Art Appreciation 1301 - Chapter 2 Quiz

The pages from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplify the preference of word over image in _______ art.

Islamic

In 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

When works of art, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat's, are filled with stylized and symbolic systems created by the artists and not direct naturalistic depictions of our objective reality, we call them:

Abstract

Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist paintings do not represent the natural world in any way and instead are primarily interested in the ______________ .

Form

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

Mundra

Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains is a good example of ____________ art.

Representational

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

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe:

representational art

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

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

Christian art's main purpose through the Middle Ages, like that of this stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral, was __________.

to educate illiterate people in Christian doctrine