Art Appreciation Spring 2015

In the photograph Pepper #30 by _______, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object.

Edward Weston

Identify an example from the chapter of an artwork used for persuasion.

Effects of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

Identify the six functions that art fulfills (according to your textbook).

delight, commentary, worship, commemoration, persuasion, and self-expression.

"Chiaroscuro" refers to the intensity of a pure hue.

false

Berthe Morisot's In a Villa at the Seaside is an Impressionist painting that comments on the isolation lower-class mothers of the nineteenth century experienced when vacationing with their children.

false

The work of art known as Chalice by Beatrice Wood is a painting that delights viewers with a depiction of a glimmering golden cup. Viewers also marvel at the mastery Wood employed to paint such a three-dimensional, life-like image of an object in space (the chalice).

false

Shape refers to the expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area or within the outer boundaries of a three-dimensional object. The wide variety of shapes can be grouped into two general categories:

geometric and organic

In the art world, a _______ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique.

medium.

When a work of art, such as Theo van Doesburg's Composition (The Cow), shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

nonrepresentational

Figurative art is a type of __________ art.

representational.

Keith Sonnier created Motordom, an intense light installation in the outdoor lobby of a government building in Los Angles, to express which of the following?

the reality of car culture that southern Californians have to live with

Francisco Goya's nineteenth-century print I Saw This functions as a commentary on

war

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

Aesthetics

Global Warning, the graphic design poster by Chaz Maviyane-Davies, presents an issue of concern for the artist as well as the global population. This work is an example of art as a vehicle for

Communication information, personal expression, social causes

Aestheics refers to an awareness of art that is challenging and difficult to understand.

False

All abstract works of art are nonrepresentational.

False

Belgain artist Alexis Smith created a mixed-media piece titled, Black 'n' Blue (for Howie Long). This challenging work of art questions the relationship between art and reality and suggests the visual games artists play with their viewers.

False

Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe is a commorative painting that depicts the military battle of 1801 in which the Canadian army defeated the British in a struggle for control of the Canadian portion of North America. This painting was controversial because West's version of General Wolfe's death appears to be sympathetic to the Canadian cause.

False

Classical Greek sculpture attempts to persuade by reminding us of ideals that we already share, and urging us to emulate and learn from them. For example, Greek figures such as the Charioteer represent human imperfection. The Charioteer reminds us that we, like he, are imperfect and will never achieve ideal human perfection. In fact, the Charioteer discourages our attempts to seek perfection.

False

Constantin Brancusi created a sculpture titled The Kiss—a naturalistic, representational work of art that captures the sensual delight of that highly charged moment when lovers embrace. In contrast, Auguste Rodin's The Kiss is abstracted. It is a geometric sculpture that lacks the naturalism and sensuality of Brancusi's version of the same subject.

False

In Mexico and the American Southwest, retablo painting is a customary way of giving thanks to God when someone escapes from some danger or recovers from an illness. Yet, such paintings never depict the scene of salvation or a narrative of the events. In fact, most retablo paintings are nonrepresentational.

False

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial was instantly popular and immediately lauded as an astounding achievement in modern monument design.

False

Outsider artists have little to no formal art education. Yet, despite this, outsider artists work within specific traditions of style, theme, and craftsmanship that reflect their unique cultural perspectives.

False

Spiritual and religious works of art such as The Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory and Amida Buddha are the only types of art that rely upon iconography- symbolic subjects and signs used to convey ideas important to particular cultures or religions.

False

The Taj Mahal in a wonder of balance and harmony (and a monument to love) located in Iraq.

False

With works such as La DS, a modified Citroen DS auto, and Juego de Limones (Game of Limes), _______is a contemporary artist who delights in the art of surprise.

Gabriel Orozco

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V reflects the typical style and content of its artist,

Georgia O'Keeffe

Which of the following refers to the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art?

Iconography

Identify the most prominent musical influence on Romare Bearden's art.

Jazz

_______, the artist who made Rocket to the Moon, paid tribute to the richness of the African-American experience through photomontage.

Romare Bearden

Identify an example from the chapter of an artwork that is spiritual or is used for worship or ritual.

The Tree of Jesse from the west facade of Chartres Cathedral and Composition VI by Wassily Kandinsky

Artists have the power to turn ordinary objects into extraordinary works of art. Edward Weston's Pepper #30 was created with a time exposure of over two hours to give the photograph of the pepper a quality of glowing light—a living presence that resembles a sensual embrace. In essence, Weston provides his viewers with an image that, on one hand, is mundane. Yet, viewers are also given a deeper look at the pepper—a view where they encounter astounding beauty and poignance in an ordinary object.

True

Children are inherently creative. Yet, recent research shows that many children begin to doubt their creativity at about the age of nine or ten years. In contrast, creative people, be they artists or CEOs of major corporations, retain their creativity into adulthood.

True

Felix Nussbaum's painting Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card is a work of art that functions as self-expression. Nussbaum invites viewers to share his personal and political anxiety and struggle to survive as a Jew in Nazi Germany.

True

James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted Nocturne: Blue and Gold--Old Battersea Bridge in a monochromatic color scheme--a color scheme based mostly on one color (blue). In doing so, he transformed a humdrum zone of London into a quietly poetic moment.

True

Like Maya Lin, Yong Soon Min is a Vietnemese-American artist who creates works of art that are vehicles for self-expression.

True

The first-century sculpture Augustus of Prima Porta and the fourteenth-century painting Effects of Good Government in the City exemplify which function of art?

art for persuasion

When the pigments of different hues are mixed together, the mixture appears duller and darker because pigments absorb more and more light as their absorptive qualities combine. For this reason, pigment mixtures are called subtractive color mixtures. For example, mixing red, blue, and yellow will produce a bright white depending on the proportions and the type of pigments used.

false

Janet Echelman's Her Secret Is Patience illustrates how creativity can be expressed with nontraditional materials. Identify the materials used in this work.

fiber, steel, and lighting

Art made with a combination of different materials, such as a photomontage, is referred to as

mixed media.

Sabatino "Simon" Rodia, the artist who created Nuestro Pueblo (Our Town; commonly known as the Watts Towers), did not have any professional art training. This type of artist is often recognized as a folk or _______ artist.

outsider

Yong Soon Min's Dwelling is an assemblage that attempts to express which of the following?

the artist's feelings of a divided self

The Taj Mahal is one of the world's best-known works of architecture. Identify its function.

tomb

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is

trompe l'oeil.

In regard to color, intensity and saturation are interchangeable terms. Both terms refer to the purity of a hue (color).

true

Red-orange (red + orange) is a "warm" color. When seen individually, yet adjacent to one another (like on the color wheel), red and orange constitute an analogous color scheme.

true