Deck 6: Motion and Time

Question 1

This kind of motion is occurring when we see movement in real life.

A) implied motion
B) actual motion
C) stroboscopic motion
D) illusion of motion
E) artificial motion

Answer 1

B

Question 2

This art movement of the 1960s relies on perceptual anomalies of the human eye to create dynamic effects.

A) Bioart
B) Pop art
C) Futurism
D) Film noir
E) Op art

Answer 2

E

Question 3

When an artist employs visual clues to suggest movement in a work of art that is static and motionless, this is known as ________.

A) stroboscopic motion
B) actual motion
C) rapid motion
D) implied motion
E) slow motion

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Alexander Calder invented the ________, a type of suspended, balanced sculpture that uses air currents to power its movement.

A) zoetrope
B) stabile
C) mime
D) relief
E) mobile

Question 5

This American novelist noted that the "aim of every artist is to arrest motion."

A) Ernest Hemingway
B) J. D. Salinger
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Mark Twain
E) William Faulkner

Question 6

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla implied motion by repetition and inference in his work ________ of a Dog on a Leash.

A) Vision
B) Picture
C) Dynamism
D) Movement
E) Texture

Question 7

If a figure in an artwork has drapery billowing out behind it, and appears to have multiple feet in different positions, the viewer might assume that this figure is ________.

A) running forwards
B) skipping backwards
C) standing still
D) slowly stepping to the side
E) none of the other answers

Question 8

Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is based on a mythological story in which a god pursues a nymph. The artist used diagonal lines and flowing drapery to convey the ________ of the chase.

A) stillness
B) color
C) movement
D) proportion
E) composition

Question 9

When an artist creates a work that deceives our eyes into believing there is motion as time passes, this is called ________.

A) actual motion
B) implied motion
C) stroboscopic motion
D) the illusion of motion
E) performance art

Question 10

The kind of motion that is created by showing a series of static images in quick succession is called ________.

A) stroboscopic motion
B) implied motion
C) illusion of motion
D) actual motion
E) artificial motion

Question 11

This medium involves the human body and usually includes the artist.

A) performance art
B) bioart
C) Futurism
D) narrative painting
E) collage

Question 12

This artist, who created the work Cataract 3, used the natural movement of the human eye to create illusions of motion.

A) Jenny Holzer
B) Bridget Riley
C) Nancy Holt Stroboscopic Motion
D) Alexander Calder
E) Dorothea Lange

Question 13

Double Indemnity, a 1944 movie by Billy Wilder, is an example of this genre of mid-twentieth-century cinema.

A) zoetrope
B) cinema rouge
C) animation
D) film noir
E) sunshine movies

Question 14

This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.

A) ceramics
B) performance art
C) Futurism
D) narrative painting
E) collage

Question 15

This type of sculpture can move and change its visual form.

A) relief
B) in the round
C) kinetic
D) geometric
E) contemporary

Question 16

Jenny Holzer created an illusion of motion using a spiraling electronic message board in this New York museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
B) Metropolitan Museum of Art
C) Museum of Modern Art
D) Whitney Museum of American Art
E) Frick Collection

Question 17

In his film Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder created dramatic effect by using this filmmaking strategy.

A) intense lighting
B) colorful costumes
C) unusual camera angles
D) surreal backgrounds
E) ambiguous fog effects

Question 18

If Alexander Calder's Untitled mobile was powered by a small motor, rather than air currents, it would not be an example of actual motion.

Question 19

Performance artists the Blue Man Group rely on bodily movements to communicate ideas without speech.

Question 20

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla illustrated the rapid movement of a dog running on a leash by painting a series of ________ in order to give the impression that we are seeing motion as it happens.

A) colorful dots
B) repeating marks
C) geometric shapes
D) many dogs
E) dark shadows

Question 21

In their piece Workhouse Zoo, bioartists Adam Zaretsky and Julia Reodica spent a week living with an assortment of different organisms in a small "clean" room. The passage of time was marked by the ________ and deterioration of these organic materials.

A) growth
B) color
C) movement
D) form
E) weight

Question 22

Ron Lambert's sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover) replicates the natural process of the water cycle to illustrate the ________.

A) weather
B) passage of time
C) color of rain
35) The sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover) by 
Ron Lambert measures time based on the process of evaporation and condensation. Can you name three other natural processes that give us a sense of time? [DR L3]
D) outside world
E) sun

Question 23

The elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography.

Question 24

The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.

A) motion
B) color
C) light Natural Processes and the Passage of Time
D) volume
E) texture

Question 25

Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art. ________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.

A) Impressionists
B) Fauvists
C) Bioartists
D) Surrealists
E) Pointillists