 1930s.
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Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ________ mood of the movies.
a. playful d. light-hearted
b. humorous e. romantic
c. serious
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80 Backs by Magdalena Abakanowicz was deeply influenced by the artists personal experiences during World War II.
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Memento mori refers to:
a. a locket or other symbol of love
b. a symbol of mortality
c. a letter written a long time ago
d. musical instruments
e. none of the other answers
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Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Youngers painting The Ambassadors?
a. memento mori
b. iconography
c. anamorphosis
d. memento mori and anamorphosis
e. all of the other answers
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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.
a. Ren Magritte d. Edith Hayllar
b. Thomas Hart Benton e. Andrea Mantegna
c. Pierre-Paul Prudhon
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Sumerian votive figures were used as:
a. prayer figures d. puppets
b. fertility figures e. all of the other answers
c. dolls
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What did Ren Magritte express to his viewers when he wrote Ceci nest pas une pipe (This is not a pipe) on his work The Treachery of Images?
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In her work Object, a fur-lined teacup and saucer, the Swiss artist Mret 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.
a. Expressionist d. Impressionist
b. Cubist e. Surrealist
c. Futurist
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Do a detailed formal analysis of an artwork in person. You might go to a local museum or your schools art gallery, find a sculpture in a nearby park, or study a building. Spend a significant amount of time in front of the artwork and be sure to consider how the artist used all of the elements and principles. Conclude with what you think the artists focal point or emphasis is and hypothesize what the artist may be saying.
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Mret Oppenheim was part of an art movement that rejected rational, conscious thought. Her fur-lined teacup and saucer, Object, conjures an unexpected and illogical sensation for the viewer by using ________ texture.
a. subversive d. smooth
b. expected e. silky
c. familiar
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Hieronymous Bosch worked closely with and was deeply influenced by the Surrealist artists of the twentieth century.
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Holbeins The Ambassadors has several references to religious content.
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Francisco Goya used visual rhythms to convey ideas and emotions in his works The Third of May, 1808 and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Do the rhythms in Goyas works communicate the dichotomy of good and evil to you? If so, how? If not, what other meanings are created?
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Marisols work Father Damien was created to memorialize the heroism of a priest who lost his life helping the victims of leprosy. This sculpture stands in front of the State Capitol Building in the U.S. State of ________.
a. Arizona d. Tennessee
b. Utah e. Pennsylvania
c. Hawaii
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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.
a. Rosa Bonheur d. Artemisia Gentileschi
b. Suzanne Valadon e. Mary Cassatt
c. Judy Chicago
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Because a form exists in real space, we can experience it not only visually, but also through our sense of ________.
a. touch d. humor
b. balance e. hearing
c. mood
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The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ________ rhythm.
a. irregular d. alternating
b. repetitive e. secular
c. progressive
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When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as ________ texture.
a. mass d. implied
b. actual e. organic
c. subversive
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The ________ texture of Anish Kapoors sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.
a. smooth d. rough
b. implied e. silky
c. furry
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The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoors sculpture Cloud Gate means that the viewer and the city of ________ become a part of the work, in its reflection.
a. New York d. London
b. Los Angeles e. Paris
c. Chicago
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Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.
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By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.
a. subversive d. smooth
b. expected e. rough
c. familiar
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The atmosphere of Edward Hoppers Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.
a. pleasure d. loneliness
b. excitement e. romance
c. anger
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The spiraling open volume of Vladimir Tatlins Monument to the Third International was intended to give the design a feeling of ________.
a. restriction d. texture
b. conservatism e. dynamism
c. weight
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Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.
a. focus d. rule of thirds
b. field of vision e. close-up
c. focal length
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American sculptors Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse created the work In the Blue (Crest) to imply the presence of water. The works many empty spaces, which were created using irregular horizontal members, are an example of ________ volume.
a. open d. restricted
b. closed e. organic
c. actual
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The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography.
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The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a colossal head is directly related to its mass.
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What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
a. a peristyle d. a facade
b. a cornice e. a truss
c. a stylobate
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This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but it does not necessarily imply weight.
a. volume d. texture
b. mass e. open volume
c. form
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On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional mens long house is called a ________.
a. bai d. tiki
b. poi e. mo-mo
c. facade
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Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy, but in fact this is not necessarily the case. This element of art is called ________.
a. space d. form
b. volume e. mass
c. texture
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In the painting The Third of May, 1808, this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast good and bad.
a. Suzanne Valadon d. Rosa Bonheur
b. Chuck Close e. Edward Weston
c. Francisco Goya
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Rachel Whiteread is a British sculptor who fills empty spaces with concrete. For her work House, created in 1993, Whiteread made a concrete cast using an entire house as her mold. What assumptions might a viewer make about mass in the context of Whitereads work? How does it help us to understand the difference between mass and volume?
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In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create ________ rhythm, with a benign effect, in the lower half of the work.
a. an erratic d. a wild
b. a wistful e. all of the other answers
c. a stable
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Marisol was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Catholic missionary Father Damien. A stout figure in heavy bronze, the statue possesses a weighty ________ that communicates the strong beliefs and courageous determination of the priest.
a. mass d. belt buckle
b. color e. texture
c. outline
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In the Great Mosque (1.9.7) there are red and white stone wedges that make up the series of repeating arches that dominate the interior. What are these stone wedges called?
a. segments d. rectilinears
b. voussoirs e. archilets
c. points
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Vladimir Tatlins Monument to the Third International was intended as a heroic symbol commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. If it had been built, it would have been much smaller than the Eiffel Tower.
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This photographer revealed a natural example of progressive rhythm in his photograph titled Artichoke Halved.
a. Edward Weston d. Pieter Bruegel
b. Rosa Bonheur e. Chuck Close
c. Suzanne Valadon
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The Roman artist who sculpted Naked Aphrodite Crouching at Her Bath (Lelys Venus) (1.2.8a, 1.2.8b) did so in such a way that it invites the viewer to move around the work to see more. Describe the differences in the work from side to side that are evidence of this compositional idea.
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In Hunters in the Snow, a number of rhythms and subsidiary rhythms draw the viewers attention through the work. Can you specify where this is happening and how the artist is achieving these rhythmic sequences? Find at least three different areas of rhythm in the work.
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The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is ________.
a. form d. texture
b. mass e. geometry
c. volume
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A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.
a. a repetitive d. an irregular
b. a progressive e. a geometric
c. an alternating
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________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.
a. an open d. an implied
b. an actual e. a closed
c. a subversive
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The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.
a. Madrid d. Bilbao
b. Barcelona e. Valencia
c. Crdoba
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Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.
a. Ghostwriter
b. Cubi XIX
c. Object
d. Cloud Gate
e. Monument to the Third International
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The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India (1.9.4) uses repeated, stylized flowers as ________ to create a strong, unified design.
a. motifs d. unrecognizable
b. shapes e. textures
c. gardens
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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 ________.
a. a stela d. a bust
b. a high relief e. an altar
c. an obelisk
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This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.
a. Suzanne Valadon d. Pieter Bruegel
b. Chuck Close e. Edward Weston
c. Rosa Bonheur
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This type of relief, which takes its name from the French word for low, does not imply great depth.
a. area relief d. actual relief
b. bas-relief e. a frieze
c. a plane
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Is it possible to create a work of art that is completely random, or is our dependence on pattern so strong that such a work would be incomprehensible? Explain your reasons why or why not.
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A sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from ________.
a. nearly every angle d. the interior
b. one direction e. the front and back only
c. above only
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There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
a. two d. four
b. one e. none
c. three
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A sculpture that can be viewed from more than one side and that occupies space in the same way as other real-life objects is called a ________ sculpture.
a. freestanding d. heroic
b. bas-relief e. implied
c. high relief
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This sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewers eye through the work.
a. Edward Weston d. Rosa Bonheur
b. Chuck Close e. Pieter Bruegel
c. Suzanne Valadon
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A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.
a. volume d. texture
b. form in the round e. mass
c. relief
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The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ________.
a. Persia d. India
b. Arabia e. Afghanistan
c. Egypt
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To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more.
a. foreground d. drapery
b. round e. fresco
c. south
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The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
a. motif d. foreground
b. field e. background
c. size