Art Appreciation - Chapter 2

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Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast was painted by

Albert Bierstadt.

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:

René Magritte.

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

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

The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to

the feeling of light in the painting

Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola is based on ___________.

the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work expresses or means

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

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

ledger drawings

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view.


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