Slide List, Terms, & Other Important Test Notes – Art Appreciation Test 2
 The test is worth 65 points, about 13% of your total grade.
 There will be about 5 slide ID’s, and about 60 questions (T/F and/or Multiple Choice), for a total of
about 65 items.
 Bring a pencil. (Scantron sheets are used.)
 Your notes may be used during the test. (You may not use photocopies, printouts, this study guide or
any quiz study guides or quizzes during the test.)
Text
Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Page 254 (Richard Serra); Pages 522-523 (Bill Viola); Chapter 5; Pages 486-487
(Futurism); Page 223 (History of the Swastika); Chapter 7; 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 and in quizzes.)
Slides
Be able to pick the correct answer from a list [slide ID’s are multiple choice for the test].)
Southern Cross
Calder
1963
A Sunday on La Grande
Jatte
Seurat
1884-86
Plantoir
Oldenburg and van Bruggen
2001
Empire
Warhol
1964
(Movie)
Number 1, 1949
Pollock
1949
Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
1511
Man in a Red Turban
van Eyck
1433
Skull with Cigarette
Vincent van Gogh
1886
(not in textbook)
The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh
1885
(not in textbook)
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.)
Fine Arts
Renaissance Period
Style May Be Associated With:
o An entire culture.
o A particular time and place.
o A particular group of artists.
o An individual artist.
o A distinct phase of an individual artist.
Style
Stylized
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 (Define and list a
complimentary harmony [list the two colors])
Warm Colors (Define and give an example of a warm
color)
Cool Colors (Define and give an example of a cool
color)
Color Wheel – Describe it. Who developed the
modern color wheel, and in what year?
Prism
Dispersion
Ishihara Test
After Image
Blind Spot – Why do we have a blind spot in each
eye? What is the name of the area that causes the blind
spot, as pointed out in class?
Hue
Value
Tint
Shade
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?
IKB – International Klein Blue
Palette (know both definitions as used in class)
Describe the emotional effects of the colors red and blue,
as presented in the textbook.
Color significance of Red in Chinese culture (see the work
by the Luo Brothers)
Pointillism
Optical Color Mixture
Kinetic Art
Mobiles (by Calder)
Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix (1830) Which
theme from the list Themes of Art does Liberty… belong,
as described in the textbook and class?
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?
The Crossing by Viola (1996)
Which theme from the list Themes of Art does The
Crossing belong, as described in the textbook and class?
Futurism
What inspired the Futurists?
Scale
Small-Scale
Large-Scale
Richard Serra’s artwork, as viewed in class
Claus Oldenburg’s artwork, as viewed in class
Distortion of Scale
Proportion
In-Proportion
Out-of-Proportion
Blending of Art and Science
Describe the video Powers of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames
Describe the artwork Red Nose Stalin by Damien Hirst:
Describe its content – what is it about, as described in
lecture?
Linear Perspective
Vanishing Point
Diminishing Perspective
Atmospheric Perspective
Emphasis
Focal Point
Subordinate Elements
Investigative Drawing
Symmetry
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?
Usage of swastika in Buddhism and other cultures well
before 1930’s (see page 223)
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?
Pop Art
What type of work did Andy Warhol engage in after
college, before becoming a fine artist (as described in
lecture)?
Warhol Factory
Velvet Underground
Damien Hirst (Spin paintings, usage of animals)
Jackson Pollock
Action Painting (in relation to Jackson Pollock)
Abstract Expressionism
Support (in relation to painting)
Grounder (also known as Primer)
Aqueous and Non Aqueous Paint
What are the ingredients to paint?
Pigment + Medium + Binder = How Paint is Made
Renaissance Man
Fresco Painting
Fresco: Cartoon
Buon Fresco (True Fresco)
Creation of Adam by Michelangelo – where is it?
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
What type of painting is it?
Man in a Red Turban by van Eyck
Oil Painting – What are the ingredients?