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.
 As a reward for taking good notes: you may use your notes 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 261-262 (Christo & Jeanne Claude); 87 (Doug Wheeler, James Turrell);
Chapter 2; Pages 256-257 (Andy Goldsworthy); Page 72 (Spiral Jetty); Pages 235-236 (Barbara Kruger);
Page 523 (Jenny Holzer); Chapter 3; Page 503 (Rothko); Chapter 4; Chapter 7; Pages 490-491
(Futurism); Pages 119-132 (Symmetry, Emphasis, Subordination, Scale, Proportion); Pages 365-378
(Renaissance); Pages 304-305 (Frank Lloyd Wright)
(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
Orange and Yellow
Mark Rothko
1956
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
Reconstructed Icicles
Andy Goldsworthy
1995
Spiral Jetty
Smithson
1970
Dynamism of a Dog on
a Leash
Balla
1912
A Sunday on La Grande
Jatte
Seurat
1884-86
The Scream
Munch
1893
The Last Supper
da Vinci
1495-97
The Fighting Temeraire
JMW Turner
1834
Southern Cross
Calder
1963
Nocturne in Blue and
Gold
Whistler
1872-1877
Empire
Warhol
1964
The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh
1885
Vitruvian Man
da Vinci
1485-90
Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
1508-1512
I was a Rich Man's
Plaything
Eduardo Paolozzi
1947
Orange Marilyn
Andy Warhol
1962
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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?:

Create places for some human purpose.

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
Ganzfeld
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.)
Earthworks Art
What is the content of Andy Goldsworthy’s work?
Commission
Patron
Ana Mendieta
Seated Woman Holding a Fan by Picasso, 1908
Mark Rothko
Color Field Painting
Duane Hanson
Yves Klein
Klein’s Leap Into The Void
IKB
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
Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field
Walter de Maria’s Earth Room
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.)
Installation Art
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
After Image
Color Wheel
Who invented the modern color wheel (also
known as color circle), and in what year?
Dispersion
Prism
Blind Spot
Optic Disk
Sir Isaac Newton
Complementary Harmony (define – how are the
colors associated with one another on the color
wheel?)
Give an example of a complementary harmony
(list the two colors).
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Warm Colors
Aggressive Colors
Cool Colors
Passive Colors
Hue
Value
Saturation/Intensity
Tint
Shade
Ishihara Test
Monochromatic
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.
Primary Colors of Light – List the colors. Are they
additive or subtractive?
Primary Colors of Pigment – List the colors. Are they
additive or subtractive?
Atmospheric Perspective
Diminishing Perspective
Linear Perspective
Vanishing Point
Isometric Perspective
Pointillism
Optical Color Mixture
Mobile
Kinetic Art
The Way Things Go by Fischli and Weiss (1987)
Describe the historical context of Cai Guo Qiang’s
work. What is happening in the world that influences
his work?
Futurism
What inspired the Futurists?
Mandala
What are Mandala’s typically made of?
What do the monks do to the Mandala when they are
finished creating it?
Scale
Small-Scale
Large-Scale
Richard Serra – Describe his work using our
vocabulary. Is it large scale, or small scale work?
Also, what happened to the work Tilted Arc?
Distortion of Scale
Proportion
Claus Oldenburg – Describe his work using our
vocabulary.
Emphasis
Focal Point
Subordinate Elements
Focal Point
Subordinate Elements
Symmetry
Investigative Drawing
Pop Art
The Warhol Factory
Commercial Art
Fine Art
How did Andy Warhol begin his career in the
arts? Was he a commercial artist or a fine artist
after college?
Describe the Warhol film Empire – what is
especially unique about it? How is it different
from most movies?
Warhol Factory
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?
Jackson Pollock
Automatism
Action Painting
Damien Hirst Stalin Painting
How is paint made? What are the three main
parts as described in class?
Support
Grounder/Primer
Fresco Painting
Tromp-l’oeil
Encaustic Painting
Tempera Painting
Renaissance Man
David by Michelangelo
Why was producing the sculpture David
considered a subtractive process?
Renaissance
Green Architecture
Organic Architecture
Prairie Style Architecture
Autonomy
Jay Shafer’s Tiny Homes