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Art in the Humanities Test 1
Test 1
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 2
04/13/2014

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Duane Hanson, 1980, Sculpture, Trompe L'oeil
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Julie Mehrutu, 2000, Painting, Non-Representational
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Rebecca Purdum, 1995, Non-Representational
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Picasso, 1941, Abstract Art
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Albert Bierstadt, 1863, Painting, Atmospheric Perspective
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Edgar Degas, 1884, Pastel
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Gerhardr Richter, 1988, Oil Painting
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Paul Cezanne, 1865, Water Color
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Andy Warhol, 1963, Screenprint
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Joseph Scheer, 2007, Large Format Print
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Louiss Daguerre, 1839, Daguerreotype
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Mathew Brady, 1865, Photo Journalism
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Dorothea Lange, 1936, Photo Journalism
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Alfred Stieglitz, 1893, Pictorialism
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What do artists do?
Definition

Artists perform to create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects

 

Give tangible form to the unknown

 

Give tangible form to feelings and ideas

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Define Representational Art
Definition
Work that depicts foms in the natural world and has a visual likeness of reality
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Define Abstract Art
Definition
Forms of the visual world distorted
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Define Non-Representational Art
Definition
Does not refer to the visible world outside of the picture. Meant to depict feelings and emotions
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Ten visual elements: Time, Motion, Space. Name the other 7
Definition
Line, Shape, Mass, Light, Value, Color, Texture
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Primary Colors
Definition
Red, Blue, Yellow
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Secondary Colors
Definition
Orange, Green, Violet
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Complimentary Colors
Definition
Red & Green, Yellow & Violet, Blue & Orange
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Warm Colors
Definition
Red and Yellow scales on the color wheel
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Cool Colors
Definition
Blues and Greens on the color wheel
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Define Monochromatic
Definition
One color, different values and intensities
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Materials for drawing (3)
Definition
Graphite, Charcoal, Crayon, Pastel
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There are 7 kinds of paints. List and describe 3.
Definition

Tempera: Pigment mixed with oil, resin, or egg yolk

 

Encaustic: Pigment mixed with wax and resin

 

Fresco: Pigment mixed with water and applied to plaster support-wall or ceiling

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Define what printmaking is
Definition

An image made from a master and copied onto paper. 

 

Woodcut- like a stamp using a wood block

 

Lithography- Flat surface using and oil/water combo

 

Screenprinting- Image transfered to paper, stencil technique

Term
Camera Obscura
Definition
An optical device using the pinhole technique
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How was early photography used?
Definition
Portraiture, Documentation, Civil War
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Name 2 Pictorialist Photographers
Definition

Alfred Stieglitz

Sally Mann

Henry Peach Robinson

Robert Demachy

George Seeley

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What is Pictorialism??
Definition

Used 1885-1915

 

Puts finished photo first, subject matter second

 

Alter photo to make it art, not just documentation

 

usually less focused, other colors besides B&W and had visible manipulations

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