Art Appreciation Ch.2: Developing Visual Literacy

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

Calligraphy

Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?

Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator".

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

Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:

European experience

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

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

Retains realistic elements but present the world from a personal or subjective point of view.

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider__________.

That images and wrods refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves.

The representation of what subject has consistently aroused controversy throughout the history of the Western world?

The Christian god

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

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

What is the content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?

It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and charater of the American West.