Deck 5: Time and Motion

Question 1

Nancy Holt created this work,which intertwines the passage of time with the movement of the sun.

A) Cataract 3
B) Apollo and Daphne
C) Solar Rotary
D) Finding Nemo
E) Sublimate (Cloud Cover)

Answer 1

C

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

This inventor co-created the film Fred Ott's Sneeze,which was one of the first American movies.

A) William Faulkner
B) Thomas Edison
C) Albert Einstein
D) Robert Fulton
E) Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Duration,tempo,intensity,scope,setting,and chronology are:

A) basic attributes of time
B) attributes of film
C) terms that describe time
D) central tenets of time-based art
E) all of the other answers

Question 5

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 6

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

Question 7

In his film Run Lola Run,Tom Tykwer extends the ________ of the storyline beyond the everyday passage of time by "rebooting" Lola's journey multiple times.

A) scope
B) color
C) angle
D) background
E) tempo

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

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 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

Disney's Finding Nemo is an example of a series of computer-generated images played in rapid succession.This medium is called ________.

A) kinetic sculpture
B) film noir
C) zoetrope
D) animation
E) painting

Question 12

When painters in the workshop of the fifteenth-century artist known as the Master of Osservanza illustrated The Meeting of St.Anthony and St.Paul,they solved the problem of how to ________ in a single painting by merging a series of episodes into one picture.

A) tell a story
B) mix colors
C) save space
D) portray two saints
E) create a setting

Question 13

Traditional visual arts,such as painting,are inherently static,but artists have always found inventive ways of conveying the elements of ________ and ________.

A) time . . . motion
B) rhythm . . . music
C) fast . . . slow
D) red . . . yellow
E) speed . . . Excitement
F) height . . . Width

Question 14

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 15

If the action portrayed in the early film Fred Ott's Sneeze was not a sneeze,but a man simply wiping his nose,this would have an effect on the level of intensity in the movie.The movie would be ________.

A) less intense
B) much more intense
C) the same level
D) a bit more intense
E) all of the other answers

Question 16

This spinning toy gives a sense of motion to a viewer when he or she looks through small slits in its cylindrical drum at a strip of changing pictures.

A) magic lantern
B) zoetrope
C) zoopraxiscope
D) kinetoscope
E) cinematograph

Question 17

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 18

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
D) Alexander Calder
E) Dorothea Lange

Question 19

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 20

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 21

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 22

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

Question 23

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 24

Discuss how performance art differs from other types of performances,such as music,athletics,or theater.Why is performance art different? When confronted by a performance work,how can you tell the difference between it and other disciplines?

Question 25

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

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

Question 26

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?

Question 27

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
D) volume
E) texture

Question 28

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

Question 29

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 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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
D) outside world
E) sun

Question 33

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

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

Question 34

In her work Astroculture (Shelf Life)bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with growing plants in artificial light for use in ________.

A) outer space
B) painting
C) art museums
D) farming
E) underwater cities