1/6/2009
1. What is another name for a play or other dramatic literature or performance?
A. Theater
2. What is the Principle of Design that refers to the way the elements of art are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work or a pleasing or harmonious arrangement or proportion of parts or areas in a design or composition?
A. Balance.
3. What is another name for sounds that produce effect: sounds, usually produced by instruments or voices, that are arranged or played in order to create an effect?
A. Music
mu•sic [ myzik ]
noun
Definition:
1. sounds that produce effect: sounds, usually produced by instruments or voices, that are arranged or played in order to create an effect
2. art of arranging sounds: the art of arranging or making sounds, usually those of musical instruments or voices, so as to create an effect
4. What is the Principle of Design that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork; something singled out, stressed, or drawn attention to by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint for aesthetic impact?
A. Emphasis.
5. When someone moves their feet and body rhythmically, usually in time to music, what is that called?
A. Dance or dancing
dance [ danss ]
verb (past and past participle danced, present participle danc•ing, 3rd person present singular danc•es)
Definition:
1. intransitive verb move rhythmically to music: to move the feet and body rhythmically, usually in time to music
2. transitive verb perform particular steps to music: to perform or participate in a particular series of rhythmic steps and movements, usually to music
to dance a lively polka
6. What is the Principle of Design that creates a large difference between two things; for example, hot and cold, green and red, light and shadow?
A. Contrast.
7. Which form of dance is characterized by conventional steps, poses, and graceful movements including leaps and spins?
A. Ballet
8. In a piece of artwork, what is the part called where interest or attention centers?
A. Focal Point.
9. When a story is performed by dancers with a choreographed presentation of a story or theme performed to music by dancers, what is that called?
A. Ballet
10. Which Principle of Design involves the act or process of moving, especially change of place or position?
A. Movement.
11. When performers (actors) are performing with music and singing rather than reciting their lines, and when it is a drama in which the text is set to music and staged, what is that performing art called?
A. Opera
12. What is the name for a visual tempo or beat, or the Principle of Design that refers to a regular repetition of elements of art to produce the look and feel of movement?
A. Rhythm.
13. What is a comic opera with dancing called?
A. Operetta
Operetta - comic opera with dancing: a theatrical production, usually with a comic theme, similar to opera but with much spoken dialogue and usually some dancing. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote many operettas.
14. What is it called when elements of art are used over and over again several times in the same picture?
A. Repetition.
15. What is the performing art form called that is a musical using popular culture elements?
A. Rock Opera
Rock Opera, musical using popular culture elements. An example of rock opera is Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and British lyricist Timothy Rice. These works can be produced for the stage or as motion pictures, or both, as with a number of Lloyd Webber’s most successful shows.16. What is the repetition of anything – shapes, lines, or colors—also called a motif, in a design referred to?
A. Pattern.
17. When there is entertainment or spectacle featuring animal acts and human feats of daring, what is this called?
A. Circus arts.
Entertainment or spectacle featuring animal acts and human feats of daring. The modern circus was founded in England in 1768 by the bareback rider Philip Astley (1742–1814), who built stands around his performance ring and opened Astley's Amphitheatre. One of his riders later established the Royal Circus (1782), the first modern use of the term. The first U.S. circus opened in Philadelphia in 1793. Horse acts were later joined by wild-animal acts. After the invention of the flying trapeze by Jules Léotard (1859), aerial acts were featured. P.T. Barnum expanded the traditional circus by adding two rings to create the three-ring circus (1881) and augmented it with sideshow performers. Circuses traveled throughout the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, performing in a tent (the Big Top) into the 1950s. Today circuses usually perform in permanent buildings, though small troupes still travel with tents in some regions. By the late 20th century, notable circuses also had developed in Africa, India, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico. Perhaps the most innovative trend in circuses at the turn of the 21st century was the establishment of companies such as the Cirque du Soleil; these companies employed no animals, instead emphasizing acts of human skill and daring and integrating elements of contemporary music and dance into the overall performance.
18. A consistent or recurrent conceptual element, usually a figure or design, or an architectural or decorative pattern that is repeated is called what?
A. Motif.
19. What form of performance art is a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing?
A. Musical Theater
20. What Principle of Design refers to the comparative, proper, or harmonious relationship of one part to another whole with respect to size, quality, or degree; a ratio?
A. Proportion.
21. When a performer speaks directly to the audience without the theatrical “fourth wall”, reciting a fast-paced succession of “bits”, that form of performing arts is called what?
A. Stand-up Comedy
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian (comedienne if female) or more informally stand up. It is usually performed by a single comedian, with the aid of a hand-held microphone (sometimes, however, the comic will opt to keep the microphone in the stand so he or she may use both hands for visual effect, as is the case of Ron White). The comedian usually recites a fast-paced succession of humorous stories, short jokes (called "bits"), and one-liners, which comprise what is typically called a monologue, routine or act. Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to enhance their acts. Stand-up comedy is often performed in comedy clubs, bars, colleges and theaters. However, there is no real restriction on where the craft can be performed. Many smaller venues hold "open mic" events, where amateur comedians perform comedy before a live audience, offering a way for such performers to hone their craft and possibly break into the business. In North America, many comedy clubs feature the now-iconic brick wall as the backdrop for stand-up performances.
Many stand-up routines are similar to one-man shows, with the main difference being the expectations of the audience, who, in some cases, expect a relatively steady stream of "laughs". This in turn affects the aims of the performer, who is under great pressure to deliver those laughs. If the performer cannot coax laughs out of the crowd, sometimes the crowd will poke fun at the comedian, a practice known as heckling.
22. In the Principles of Design, what is a ratio (proportion) used in determining the dimensional relationship between a representation to that which it represents (its actual size), as in maps, architectural plans, and models…often expressed numerically as two quantities separated by a colon(:). For example, a town represented by a map…the map would not be the same size as a town, but would be shown in inches, feet, meters, etc. to represent the town. What is this principle of design called?
A. Scale
23. True or False. A pantomime is someone who uses great fictional tales to portray a smaller fictional story to an audience.
A. False.
pan•to•mime [ pántə mm ] (plural pan•to•mimes)
noun
Definition:
1. mime artist: somebody who acts without speaking, using gesture and expression
2. humorous British theatrical entertainment: a style of British theater, or a play in this style, traditionally performed at Christmas, in which a folktale or children's story is told with jokes, songs, and dancing
3. Roman theatrical performance: in ancient Rome, a theatrical performance by one masked actor who played all the characters, using only dance, gesture, and expression, and no words, while a chorus narrated the story
24. What is the quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of the elements and principles of design called?
A. Unity.
25. What form of the performing arts uses the exercise of sleight of hand or conjuring for entertainment?
A. Magic
26. Clustering, proximity, dominant color, and contour are all part of what (in the Principles of Design)?
A. Unity.
27. What form of performing art uses only gesture and action: a style of performance in which people act out situations or portray characters using only gesture and action?
A. Mime (see # 23)
28. Size and scale are all part of what (in the Principles of Design)?
A. Proportion.
29. When someone uses great skill and agility with their body during a performance, they are using what?
A. acrobatics (they would be called an acrobat)
30. Which is the Principle of Design that refers to a way of combining elements of art in involved ways to achieve intricate and complex relationships…increasing the visual interest of the artwork?
A. Variety.
31. If someone is walking steadily and rhythmically and in step with others, such as in a parade, what are they doing (what form of the performing arts are they using)?
A. Marching Arts
32. When something is plain and doesn’t have any variety, what is that called?
A. Monotony.
33. When someone is able to keep several objects in the air, in motion, at the same time by throwing them and catching them in quick succession, what are they doing?
A. juggling
34. When something has many different things included in it…a variety of interesting things, what is that called?
A. Diversity.
35. What is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry?
A. Film
Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry. Because photographic film historically has been the primary medium for displaying moving images, academics often refer to this field as the study of film.
Motion pictures are an art form, a popular form of entertainment, and a business. Film is produced by recording "real" people and objects (including played-out fantasy and fakes) with cameras, and/or by animation.
The word film also often refers to photographic film used to make still photographs, or to the flexible strip of plastic covered in a light-sensitive silver halide solution, also called filmstock, on which motion pictures have historically been made.
The images that make up a motion picture are all individual photographs. But when they appear rapidly in succession, the human eye does not detect that they are separate images. This results from persistence of vision, a phenomenon whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Although we do not experience the images as individual photographs, we do notice the differences between them. The brain then perceives these differences as motion.
36. Monotony and Diversity are both part of what (in the Principles of Design)?
A. Variety.
37. What is another name for a musical variety show consisting of skits, dance routines, and songs that often satirize current events and personalities?
A. Revue
38. Which Principle of Design refers to a union or blend of aesthetically compatible components?
A. Harmony.
39. Another name of a show with various acts: a theatrical show made up of a number of short performances of different kinds, such as singing, comic sketches, dancing, and magic acts is ____________?
A. Variety Show
40. What is the branch of philosophy called that deals with the nature and value of art objects and experiences?
A. Aesthetics.
41. There is another form of the performing arts that is similar to the Variety Show that is defined as theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians. What is it called?
A. Vaudeville
1. theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians. Compare VARIETY (def. 9).
2. a theatrical piece of light or amusing character, interspersed with songs and dances.
3. a satirical cabaret song.
42. When there is a large difference between two things; for example, black and white, what is that called?
A. Contrast.
43. Exciting and gripping events and actions in a story on the radio are called what?
A. Radio Drama
44. Color, Intensity, Textural, Pattern and Size can all be part of what (in the Principles of Design)?
A. Contrast.
45. If you saw a group of people, dressed in appropriate costume, posing silent and motionless as a representation of a scene (people imitating picture), what is that called?
A. Tableau Vivant
46. Which painting movement was the one in which artists typically applied paint rapidy, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions?
A. Abstract Expressionism.
47. What is the performing arts form that is the art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show?
A. Puppetry
Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. Varieties include glove (or hand) puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, and marionettes (or string puppets). Puppetry had its beginnings in tribal society and has been part of every civilization. By the 18th century it was so popular in Europe that permanent theatres were built for the usually itinerant puppeteers. Companies presented favourite stories of the French Guignol, the Italian Arlecchino, the German Kasperle, and the English Punch and Judy. By the mid 20th century puppetry had reached television with Jim Henson's Muppets.
48. Who painted “Mural on Indian Red Ground” in 1950?
A. Jackson Pollock
49. Which art movement was of the Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth century in which some features appear in Dutch art?
A. Baroque.
50. During which art movement was Rembrandt’s work?
A. Baroque.
51. What was Rembrandt considered the master of?
A. Dutch art.
52. Who painted “The Lacemaker” and “The Letter”?
A. Jan Vermeer.
Note: the stories we read will be posted as separate posts.
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