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| Feeling the heavy burden of trying to create new art surrounded by the grandeur of Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art, the Futurists saw the new age as an opportunity to |
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| free Italy from her numberless museums |
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| When Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí created Un Chien Andalou, their goal was |
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| to shock the audience and to repulse the audience |
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| The Crossing, which highlights the artist's belief that video is a medium that deals with movement, change, and transformation, was created by |
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| For Pipilotti Rist, the themes of ____ and ____ are recurring ideas in her work. |
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| The art form created with the aid of computer technology is referred to as |
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| In the early 1950's, an impressive demonstration of a ball bouncing and the playing of "Jingle Bells" was shown on CBS in 1951. This project from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology was called |
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| During the early stages of computer graphics, printing images too several hours and required expensive ____, which were large printers that held rolls of paper and made marks by moving pens. |
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| In 1962, a graduate student at MIT, Ivan Sutherland developed a hardware and software system that included a nine-inch monitor and a light pen, which enabled Sutherland to draw directly on the screen. This hardware and software system is called |
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| When an artist prefers to create their imagery by hand they can use a graphics or digitizing tablet rather than a mouse. To draw on the tablet, a pen or ____ is needed. |
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| _____ uses a scanner like a camera to create images described as "dream-like worlds inhabited by everyday objects." |
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| A revolution in graphic and type design began with a computer program called Aldus PageMaker. This new approach to design and layout became known as |
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| __________________ is an artist who is best known for editing video of sporting events by removing the athletes. |
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| John Lasseter's first fully computer-animated film at Pixar was |
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| A(n) ____, often used with architecture as wall decorations, grows out of a flat, two-dimensional background, and its projection into three-dimensional space is relatively shallow. |
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| Freestanding sculpture is described as |
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| a sculpture that inhabits 3D space a nd does not have a single viewpoint |
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| When an artist creates living sculptural events that are ephemeral art experiences, they are making |
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| Which of the following was not part of Joseph Beuys performance How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare |
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| Beuys discussed the meaning of his pictures with the dead hare |
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| During the 1985 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City, ____ created a Postmodern, raucous fun-house in a minor hallway of a major museum. |
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| Art that leaves the gallery and interacts directly with nature is referred to as |
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| In ____ methods of sculpture, the sculpture is built up by modeling a flexible material like clay or plaster or building an installation. |
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| In ____ methods of sculpture, the sculpture is carved out of hard materials such as wood or stone. |
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| Most cast metal sculptures are made to be hollow by using a process called the |
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| Sculptor David Smith uses the industrial techniques of ____ and ____ that he learned while working in an automobile factory. |
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| "I wanted the form, but I didn't care for the carving. I wanted something more immediate because my creativity was faster." This quote describes ____, the artist who used found wooden objects to assemble large sculptures. |
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| Artwork that combines more than one media is referred to as |
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| Artwork that combines sculpture, video, projection, and installation as well as characters named Cyc, Sug, and Coo, describes the work of |
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| As a potter's wheel turns, a lump of clay can be lifted and shaped by hand into a vessel, in an action called |
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| Glass is made primarily of _____, or a kind of sand, plus other minerals that add color. |
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| Which American painter is credited with using glass that was irregular, streaked, textured, or imperfect to create an illusion of shading and depth within his stained glass, which was used to decorate private homes? |
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| Glass that is heated to a molten state and picked up in a small spherical blob at the end of a long metal pipe, then blown into bubbles of various shapes is a technique referred to as |
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| When fabric siljouettes are cut out and stitched onto the background of another fabric, it is called |
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| The _____, an arts-and-crafts movement in the last decades of the nineteenth century, established a deliberate goal of making the useful beautiful and called for more artistic and tasteful design. |
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| The selection and manipulation of styles and sizes of lettering, which is one of the basic activities of graphic design, is called |
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| Begun in 1737, the ______, which contained officially sanctioned contemporary art, remained the only important public exhibition available to artists. |
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| Claude Monet's work Grainstacks (End of Summer) is |
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| attempting to convey the quality of light and atmosphere through color |
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| Which artist decided to sue the art critic John Ruskin for libel when Ruskin referred to Nocturne in Black and Fold: The Falling Rocket as "cockney impudence"? |
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| The Gates of Hell, originally designed as a doorway to be cast in bronze for a new Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, were sculpted by |
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| Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world," set off a wave of _____, of a love of all things Japanese in Western culture. |
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| All of the following are true of Paul Cezanne except |
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| he concealed his brushstrokes to create a smooth painted surface |
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| The aim of the Expressionists was to _________. |
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| make inner feelings visible |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner formed the German Expressionist group ______. |
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| The word fauve means ______. |
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| Picasso was most inspired by French artist ________ whom Picasso referred to as "the father of us all." |
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| One characteristic of Analytical Cubism was _______. |
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| Picasso's work Still Life with Chair Caning was the first ________. |
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| According to the Futurist manifesto, a(n) __________ is more beautiful than the Greek sculpture Victory of Samothrace. |
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| The Dada artists waged war on ________. |
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| the conventional way of thinking |
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| A major influence on Surrealism was _________. |
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| Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams |
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| The Surreal artist who wanted to make the viewer conscious of the limitations of signs and language was ______. |
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| Vasily Kandinsky had seen the art work of ____ that focused on color over subject matter, inspiring him to explore that concept further in his own work. |
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| Pictures in which lines, shapes, and colors no longer refer to anything in the real world are called ____. |
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| De Stijl artists were interested in ________. |
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| capturing the spirituality of color |
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| The founder and architect of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany was _____. |
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| Edward Weston made images that were _______. |
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previsualized
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contact prints made directly from the negative
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| Jackson Pollock was inspired by the _____. |
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| Surrealists, especially the use of automatic picturemaking |
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| Jackson Pollock created _________ depicting the energy of the artist's motions. |
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| Helen Frankenthaler created her paintings by _________. |
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| letting the colors of paint to soak and stain a raw canvas |
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| Alexander Calder invented |
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| The architect who built a glass house for himself is ______. |
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| The glass box format of the International Style leant itself well to skyscrapers because ____. |
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it is ordered and disciplined
it lacks political overtones
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| Robert Rauschenberg said he learned more from ______ than from any of the art schools he attended. |
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| drinking with the Abstract Expressionist artists |
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| To Robert Rauschenberg, a combine was ___________. |
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| a collage using real world objects |
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| Andy Warhol was the most influential artist of ______. |
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| A Happening is _____________. |
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| a theatrical event that encompasses the art experience |
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| According to Robert Venturi, what was the mistake of the International Style? |
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| An isolated place separated from the commotion of a viewer's everyday experience is known as ____. |
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| Superrealism is like Minimalism in that both ________. |
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recreated very realistic, representational scenes
depicted highly reflective surfaces
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| How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude fund their large scale works of art ___. |
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| entirely by themselves, through selling Christo's drawings |
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| The Guerilla Girls use posters, billboards, and on-site appearances to _______________. |
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| eliminate bias against women in the art world |
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| Anselm Keifer is associated with __________ due to his use of vigorous brushstrokes and emotion-laden imagery. |
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| One of the main characteristics of Post-Modernism is _______. |
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| Post-modern architecture are often considered neo-eclectic because they _______. |
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| combine several different and contradictory styles within one building |
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| The character Mr. DOB by Takashi Murakami is symbolic as _________. |
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| a self-portrait of the Japanese people |
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