Art Appreciation Chapters 1-5

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke?

African-American superstar divas of the 1970s

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions.

How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?

He owned it.

In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?

His interests were in things other than verisimilitude.

How does Chérie Samba's Calvary use line to draw a parallel between the painter and Christ?

Implied lines arc over the artist, connecting him with the soldier's imminent whipping.

Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?

The Ten Commandments forbid images.

How does Mary Cassatt assert a more active role for the woman in her painting In the Loge?

The woman's face and hand enter the space of light used for the male zone.

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.

Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of

lines of sight.

A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called

monocular vision.

Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by

painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it.

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called

photorealistic.

Which element of Janine Antoni's Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space?

vantage point

Which theme connects Paul Strand's Geometric Backyards, New York and Julie Mehretu's Berliner Plätze?

visual effects of perceptual space

We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from

letters he wrote.

There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it?

It is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow.

Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?

It mimics binocular vision

What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast?

It represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good.

How did Michelangelo's David become political?

It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici family.

In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully developed by

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the

Mogao Caves.

How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night similar?

They both use expressive line to convey emotion.

What is yellow's complementary color?

Violet

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but

aesthetic.

Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of

arbitrary color.

J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway. What are they?

atmospheric and one-point

Paul Colin's Figure of a Woman, surely derived from the artist's association with Josephine Baker, achieved the techniques of chiaroscuro by using

black and white crayon on beige paper.

In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?

by increasing the density of the lines

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called

contour lines.

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

cooler and less distinct

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize the

division between male and female spaces.

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

during the Renaissance in Italy

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? a. American

ethnocentric

The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's

expressive line.

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

figure-ground reversal

In The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utilizes what technique in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view?

foreshortening

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express

his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using

human hair

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with

images that are not literally what they appear to be.

Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as

impasto.

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

implied lines.

A color's brightness or dullness is called its

intensity or saturation.

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

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

What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?

it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

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.

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

self-sufficiency

The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called

tenebrism.

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider

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