Mrs. Siebold

 alexander-calder/ alexander-calder/  This ten-inch-sculpture was created primarily to serve which of the following roles in Visual Fine Arts for everyday life?  A Persuading  B Challenging  C Informing  D Entertaining

 A Many customs and traditions of early Native American cultures  B Preservation techniques used on early Native American works of art  C Influence of early Native American culture on modern U.S. traditions  D Distinction between early Native American art and contemporary art

 A Sculpting a figure in a stance that emulates movement, using a dowel rod to support the figure's balance.  B Producing a series of drawings whose images, when placed beneath one another and manipulated, appear to move.  C Creating a mobile whose suspended forms are balanced in such a way to enact their movement  D Using an ink and brush technique to design images of animals whose movement are depicted by directional lines

 Understanding a given culture's artistic interpretation of its natural and social environments would be most useful for which of the following disciplines?  A Psychology  B History  C Biology  D Anthropology

 Which of the following statements is most representative of a deconstructionist approach to art criticism?  A The only person who knows the true meaning of a work is the artist himself or herself; therefore, a work's only authentic critic is its creator  B Each individual viewer has to define the work  C An artwork represents a solution to multiple technical and aesthetic problems; the critic's job is to pass judgment on that solution  D The untrained viewer cannot understand art; the role of the critic is to teach the viewer how to see

 Which of the following measures would best protect a charcoal drawing from being smudged?  A Covering it with wax paper  B Shaking off any excess charcoal  C Coating it with a fixative  D Placing it in sunlight for two days

 A. Release the ware from the wheel  B. Rinse clay off hands when cleaning up  C. Join unfired pieces of clay  D. Prevent the ware from sticking to the kiln during firing

 A Recording fine details  B Capturing the subject's essence  C Describing a definitive outline  D Creating a sense of urgency 

 Which of the following safety measures should be the first consideration when making a block print?  A Wearing gloves  B Using water-based ink  C Cutting away from the body  D Wearing a respirator

 The term plain air refers to which of the following painting techniques?  A. Painting from life outdoors to capture natural light on a subject  B. Establishing more than one light source in a composition  C. Applying multilayered glazes to a work to establish tonal values  D. Using changes of hue, rather than changes in value, to define light and shadow

 In printmaking, an image that is made by gluing materials of various textures to a surface, inking the surface, then pressing the inked surface onto paper is referred to as a:  A Serigraph  B Collagraph  C Planograph  D Lithograph