Slide List, Terms, & Other Important Test Notes – Art Appreciation Test 3
 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.)
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Readings: Pages 261-262 (Christo & Jeanne-Claude); Chapter 1; Oculus (292); Doug Wheeler
(87); 235 (Barbara Kruger); 523 (Jenny Holzer); Chapter 2; 503 (Rothko); 492-493 (Duchamp);
238-239 (Louise Bourgeois); Chapter 3; 486-490 (Picasso); Chapter 4; Chapter 5, Chapter 6;
490-491 (Futurism); Chapter 7; 372-376 (Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo); 507-509 (Pop Art,
Warhol); 235 (Warhol); 217 (Warhol's Empire); 500-502 (Jackson Pollock); Chapter 9; 304-305
(Frank Lloyd Wright); 365, 370-375 (Renaissance, Renaissance Man, Michelangelo, Sistine
Chapel, David)
(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).
Live Oak Friends
Meeting House
Turrell
2001
Vietnam Veterans
Memorial (Also known
as Vietnam War
Memorial)
Maya Lin
1982
Mona Lisa
da Vinci
1503-05
Self-Portrait
Van Gogh
1889
The Starry Night
Van Gogh
1889
Housepainter III
Hanson
1984/1988
Guernica
Picasso
1937
L.H.O.O.Q.
Duchamp
1919
First Communion
Picasso
1895-96
Woman with Packages
Bourgeois
1949
Spiral Jetty
Smithson
1970
Fading Away
Henry Peach Robinson
1858
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
Dynamism of a Dog on
a Leash
Giacomo Balla
1912
Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
1508-1512
Le Boulevard du
Temple
Daguerre
1839
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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.)
What do artists do?:
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Create places for some human purpose.
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Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects.
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To record and commemorate.
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To give tangible form to the unknown.
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To give tangible form to feelings and ideas.
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To refresh our vision and help us see the world in a
new way.
Sky Space
James Turrell
Pantheon
Oculus
Preliminary Work
Site-Specific Art
Public Art
Ephemeral
Creating and Creativity - Common Traits of Creative
People. Eight common traits of creative people include:
 Sensitivity (heightened awareness)
 Flexibility (ability to adapt)
 Originality (ability to think abstractly)
 Playfulness (ability to experiment freely)
 Productivity (works efficiently and often!)
 Fluency (readiness to allow free flow of ideas)
 Analytical Skill (ability to solve problems)
 Organizational Skill (able to organize
workspace, schedule, meetings, etc.)
Woman with Packages by Bourgeois, 1949
Seated Woman Holding a Fan by Picasso, 1908
Mark Rothko
Color Field Painting
Duane Hanson
Vija Celmins
Yves Klein
Klein’s Leap Into The Void
Staged Photography
IKB
Larry Bell
Pigment
Jenny Holzer
Holzer’s Truisms
Form
Subject Matter
Content
Christo & Jeanne Claude’s Valley Curtain
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Know the memorial
and its possible purposes as described in the
textbook or class. How old was Maya Lin when her
design was accepted?)
Aesthetics
Chauvet Cave, France
Representational
Representational and Naturalistic
Representational and Abstract
Nonrepresentational (also known as nonobjective)
Barbara Kruger (Know her work. What is her goal?)
Video Installation
Appropriation
Status Quo
Know the artwork L.H.O.O.Q. Who made it? What
was the artist thinking?
DADA (Look it up.)
Know the historical context of Fountain by Duchamp
Installation Art
16 Miles of String by Duchamp
Louvre Museum (Where is it?)
Pompidou Museum (Where is it?)
Historical Context
Physical Context
Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica: Know the
historical context of the painting, as outlined in the
textbook and in class.
Iconography
Icon
Religious Icons
Cultural Icons
Iconoclasm
Iconoclast
Buddhas of Bamiyan
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
Condensation Cube by Hans Haacke
Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field
Walter de Maria’s Earth Room
Andy Goldsworthy
Earthworks
Anna Mendieta
Walter De Maria’s: Lighting Field, Earth Room,
Vertical Kilometer
Commission
Patron
Installation Art
Land Art
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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
Color Wheel
Sir Isaac Newton
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
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 as appearing in textbook
Atmospheric Perspective
Emphasis
Focal Point
Vincent van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters
Subordinate Elements
Investigative Drawing
Renaissance Man
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Tromp l’oeil
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?
How is paint made? What are the three ingredients,
according to class?
Aqueous
Non-Aqueous
Support
Grounder/Primer
Fresco Painting
Encaustic Painting
Tempera Painting
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
Fading Away by Robinson
Cartes de Visites
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Isometric Perspective
Staged Photography
Pure/Straight Photography
Daguerreotype
The short film The Arrival of a Train at the Station, 1895, Paris, by the Lumiere Brothers. What is significant
about this film?
Jiri David’s photographs of world leaders – are they staged (manipulated) or pure/straight photography? Why?
Video Art
The video work of William Wegman
Video Installation
Tony Oursler
Renaissance
David by Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Autonomy
Jay Shafer’s Tiny Homes
Fallingwater
Organic Architecture
Prarie Style Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
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