Elements of Art
Processes and Techniques
Western Art
Non-Western Art
Potpourri
100
What is the most basic element of art?
A line.
100
Which painting technique can be best argued to be the most recent invention?
Acrylic paint.
100
What is the oldest known work of art?
Chauvet cave paintings.
100
Which religion was an important focus to China and Japan's art?
Buddhism.
100
Who invaded Mesopotamia an 2150 BCE?
Guti.
200
What is the organization of hues into a visual scheme?
Color wheel.
200
What are the three types of shading?
Hatching, cross hatching, and stippling.
200
What is the arc-shaped structure that is used as a ceiling or a supper to a rood called?
A vault.
200
Which Asian art is largely non-figurative?
Islamic Art.
200
What 2 ways do art historians analyze works of art?
Formal and Contextual.
300
Who developed the color wheel and in what century?
Sir Isaac Newton; 17th century.
300
What is a water paint called?
Tempera.
300
What was the reaction to Neoclassicism and Romanticism?
Realism.
300
Many African cultural groups, such as Dan and the Bwa, are well known for what?
Their impressive masks.
300
Post-Impressionalism and Pre-Raphaelite ideas developed in what century?
19th century.
400
What is the effect of adding black or gray to a color?
It reduces its intensity.
400
What does encausting paint use?
Wax.
400
Which ancient Greek art style set figures against a floral and ornamented background?
Corinthian.
400
One of the most amazing works from the early period of Chinese art history is the monument to which emperor?
Emperor of Qin (First emperor to unite the kingdom)
400
Who painted the Birth of Venus?
Botticelli.
500
What are the primary, secondary, and neutral colors.
Primary: red, blue, yellow Secondary: orange, green, purple Neutral: black and white
500
What are the 5 of the 9 developed ways to portray art?
Drawing, printmaking, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, performance, craft and folk art, architecture.
500
Which ancient Greek historian sought to analyze historical and contemporary art in his text, "Natural History"?
Pliny the Elder.
500
Where is the palace at Persepolis located?
Persia
500
Who painted the Dying Slave, Moses, and the Bound Slave?
Michaelango.
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