Exam 6: Motion and Time

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ________.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.