ARTD final study set
El Greco was _
a Greek artist who worked in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance
When were the walls of Lascaux painted?
15,000-13,000 BCE
Titan's Venus of Urbino shows _
A classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting
installation
A construction or arrangement of objects which has been conceived to orchestrate a space
Action painting
A method of painting that uses the movement of the human body to apply pint to a surface
Marcel Dunchamp's bicycle wheel is an example of _
A readymade
Marcel Dunchamp, Fountain is an example of _
A readymade
Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus, 1863 is an example of a _ painting
Academic
Xenobia Baileys repossessed was influenced by
African, Hindu and Chinese elements
Xenobia Bailey establishes herself as an artist by making _
Crocheted hats
George Braques, Houses at L'Estaque, 1908 is part of which movement?
Cubism
In his untitled (1950), Mark Rothko wanted to emphasize _
Deep almost religious experience
Auguste Rodins, The Kiss was _
Design for the gates of hell based on the story of Pablo and Francesca in Dantes Divine comedy, made into several copies
Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?
Egyptian
Mary Richardson, the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914, compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting to the beautiful character of
Emmeline Pankhurst
Willem de Kooning intended his painting Woman I to
Emphasize elements of female anatomy, convey the inherent abilities a woman to get them protect five, reflects universal ideas of powerful woman, refer to images of women made throughout the history of art
Depictions of the Last Judgment were made by only one culture
False
Goya painted a slightly unflattering portrait of the Spanish royal family because he strongly disliked them and wanted to insult the king.
False
Spiritual ideas such as the "ancient mother" can never be represented in recognizable imagery
False
The work of Minimalist artists is generally made out of natural materials with an organic quality.
False
Visionary artists intentionally make work that does not follow the rules of the mainstream art work
False
When Buddha was born he speaks miraculously from the sea as a full-grown man
False
organic
Forms derived from living organisms
James Hampton -Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was made using
Found objects that the artist transformed
The medium of the artwork that decorated the Sistine chapel ceiling is _
Fresco
Gustav Klimt work Judith I features:
Goldleaf, an element of danger, decorative patterning, flattened figures
Which of the following statements is true of Michelangelo?
He preferred the medium of sculpture to painting, he painted two very important permissions in the Sistine chapel, he love to depict the nude body
What role did photography play for the artists Thomas Eakins?
He used photography to study anatomy and proportion
Andy Warhol's used commercial processes to create many of his work because _
He wanted his work to have a de-personalized mass produced quality
Ana Mendieta uses _ as an artistic medium in her work "Untitled"
Her body, dirt and flowers, natural elements
Ana Mendieta uses _ as an artistic medium in her work "untitled"
Her body, dirt and flowers, natural elements
The overall composition and the facial expressions in Pontormos Deposition create an atmosphere of _
instability, chaos, and disorder
New North American cities in the late eighteenth century chose neoclassicism as their architectural style because:
it represented ideals to which they aspired
Conceptual art emphasizes ________.
the ideas behind the artwork over its realization
Spencer Tunick considered his artwork to be _
Installations
Which of the following did Gericault do to prepare for the making of Raft of the Medusa?
Interviewed survivors, built a replica of the raft, study corpses
Shirin Neshat builds on her _ heritage in her work
Iranian
Chris Jordan used 2.4 million pieces of plastic in his artwork Gyre. These represent the number of
Pounds of plastic trash that enters the worlds ocean every hour
Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.
Representational, abstract, non-objective
In portrait photography of the 1860s, exposure times took:
Seconds
Marcel Dunchamps Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 was _ the armory show in 1913
Seen as scandalous by viewers at
bird's eye view
Seen from the top of an object
What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work?
She dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair
Expressionism focuses on:
what is felt rather than what is seen
Why does the figure in Branded look like it does?
Because it confronts, even exaggerates, the imperfections of reality
The Hudson River school painted _
American landscapes
The Stela of Naram-Sin shows _
An Akkadian king on a mountain top being looked upon unfavorably by the gods
Assemblage
An artwork made out of 3D found objects
Jolene Rickard's Corn Blue Room is an example of ________.
An installation art
The deity at the center of the persistent on the Temple of Zeus at Olympia who brings order to the scene is _
Apollo
Impasto
Application of thick paint
Vasily Kandinsky the artist of improvisation #30 believed _
Art should express an inner spiritual necessity
In Hunfers Book of the Dead, how is his heart depicted?
As the representation of his soul, in a canopic jar, being weighed against a feather, as a symbol that he lived an honorable life
Why might the paintings at Lascaux be considered sacred?
Because the site was visited repeatedly and painted again and again
The ecstasy of St Teresa was meant to show Teresa _
Being pierced by an angels arrow, being infused with divine love, as a devout Christian, as a role model to be followed by other devout Christians
Designer Gerrit Rietveld preferred a limited color pallet of _
Black, white and primary colors
Which of the following tendencies and formal concerns did the artist of Recumbent Figure incorporate into his sculpture?
Both European and non-western artistic traditions, natural forms, such as mountains and valleys, the integration of solid forms and voids, the organic contours of the materials used
Juan's Gris's bottle of Banyuls includes an actual _ as part of the composition
Bottle label
How does constantin Brancusi's bird in space distill the vital qualities of a bird?
By reminding us of bird or feather shapes for the soaring quality of flight
Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light?
Caravaggio and Rembrandt
Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of:
Chiaroscuro, tenebrism, dramatic lighting
The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.
Classical Greek sculptures
A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?
Claude Monet
What is the medium of Andy Goldsworthy's Japanese Maple Leaves?
Color photography
Which of the following architectural features did Renaissance artist borrow from the classical tradition?
Columns, pediments, semicircular arches, hemispherical domes
Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ in the most important figure in his painting of the last supper by _
Locating Christ at the center of the composition, creating a stable triangular form for Christ, in contrast of activity of the other figures, framing Christ's head with the light from the windows behind, ranging the vanishing point directly behind Christ'shead
Sofonisba Anguissola was part of which of the following movements?
Mannerism
Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid to late sixteenth century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal?
Mannerism
Grant Wood's American Gothic is _
Meant to reflect the American Values of individuality, morality and hard work
Which of the following approaches is characterized by artwork that has aggressive lines, rough texture and personal narratives?
Neo-Expressionism
Which of the following approaches is characterized by artwork that has aggressive lines, rough textures, and personal narrative
Neo-Expressionism
When and where was the artist of Olympia working?
Nineteenth-century France
Portrait of Gertrude Stein was made by which artist?
Pablo Picasso
En plein air
Painting outdoors
Which religion specifically emphasized the natural elements such as the sun, mountains, water, and trees, are connoted to well being?
Shinto
The subject matter of Buddhist art consists of _
Stories from Buddha's life, teachings and beliefs
The sculpture of a head, which probably represented the king of Ife, was made using what medium?
Terra-cotta
Durers print the last supper reflect the ideas of
The Protestant reformation
French artist JR's women are hero's shows
The faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro
Which type of beauty does Kaigetsudo Dohans painting Beautiful Women represent?
The inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geihsa
Which of the following issues are raised by Yasumasa Morimuras Portrait (Futago)?
The meaning of an artwork gains depth when one knows about the context, race and gender can be seen as artificial constructions, we should not make assumptions about identity based on appearances, or understanding of who we are can be directly influenced by the past
Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa depicts
The results of a shipwreck off the coast of west Africa
A dreamlike environment is created in Giorgio De Chirico's The Melancholy and Mystery of the Street by:
The unclear narrative, the looming shot around the corner, the Galatians of colors in the sky, the fact that the girl in the foreground is her self is a shadow
Joesph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs consists of _
Three things that a chair could be
Which of the following nudes are as made first and served as an influence to others?
Titan, Venus of Urbino
Navajo sand paints are made _
To heal an individual and restore balance to the community
To make their artwork appear realistic, renaissance art is sometimes distorted the ways certain objects and elements looked
True
What was the artist of Olympia trying to do?
Update a classical subject for his own time
How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?
Using painted paper cutouts
Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks?
Walking Man
Readymade
an everyday object presented as a work of art
Raphaels school of Athens contains:
ancient scholars looking like sixteenth-century artists
visionary art
art by a self taught artist following a personal vision
The colors of the bodies and trees in Matisse's Joy of Life are ________.
based on what the artist saw, but exaggerated
Which of the following was used to make the sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty?
canon of proportions
Which of the following design elements relate to baroque art and architecture?
diagonal movement, curving forms, dramatic lighting
fin de siecle
end of the century
Salons, such as the one depicted in Pietro Martini's print of 1785, were visited by:
public, painters, and critics
What happened to the woman featured in Migrant mother after Dorothea Lange Photographed her?
she was ashamed of the photograph
The subject of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ________.
the July Revolution of 1830 in France
