Quiz 2

1. Camera obscura is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene is projected through a small hole and appears on the wall opposite the opening as an inverted image. 

  

2. Albrecht Durer looked through the grid on the pane of glass and reproduced the image on paper with a grid drawn on it. 

  

3. In this pen and ink drawing, Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci illustrates the ideal measurements of man as created by God. 

  

4. Three great masters– Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael– dominated the period known as the High Renaissance, which lasted roughly from the early 1490s until 1527. 

  

5. Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies. 

  

6. Fresco is a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries. 

  

7. Petrarch is often cited as the father of Humanism. 

  

8. Flemish painter Jan van Eyck is known as the Father of Oil Painting. 

  

9. Renaissance artists used a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point on a horizon line known as one point perspective. 

  

10. Modernism, in the fine arts, late 19th to mid-20th century was a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. 

  

11. Much of the art produced during the early Renaissance was commissioned by the wealthy merchant. 

  

12. The term Avant-garde is used to describe a group that is innovative, experimental, and inventive in its technique or ideology, particularly in the realms of culture, politics, and the arts. 

  

13. The Florentine fresco painter, Giotto, the most famous artist of the Early Renaissance, made enormous advances in the technique of representing the human body realistically. 

  

14. Fauvism emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. 

  

15. Picasso was an innovator whose greatest achievement was the co-invention (together with Georges Braque) of "Cubism" - a revolutionary way of representing reality in a painting. 

  

16. Cubism is fragmented subject matter that is deconstructed in such a way that it can be viewed from multiple angles simultaneously. 

  

17. Abstract painting is made up of bright colors, shape, line, and form with no particular subject from the real world. 

  

18. Greenberg was an art critic who said modernism is caring about texture, color, and the application of paint on the canvas instead of caring about the objects they are painting if they are painting objects anymore. 

  

19. In the 1800s, the first photographers were actually scientists and inventors who were looking for a way to make permanent copies of their work. 

  

20. So in the 1800s, we have a radical new development – Nicephore Niepce invents photography. 

  

21. Etienne Jules Marey was a French photographer and scientist who was studying movement. He used one camera and juxtaposed many photos on one frame to show movement. 

  

22. Muybridge was a pioneer of capturing time on film. He experimented in trying to capture time using several cameras. Each camera represented a frame. 

  

23. Semiotics is basically the study of meaning. It looks at how we attach meaning to the real world, images, words, and sounds. 

  

24. Around the 1430s, Gutenberg originated a method of printing from movable type.