Art Midterm Ch.1-3
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
Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by
iconoclasts.
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.
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with
images that are not literally what they appear to be.
While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called
ledger drawings
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.
Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by
painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it.
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
photorealistic.
According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
reception, extraction, inference
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.
The terms "naturalistic art" 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.
Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their
self-sufficiency
In a work of art, "content" refers to
what the work means
Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the
Mogao Caves.
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
Kazmir Malevich called his art
Suprematism.
Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?
The Ten Commandments forbid images.
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."
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered
abstract.
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but
aesthetic.
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
What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke?
African-American superstar divas of the 1970s
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast was painted by
Albert Bierstadt
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.
SAMO is a name adopted by
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions.
How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?
Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.
The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?
He owned it.
The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in
Islamic art.
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 function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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
The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to
the feeling of light.in the painting.
Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on
the square.
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."
