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Final
Review questions for Art Appreciation Exam
40
Fine Art
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2010

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Conceptional art is an off shoot of
Definition
 minimalism
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Conceptional art is rebellant to

Definition

pop art

Term
Pop art is rebellant against
Definition

abstract expressionism

Term
Surrealism influenced
Definition
abstract expressionism
Term
what are complimentary colors?
Definition

Red-Green

Purple-yellow

Blue-Orange

Term
What is analogous?
Definition

Color schemes are based on colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel, each containing the same pure hue, such as a color scheme of yellow-green, green, and blue-green.

 

Term

What is looking

Definition

Taking in what is before us in a purely mechanical way

Term
What is seeing?
Definition
Active extension of looking, give more detail, and investing what’s there.
Term

Artists that have no schooling are called

Definition

Outsiders, untrained or folk artists

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what are three kinds of art? 
Definition

Abstract (Works that depict natural objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways), Representational (objective or figurative art/paintings that look real), Non-representational (nonobjective; presents visual forms with specific references to anything outside themselves).

 

Term
Name some lines (at least 3)
Definition
Implied lines, diagonal, actual straight lines, hard line, soft line, dancing lines, sharp jagged lines.
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What are the two types of drawings?
Definition

Receptive (Observational), Projective (Ones we make up in our minds)

 

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What does art do?
Definition

 inspire, arouse, awaken, delight, inform, embellish

Term
Name some artists that we dicussed in class, but are not included in the text
Definition
Char Wei Sa, Banksy, Phil Hansen
Term
what should pop art be?
Definition

low cost, whitty, young, popular, sexy, expendable

 

Term
What are five different kinds of painting?
Definition

oil, fresco, tempera, acrylic, watercolor

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What tools are used for dry media?
Definition
Pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, and pastel
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what's used for liquid media?
Definition

Only ink (black and colored inks)

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What's printmaking?
Definition
A variety of techniques developed to create multiple copies of a single image.
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What are the four kinds of printmaking?
Definition

Relief (cuts away all parts of the printing surface, not meant to carry the ink), Intaglio (the opposite of a relief print, areas below the surface hold the ink), Lithography (a surface printings process based on the mutual antipathy of oil and water), Screen-printing (stencil printing put on a screen w/ the fabric under it use a squeegee to make image).

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What's the 8 step process of 'casting'?
Definition

1.       Create a waxed form

2.       Mold it

3.       Plaster it

4.       Fire it inside kiln

5.       Poor liquid metal out

6.       Let it sit to cool

7.       Break mold

8.       Clean it

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What are the three types of sculptures?
Definition
Free Standing, high relief, low relief (coin)
Term
What's the name of the 'rigged inner support' to keep a sculpture steady?
Definition
armature
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What are the three perspectives in art?
Definition

Linear (point of view), Atmospheric (Nonlinear, giving an illusion of depth), Iso-Metric (Parallel lines remains parallel; they do not converge as they recede.

 

Term
what did the futurists believe?
Definition

Cubism.  They  wanted to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman; and they want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

Term
Name two surrealists
Definition
Salvidor Dali and  Frida
Term
Name one Muralist
Definition

Diego Rivera

Term

Explain this picture

[image]

Definition

This picture wasn't seen as 'art' until a judged ruled it as art in 1928.

Bird in Space

By: Constantin Brancusi.

Term
Name two Installation Artists
Definition

Jeanne Claude, and Cristo (married)

Term
Name three Abstract Expressionist
Definition
Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock (action painting) and Williem de Kooning
Term
Name a famous art critic
Definition

Clement Greenburg

Term
Name two minimalists
Definition
Donald Judd and Frank Stella
Term
Who is Chris Marker?
Definition
The creator of the film, "La Jatee". Which was made in the years of 1962-63. The film was made up of black & white still images.
Term
What's a logo?
Definition
An identifying mark
Term
What's a kinetic sculpture?
Definition
A sculpture that has movement
Term
What does this picture represent? [image]
Definition

Neo-Classicism (the emulation of classical Greek and Roman art)

By: Jacques -Louis David.

Oath of the Horath

1784

Term

What does these two pictures represent?

 

[image]

[image]

Definition

Romanticism (An attitude that inspired a number of styles. Wanted to escape the Neo-classcism's fixation on classical forms)

By: Francisco de Goya

The Third of May 1808.

1814

Term

What does this picture represent?

 

[image]

Definition

Realism (A style of art and literature that depicts ordinary existense without idealism, exoticism, or nostalgia).

By: Gustave Courber

The Stone Breakers

1849.

Term
Who did color field paintings?
Definition
Mark Rothko
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