The Power of Art
One of the most famous Japanese National Treasures is the ________ carved in the eleventh century by the sculptor Jocho.
Amida Buddha
Some of the earliest known paintings were done by the Ice Age cave dwellers who painted the caves at Lascaux which is located in present day ________ .
France
The Renaissance court painter Hans Holbein the Younger painted ________ to show how art is sometimes used to declare the power of the ruler.
Henry VIII
________ painted the Mona Lisa, which is one of the most well-known works of art in the Western world.
Leonard da Vinci
The Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C was designed by the artist ________
Maya Ying Lin
The Nineteenth Century French painter Courbet was a ________ .
Realist
Elizabeth's Murray's painting, Kitchen Painting, exhibits ________ in the shaped canvases.
a spontaneous playfulness
In the Seventeenth Century Mughal manuscript painting "Jahangir Prefers a Sufi Shaikh to Kings" Jahangir prefers the offerings of
a wise old saint
The fertility symbol The Venus of Willendorf was meant to be touched, held, carried, and worshipped. These small objects were not necessarily meant to be beautiful and were known as ________ .
amulets
The Latin word ars which means "skill" is the source for the term ________ .
art
The earliest known paintings were painted by tribal Ice Age cave dwellers whose primary subjects were ________
bulls, horses and bison
Art work that is created by an untrained artist is sometimes called ________
folk art
The artist Bettye Saar used ________ when she created The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.
found objects
Willem de Kooning's painting of A Woman and a Bicycle has caused some people to remark, ________ .
my child could paint that
Originally was challenged when Andy Warhol created 30 Are Better Than One (Mona Lisa) because _______
of the multiplication of images
Ansel Adams's Clearing Winter Storm is an example of ________ .
photography
The classical sculpture of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus by the artist Praxiteles is an example of the Greek's desire to express their ideals of ________ .
physical beauty and athletic strength
The Navaho ________ "eye-dazzler" is an example of crafts or decorative arts.
rug
________ is Italian for "the soft mist of a fountain".
sfumato
Eskimos of the Arctic Circle could contact the spirits of animate and inanimate objects through a magician or priest called a ________ .
shaman
The Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris has soaring vertical lines, paintings and statues and ________ , which are expressions of religious art.
stained glass windows
In the painting The Little Dear, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo expresses her ________ .
suffering
The design of New Zealand's $10 bill has imagery on it that represents ________ .
the country's past and future
Pipilotti Rist's ________ , Selfless in the Bath of Lava, questions the viewer's attitudes toward art.
video installation
To understand art our primary question should be ________ ?
why does it look this way?
