ART 101- MODULE 2 #2

In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by ______. A. calligraphers B. iconoclasts C. iconographers D. graffiti artists

B

Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe? A. The Book of Genesis forbids images. B. The Ten Commandments forbid images. C. The angel Gabriel forbids images. D. The New Testament forbids images

B

How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light? A. Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light. B. Both paintings are highly representational. C. Both paintings are photorealistic views of real landscapes. D. Both paintings employ trompe-l'oeil.

A

In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by ______.

A

Kazmir Malevich called his art ______. A. Suprematism B. Cubism C. Realism D. Dreaming

A

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called ______. A. photographic B. a pseudo-photograph C. photorealistic D. illusionistic

C

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider ______. A. that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves. B. that there is a direct, one-to-one relationship between objects and the words we use to name them C. that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves D. that we are often fooled by what we see, as with trompe-l'loeil paintings

A

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called ______. A. mudras B. handies C. bismillah D. calliforms

A

Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on ______. A. the zigzag B. the square C. a triangle D. the horizontal line

B

In a work of art, "content" refers to ______. A. its style B. what the work means C. the way it looks D. the culture that produced it

B

SAMO is a name adopted by ______. A. John Taylor B. Jean-Michel Basquiat C. Charlie Parker D. Willem de Kooning

B

The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to ______. A. the practice of painting outdoors B. the feeling of light in the painting C. the name of the artist's sailboat D. the town on Long Island where the artist lived

B

How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization? A. He saw it in a museum of natural history. B. He saw it in a magazine. C. He owned it. D. He saw a photograph of it in a book.

C

In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is ______. A. Lorna Simpson B. Duane Michaels C. René Magritte D. John Ahearn

C

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called ______. A. form B. aesthetics C. iconography D. content

C

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist ______. A. works with ideas instead of images, creating purely nonobjective artwork B. abstracts what he or she is depicting, to varying degrees C. retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view D. paints exactly, faithfully what he or she sees

C

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with ______. A. expensive objects that signify wealth and success B. political messages C. experimental painting materials D. images that are not literally what they appear to be

D

The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe ______. A. Abstract B. Folk C. Non D. Representional

D

What is the chief form of Islamic art? A. conceptual art B. figurative representation C. abstractions of animals D. calligraphy

D

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called ______. A. scraffitti B. calculated C. office D. ledger

D