ART APPRECIATION 115 CMU

How is a viewer's experience of the Rubin vase (page 68) similar to that of experiencing Olafur Eliasson's Suney (page 73)?

Perception changes in response to light

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called

Photorealistic

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

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art

The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot

A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called

One-point perspective

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought not to b merely functional, but

Aesthetic

How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?

Analytic

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

Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions

In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their

Flattening of space between foreground and background

Lines that are loose and free-form are called

Gestural lines

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

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 from the Ivory Coast

It represents the imagination transforming an everyday object for good

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

Mudras

When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called

Nonobjective

The terms "naturalistic 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

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

Self-sufficiency

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"

In a work of art, "content" refers to

What the work means

According to Sayer, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"

reception, extraction, inference

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