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| Why did graphite sticks become popular with artists? |
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| Because it can produce the same type of line as the metalpoint but can also make it bold/dark |
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| Who is credited with keeping the first modern sketchbook? |
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| What are the advantages of pastels to the artist? |
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| Control is simpler and more direct. The soft sticks of color are easily blendid. Close to working with pure pigments. |
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| Artist crayons with more permanent pigments that don’t fade like kids. (a versatile drawing crayon developed in the late 1700’s. it comes in a variety of degrees of hardness and can be used to create both subtle tones and dense blacks) 83 |
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| What type of pen is made from bird feathers? |
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| What paint media uses wax as a binder? |
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| The combination of cut and pasted paper photographs and other materials on a two dimensional surface |
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| Why is the artwork of Vik Muniz considered non-traditional? |
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| He made it out of food which isn’t permanent then took pictures of it. |
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| What is the difference between wood engraving and wood cut? |
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| Wood cut is a form of print making. Wood engraving uses the end grain on blocks of very hard wood tools designed to cut metal are needed. |
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| What printmaking processes use acid to remove lines in metal plates? |
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| What type of prints influenced Mary Cassatt’s The Letter? |
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| What does it mean to appropriate an image in contemporary art? |
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| Taking old art and making it new with little changes |
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| What is referred to as the “dark field” in monotypes? |
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| Ink or paint is wiped on the whole plate and then removed to build the picture. |
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| What was the first photographic image called? |
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| Who was Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre? |
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| French painter that introduced daguerreotype. |
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| Who was Timothy O’Sullivan? |
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| Pioneer of the medum was a civil war photographer and traveled with geological survey groups |
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| Who photographed the joys of upper-middle-class life in pre-WWI France? |
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| The first motion picture camera |
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| According to your text when did TV become the center of American cultural life |
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| Who originated video art? |
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| Swiss artist that created Sip My Ocean |
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| The art forms created with the aid of computer technology |
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| A ball bouncing to the song jingle bells |
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| A monitor tool you could actually draw on |
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| What sort of tools were used to carve out the Colossal Olmec head? |
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| What events were commemorated on Assyrian relief sculpture? |
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| The military victories and hunting expeditions of the kings who ruled some twenty-eight hundred years ago what is now iraq |
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| What is freestanding sculpture |
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| Inhabits three dimensional space in the same way that living things do. |
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| Created living sculptural events that were ephemeral, art experiences made for the moment, intended only to last in memory |
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| Be familiar with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, by Joseph Beuys. |
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| He entered an exhibition of his drawings and paintings with his head covered in honey and a gold leaf. Carrying a dead hare in his arms. He walked from picture to picture and touched the hares paws to each one |
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| What methods are used in additive sculpture? |
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| Sculpture is built up, such as modeling a flexible material like clay or plaster or building an installation |
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| What methods are used in subtractive sculpture? |
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| Carved out of hard materials such as wood or stone. |
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| What is the lost wax method? |
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| Casting sculptures that are made to be hollow |
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| What is the most important material used for African sculpture? |
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| What industrial techniques did sculptor David Smith use? |
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| Manufactured natural “found objects,” as well as conventional art media. Often using them in unusual ways without respect for the traditional borders between two and 3 dimensional media |
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| Describe the work of Tony Oursler. |
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| Combines sculpture, video projection, and installation. Frog looking face. |
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| Who called architecture “ the most public of arts”. |
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| What is the Kaufman House? |
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| The house made on the waterfall |
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| What view is shown in a floor plan? |
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| Why is the Parthenon in ruins today? |
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| It suffered a direct rocket hit from the forces of the warring venetians |
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| Why use a pointed arch in a structure |
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| To let more light in and have higher ceilings with more glorious stained glass. |
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| How is it that modern skyscrapers can have a “glass skin”? |
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| The steel skeleton or cage which doesn’t need stone walls or wooden beams |
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| What do skyscrapers in America Symbolize. |
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| Corporate money, power, efficiency, and modernarity |
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| What does the area outside the façade of Saint Peters contain? |
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| Fountains in a courtyard and draw pilgrims into the entrance. Became self contained and harmonious. |
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| What are some of the most common craft media? |
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| Ceramics, glas, wood, metalwork, fiber art. chap |
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| Where can the most beautiful, best-preserved set of stained glass windows in the world be found? |
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| What was the Aesthetic Movement in the late 19th century? |
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| Established a deliberate goal of making the useful beautiful |
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| The manipulation and selection of styles and sizes of letters in graphic design |
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| What is industrial design? |
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| The design of manufactured objects such as telephones, typewriters and automobiles |
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