art exam 1

elements

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

blood spurting from holofernes`s neck

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point.

Baroque

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.

direction, dramatic play, placement, line

Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

Depict two consecutive days of violence

Francisco Goya's The Second of May, 1808 depicts:

None of the other answers

What is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf ?

Auguste Rodin, the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture

What is so revolutionary about Walking Man and who made it?

a canon of proportions

What method was used to make the sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty?

sunken-relief carving

What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters (4.6.7)?

Update a classical subject for his own time

What was the artist of Olympia trying to do?

using painted paper cutouts

How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?

draw attention to Icarus` fall

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.

information about a particular society

The Stela of Hammurabi is...

limestone

The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium?

head

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

a harmonious

The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body

Classical Greek sculptures

The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.

subordinate

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

wanted artist to be of high status

The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ________.

proportions

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.

surrealist

This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.

focal point

This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.

Hierarchical.

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.

a Classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting

Titian's Venus of Urbino shows ________.

all the previous answers

What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate?

that he was a member of the order of santiago

What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?

a Greek athlete

What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?

hierarchical scale

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

broad emphasis

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

19th century France

When and where was the artist of Olympia working?

museum website

Which are acceptable resources for studying art?

Constantine

Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of Rome?

Titian, Venus of Urbino

Which reclining nude was made first and served as an influence on the others?

iconography, memento mori, anamorphosis

Which terms apply to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors.

Sandro Botticelli

Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?

prayer figures

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

placing the Virgin in the center- directing all other figures' eyes toward the Virgin- placing a dove above the Virgin's head- dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures= All of the other answers

In Dieric Bouts's work The Coronation of the Virgin, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary by

all of the other answers

In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is:

contrast

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

Plato . . . Aristotle

In The School of Athens, the artist focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.

palm

In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Raphael

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

Subordination

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

white marble

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from:

represents a feminist analysis of her body

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman's body in Grande Odalisque is _______.

a symbol of mortality

Memento mori refers to:

egyptian

Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?

embodied by women

The Bayeux Tapestry is...

spiritual

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

Francisco de surbaran

The Funeral of St. Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.