Louisiana State University

BIOL 1201

Quiz 3

1)The “Renaissance” a return to humanist, classical ideas, literally means________

2. The 20^th century movement of western thought believed in destiny, progress, and the importance of originality in moving culture forward. (some say the movement is still going on)—
3. The additive primary colors mix to make white light, are the basic colors the retina of the eye can sense, and are the key components of color used in a television monitor or TV screen. What are they?—

 

4. The baroque still life was popular in this country with its bourgeois art patrons and their

interest in paintings that showed the trappings of wealth and success in commerce and international trade—

5. The Colosseum is known for being:
6. The Colosseum was begun during the reign of Vespasian in
7. The construction of the sail and wave-like shapes of the Sydney Opera house was possible because of this relatively new building material—

8. The Dome of the Rock was built on a site sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims—

 

9. The element of art that defines the amount of space occupied by an object is                       .

 

10. The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the

 

sum of its parts is_____________

11. The Harlem Renaissance painter’s ‘Migration Series’ makes effective use of pattern and

 

rhythm to show optimism, determination, solemnity and sadness—

12. The lightness or darkness of a surface is the element of art called
13. The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is
14. The Nazi’s Degenerate Art Exhibition contained work that
15. The Parthenon was dedicated to the goddess
16. The Renaissance is generally considered to have started in what Italian City?—
17. The Roman Pantheon was inspired for______________
18. The story of Laocoon takes place during_____________

 

19. The traditional primary colors, subtractive colors also known as the “painter’s primaries”

 

Are_______________

20. The woman from willendorf is made out of___________
21. There are no lines in nature. We recognize edges and shapes visually through contrasts of

 

what?

22. There are opportunities for seeing interesting art where ever one lives—
23. There is no such thing as the art police (Even though a lot of people seem to think they

 

are members of the force)—

24. These 1300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were first discovered by overflying commercial aircraft because they are so huge.

25. These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in______________works of art
26. These people create sand paintings as a part of healing rituals—
27. Thick imposing walls, dark solemn interiors—
28. This 18^th century artistic style marked a return to the ideals of the ancient Greek and

 

Roman republics—

29. This architect (and artist) is one of those credited with discovering linear perspective (He

 

also engineered the Florentine Duomo)—

30. This Biblical character, a symbol of triumph, was often depicted by Renaissance artists—

 

31. This building technique, that supports a horizontal stone with two verticals, can be

 

seen in ancient construction, from Stonehenge to the Parthenon—

32. This column displays the Roman emperor’s military campaigns against the Dacains—

 

33. This contemporary Pop Art sculptor is known for his experiments with monumental scale

 

—

34. This Dutch baroque artist, known as a master of light, painted scenes of quiet, domestic

 

interiors (“Girl with the Peal Earring” is probably his best known work)—

35. This early 14^th century painter is seen as transitional from the late Byzantine to the early

 

Renaissance—

36. This extrusion of the rounded arch is a common feature of Romanesque cathedrals

 

—

37. This feature of Gothic cathedrals allowed them to be built much taller and wider

 

than their Romanesque predecessors—

38. This Flemish painter is known for his respect for classical tradition, his depiction of

 

baroque-style violence, and his taste for voluptuous women—

39. This inventor co-created the film Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which was one of the first American

 

movies—NOT William Faulkner,

40. This is NOT one of the many cues that helps us perceive 3D on a 2D picture plane

 

--

41. This is the system for creating an illusion of depth using three basic components: horizon

 

line, vanishing point, and convergence lines—

42. This Italian baroque architect juxtaposed convex and concave surfaces that made walls

 

seem to ripple_________

43. This Italian baroque painter is recognized as bringing a new realism and dramatic

 

intensity into art—

44. This Italian Renaissance artist’s Pieta, created when he was just 23, was objected by

 

leaders of the Catholic Reformation—

45. This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise--
46. This mathematical system, developed in the Renaissance, allows artists to create an

 

illusion of distance on a flat 2D picture plane.--

47. This medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is NOT an oil on

 

canvas—Fresco

48. This painter pretty much defines the Spanish baroque—
49. This painting technique makes objects appear distant by seeming to fade into a haze or

 

mist of cooler color with a lower contrast than closer objects.

50. This painting technique, popular with baroque painters, focuses a harsh light on the

 

foreground subject, contrasted against a shadowy background—

51. This period of the late baroque is known for excessive ornamentation and frivolous

 

aristocratic subject matter—

52. This proportional system is a good rule of thumb for image composition and has a loose

 

basis in the application of the Golden Section—

53. This Renaissance artist’s paintings Primavera and Birth of Venus are good examples of a

 

54. revival of mythological subject matter—
55. This skeleton type construction is common in housing developments around

 

Tuscaloosa and the Southeast—

56. This type of relief, which its name from the French word for low, does not imply great

 

depth—bas relief

57. This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form—