Quiz two

motif

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a _____

Taoism

Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern Philosophy, especially _____.

elements

Any of the _____ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

blood spurting from Holofernes's neck

Artemisia Gentileschi uses directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw attention to this point

close-up

Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.

all the other answers

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

supernatural

Dorothea Tanning's work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik uses deliberately distorted scale to create an abnormal or _____ effect.

all of the other answers

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

are evenly balanced

In The Legend of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures _____

palm

In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurements. Six of these equaled a cubit.

small scale

In his figural portraits, Robert Lostutter uses this kind of scale to create an intimate viewing experience.

Raphael

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

water

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

subordination

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

contrast

In the painting The Blue Room, the artist uses three patterns that ____.

shapes

In the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," the artist oriented three _____ in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

Distorts

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

a symbol of mortality

Memento Mori refers to:

Bai

On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a _____

A community in Harlem, New York

Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem is about:

Prayer figures

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

Peace Corps

The African-American sculptor Martin Puryear was influenced by the time he spent in Africa as a member of the _____.

spiritual

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

Cordoba

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

c. monumental

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

head

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 measurements in the work.

Field

The area covered by a pattern is called the _____

Henry Peach Robinson

The composition of this photographer's work. Fading Away appears to conform to a proportional ratio called the Golden Section.

monumental

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called _____ scale.

Subordination

The opposite of emphasis is _____.

wanted artists to be of high status

The presence of Velazquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ____

proportions

The relationship between sizes of different parts of a work make up its _____.

irregular

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature using _____ rhythm.

India

The seventeenth-century huqqa base was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in _____

motifs

The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India uses repeated, stylized flowers as ____ to create a strong, unified design.

proportions

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

Chuck Close

This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait

Peter Bruegel

This sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer's eye through the work.

. all of the other answers

Thomas Struth photographs ____

False

True or false: Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.

That he was a member of the Order of Santiago

What does the cross on Velazquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?

considers the artist's personal experiences

What is the definition of the 'methodological approach' for biographical analysis?

considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed

What is the definition of the 'methodological approach' for contextual analysis?

considers the role of women in an artwork

What is the definition of the 'methodological approach' for feminist analysis?

analyses the use of formal elements in a work

What is the definition of the 'methodological approach' for formal analysis?

interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols

What is the definition of the 'methodological approach' for iconographical analysis?

Facade

What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?

hierarchical scale

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

broad emphasis

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

Loneliness

the atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of streetlights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ____.