Art appreciation ch 4.1-4.7

Martín Ramírez, whose works of art included iconic images of the Madonna, spent thirty-three years in Californian mental hospitals because he suffered from ________.

schizophrenia

Figure 4.23 depicts episodes from the life of Buddha

sculpted as separate scenes all on one block of sandstone

Artists can emphasize the importance of a ruler by portraying him or her

seated on a throne in the center of a composition in elaborate clothing larger than other figures all of these answers

The Kongo kneeling female figure with bowl and child and the artifacts accompanying the Inca mummy of a boy are associated with sacrifice. These artworks ________.

serve as role models for the rest of the community hope to insure prosperity by giving up something of value include imagery and designs with symbolic significance become a meeting point between natural and supernatural realms all of these answers

Art inspired by dreams and the subconscious describes what movement?

surrealism

Whether pagan, Christian, or Buddhist, artworks depicting deities are generally intended to ________.

tell the stories of the key religious figures represent accurately what the key religious figures looked like be appreciated only by those who can read serve as structural elements in religious buildings none of these answers

The most important element in the sunken relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three daughters is

the 3 daughters?

The figure carrying another figure on the right-hand wing of Otto Dix's triptych The War is

the artist

The sculpture showing Shiva's dance indicates that he brings to life

the cycle of the death and rebirth

In which of the following artworks is the identity of the person shown not important?

the morgue

The empty cradle depicted in Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette represents

the queen's pregnancy the death of the queen's youngest daughter the queen's desire for more children the queen's recent divorce from Louis XIV none of these answers

The Palette of Narmer emphasizes

the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

The calendar stone made by the Aztecs reveals how they used astronomical and mathematical knowledge to count

time

What instrument does Marcia Smilack hear when she turns her work Cello Music upside down?

violin

Nick Ut's Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack can be interpreted as the artist's disapproval of ________.

war

Qin Shi Huangdi's army of terracotta soldiers

was found in 1974

What shared aspects of the caves at Lascaux and the catacombs in Rome indicate that these places were sacred to those who used them?

Both sites feature paintings connected to the Christian religion

How do bis poles represent the cyclical nature of human life?

By showing the deceased individual along with ancestors

Which of the following artworks no longer physically exists?

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates The Aztec Templo Mayor Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future Richard Serra's Tilted Arc All of these answers

In Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump the bird is shown

being deprived of oxygen

The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by

bishop bayeux

Francisco Goya's The Second of May and The Third of May

both strongly condemn Spanish rebels

Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace gives us a strong sense of the weaponry favored by the Japanese samurai, which includes:

bow and arrows

The most distributed image in China in the 1960s was of

buddah?

Artworks in public spaces

can excite strong emotions in a community

Artistic depictions of death are more prevalent now than during the Renaissance.

false

Chuck Close painted with ________ to create portraits of friends and family.

fingerprints

Archaeologists Mark Lehner and Roger Hopkins discovered that it takes how many men to tumble a stone weighing less than 1 ton?

4-5

What elements does Hogarth depict with accurate perspective in his engraving published in 1754, based on the teaching of such methods?

A woman handing a candle to a man outside her window Sheep lined up and walking away A bird perched on a tree A sign showing the moon hanging from the building None of these are depicted accurately using the techniques of perspective

What characteristic do the Stela of Naram-Sin, Virgin of Vladimir, and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa share?

An emphasis on light in the form of rays or golden tones

The French government removed Ernest Meissonier's Remembrance of Civil War from an important art exhibition in 1850 because

reminded them of the past

Which artist, in his painting The Human Condition, challenged the Renaissance notion of the "illusionistic window"?

rene magritte

Which of the following is not a characteristic of "community art"?

It tends to be very small, remote, and private

How does the Hopi kachina doll relate to nature?

It uses symbols that we learn relate to nature

What term did Dalí invent that describes the foundation for his paintings?

Paranoiac-critical

Which ancient Greek artist won a contest to create the most convincing painted illusion?

Parrhasius

which of the following statements about absolute power is true?

Rulers believe they receive their power from a divine entity Rulers can govern how they please Rulers can determine the religion of their people Rulers can use money from their subjects to spend on themselves All of these answers

What item was useful to Muslims, who used it to find the direction in which to pray to Mecca and to calculate the time of day?

astrolabe

Which of the following is true of Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994?

The mother and baby are photographed shortly after birth

Why is the act of judgment important in such works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gislebertus's Last Judgment, and Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance?

To emphasize that a person's actions in the present life determine his or her destiny in the afterlife

What common characteristic do the Sumerian bull lyre, Navajo sand painting, and Gèlèdé masquerade share?

We have to imagine important parts of their original presentation

Who worked in a calm state, between heartbeats, and through the night, while creating works of art?

Willard wigan

The Tula warrior columns tell us that the ancient Mexican Toltec people were

a peace loving race?

In African art, such as that of the Senufo people, spirit figures are often shown as:

abstract with exaggerated body parts

From whom did the first emperor of Rome, depicted in the statue Augustus of Primaporta, claim he was descended?

aenas?

Artworks that show interaction between humans and deities

all look the same?

Such sacred places as mosques, temples, shrines, and chapels

are often used for quiet contemplation

When restorers began work on cleaning the Sistine ceiling in 1980, what did they discover had affected the original appearance of the frescoes?

candle smoke the interventions of previous restorers rain damage bacteria from the visits of millions of tourists all of these answers

The Great Pyramids at Giza were designed to mimic part of the constellation Orion in order to

connect the pyramids with the stars the pharaohs would inhabit in the afterlife

What was William M. Harnett investigated for due to the trickery and illusion created in his paintings?

counterfeitting

This chapter examines spirituality expressed in art through ________.

depictions of specific deities references to spirits and ancestors reflections of communication with the spirit world places with sacred resonance all of these answers

Which artwork features a silhouette of a piano and pianist that transforms into a violinist when viewed from a different angle?

encore

What term describes the optical trick of swelling columns at midpoint, which was used in the design of the Parthenon?

entasis

Artworks that engage the theme of the cycle of life ________.

examine the mysteries of life

The artist of the Benin plaque used ________ to signify the central figure's importance.

hierarchical scale?

In the relief sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, the figures of the Lapith people are

idealized

Jean Dubuffet's artworks often contain which technique?

impasto

As seen in the Justinian mosaic from San Vitale, purple robes represent

imperial powers?

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York

is highly geometric

The word vomitoria was used to describe the entryways at the Colosseum because

it conveys the spilling throngs of people leaving the building

Which artist coined the term Art Brut, describing art influenced by children and the mentally ill?

jean dubuffet

Which of the following is not true of the Colossal Heads of the Olmec?

many heads have been discovered underground?

Diego Rivera and Susan Cervantes have both worked in the traditional Mexican medium of

mural painting

When the eye blends two colors that are near each other, creating a new color, this is known as ________.

optical mixture

Contemporary artist Betye Saar was referring to what aspect of traditional African art in her Ancestral Spirit Chair?

personal and communal identity

Timothy O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death is a

photograph

Gunther von Hagens, a German artist who combined anatomy and science, developed this art technique that uses preserved bodies after death

plastination

Which two philosophers, included in the center of The School of Athens, highlight the development of learning in the ancient world?

plato and aristotle

Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.

pointillism

The School of Athens, an architectural illusion created by Raphael, was painted for the library of ________.

pope Julius II

Manmade mountains is another term for

pyramids

Giulio Romano was trained by this artist, who influenced his painting Fall of the Giants:

raphael