Who artist self-identifies as a "near-documentary" photographer?

QUESTION 1

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Artist Man Ray is famous for work that combines light sensitive paper and seemingly random objects. What is this type of work is called

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Fauvism

Rayograph

Cubism

Solar Sketching

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QUESTION 2

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What artist wove and collaged his own photographs together in the darkroom before the advent of computer editing techniques such as Photoshop?

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Jerry Uelsmann

Jeff Wall


Susan Derges

Zoe Leonard

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QUESTION 3

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Stone is

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Strong and light, allowing beams to be very long

Brittle, so beams must be short and posts must be thick

A revolutionary new material that is translucent and strong.

Light and beams can be relatively long

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QUESTION 4

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The word “photography” literally means

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"image capture."

"to make."


"light-writing."

"to picture."

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QUESTION 5

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In the video Waste Land, pickers from the dump participated in Muniz’s photography project. This experience changed worker’s perceptions and made it difficult for some to return to the landfill. Do you think this was socially responsible of Muniz? Was it better for the pickers to see a better world even if they were not able to achieving it? Give reasons behind your opinion.

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QUESTION 6

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What was common among many early films?

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They always used live orchestras.

They had very little action or imagination.

They had a theatrical style and were filmed from a fixed camera location.

They had highly contrasting light that made scenes appear to be at night.

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QUESTION 7

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The camera obscura cannot

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be used with a lens.


permanently fix an image onto a surface.

project images onto surfaces.


be used for tracing.


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QUESTION 8

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Michelangelo Buonarroti created a series of works that showed people emerging, but not fully released from their original marble stone. This series of four sculptures is referred to as what?

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Awakenings

Cut Piece

Slaves

None of the above

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QUESTION 9

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Orlan’s Le Baiser de l'artiste (The Artist's Kiss) was meant to symbolize what?

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Eve’s apple from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

How public art can be interactive

The cultural compartmentalization of woman as virginal idea or as marketable commodity

This work was not meant to be symbolic.

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QUESTION 10

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This is a government program where one-half of one percent of the cost of public buildings must be spent on art. More than half of the states in the US participate in this program.

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Cultural Heritage Program

Public Art Commission

Visual Destinies

Percent for Art

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QUESTION 11

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What material is used to reinforce concrete?

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Carbon fiber

Steel

Wood

Silver

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QUESTION 12

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Which artist self-identifies as a “near-documentary” photographer? His work illustrates the fact that photographs can be seamlessly manipulated to communicate false events.

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Jerry Uelsmann

Zoe Leonard

Susan Derges

Jeff Wall


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QUESTION 13

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When creators Anthill Art poured molten aluminum into an empty fire ant colony, the sculptural process was called what?

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Hand building

Modeling

Casting

Throwing

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QUESTION 14

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What type of art is on money?

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engraving

woodcut

drypoint

Linocut

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QUESTION 15

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Felix Gonzales-Torres’ Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is meant to symbolize what?

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How modern art can be fun and interactive

A quirky view of his best friend Ross as candy

The body of his lover deteriorating as candy is removed. However, it is also replenished by the museum every day and can therefore be metaphorically everlasting.

It is not symbolic of anything

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QUESTION 16

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What did John Maloof find that proved Vivian Maier did in fact want to show her work?

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A letter from Maier in her cousin’s home in France.

An old journal entry hidden among her newspapers.

A rejection letter from a Chicago gallery Maier applied to show with.

Maier’s closest friend admitted that they had a conversation about her desires to show her work.

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QUESTION 17

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An example of a low-relief sculpture is

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a coin

a mobile.

a column.

a statue.

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QUESTION 18

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Who is considered the founder of conceptual art?

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Sol Lewitt

Banksy

Chris Burden

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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QUESTION 19

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Which of the following is a site-specific installation?

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Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor

Shoot by Chris Burden

Maibaum by Kristi Malakoff

One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth

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QUESTION 20

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Talk about some of the critiques of Gehry’s architecture (list more than one criticism). Do you agree or disagree with the critics and why?

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QUESTION 21

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The landfill featured in Waste Land was located where?

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Guatemala

Colombia

Brazil

Argentina

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QUESTION 22

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The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin is a high-relief sculpture.

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 True

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 False

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QUESTION 23

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What early cinematographer began his career as a magician and directed over 500 films?

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Georges Melies

Sergei Einstein

Pipolotti Rist

Hans Richter

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QUESTION 24

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What kind of forces must architecture always consider?

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Physical forces including compression (pushing), tension (stretching), bending (curving)

Bureaucratic, political, & popular forces

Spiritual forces

There are no forces that affect architecture

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QUESTION 25

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Which of the following is an example of a Dadaist film?

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Le Voyage Dans la Lun by Geroge Melies

Ghosts Before Breakfast by Hans Richter

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Einstein

White Space by Jym Davis

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QUESTION 26

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Conceptual Art can be defined as

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Art that is characteristically not portable. It is usually constructed on site and remains fixed.

Art that is in the public realm

Art that is in a specific locale, it is integrated with its surroundings.

“Idea art” or art about ideas.

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QUESTION 27

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What was Thierry’s first connection to street art?

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He met Shepard Fairy while Fairy was making large photocopies

His cousin is the street artist Space Invader

He met the street artist JR in France, where both of them are from.

Thierry first started creating street art after he moved to California with his family.

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QUESTION 28

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What type of cinematography extends into physical space and appears to physically alter 2-dimensional objects like screens or 3-dimensional objects like ceramics?

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Dadist Film

Surrealism

Impasto Cinematography

Projection Mapping

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QUESTION 29

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In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?

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Lithography

Linocut

Screenprinting

Drypoint

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QUESTION 30

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Which of the following artists creates art by exclusively using elements from the earth?

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Andy Goldsworthy

Leonardo da Vinci

Joseph Beuys

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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QUESTION 31

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What ancient building is believed to have been designed using the golden ratio?

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The Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe

The Coliseum in Rome

The Parthenon in Greece

Pont du Gard in France

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QUESTION 32

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What was the benefit of flying buttresses?

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They accepted the load of the walls and ceilings of stone buildings. This allowed large parts of the walls to be opened for stained-glass windows and arcades.

It was special wiring used to hold long skirts away from women’s legs so they could stay cool in hot climates and keep from tripping on the skirt during activities.

This technology allowed simple machinery to become airborne.

It was purely decorative; the gothic style enjoyed extravagance and this technology made a statement.

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QUESTION 33

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Why was color photography not widely used until the middle of the 20th century?

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It did not exist

The chemical formula did not allow color to last

Color photography was widely used before the 20th century

None of the Above

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QUESTION 34

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What is the oldest form of relief printing?

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Linocut

Etching

Woodcut

Stencil

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QUESTION 35

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Discuss the reason major museums and galleries refuse to collect Maier’s work.

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QUESTION 36

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Which artist created some of the most shocking works in the history of twentieth century American art? His works were largely in response to the Vietnam war.

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Sol Lewitt

Banksy

Chris Burden

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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QUESTION 37

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Is Banksy playing a joke on us (the viewer) with the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop? Is he truly remorseful about the fact that he helped create Mr. Brainwash or is this whole film actually more commentary on popular culture and consumerism? Defend your opinion with examples from the movie.

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QUESTION 38

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Ken Price’s Vink is what type of sculpture?

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Assembled sculpture

Low-relief

High-relief

In the Round

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QUESTION 39

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In ___________, you are moving metal on the plate whereas on __________, you are lightly scraping away a ground on top of a metal plate. Both of these processes are printed the same way.

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Engraving; Drypoint

Etching; Lithography

Drypoint; Etching

Monoprint, Etching

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QUESTION 40

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What was the advantage of Balloon Framing?

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It took less time and used less wood than previous methods.

It allowed domes to be constructed of stone.

Filling the walls with sealed air saved cost and material on insulation.

None of the above.

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QUESTION 41

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Which of the following is a critique of Frank Gehry’s architecture? Choose all that apply.

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Gehry is too obsessed with the fish form

Gehry uses a computer to refine all of his ideas

His architecture in museums is so extravagant that it overshadows the art.

Gehry is duplicating the same style over and over again.

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QUESTION 42

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Which of the following is classified as intaglio printmaking artworks?

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Linocut

Lithography

Screenprinting

Drypoint

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QUESTION 43

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One of the earliest types of photograph was the

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Ilfochrome print.

gelatin silver print.

daguerreotype.

albumen print.

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QUESTION 44

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What projector-like tool did many renaissance artists use as an aid in perfecting their paintings and drawings?

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Kodak Brownie

Camera obscura

Alla Prima

Graphite Transfer Paper

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QUESTION 45

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Which of the following is an example of conceptual art?

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Spring Showers by Alfred Stieglitz

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao

Gibbous Moon Cloud by Susan Derges

Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs

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QUESTION 46

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Which of the following is classified as relief printmaking artworks?

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Linocut

Screenprinting

Drypoint

Lithography

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QUESTION 47

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What type of low budget film was inspired by American detective fiction?

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Murder Mystery

Dadist Film

Projection Mapping

Film Noir

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QUESTION 48

What are the three key issues of architecture?

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Form, function, structure

Foundation, walls, utilities

Wind, rain, snow

None of the above

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QUESTION 49

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What is an additive process of building up material such as clay, wax, or plaster?

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Casting

Throwing

Hand building

Modeling

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QUESTION 50

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Why was Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial initially rejected by the public?

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It was deemed structurally unsound

Racism and her non-traditional approach to the memorial

She had family ties to one of the jurrors and was accused of nepotism

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial proposal was never rejected by the public

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