Module 1 Quiz: What is Art?

What is the title of this tromp-l'oeil painting by John Haberle? Bachelor's Collection Bachelor's Collage Bachelor's Comedy Bachelor's Drawer

Bachelor's Drawer

Select the correct artist. Georgia O'Keeffe Deigo Rivera Giacinto Diana Bouguereau

Bouguereau

Select the correct artist. Giacinto Diana Bouguereau Georgia O'Keeffe Deigo Rivera

Georgia O'Keeffe

Name the subject depicted in this stone statue. Gautama Buddha Athena Gudea Kublai Kahn

Gudea

Which artist said "Art for art's sake." That is, he could create art that served no other purpose than to express what he, as the artist, found to be elevation, harmonious, and pleasing to the eye, the mind, and the soul: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Johannes Vermeer James Whistler

James Whistler

Which architect is quoted as saying "form follows function?" Frank Gehry le Corbusier Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

In the late Middle Ages during widespread plague in Europe, images of ( ) were regularly commissioned for hospitals because of the legend of his miraculous healing and the hope that the images would be curative. Saint Francis Saint Sebastian Saint Mark Saint Luke

Saint Sebastian

How did Nineteenth-century art theorists define art? the institutional theory of art, which shifts focus from the work of art itself to who has the power to decide what is and is not art art is copying, or mimesis art is communication: it produces feelings in the viewer the idea of significant form, the quality shared by aesthetically pleasing objects

art is communication: it produces feelings in the viewer

In Western cultures, text is generally read left to right. Therefore, when they look at artwork, Western viewers tend to "enter" a picture on the upper left and proceed to the right. Objects that appear on the left side of an image are thought to be "first", while ones that appear on the right are thought to be "later." This agreed upon way of thinking, speaking, or acting in a social context is called what? institutional theory culture perceptions convention

convention

We need both art and science to exist in the world. From our earliest age, we both observe the world and do thins to change it. We are all both scientists and artists. Every human activity has Both a science ( ) and an art ( ) to it. allusion & disillusion objective & subjective observation & expression institutional theory & aesthetics

observation & expression

A ( ), is an object thought to have belonged to or been part of a holy person's body. Question 13 options: artifact souvenir halo relic

relic

Understood as a contemporary political critique, Géricault's Raft of the Medusa is an indictment of what? the traditions of the Royal Academy of Art the institution of slavery the French Monarchy Napoleon Bonaparte

the French Monarchy

What do Buddhist sand paintings know as mandalas represent? the relationship of decorative designs and the galaxy the objective relationship of human awareness and the visual arts the relationship of the individual to the whole and levels of human awareness the relationship between ceremony and order

the objective relationship of human awareness and the visual arts

What is Symbolism? an approach to defining art as a copy of perceived reality the use of images to represent ideas or qualities an approach to defining art as what we notice a person or thing regarded as representative of something, often religious

the use of images to represent ideas or qualities

What is the relic housed in Chartres Cathedral that inspired the veneration of pilgrims. head of John the Baptist tunic worn by the Virgin Mary Labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral crown of the Virgin Mary

tunic worn by the Virgin Mary