Exam 4: Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media

Examples of early Christian art, such as the second-century ce painted ceilings of Rome's underground burial catacombs, reveal that their painters were more concerned with ____________ than ____________.

Tanya Brodsky is a contemporary sculptor who uses objects such as rails, prefabricated metal fixtures, and chain link fences, often joining or reconstructing them in such a way that these everyday objects designed with ease of use and convenience in mind become unusable, abstracted, and often unrecognizable. Whose practice is Brodsky's most similar to?

How are virtual images often misinterpreted, and what is their true definition?

What constitutes ____________ in a given political time and place can be subject to intense contestation, and engaging in one form over another can be a political choice that may incur risk and impact one's career.

____________ rendered landscapes through the empirical experience of being in nature, observing and subjectively recording the light and color changes they experienced during the painting session.

Describe the differences between Constructivism and Socialist Realism and their use at the national level.

The Blair Witch Project (1999) is a movie in which three student filmmakers venture into the woods with a hand-held camera to film a documentary about the notorious Blair Witch. As they move farther into the woods, supernatural activity around them escalates, and the students eventually meet violent ends, their footage ostensibly found and edited by the film's directors. To convince the audience that the movie was indeed created by the students and not professional filmmakers, the film was shot by hand, resulting in shaky images, on cameras no longer standard in the film industry that students would likely have access to. The use of antiquated film technology by directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez to give the audience a sense of authenticity is similar to aesthetic choices made by the ____________.

How does the computer screen offer a kind of seeing similar to Cubism?

In photographer Francesca Woodman's self-portraits, she often appeared blurred through a combination of long exposures and her own movement. Rather than capturing herself exactly as she appeared in front of the camera, which could have easily been achieved with a faster shutter speed, her abstracted body was placed in front of a steady background in order to visualize her emotional truth. Woodman's use of blur is similar to the use of double exposure by ____________ in ____________.

____________ is a set of techniques for depicting spatial depth within two-dimensional pictorial space.

Who regarded techniques for rendering depth as a kind of deception?

Who stated that "there are thousands of ways for a painter to be a realist"?

How did John Berger explain the reification of the Cartesian worldview by drawings and paintings that use perspective?

Carol is walking down a busy street, mostly paying attention to her phone. She suddenly notices that she has walked onto an abstract chalk painting. Even though Carol is firmly footed on the concrete, from a few feet away, it looks like she is walking on air over a canyon-like hole in the ground. What technique has the chalk artist used to create this effect?

Name and describe the three computer graphics realisms classified by color scientist James Ferwerda.

What is the difference between classic linear and isometric perspectives?

The perspectival grid works much better to depict ____________ than ____________.

Although the influence of ____________ had a long history, in the nineteenth century it was transformed from a metaphor of truth to a metaphor of that which conceals or inverts truth.

____________ produced works in which the idea is more important than the visual product.

____________ is a physical, three-dimensional space that can be mathematically measured.