Seeing and Knowing Visual Art 1100 Final Exam Study Guide
How does Paul Strand emphasize the formal play of visual elements in Abstraction, Porch Shadows
The overhead shot makes real space appear flat
What trait do Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon (Wunkirmian) share?
They are both based on the human form.
What is similar between Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's Detached Building and Isidro Escamilia's Virgin of Guadalupe?
They are both narratives
Old Mick Tjakmarra's Honey Ant Dreaming is a good example of which type of art
abstraction
What must be considered to achieve balance in sculpture and architecture?
actual weight
In Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway, J.M W. Turner employs
aerial perspective
What did Alexander Calder employ to create movement in Untitled (1976)?
air currents
What was the inspiration for Grace Ndiritu's Still Life: White Textiles?
an exhibition of work by Henri Matisse
What is the source of Chinese artist Hung Liu's paintings of women?
archival photographs
In Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks, the mountains in the backyard are an example of
atmospheric perspective
In Figure of a Woman, Paul Colin uses
chiaroscuro
The restoration of Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has revealed that the
color was more saturated
Visual literacy enables the viewer to
communicate the effects of a work of art
Ellsworth Kelly Brier exhibits which type of lines?
contour
What "temperature" is associated with the color blue-green?
cool
Which of the following is a requirement as an artist?
openness
In Vincent van Gogh's The Sower, the line showing the circular shape of the sun would be best considered an
outline
According to Grace Ndiritu, Henri Matisse creates a hallucinogenic quality by
overlapping patterns
Which of the following colors is considered a tint?
pink
What kind of colors are red, yellow, and blue?
primary
The artists of Doryphoros (The Spear Bearer) and The Vitruvian Man both were concerned with
proportion
In his view, Matthew Ritchie uses straight lines because they
represent a wound or direction
Kara Walker's A Subtlety manipulates which design principle for expressive effect?
scale
In using trompe l'oeil for the Oregon Historical Society mural, Richard Haas was trying to convince the audience that the
sculptures are three dimensional
The cool colors in Romare Bearden's She-ba provide
serenity
What formal element does Ellsoworth Kelly focus on in Three Panels: Orange, Dark Grey, Green?
shape
Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates orients line so as to emphasize
stability
The primary meaning of design in art is to
structure a work into a coherent whole
The pipe in Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images is an example of
subject matter
Texture refers to the
surface quality of a work
What element of design contributes to the religious content of Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, showing a unified theological universe?
symmetrical balance
What visual devices create the contrasting symbolic relationship between reality and utopia in Wenda Gu's united nations- china monument: temple of heaven?
the cursive writing and the table
What motivated Renaissance artists to mathematically codify a system of perspective?
the desire to create the illusion of real space on two dimensional surfaces
In her series Grey Area (including the work Berlimer Platze), Julie Mehretu used place, space, and time to symbolize
the intricacies of communal space
An analysis of scale in Do-Ho Suh's Public Figures would be most likely to address
the overall dimensions of the sculpture
The Amida Buddha and Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami share
the use of iconography
Why does Hung Liu use drips in her painting?
to achieve a sense of liberation
Why does Gianlorenzo Bernini imply movement in his figure of David?
to energize the narrative
Why does Phillip K. Smith II add mirrors and lights to an old shack in Lucid Stead?
to heighten the viewers awareness of the pace of change within the desert
The primary goal of Cai Guo-Quiang's Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 1,000 meters: Project for Extraterrestriels No. 10 was to
transform our experience of the world
Decorative pattern is commonly associated with
utilitarian objects
The white field in Kazimir Malevich's Black Square represents the
void beyond feeling
What kind of color scheme did Artemisia Gentileschi use in Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes?
warm
The content of a work of art refers to
what the work means or expresses
Herzog & de Meuron built the Bird's Nest, an Olympic Stadium in
Beijing
What is a characteristic of both Trriumphal Entry (a page from a manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnamah) and Kazimir Malevich's Black Square
Both are nonrepresentational works of art
How are time and motion treated similarly in Claude Monet's Water Lillies, Morning: Willows and Jackson Polluck's No. 32, 1950?
Both compositions force the viewers eye to keep moving
Which of the following is true of both Duccio's Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin and Leonardo de Vinci's The Last Supper?
Both have receding lines that emphasize the main figure
What do Michelangelo's David and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase have in common?
Both were originally rejected by the public.
What distinguishes Eugene Delacroix's approach to painting from that of Jacques-Louis David?
The emotional emphasis of his work
In what way is Howling Wolf's Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek's Lodge a more accurate account of the treaty signing than John Taylor's more realistic drawing?
It includes specific details related to the landscape, tribal identity, and the presence of women.
Muslims and sixteenth-century Protestants share
a distrust of religious images
Bridget Riley's Drift No. 2 is an example of
Op Art
Which artist has explored the properties of gunpowder as a tool for making works of art?
Cai Guo-Quiang
Which of the following artists depends on optical color mixing to construct representational images composed of abstract squares?
Chuck Close
What is the effect of two-point linear perspective?
The composition becomes more dynamic
How does Faith Ringgold's God Bless America differ from Jasper John's Flag?
It addresses racial tensions that spawned the Civil Rights movement.
Which of the following types of work is most likely to exhibit a significant degree of realism?
A portrait photograph from the 1950s
What style does Willem de Kooning use in his painting North Atlantic Light?
Abstraction
Which of these artists produced many pieces of kinetic art?
Alexander Calder
Which of the following works directly raises politically challenging issues?
Andy Warhol's Race Riot
What helps contribute to the violence seen in Cheri Samba's Calvary?
Angular line
Who was the first artist to work with fluorescent light?
Dan Flavin
How does Albrecht Durer create the illusion of space in Draftsman Drawing a Female Nude?
He employs one-point linear perspective
How has Martin Puryear changed his approach to works of art from Self, to Untitled IV, 2002?
He uses a two dimensional medium to create shape
Why did Jackson Pollock place his canvas on the floor?
He wanted to be able to walk around it and work from all four sides
How does Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph Lisa Lyon use line to subvert conventional representations of women?
It uses strong horizontal and vertical lines.
George Green's...marooned in dreaming: a path of song and mind would be considered an example of trompe l'oeil because
Its painted frame fools the eye
The crown, the name "SAMO," and the letter "X" are all part of the personal iconography of
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Edouard Manet's Olympia assumes which fundamental role?
Making a visual record of the people, places or events of a time and place
How does Manuel Neri's Mujer Pegada Series No. 2 differ from Max Ernst's The Horde?
Neri's work has actual texture
What is Diego Velazquez suggesting about our role as the viewer in Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)?
That we are a focal point
What does Rebellious Silence by Shirin Neshat suggest about the role of women in Islamic Iran?
They are in solidarity with men in rejection of Western Culture
What do Vincent van Gogh's and Sol LeWitt's lines have in common?
They are recognizably their own
What is similar in Shirin Neshat's Fervor and Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr?
They both employ contrast
What formal qualities do William A. Garnett's Erosion and Strip Farms East Slope of the Tehachapi Mountains and Michelangelo's Pieta have in common?
They both highlight areas of light and dark
How are Philip K. Smith III's Lucid Stead and Alexander Calder's United similar?
They both rely on actual movement
How are the lines of Vincent van Goghs drawing The Sower similar to Eugene Delacroix's Study for The Death of Sardanapalus?
They emphasize movement.
How did Japanese artists such as Utagawa Hiroshige approach the idea of foreshortening?
They ignored the middle ground
What do Paul Strand's Geometric Backyards, New York and Paul Cezannes Mme. Cezanne in Red Armchair have in common?
They resist traditional perspective
How does the Western experience of Oceanic, African, and Native American art typically differ from the experience of the works in their cultures of origin?
Westerners typically approach these works in museums as "art", but in their original cultures, they were functional objects.
Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary was intended to bring
beauty and ugliness together
In which of these pairs are the colors analogous?
blue-violet and blue
How does Pat Steir use line to express pleasure in The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style?
by combining a variety of styles
How does Rembrandt create shadow in The Three Crosses?
denser line
In Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso draws influence from African sculpture, allowing him to
depart from exact representation of his subjects
Iconoclasm is the practice of
destroying images
What is Terry Winters's Color and Information attempting to transform into this painting?
digital information
What color does the blue represent in Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks?
divinity
In order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view in The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utlizes
foreshortening
In The Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck represents many key figures of the Christian religion, thereby primarily fulfilling which role of the artist?
giving form to the immaterial
Where does Frieda Kahlo introduce variety in her symmetrical composition Las Dos Fridas (The Two Fridas?)
her clothes
What most likely explains Pablo Picasso imagery in Seated Bather (La Baigneuse)
his desire to express revulsion toward the subject
What aspect of Renzo Piano's design for the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center reflects ideas associated with "green architecture"?
his use of wood and bamboo as primary building materials
What allows the viewer to understand a larger sequence of events from a single image?
implied motion
The negative space in the Rubin vase is
in both the white and dark areas, depending on how you look at it
A noticeable visual element in Henri Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) is the
lack of spatial depth
Emphasis is created in both Georges de La Tour's Joseph the Carpenter and Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using
light
What kind of color is being used if apples are painted red?
local
For Vincent van Gogh, the figure of The Sower represents
longing for the infinite
