Artists
James Hampton’s piece entitled Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, which was made out of tin foil and found in his garage, is now located at the National Museum of American Art, in Washington, DC. This work of art can be called ____________________ because the artist was self-taught.
Outsider art or folk art
In printmaking the term for the printed image left by the matrix is the...
Impression
art that tries to realistically capture the natural world around us is called
representational art
An example of complimentary color scheme
red and green
blue and orange
yellow and purple/violet
Extreme use of unity in a work of art can lead to
Blandness
The Vietnam Memorial, which was seen as abstract and controversial, was design by...
Maya Lin
Colors that are next to each other or adjacent on the color wheel
Analogous
What artist uses clashing symbols in her work, like in her skull and solider cut out on tissue paper.
Mona Hatoum
TRUE OR FALSE: Color is a Principle of Design
FALSE
color is a VISUAL ELEMENT
Extreme use of Variety in a work of art can lead to
CHAOS
Alfred Stieglitz believed that Georgia O’Keefe’s artwork captured the essence of what?
WOMANHOOD
Shapes that are irregular and mimic nature
Organic shapes
Gnaw by Janine Antoni, which includes 600 pounds of lard and 600 pounds of chocolate is an example of what two types of art?
installation & conceptual
Achromatic means...
No color; white, black, shades of grey
Where was paper invented?
China
The sculptor Brancusi tried to capture the pure essence of _______ in his artwork
Living things
In a work of art when one side of a composition mirrors the other exactly we would say it has ____________
symmetry/ symmetrical composition
The Nazis in their infamous Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937 compared modern art to the art of the __________________
the mentally ill
Monochromatic paintings include how many hues?
ONE
TRUE OR FALSE: During the Renaissance the families of artistic young boys would pay to have tutors come to their homes to give private lessons
FALSE
the students lived and worked at the master's house/studio
Three subjects that Van Gogh painted were....
Still life (flowers), Landscape, Portraits
Iconography tells us a greater story by using _________________ within the work of art
Symbols
Ornate and impractically designed vessels were often created for what kind of purpose?
Ceremonial or ritual
Name an example of an analogous color scheme
Red orange yellow
green blue violet
adjacent on the color wheel
What type of art has more to do with ideas rather than a finished product/end result?
Conceptual art