Slide List, Terms, & Other Important Test Notes – Art Appreciation Test 2
 The test is worth 60 points, about 12% of your total grade.
 There will be about 5 slide ID’s, and about 55 questions (T/F, Multiple Choice, Short Answer), for a
total of about 60 items.
 Your notes may be used during the test – your notes only. (You may not use photocopies,
printouts, this study guide or any quiz study guides or quizzes during the test.)
Text
- Readings: Chapter 1; Pages 259-260 (Christo & Jeanne-Claude); Pages 84-85 (James Turrell, Sky Spaces); Page 290 (Pantheon,
Oculus); Page 489 (Duchamp's Fountain); Pages 232-233 (Barbara Kruger); Page 515 (Jenny Holzer); Chapter 2; Chapter 3;
Chapter 4; Page 486-487 (Futurism); Chapter 5; Pages 215, 233, 503-505, (Empire Movie, Pop Art, Andy Warhol); Pages 497-499
(Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting, Jackson Pollock, Color Field Painting)
(Any major concepts or featured artists in the readings are fair game for the test. However, the test mainly focuses on content
covered in class lectures, in quizzes, and this study guide.)
Slides
Be able to pick the correct answer from a list (slide ID’s are multiple choice for the test).
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Seurat
1884-86
The Scream
Munch
1893
The Last Supper
da Vinci
c. 1495-97
Vitruvian Man
da Vinci
c. 1485-90
Southern Cross
Calder
1963
Nocturne in Blue and Gold
Whistler
1872-1877
Empire
Warhol
1964
Liberty Leading the People
Delacroix
1830
Terms/Artists/Lists/Questions to study in addition to content listed above. Go through this list very carefully, referring to your notes
and the text as needed. (Not everything from lecture is included in this list – things not appearing on this list may appear on
the test.)
Andy Goldsworthy
Earthworks
Anna Mendieta
Walter De Maria’s: Lighting Field, Earth Room, Vertical Kilometer
Commission
Patron
Installation Art
Land Art
Themes of Art (from chapter 3):
o Arts of Daily Life
o The Sacred Realm
o Politics and the Social Order
o The Here and Now
o Invention and Fantasy
o Art and Nature
o Art and Art
Complimentary Harmonies
Warm Colors
Cool Colors
Aggressive Colors (Warm or Cool?)
Receding Colors (Warm or Cool?)
Color Wheel
Who developed the modern color wheel, and in what year?
Prism
Dispersion
Ishihara Test
After Image
Blind Spot
Optic Disk
Hue
Value
Tint
Shade
Intensity
Primary Colors of Light – What are they? Are they additive or subtractive? What do you get if you mix all of the primary colors of
light?
Primary Colors of Pigment – What are they? Are they additive or subtractive? What do you get if you mix all of the primary colors of
pigment?
Monochromatic
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Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Gold
Palette (know both definitions as used in class and textbook)
Describe the emotional effects of the colors red and blue, as presented in the textbook.
Pointillism
Optical Color Mixture
Kinetic Art
Mobiles (by Calder)
The Way Things Go by Fischli and Weiss (1987)
Which theme from the list Themes of Art does The Way Things Go belong, as described in class?
Futurism
What inspired the Futurists?
Scale
Small-Scale
Large-Scale
Richard Serra’s artwork, as viewed in class
Tilted Arc by Serra – What happened to it?
Claus Oldenburg’s artwork, as viewed in class
Distortion of Scale
Proportion
Linear Perspective
Vanishing Point
Diminishing Perspective
Isometric Perspective
Atmospheric Perspective
Emphasis
Focal Point
Vincent van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters
Subordinate Elements
Investigative Drawing
Renaissance Man
Symmetrical Balance
Relieved Symmetry
Mandala
What are Mandala’s typically made of?
What do the monks do to the Mandala when they are finished creating it?
With regard to the work Study of Human Proportions according to Vitruvius by da Vinci:
What does the square around the man represent, as discussed in lecture?
What does the circle around the man represent, as discussed in lecture?
Damien Hirst
The work Damien Hirst’s Stalin (also known as Red Nose Stalin or Joseph Stalin by Damien Hirst) that we viewed and
discussed in class. What was Damien Hirst’s goal with the artwork? Why did he paint the red dot on the painting? Was
he critiquing something and/or poking fun at anything
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst
Pop Art
What type of work did Andy Warhol engage in after college, before becoming a fine artist (as described in lecture)?
Warhol Factory
Jackson Pollock
Automatism
Action Painting