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Creativity and the Arts
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2010

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Term
Which of the following results when arches are joined at the top with their legs forming a circle?
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Dome
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Ionic is a Greek architectural order with a scroll-like capital
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True
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Which of the following is NOT an architectural system?
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Suspension
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Several arches placed side by side form an:
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Arcade
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The ability of a material to withstand bending is known as ____ Strength
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Tensile
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Designers of Gothic Cathedrals sought to convey a feeling of fortress like strength.
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False
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The supportive center of an arch is called a...
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Keystone
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Medieval structures employed a system of which of the following in order to keep vertical walls from bucking outward?
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buttresses
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In creating a structure, an architects 1st concern is with aesthetics.
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False
Term
The parthenon exemplifies post and ____ construction
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lintel
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The transition from the shaft to the column to the architrave is supplied by a ____
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capital
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Log cabins are examples of bearing-wall construction.
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True
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This term describes vertical grooves cut into a column.
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Fluting
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Which of the following is a structural system in which an overhanging beam or floor is supported at one end?
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Cantilever
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The ability to withstand crushing is called ____ strength
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compressive
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Concrete was invented in the 20th century.
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false
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Which is the structural system that defines space by transferring stress outwards towards it's legs?
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Arch
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Which of the following is utilized in order to transfer weight and stress to permit squared space beneath a dome?
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pendentives
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The characteristics of tone that allows us to distinguish pitches from various musical instruments is tone color.
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True
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The accenting of normally unaccenting beats is called syncopation.
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True
Term
The term motif refers to harmonies that sound stable in their arrangement.
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False
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The category of very high-range human voice is known as coloatura soprano.
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true
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The term dissonant means very soft
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True
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The term consonant, related to the theme and melody, means a short melodic or rhythmic idea
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false
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In music, a single movement introduction played apart
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concert overture
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Which is a property of rhythm>
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Structure
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The arrangement of pitches in an octave
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scale
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A musical style desribed as stressing tone color, fluidity, and atmosphere
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impressionistic
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In musical expression, this term means becoming louder.
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crescendo
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The degree of loudness or softness in music
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dynamics
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Another word for polyphony is counterpoint
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true
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Harmonies that sound tense and unstable in their arrangement?
Definition
dissonance
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Kyrie, credo, gloria, sanctus, and agnus dei are the 5 parts of the type of musical composition known as the
Definition
Mass
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what are the properties of musical texture?
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polyphony, monophony, homophony
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the difference between any 2 pitches is an interval
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true
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the text of an opera, set to music, is known as the
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liberetto
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symbols that denote silences in music are called
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rests
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Iambic, trochaic, and anapestic are types of metric lines.
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False
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According to the text, point of view is the perspective from which the story is told.
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True
Term
The structure of a work of literature
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plot
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The atmosphere of a story may also be called it's
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tone
Term
The kind of poetry originally meant to be sung w a lyre if called ____ poetry
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lyric
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A novel whose subject matter comprises observations of the customs, values, and manners of a complex society?
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Manners
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A novel whose subject matter comprises the adventure of a rogue
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picturesque
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A novel whose subject matter comprises an atmosphere of mystery and terror
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Gothic
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The type and number of rhythmic unites in a line is called
Definition
Meter
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A prose narrative of considerable length that has a plot that unfolds from the actions, speech, and thoughts of the character is a ____
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novel
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In poetry, the most common sound structure:
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Rhyme
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Epistolary narrative point of view is told through the use of _____ written by the characters
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letters
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The three major types of poetry are narrative, dramatic, and novel
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False
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Stories or observations about moments in a biography
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anecdotes
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the overriding idea by which the elements of the story is shaped
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theme
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the major form of dramatic poetry is the dramatic....
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monologue
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two types of essays: ____ and _____
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formal and informal
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A work created from the authors imagination rather than taken from fact:
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fiction
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essays can be either ___ or ____
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formal or informal
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Figures of speech by which words recieve new implications:
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metaphors
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The essence of dramatic communication:
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character
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discovery is the revelation of information about character's personalities, feelings and relationships.
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True
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During the performance of a play, the attention of the audience is a constant factor
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false
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In his poetics, aristotle described comedy.
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False
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Plot developes as a sequence of tests caused by the villian in which the hero must triumph:
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Melodrama
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The central personage of the play
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protagonist
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The part of the play in which the playwright gives the audience background information
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exposition
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The word theater comes from the word theatron, which means A place for acting
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false
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the purpose of _____ is to construct a setting that contributes to the production's ends.
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scene design
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A structure that ascends to a climax and then falls to a conclusion:
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pyramidal
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Tragicomedy includes both tragic and comic scenes
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true
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the main channel of communication between the playwright and the audience
Definition
actors
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Helps prepare the audience for actions and events to follow in a play
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foreshadowing
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drama comprises much of what we see in modern movies and TV
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false
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the _____ of a play is like it's skeleton.
Definition
plot
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A theatrical situation such as a peasant jumping to the upper class:
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reversal
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the part of the play's structure in which the playwright resolves the issues of the play.
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denouement
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the dynamics in the play rise in a straight line to the conclusion
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false
Term
What is recorded by the camera over a period of time
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shot
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early filmmakers had to move the camera in order to include this in their films
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variety
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quality of the film that enables it to be cut etc
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plasticity
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this film uses the techniques of theater:
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narrative
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______ film attempts to record actuality using primarily a sociological or journalistic approach
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documentary
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A motion picture only seems to move, but does not
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true
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basic picture unit of film:
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frame
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dissolve refers to what is recorded by the camera over a period of time
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false
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the process of joining shots together during editing
Definition
cutting
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according to legend, ____ discovered the optimal phenomenon known as "persistance of vision"
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Ptolemy
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Most viewers accept without hesitation the conventions of customs used in a cinema
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true
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The techinique of cutting within the frame allows the filmmakers to avoid ____
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editing
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Absolute film follows the rules of literary construction
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false
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film cutting technique in which images change rapidly to illustrate the passage of time.
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montage
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some filmmakers believe that camera technique is best when it's not noticeable
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true
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type of shot that creates the interrealtionship of details in cinema:
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establishing
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Films orginated as a means of recording and portraying
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motion
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form cut is the technique that moves from one image to a similar one
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true
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A technique that breaks the continuity of time:
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jump cut
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technique of having actors look directly into the camera and play to the audience
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direct
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modern cinema contains ____ frames per foot of film at 24 frames per second
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sixteen
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according to the text, color is irrelevant to sculpture
Definition
false
Term
the mold for an actual sculpture is called a positive
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false
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freestanding sculpture works are called what?
Definition
full round
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the relationship of shapes is called:
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proportion
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Sculpture designed to be seen from only one side is:
Definition
relief
Term
which of the following is a term that denotes a carved work of sculpture?
Definition
subtractive
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built sculptures uses a process of addition, known as:
Definition
construction
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____ composition directs the eye back into the work
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closed
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sculptural works hat are modeled use the process of manipulation
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true
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Closed composition directs the eye outside of the framework of the work
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false
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culpture works that are transitory are called ephemeral
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true
Term
This concept describes the joining of parts or movements from one part to another in an artwork
Definition
articulation
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all sculpture is 3-d
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true
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the personality of a work of art describes the artists:
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style
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____ critism looks soley at the artwork
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formal
Term
Who developed the aproach to art evaluation that asks "what is the artist trying to say?"
Definition
Goethe
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According to the text, the question 'what is it" evokes a ___ response
Definition
formal
Term
The four primary functions of the arts accoriding to the text include:
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artifact, therapy, enjoyment, political and social commentary
Term
the nature of how art historians see art is different today than it was in the past
Definition
true
Term
which of the following is not traditionally associated with the humanities?
Definition
psychology
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according to the text, which of the following is the realm of activities such as art, craft, and science?
Definition
creativity
Term
according to the text, the arts act as social and poltical commentary only when no longr acting as a vehicle for enjoyment
Definition
false
Term
four basic concerns of art:
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fine and applied arts, sybols, creativity, aesthetic communication
Term
a detailed process of analysis to gain understanding and appreciation
Definition
criticism
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the difference between fine and applied art lies in the fine arts being prized for their purely aesthetic qualities
Definition
true
Term
Questioning how something is put together evokes this kind of response:
Definition
technical
Term
The poet archibald macleish is quoted as saying "without arts how can the university teach the ____"
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truth
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contextual critism looks beyond the work of art
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true
Term
This is defined as a tangible emblem of something abstract
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symbol
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The study of the nature of beauty and art:
Definition
aesthetics
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A work exemplifying art as revealing metaphysical or spiritual truths
Definition
a tribal totem
Term
when part of a religious ceremony, Music can function as art, artifact, and ritual.
Definition
True
Term
which of the following is the term for sculpture that employs such materials as wire or neon tubing?
Definition
linear
Term
sculptural works that are modeled utilize which of the following processes?
Definition
manipulation
Term
creating a piece of ____ sculpture utilizes the process of substitution
Definition
cast
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unlike pictures, sculptures have literal mass
Definition
true
Term
the term for the activity or sense of movement in a sculptural work
Definition
articulation
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holes that appear in sculpture are called ____ space
Definition
negative
Term
Woodcut and wood engravings are examples of which of the following?
Definition
relief printing
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the spectrum notation of color is called it's value
Definition
false
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the term for composite, or overall use of color in visual art:
Definition
palette
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the term meaning light and shade or modeling
Definition
chiarioscuco
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the ordered recurrence of elements in a composition is called rhythm.
Definition
true
Term
term for hues that exist opposite each other on the color wheel
Definition
complementary
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a color edge is a manifestation of the element of composition known as
Definition
line
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the term ____ means the logic of repetition
Definition
harmony
Term
placing objects next to one another is called juxtaposition
Definition
true
Term
the term ____ means the degree or purity of a hue.
Definition
intensity
Term
which of the following is NOT a purpose for which artists utilize line?
Definition
to simulate weight
Term
what is responsible for the fact that watercolors produce a delicacy that cannot be produced by other media?
Definition
transperacy
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which of the following is one of the 3 characteristics of line?
Definition
implication
Term
one can grey a hue by using it's compliment
Definition
true
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