ART 1100: WEEK 2

The content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains

A sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and the character of the American West

Lorna Simpson's series, The Park, includes both images and printed words. The text contributes to the prints in a way that makes the viewer more active in the work. What does the viewer become?

A voyeur

The subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence

Depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face

The stained-glass window from Chartes Cathedral is an excellent example of the us of what?

Iconogaphy

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in what?

Islamic Art

Visual Literacy

The ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images.

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

mudra

When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle (p. 29) shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:

nonrepresentational

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider what

that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work expresses or means

When works of art like Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle, show no reference to the concrete world, it is usually called

abstract

What is the chief form of Islamic art

calligraphy

What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?

ethnocentric

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe what?

representational art