Exam 1 101

The following is true of Dada:

(All of the above) the name was chosen at random from the dictionary it began in Switzerland it emphasized chance and irrationality it was anti-art, and refused to call itself a movement

Marcel Duchamp was responsible for which art innovation(s):

(All of the above) Kinetic Sculpture Conceptual Art Readymades

Artworks by painters in the US who chose representational styles and were influenced by the harsh realities of the Great Depression in 1929 came to be known as ________ paintings.

American Scene

The Hudson River School painted ________.

American landscapes

Which of the following are the cultures from the "Classical past" that Renaissance thinkers and artists admired?

Ancient Greece and Rome

Alphonse Mucha's poster shown here utilizes arabesques and organic lines formed by the curves and swirls of the woman's exaggeratedly abundant hair, an ornamental style of ___________.

Art Nouveau

What is the medium used in Marc Quinn's Self?

Blood

Angkor Wat, the world's largest religious monument, is located in _____________.

Cambodia

The Raimondi Stela is a ________.

Chavin stone sculpture

Which of these influenced Renaissance artist Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Classical Greek Art

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs encourages the viewer to think about how we understand the world around us, through looking at the different ways we can experience the object we call a "chair." This is an example of ________ art.

Conceptual

Which religion refers the largest tower of its temples as "cosmic mountains?"

Confucianism

Carvings of acanthus leaves are found on the top of which kind of columns?

Corinthian

Romare Bearden, the artist of Three Folk Musicians, was particularly influenced by which of the following?

Cubism, African masks, and the Harlem Renaissance

The volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE destroyed all of the art in Pompeii.

False

The work of Minimal artists is representational and generally made out of natural materials with an organic quality.

False

When artists are censored it usually stops them from producing any further work.

False

William Hogarth's The Marriage Settlement is one of a series of 6 paintings that show the narrative of a happy and loyal marriage.

False

The "Hungry Tigress" panel from the shrine in the Horyuji Temple depicts a tigress sacrificing her life to feed her cubs.

Flase

The title of this work of art is __________, and was painted by Cubist artist ________.

Guernica . . . Pablo Picasso

Who called himself the Sun King?

Louis XIV

Identify the artists (from left to right) who sculpted David.

Michelangelo - Brunelleschi - Da Vinci

The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. That title was ________.

Nuestro Pueblo

The two figures depicted in the center of Raphael's The School of Athens are __________.

Plato and Aristotle

In the 17th century, _________ created his own vision of heaven for the burial site of his beloved wife, Mumtaz, by building the Taj Mahal.

Shah Jahan

Surrealist artists used techniques that the psychologist ________ had originally pioneered to access his patients' unconscious minds.

Sigmund Freud

"Mimis" in Australian rock art represent:

Spirits

Monticello was built for ________.

Thomas Jefferson

Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas depicts the artist's dual heritage and turbulent relationship with her husband, Diego Rivera.

True

Mount Shenjo, the Japanese mountain that's featured in Hokusai's famous print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," believed to have a powerful kami (or spirit), is sacred to followers of Shinto.

True

The buffalo in Wo-Haw's self-portrait show the effect of the presence of European settlers on the Plains Indians of North America.

True

The painting Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin.

True

The tattooed facial designs of the Maori were so distinctive and specific to an individual that at times they have been used as a form of legal signature.

True

William Blake's Elohim Creating Adam depicts the joy and celebration of the moment when God created Adam.

True

Where is the Hall of Mirrors?

Versailles

The most prized feather cloaks made by Hawaiians are ________ in color.

Yellow

The ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun god Re was painted on ________.

a coffin

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of:

a readymade

The Moche earspool from Sipán was found in ________.

a royal tomb

The subject of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ________.

a symbol of freedom

The protective goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt are represented on the headdress of the mask of King Tutankhamun by:

a vulture and a cobra

Pietro Martini's print The Salon, of 1785, shows how the paintings were displayed ________.

according to a hierarchy

For the Abelam of Papua New Guinea, the person who grows the largest yams:

achieves higher social status and secures prosperity for the village

The moai of Easter Island represent: (Moai ancestor figures)

animals at the top of the food chain abstract designs based on the sea deified ancestors who were chiefs hieroglyphic texts with important historical information (none of the other answers)

What is the term used when an artist borrows objects, figures, or entire compositions from the work of other artists?

appropriation

Veronese's Christ in the House of Levi had to change the painting's name because ________.

church officials objected to Christ being shown with clowns, dwarves, and dogs at this key moment in the gospels

Robert Rauschenberg's Bed is an example of a _________ that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a hybrid between painting and sculpture.

combine painting

The Egyptian fresco from Nebamun's tomb utilizes:

composite view hierarchical scale hieroglyphs all of the above

Polykleitos's statue Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, demonstrates a new naturalistic stance called ________.

contrapposto

Contour rivalry refers to:

designs in which lines describe more than one thing at the same time

Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

What is not true about the interior of the Pantheon?

it has a poor drainage system

The theme of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night is _________, and best reflects __________ style.

landscape . . . Post-Impressionism

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was ________.

looted by the Nazis

A ___________ is a tower on a mosque, used to call the faithful .

minaret

In the Andes, textiles were considered ________ gold and silver.

more valuable than

Italian Baroque artist Artemesia Gentileschi employed __________, a dramatic use of intense darkness and light to heighten the impact in her painting, Judith Decapitating Holofernes.

perspective

The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is recognizable as a man on a horse. This is called a/an ____________ artwork.

representational

The technique used to make Andy Warhol's Thirty Are Better Than One is _________.

silkscreen

Inca structures were made with:

stones stacked precisely without mortar

What does the dog in Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize?

that the couple are loyal and faithful

Machu Picchu was built for ________.

the Inca ruler Pachacuti

Dürer's print The Last Supper reflects the ideas of ________.

the Protestant Reformation

It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of ________

the Rosetta Stone

In Francisco Goya's Family of Charles IV:

the artist includes a portrait of himself standing at his easel

Jacques Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii is about:

the sacrifices of an ancient Roman family

The cross bars on the Kanaga mask made by the Dogon people of Mali represent ________.

the upper realm of the sky and the realm of the earth below

The light-skinned figures in the Minoan fresco Bull-Leapers are:

women

Twin figures were traditionally made by the Yoruba of western Nigeria:

(all of the answers shown) because there is a high infant mortality rate for twins amongst the Yoruba so that if one twin died, the sculpture could be cared for along with the surviving infant because the dolls would help Yoruba children, especially girls, learn to care for babies

Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?

(all of the other answers) linear perspective naturalistic atmospheric perspective continuous narrative

Niagara Falls was a popular subject for North American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized:

(all of these answers are true) America's territorial expansion the presence of God in nature grandeur the beauty and power of nature

Agnolo Bronzino's portrait Eleanora di Toledo and Her Son Giovanni conveys a sense of:

(all of these answers are true) wealth power luxury high status

Art can be censored because:

(all of these answers are true) challenges those in power considered pornographic offends religious beliefs represents values others do not share

As seen in the Bonampak mural and the page from the Codex Magliabechiano, what beliefs did the Maya and Aztecs have in common?

(each answer shown is correct) Expecting human sacrifice to appease the gods Wanting to spill as much blood on the temple steps as possible Wearing regalia and using ceremonial objects Waging wars in order to capture sacrificial victims

What is true of the terra-cotta army of soldiers found in the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China?

(each answer shown is correct) Unique features were added to each soldier Molds were used for the various body pieces There were 8,000 figures The figures were lifesize

The Kwakiutl late 19th century Eagle Transformation Mask was opened and closed during performances to _____________.

(each answer shown is correct) used in public coming-of-age ceremony represent the transformation the wearer was undergoing suggest ancestral connections between eagles and humans

What is NOT true about Lady Dai's silk funeral banner?

(it was found in a tomb in Japan) it is made of silk it features both animal and human figures it was buried with her it shows views of heaven, earth, and the underworld

What was the first Modernist art movement to originate in the US rather than Europe?

Abstract Expressionism

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus was rejected at the 1863 Salon, and was instead exhibited at the Salon de Refusés.

False

Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself.

False

The Egyptians cremated the bodies of dead pharaohs.

False

The Sumerian Standard of Ur shows scenes of summer and winter.

False

The abstract designs and colors of kente cloth are purely decorative and has no meaning.

False

The enormous relief carving of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui shows her dismembered body resulting from a violent attack by a jealous lover.

False

The scene illustrated in an early scroll of Murasaki's Tale of Genji shows the prince mourning the death of his firstborn.

False

What do the female tree spirits (yakshi) hanging from the toranas at the Great Stupa represent?

each answer is correct abundance procreation life

Fin de siècle, French for "end of the century," refers to the art of the:

end of the 19th century

Expressionist artists tried to depict what they ________ rather than what they ________.

felt . . . saw

Cowrie shells in artworks by both African and Pacific Island peoples often represent:

fertility

The Great Stupa ________.

holds the Buddha's remains