Test 1
The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanity of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?
Grid lines
Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
His proclivity for things seen but not examined
Sends Gu creates calligraphy using
Human hair
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called
Iconography
Van Gogh builds up his lines in 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
Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them
Kinetic
Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of
Lines of sight
Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the
Magao Caves
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called
Mudras
In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create
Negative space
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called
Nonobjective
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
One-point linear perspective
Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called
Op Art
Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by
Painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it
The impressionists were concerned with rendering
Perceptual color
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
Photorealistic
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is
Chiaroscuro
What proof of time and place does Manet depict in Olympia?
19th century Paris, France.
What is the chief form of Islamic art?
Calligraphy
What did Sir Isaac Newton design to organize colors? Name the three primary colors, as defined by Newton on this device
A prism that emitted red, green, and blue
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered
Abstract
In Manuel Neri's sculpture Mujer Pegada series No. 2, the smooth and rough areas of bronze provide examples of
Actual texture
Objects that are intended to simulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to not be merely functional but
Aesthetic
When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is
Afocal
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
Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of
An asymmetrically balanced composition
How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?
Analytic
Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements
Carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drop lines
The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan
As a mausoleum for his favorite wife
Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini's David and Michelangelo's David?
Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action
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 did Kenneth Clark not recognize about a carved mask from the Sang tribe of Gabon in West Africa?
Clark did not realize that the mask was to be used in rituals, nor did he realize the aspects of the mask that represented rituals.
Define the term "complimentary colors," and give an example.
Complimentary colors, when combined, negate each other.
On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually though of as
Cool colors
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear
Cooler and less distant
Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of
Cross-hatching
In Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, the artist has organized the design of the composition to emphasize the most important part of the composition, which is the
Crucifix
How does the use of line in Eugène Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus differ from David's Death of Socrates?
Delacroix's painting lacks horizontal and vertical lines, but has diagonal recession. Also, David's painting uses grid while Delacroix's does not.
What did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?
Digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
Describe the materials used by contemporary African sculptor El Anatsui in works that are influenced by kente cloth
Discarded aluminum caps and liquor bottles. Calls into question the slave trade.
What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an Ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?
Ethnocentric
Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because
Everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji
The Starry Night by Van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's
Expressive line
In the Rubin case illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
Figure-ground reversal
Define the words "form" and "content"
Form refers to the style, techniques and media used. Content...refers to what the work means.
Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour?
In the child's (Jesus') face
How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo's palette?
Intensely saturated and bright colors were used by Michelangelo to combat dirt
A color's brightness or dullness is called its
Intensity or saturation
On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called
Intermediate colors
In 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
Isaac Newton
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 to men.
What is the subject matter of Isidro Escamilla's Virgin of Guadelupe?
It depicts the Virgin Mary at Tepeyac
The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as "layered" pointillism because
It is made of thousands of little square paintings
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
How did Michelangelo's David become political?
It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici family.
The artists that painted La Chahut (The Can-Can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as
Pointillism
Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates
Radial balance
According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing?"
Reception, Extraction, Inference
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe
Representational art
Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of
Rhythm
Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves
Rubbing a sheet of paper over a textured surface
Renzo Piano's Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their
Self-sufficiency
Use examples from the chapter to explain the difference between shape and mass
Shape takes a two-dimensional form while mass takes a three-dimensional form. Ellsworth Kelly has 3 figures of two-dimensional spaces
Compare and contrast The use of line in the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt favored mathematical drawings, so his lines were very geometric as opposed to Van Gogh's lines that are very sharp and sporadic.
The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of
Symmetrical balance
Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murkey." This technique is called
Tenebrism
Define the quality of a work of art that we call texture
Texture is used to describe a work of art's ability of tactile sensations
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
Why were images in religious settings destroyed in 16th century Northern Europe?
The Ten Commandments forbid images
The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to
The feeling of light in the painting
Rudy Burckhardt's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in
The process of paintings
Proportion is defined as
The relationship between the parts of a composition and the whole
In what way can large-scale work be considered a temporal art form?
The spectator moves through time and space to view it
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
The word can be trusted in a way that images 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"
Gustavo Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is on what specific type of perspective?
Two-point linear perspective
When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with
Visual weight
The temperature of Jane Hammond's Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be described as
Warm
In a work of art, "content" refers to
What the work means