Art Appreciation Final

Which artist creates incredibly convincing sculptures of everyday people?

Duane Hanson

The 9/11 Memorial has been achieved without any controversy over its final design.

False

What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?

Feminism

Who is the artist of The Dinner Party?

Judy Chicago

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1)?

Leonardo

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

Pointillism

Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?

Sandro Botticelli

A shaman is a person who ________.

a. acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans

How do practitioners cultivate mental calm in the Japanese zen garden?

a. by raking the gravel regularly

What was the artist of The Hip Hop Project (25) trying to do?

a. effectively become a part of a number of different communities

Holy relics located in churches ________.

a. taught people about the stories of the Koran

French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows:

a. the faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro.

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed by:

all of the other answers Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Sullivan Frank Gehry Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it represents?

all of these were propagandistic artworks The Armada Portrait Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen Napoleon Crossing the Alps Stela of Hammurabi

Which artwork did Catherine Opie make?

b. Do the Right Thing

What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?

b. feminist posters and pamphlets

Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________.

b. to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed to:

be a temple of spirit, a monument

Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?

because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity

Community art may ________.

c. be situated in public places

Willem de Kooning intended his painting Woman I to ________.

c. reflect universal ideas of powerful women

What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her

c. she was ashamed of the photograph

Which artwork did Carrie Mae Weems make?

d. Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Spirituality encompasses ________.

d. all of the previous answers our sense of being connected to others our awareness of both mind and body our wish to understand life's meaning and the world around us

The layout of The Dinner Party alludes to:

d. ancient religions that worshiped a mother goddess

A visitor to a Gothic cathedral would have found him or herself surrounded by:

d. traffic in the market square

4. Muslim practice includes ________.

e. all of the other answers gathering to pray in a mosque praying in the direction of Mecca praying to Allah praying five times per day

Why were the Roman catacombs of sacred importance?

e. all of the other answers pagan, Christian, and Jewish Romans used them they were the burial places of many Romans' ancestors they served as temples for many religious observances the paintings there could be relevant for multiple religions

What is the subject of Catherine Opie's Domestic series?

e. all of the other answers staged depiction of radical performance artists high school football games a variety of landscapes the artist found interesting lesbian couples in their everyday settings

What is not true about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

e. all of the other answers are true the names of the dead are carved into the wall alphabetically it aligns with two other American monuments the wall is reflective it was designed by a student

Lange's Migrant Mother

raised awareness of the severity of the Great Depression

To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?

the practices of an exclusive swingers' club

Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

they wanted a more traditional monument with figures

Velázquez's Rokeby Venus

was attacked for its ideal beauty

Fischl's Falling Woman

was covered up for its shocking reality

Nolde's Crucifixion

was mocked by the Nazis