photography
The name of the opening that controls how much light is let into the camera.
aperture
This architectural term describes a structure that is created from a piling materials on top of one another.
load bearing
sculpture that moves
kinetic
Name this medium
Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1832
See slide page (50)
Color wood block/printmaking
This artist is most well known for splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor.
Jackson Pollock
The name of the mechanism that controls how long (the length of time) that light is let into the camera.
shutter or shutter speed
This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.
post and lintel
this type of sculpture is meant to be viewed from all angles
in the round
Name this medium
Joseph Cornell, The Hotel Eden, 1945
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Assemblage
Damien Hirst is a conceptual artist who's work includes The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, in which he suspends this animal in a tank of formaldehyde.
shark
the mechanisms of the camera are very similar to this human body part.
eye
This type of window was used in Gothic cathedrals to enhance the religious experience of the worshiper.
stained glass
this type of sculpture is made by assembling found and gathered objects
assemblage
Name this medium
Romare Bearden, The Dove, 1964
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Collage
This performance artist lived in a gallery for a week with a coyote
Joseph Beuys
The length of the exposure for the first photograph ever made The View from the Window at Le Gras by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827.
8 hours
This type of arch was integrated into Gothic architecture in order to help direct the worshiper’s gaze upward.
pointed
Carving and chiseling are examples of this type of sculptural process
subtractive
Name this medium/type of artwork
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1960
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Earthworks
This artist is known for utilizing polka dots, mirrors, and lights within in her installation art.
Yayoi Kusama
This device was originally used as drawing tool but it was an important development in the history of photography. It utilizes a box or even a darkened room with a tiny hole in one side and through that hole the outside scene is projected onto the opposite wall. The scene is upside down but the proportions and colors remain intact.
camera obscura
This feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built.
flying buttresses
Modeling and casting are examples of this type of sculptural process
additive
Name this object (early form of animation)
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Zoetrope
This artist is known for her extreme performance pieces, one of which includes walking for 90 days along the Great Wall of China ending in a breakup with her lover of over 12 years.
Marina Abramovic