Art and Math Review

"M" Things

100

It is the process of embalming a body for preservation

What is mummification?

200

The Jar with Dragon was produced for this Chinese court

What is the Ming court?

300

This selected work is a television-based art piece

What is Magnet TV?

400

It's a carved slab of wood or metal used in printing

What is a matrix?

500

These brass bracelets were traded throughout Africa as a kind of currency

What are manillas?

Mad Art/Science

100

This naturally occurring compound is the former of cristallo glass

What is silica?

200

This revolution made possible the production of numerous new pigments

What is the Scientific Revolution?

300

This red pigment is created with iron sulfate and potash

What is cochineal red lake?

400

A silver plated copper sheet is first placed in this chemical during daguerreotype making

What is iodine?

500

This chemical compound is colloquially called by its pigment name, Prussian Blue

What is iron ferrocyanide?

"F" words

100

This painting is done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling

What is a fresco?

200

This type of art includes woven and nonwoven materials

What is fiber art?

300

This type of arch consists of an inclined bar, which supports the thrust of a roof or vault

What is a flying buttress?

400

This process fuses one layer of colored glass to another

What is flashing?

500

These painted portraits were made in encaustic on a wood panel

What are Fayum portraits?

Linguae Latinae

100

This Latin word for "eye" is used to describe the circular opening on top of domes

What is oculus?

200

This Latin term for "dark chamber" describes an early optical tool

What is camera obscura?

300

This Latin term for "new light" was christened by Abbot Suger

What is lux nova?

400

Latin was the international language during this time of civil strife

What is the medieval period?

500

The art term "relief" was derived from this Latin term meaning "to raise"

What is relevo?

Memorize 'em: equations

100

This is the formula for the area of a circle

Πr²

200

This is the formula for the volume a pyramid or cone.

1/3 * b * h

300

This is the formula for finding the distance between any two points

d² = (x₂-x₁)² + (y₂-y₁)²

400

This is the formula for combinations (in which order does not matter)

n! / (n-k)!k!

500

This is the formula for the average rate of change for any function over a given interval [a,b]

f(b) - f(a) / b - a