Art 101: Ch. 1-3 Review

Lorna Simpson's series, The Park, includes both images and printed words. The text contributes to the prints in a way that makes the viewer more active in the work. What does the viewer become?

A voyeur

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in The Women of Avignion?

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

African ritual masks

How is Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial similar to works by Edouard Manet and Marcel Duchamp?

All were initially misunderstood by the public

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

Civil Rights movement in the 1960's

Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?

Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator."

Bierstadt's picteresque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American view with his:

European experience

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The user or study of these symbols is called:

Iconography

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in

Islamic art

At the center of a scandal of the famous Armory Show of 1913 was held in

New York

The The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:

René Magritte

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?

Richard Serra

Faith Ringgold's God Bless America features an American flag turned into a prison cell. How is the figure of the woman contradictory?

She is both patriotic and racist

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

The ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

In 1863, Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the public due to its

modernity

When works of art like Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle, show no reference to the concrete world, it is usually called

non-objective

When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:

nonrepresentational

Guillermo Gómez-Peña uses ______ as media in his artwork, which he calls ________

painting, sculpture, and performance; "reverse anthropology"

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Temple of Confessions can be defined as what kind of art?

performance and installation

Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its:

political symbolism

We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give from the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in:

religious art

What specific component pf the National Endowment of the Arts made works of art available to the general public?

the Arts in Public Places program

The representation of what subject has consistently aroused controversy throughout the history of the Western world?

the Christian god

What was th einspiration for Marcel Duchamp's controversial Nude Descending a Staircase?

the chronophotographs of Etienne-Jules Marey

What is it that motivates most collectors to buy contemporary art?

the pleasure of owning art and the prestige it confers upon them

Beatriz Milhaze's Carambola is based on _______

the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

In Le Déjeuner sue l'herbe, Manet intentionally rejects traditional painting techniques for what purpose?

to call attention to his modernity and break with the past

The artist's relation to the public often depends upon how it views

what the artist is trying to say

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work expresses or means

What is the content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?

It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West.

Which artwork was described as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?

They have little context in which to view the work.

Maya Ying Lin's Memorial in Wahington, D.C.

Was controversial at first because of it's non-traditional style.

Where did the court painters for the 16th century Mughal ruler, Akbar, draw his inspiration for their illuminated manuscripts?

Western paintings and prints

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be ______ rather than functional.

aesthetic

Which of these is not a principle of "green architecture"?

architects look to continue to use building techniques and materials that have been in use since the Industrial Revolution in the West

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists posess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

artists are critical thinkers, meaning thry question assumptions and explore new directions

Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the annual salon exhibition in Paris in 1863. Where was is exhibited instead?

at the Salon des Refusés

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

calligraphy

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

Chris Ofili's the Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist's life - his African heritage and what else?

his Catholic upbringing

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

his proclivity for things seen but not examined

The stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral is an excellent example of the use of

iconography

What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?

it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called:

ledger drawings

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe

representational art

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view

Reno Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

self-sufficiency

What motivates artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Suzanne Lacy?

socio-cultural issues

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider ______

that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves