ARTH Quiz 2

Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures. True/False

False

Scale can change the way a work is perceived by a viewer. By choosing to make his painting very large, the French artist Jean-François Millet elevated the importance of a group of old women working in a field. What is the name of this work?

The Gleaners

An interior design that uses only straight lines might lack the visual interest of a more varied composition. True/Fals

True

What is the difference between analysis and critique?

analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself

In the print (1.8.6) from the series The Life of John Brown by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________.

are evenly balanced

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.

balance

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

broad emphasis

The recurrence of a single element in a work of art is called ________.

pattern

In the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.9), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water

In Dieric Bouts's work The Coronation of the Virgin Mary, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary—even though the Holy Trinity is present—by ________.

**all of the other answers -dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures -placing the Virgin in the center -directing all other figures eyes toward the Virgin -placing a dove above the Virgin's head

Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.

**all of the other answers -placement -direction -dramatic contrasts -line

Which of the following can create a pattern?

**all of the other answers -the warp and weft of woven cloth -dried, cracked mud -stacks of cans -fish scales

The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.

Córdoba

Feminist analysis of Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres considers the role of women in nineteenth-century France, but not viewers' perspectives on gender. True/False

False

Photographers cannot be responsible for principles of scale or proportion in their photographs. True/False

False

Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past. True/False

False

The neighborhood shown in Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem could represent any neighborhood in America in the 1930s. True/False

False

The principle of rhythm does not apply to photography. True/False

False

This Native American artist created the work Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) by combining different kinds of objects, both two- and three-dimensional, to give the work a strong sense of presence. Who is this artist?

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understanding the meaning of Velázquez's Las Meninas. True/False

True

The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this twentieth-century French painter.

Valadon

Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?

a blog about a painting

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ________.

a focal point in the artwork

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

a repetitive

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.

conceptual

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

distorts

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.

draw attention to Icarus's fall

In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

format

Joseph Cornell created boxes that contain compositions of ________ objects.

found

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

golden section

Romare Bearden's work The Dove uses an underlying ________ reflecting the city streets to create a sense of order.

grid

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

head

The Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg uses this kind of scale in his sculptures to express admiration for the little things in everyday life.

monumental

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.

motif

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

proportions

When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.

rebel against

The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate ________ importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.

spiritual

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.

subordination

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

unity

An artist creates an artwork made up of many different shapes, all in varying shades of blue. This artwork uses the following principles of art:

unity and variety