Art quiz :)
The imagery in Faith Ringgold's "God Bless America" was inspired by
Civil Rights movement of the 1960's
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 deliveratily intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?
He preferred flat space and disliked shading
Jan van Eyck's"Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami" depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use of study of these symbols is called
Iconography
In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully developed by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from
Letters he wrote
Dunhuang is the site of the great collection of the aearly Chinese are that fills the
Mogao Caves
Ben Jones' Black Face and Arm Unit uses color and line in the form of bands, ornaments, and scarifcations reminiscent of the facial decorations in
ancient african sculpture
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
Where is the vanishing point in the perspective analysis of Duccio's Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maesta Alterpiece?
at several points in the compostion
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
The background mountains in Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks provide a mediocre example of
atmospheric perspective
When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is
autographic
Paul Colin's Figure of a Woman, surely derived from the artist's association with Josephine Bake, achieved the techniques of chiaroscuro by using
black and white crayon on beige paper
Which element of Janine Antoni's Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space?
figure-ground line
Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?
it reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions
Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
his tendency to show things seen but not examined
Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using
human hair or pen and ink
In the sixteenth century, "The Ghent Altarpiece" which represents the divine, was threatened by
iconoclasts
Jan van Eyck's "Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami", like Rene Magritte's "The Treason of Images", is concerned with
images that are not always what they appear to be
Leonardo's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
one-point linear perspective
A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of visions is
one-point perspective
Which theme connects Paul Strand's Geometric Backyards, New York, and Julie Mahretu's Berliner Platze?
order versus disorder
In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?
overlapping images, fine line work, crazy amount of lines
Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing facade of the Oregon Hisotrical Society by
painting a tompe-l'oeil mural on it
The range of colors that an artist had preferred to use in a work is referred to as the
palette
Paul Strand's Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a twentieth-century effort to challenge the viewer's perspective with
patterns of light and dark
the impressionists were concerned with rendering
perceptual color
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph is it called
photorealistic
The artist that painted La Chahut (the can-can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as
poin
The artist that painted La Chahut (the can-can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as
pointillism
According to Sayre (the textbook's author), what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
reception, extraction, inference
In his paintings, Van Gogh builds up his lines 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
color's brightness or dullness is called its
intensity or saturation
on Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between secondary and primary are called
intermediate colors
The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as "layered" pointillism because
it is made of thousands of little square paintings
There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self.
it is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow
We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial", to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in
religious art
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe
representational art
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called
represntational
Naturalism is a type of representation in which the artisit
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 and innovative design
Kazmir Malevich called his art
suprematism
Artist Artemisia Gentilischi 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
Beatriz Milhaze's "Carambola" is based on
the square
Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into
volume
The temperature of Jane Hammond's Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be descrived as
warm
In a work of art, "content" refers to
what the work means
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 1970's
"Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast" was painted by
Albert Bierstadt
How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best descrived?
Analytic
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 is Wolf Kahn's "Afterglow I" comparable to Willem de Kooning's "North Atlantic Light"?
Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light
How is a viewer's experience of the Rubin vase similar to that of experiencing Eliasson's Suney?
Forms are intentionally distorted
In the history of art, with what has the color black been associated?
Goethe associated black with the absence of good, but for African Americans, black is a color of pride
In the 1660's who discovered that color is a direct function of light through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
Isaac Newton
The "Triumphal Entry" page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of the word over image in
Islamic art
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, showing her as liberated and equal with men
Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of
cross hatching
Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?
It mimics binocular vision
What is the function of the "nkisi nkonde" figure?
It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it
What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture for the Ivory Coast?
It represents the imagination transforming an everyday object for good
How did Michelangelo's "David" become political?
It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedome from the Medici family
SAMO is a name adopted by
Jean-Michael Bsquiat
In "The Treason of the Images", the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is
Rene Magritte
What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci's perspective system in The Last Supper and the painting's actual location?
The painting's perspective is directly linked to the architectural space of its location
Why are images traditionally frowned on in the islamic art?
The word can be trusted in a way that imaged cannot
On what basis did a Cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's work?
The work possessed "serious artistic value"
How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night similar?
They both use expressive line to convey emotion
The less representational an artwork resembles the real world, the more it is considered
abstract
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but
aesthetic
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
What is the chief form of Islamic art?
calligraphy
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effect of light is
chiaroscuro
Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called
contour lines
On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as
cool colors
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear
cooler and less distinct
Paul Cezanne's Mme Cezanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artists strong interest in
design
what did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?
digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
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 for codified
during the Renaissance in Italy
What kind of bias does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than West African mask?
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 of as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
figure-ground reversal
In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their
flattening of space between foreground and background
Which medium did sculptor Dan Flavin employ to transform a room?
fluorescent lighting
In The Dead Christ, which technique does Andrea Mantegna utilize to adjust the distortion created by the point of view
foreshortening
In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create
foreshortening of space
Lines that are loose and free-form are called
gestural lines
In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?
grid lines
Which element of Matisse's Harmony in Red -The Red Room- create a visual contradiction to the work's title?
its representation of spatial depth
Yoshitomo Nara's Dead Flower was not used in this lecture because of its
juvenile style of language
While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called
ledger drawings
Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of
lines of sight
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called
mudras
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
at the end of the nineteenth century, which invention allowed color to be projected with increased brightness and clarity
the electric light
The title of Willem de Kooning's "North Atlantic Light" refers to
the feeling of light in the painting
What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon?
the use of classical models in modern photography
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
Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon share a similar trait. What is it?
they are both positive forms that contain negative space
The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was
to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"
Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective
two-point linear perspective
what is yellow's complementary color?
violet