Visual Arts Midterm Questions

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artwork is made

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Alexander Calder’s mobiles are
examples of “kinetic art,” because they

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Any kind of movement or structure
of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

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Architects are generally most
concerned with qualities of

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Asymmetrical balance is a feature
of

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Background shapes are referred to
as

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Chaz Maviyane-Davies’s Global
Warning is an example of art as a vehicle for

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Chris Olfili’s Holy Virgin Mary
and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van
Bruggen’s sculptures, such as Shuttlecocks, affect us immediately
through their

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Critics who examine the
environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system,
cultural values, and politics, use

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Figurative art is a type of

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Figure-ground reversal can best be
seen in

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For which artwork did the artist
photograph the process of creation?

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Francisco Goya’s print I Saw
This was intended as a commentary on

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In Her Secret Is Patience,
Janet Echelman used

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In an artwork, the total effect of
the combined visual qualities is known as the

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In art, the term “value”
refers to the

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In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith
Haring creates a bold and dynamic effect by using

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Jazz provided a notable influence
on the work of

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Making discriminating judgments
about art is inherent to

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Ogata Korin’s Cranes
exemplifies the principle of

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Raphael’s The School of Athens
provides the viewer with the illusion of the three-dimensional world on a
two-dimensional surface by the use of

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Romare Bearden’s Rocket to the
Moon is an example of

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Sabatino “Simon” Rodia
could be classified as an outsider artist because of his

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Size relationships between parts
of a whole are known as

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The 1973 court case Miller v.
California established

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The Taj Mahal was intended to
function as a

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The appearance of oneness in a
work of art is

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The juxtaposition of strongly
dissimilar elements is referred to as

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The purity or saturation of a
color is its

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The symbolic meaning of visual
signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

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The term used to describe the
“fool-the-eye” realism of William Harnett’s painting A Smoke
Backstage is

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Value judgment about art
necessarily involves

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When a work of art shows no
reference to the natural world of images, it is called

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When the two sides of a
composition correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form,
the work has

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Which artist is known for making a
modified Citroen DS car?

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Which artist wanted viewers to see
the natural rhythms present in a flower?

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Which of the following is the
result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

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Which of the following is used to
describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

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Which theories focus attention on
the composition of an artwork and how earlier artworks may have influenced
it?

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Which work makes use of light as a
medium?

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Yong Soon Min’s Dwelling is
an assemblage that attempts to express the artist’s

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The Creative Process involves

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Of all the visual elements, which
is the most difficult to convey in words and pictures?

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Nonrepresentational art can also
be called

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Art fulfills an expressive
function when an artist

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An art critic that focuses on
artist-centered concepts, such as emotional state and gender would be
practicing which critical theory?