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A. Fresco

B. Ink

C. Oil

D. Gouache

A wall-painting technique where pigments are applied to wet plaster:

A. Relief

B. Collage

C. Giclée

D. Intaglio

Printmaking by cutting away image areas. The image is transferred to the paper from groves.

A. Relief

B. Collage

C. Giclée

D. Intaglio

Printmaking by cutting away non-image areas? The image is transferred to the paper from raised areas?

A. Serigraphy

B. Drypoint

C. Giclée

D. Aquatint

A printmaking technique in which a plate is scratched with a needle?

A. Lithography

B. Etching

C. Serigraphy

D. Aquatint

A type of printing that uses a flat stone. It's name means "stone writing":

A. Secondary hue

B. Tertiary hue

C. Primary hue

D. Saturated hue

Orange, resulting from mixing equal amounts of red and yellow is which of the following?

A. Colors

B. Saturation

C. Hues

D. Value contrast

The relationship of black, white, and grays:

True

False

According to the text black and white are not colors.

True

False

Black is the absorption of all the colors.

True

False

White is the reflection of all the colors.

A. Tonality

B. Saturation

C. Impasto

D. Palette

What is the overall use of color?

A. Plain photography

B. Straight photography

C. Photo Documentary

D. Daguerrotype

Alfred Stieglitz is the founder of:

A. Sharply focused

B. Unmanipulated

C. Realistic

D. All of the above.

Straight photography is:

A. Complementary colors

B. Contrary colors

C. Primary colors

D. Secondary colors

Red, yellow, and blue are all:

A. Contrary colors

B. Complimentary colors

C. Values

D. Secondary colors

Mixing two primary colors of equal amounts creates:

A. Contrary colors

B. Complimentary colors

C. Values

D. Secondary colors

Colors that are opposite on the color wheel are:

A. Primary colors

B. Values

C. Secondary colors

D. Contrary colors

Lighter or darker colors are:

A. Contrary colors

B. White with hue

C. Black and with hue

D. Primary colors

Secondary colors are made by mixing:

A. Counterpaint

B. Cantilever

C. Relief

D. Juxtaposition

How objects are placed together is called:

A. 2D objects

B. 3D objects

C. A principle of art

D. All of the above

Shapes are:

A. 2D objects

B. 3 D objects

C. A principle of art

D. All of the above

Forms are:

A. Principles of art

B. Elements of art

C. A & B

D. None of the above

Line, form, shape, color, texture, and space are:

A. Principles of art

B. Elements of art

C. A & B

D. None of the above

Emphasis, balance, harmony, variety, movement, rhythm, proportion, and unity are:

A. Watercolor

B. Acrylic

C. Tempera

D. Oil

What is the most popular and superior painting media?

A. Watercolor

B. Acrylic

C. Tempera

D. Oil

What paint takes the longest to dry? (See notes)

A. It dries quickly.

B. It takes a longer to dry.

C. It’s mixed with water.

D. It's used in frescoes.

Why is oil considered the best painting medium?

A. Watercolor

B. Acrylic

C. Tempera

D. All of the above

What paint is diluted with water?

A. Line, wire, & tubing in sculpture

B. A type of perspective

C. The opposite of painterly

D. All of the above

Linear can refers to:

A. Precise paintings

B. Spontaneous, free, and thick use of paint

C. Painted sculpture

D. Anything painted

Painterly refers to:

A. Linear

B. Atmospheric

C. Veneer

D. Shifting

Perspective that uses a focused foreground andbackground with a blurred haze (mist) in-between:

A. Linear

B. Atmospheric

C. Veneer

D. Shifting

A type of perspective where things at a distance are slightly blue and out-of-focus:

A. Linear

B. Atmospheric

C. Veneer

D. Shifting

What kind of perspective uses a vanishing point?

A. Ceramics

B. Curved lines

C. Light and shadow

D. A type of color

Chiaroscuro refers to:

A. Giclée

B. Typography

C. Lithography

D. Photochrom

Sprayed ink is a type of printing called:

A. Psychology

B. Architecture

C. Philosophy

D. History

Which is not a humanities?

A. Epistemology

B. Aesthetics

C. Ethics

D. Metaphysics

What field of philosophy studies the nature of beauty and art?

A. Additive

B. Substitutive

C. Subtractive

D. Ephemeral

Carved works of sculpture are called:

A. Sedimentary

B. Porous

C. Igneous

D. Metamorphic

The sculptor's ideal choice of rock to carve is:

A. Addition

B. Subtraction

C. Substitution

D. Manipulation

Built sculpture uses what process?

A. Addition

B. Substitution

C. Subtraction

D. Manipulation

Sculpture executed by casting a wax model?

A. Addition

B. Subtraction

C. Manipulation

D. Substitution

Modeled sculptural works use what process?

A. Active viewing

B. Juxtaposition

C. Organic unity

D. Articulation

In viewing art, the manner by which the eye moves from one element to the next is called:

A. Full-round

B. Linear

C. Positive space

D. Negative space

Holes in sculpture are an example of:

A. Closed composition

B. Open composition

C. Negative composition

D. Positive composition

Composition that directs the eye back intothe work is called:

A. Closed composition

B. Open composition

C. Negative composition

D. Positive composition

Composition that directs the eye off the work is called:

A. Relief

B. Base

C. Texture

D. Grain

The roughness or smoothness of a surface is called:

A. Full-Round

B. Base

C. Relief

D. Linear

Which type of sculpture is freestanding and fully three-dimensional?

A. Full-Round

B. Base

C. Relief

D. Linear

Which type of sculpture projects from a background, and can only be viewed from the front?

A. Manipulation

B. Subtraction

C. Substitution

D. Construction

What method of sculpting is executed by carving or chiseling?

A. Kinetic

B. Glyptic

C. Embedded

D. Ephemeral

What kind of art is temporary?

A. Kinetic

B. Glyptic

C. Embedded

D. Ephemeral

What kind of art moves?

A. Kinetic stance

B. Ephemeral stance

C. Contrapposto stance

D. Antipasto stance

A human figure with the weight shifted to one leg, shoulders and hips counterbalanced, is called?

A. Bearing strength

B. Compressive strength

C. Tensile strength

D. Articulation

The ability of a material to withstand bending is called:

A. Bearing strength

B. Compressive strength

C. Tensile strength

D. Articulation

The ability of a material to withstand crushing is called:

A. Invented wire sculpture

B. Work is kinetic and linear

C. Invented mobiles

D. All of the above

Alexander Calder:

A. Post-and-lintel

B. Cantilever

C. Arch

D. All of the above

Which of the following is a type of structure in architecture?

A. Cantilever

B. Arch

C. Post-and-lintel

D. Suspension

A structural system in architecture that consists of horizontal beams and vertical supports?

A. Post-and-lintel

B. Suspension

C. Column-and-Beam

D. Cantilever

What’s it called when a floor is supported at one end, and it's overhanging?

A. Bearing-wall

B. Post-and-beam

C. Skeleton frame

D. Suspension

A structural system in which the wall supports itself?

A. Vaults

B. Pendentives

C. Keystones

D. Buttresses

A system used in medieval buildings to keep vertical walls from buckling outward?

A. The geodesic dome

B. Suspension architecture

C. Masonry

D. Cantilever

Buckminster Fuller is noted for:

A. Frank Lloyd Wright

B. Louis Sullivan

C. Buckminster Fuller

D. Luis Barragan

Who is the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City?

A. Frank Lloyd Wright

B. Louis Sullivan

C. Buckminster Fuller

D. Luis Barragan

Who is the architect of Falling Water?

A. The Guggenheim

B. Buckingham Palace

C. Falling Water

D. Monadnock Building

Which of the following employs cantilevered floors?

A. Aesthetics

B. Function

C. Building materials

D. Line and repetition

In creating a structure, the first concern of the architect is with which of the following?

A. Arch

B. Cantilever

C. Post-and-lintel

D. Bearing-wall

The Parthenon and Stonehenge are examples of what type of construction?

A. Tunnel vault

B. Dome

C. Groin vault

D. Ribbed vault

What is created when arches are joined at the top with their legs forming a circle?

A. Tunnel vault

B. Arch

C. Groin vault

D. Ribbed vault

The round or Roman, Lancet or Gothic, and horseshoe all types of:

A. True

B. False

Log cabins are example of bearing-wall construction.

A. Steel

B. Wood

C. Stone

D. Brick

What is the traditional material in post-and-lintel construction?

A. Arch

B. Post-and-lintel

C. Bearing-wall

D. Cantilever

The center of this architectural structure is called the keystone.

A. Pendentives

B. Ribbed vaulting

C. Extruded vaulting

D. Buttresses

What structure makes it possible to attach a dome on a square room?

A. Skeleton frame

B. Arch

C. Bearing-wall

D. Cantilever

It allows you to span a greater distance because it distributes stress outward and downward.

A. Lancet

B. Round

C. Horseshoe

D. Tudor arch

What arch is most efficient at directing stress down and into the ground.

A. Tunnel vault

B. Groin Vault

C. Dome

D. Arcade

What are two intersecting tunnel vaults called?

A. Tunnel vault

B. Groin Vault

C. Dome

D. Arcade

What are arches placed back to back to enclosed space called?

A. Tunnel vault

B. Groin Vault

C. Dome

D. Arcade

What are arches placed side by side called?

A. Monolithic

B. Oculus

C. Lancet

D. Coffer

What is the hole in the center of a dome that emits light called?

A. Masonry

B. Frieze

C. Block-and-Mortar

D. Block-and-Hold

What type of construction binds stones or bricks with mortar?

A. Controlled Vision

B. Climate

C. Scale

D. Context

Where a work is placed is called:

A. Frieze

B. Shafting

C. Fluting

D. Cornice

The vertical groves in columns are called:

A. Proportion

B. Compression

C. Articulation

D. Chiaroscuro

What is an objects size in relation to other objects?

A. To increase tensile strength.

B. To stop it from expanding.

C. To hold it together.

D. To increase the compressive strength.

Why do they add metal rods and wire to concrete?