Benchmark
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List the 3 main branches of Aesthetics &
describe:
Realism
Imitationalism
Heroism
Creationalism
Emotionalism
Expressionism
Formalism
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Please list and describe the 4 steps of criticism:
Research
Hypothesis
Describe
Calculate
Analyze
Opinion
Interpretation
Function
Judgement
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List as many elements of art as you can:
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List the 6 line types and describe how they
affect the viewer
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List the 2 shape/form types and define
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List the 2 types and define
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True or False: the 4 techniques used most often
to create value are Blended, stippling, hatching
and cross hatching
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List the three primary colors:
List the three secondary colors and the 2
primary colors used to create them
What are intermediate or tertiary colors and
where are they located on the color wheel?
True or False: Colors have temperature
True or False: Colors can have symbolic
meaning
True or False: Colors can affect your psyche
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True or false:
Analagous colors are one hue and it’s
corresponding tints and shades
True or False: monochromatic colors are one hue
and it’s corresponding tints and shades
Complementary colors are opposite on color wheel
Complementary colors are made from a pairing of
a secondary color and the only primary color not
used to make that secondary color
Split complementary colors are opposite each other
on color wheel
Neutral colors are bright and hot in temperature
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List all the principles of design
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Rhythm includes what 5 types and describe:
Startled
Regular
Boring
Exciting
Random
Stippled
Alternating
Solid
Flowing
Stymied
Progressive
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True or False: Symmetrical balance is the same
subjects on both sides
True or False: Radial balance “radiates out”
from a central point
True or False: Asymmetrical balance means it
is balanced on top
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List at least 4 techniques for creating an area of
visual dominance:
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List 4 techniques for unifying an artwork
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True or False: Regular proportion is the
normal expected measurement ratios between
parts
True or False: Distorted proportion means it is
larger than it should be
True or False: Exaggerated proportion is one
measurement ratio is either smaller or larger
than expected
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Please describe a camera obscura:
True or False: Camera obscura phenomena
observed as early 10th century
Early Renaissance artists used the contraption
for what purposes?
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What 3 features were added to camera obscura
which led to development of camera?
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In 1725, Johann Heinrich Schulze made what
important discovery that led to 75 years of
research into the possibilities of this material
being used as a way to “capture” nature
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True or False: Photographers/inventors such
as Thomas Wedgewood and Humphrey Davy
were soon able to capture imagery using silver
salts, but the imagery would not last because
there was no way to “fix” image so that it did
not continue to darken when exposed to light.
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce: View from the
Window at Le Gras (1826) is credited as what?
The process called for creating an image on
pewter, acid etching the image into the metal
and then doing what to obtain a positive image
that would last?
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What inventor is credited with creating one of
a kind permanent images right onto the
exposed metal plates?
-Joseph Nicephore Niepce
-Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
-Ansel Adams
-Humphrey Davy
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William Henry Fox Talbot took us one step
closer to creating permanent images by doing
away with the metal and publishing his
invention, the ……which utilized paper
negatives contact printed with paper.
Daguerreotype
Talbotype
Calotype
Foxtrot
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True or False: Talbot’s inventive process
lacked the detail of daguerreotypes
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Which inventor created a true fixer for
photographic imagery and actually coined the
terms photography, positive, and negative?
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
William Henry Fox Talbot
John Hershel
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
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The paper negatives lacked the detail of
daguerreotypes, so inventors continued their
search and the Collodion Wet Process was
born. The process used silver halide spread
across glass plates that used what to distribute
the silver halide? Hint: natural food
What were the drawbacks of the process?
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Richard Maddox discovered this substance,
1871,
that would revolutionize the industry…it
allowed for development at a later time:
Gelatin
Plastic
Neoprene
spandex
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This inventor created a flexible base that
created modern film and a company that exists
to this day! Their slogan was “You Push the
Button, We do the Rest” because they had the
public shoot the imagery and then send the
cameras back for development.
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
George Eastman
Richard Maddox