Visual Art- Test 1

Iconoclast translates as______

"image breaker."

The first exhibition that introduced most Americans to "modern" art was what?

1913 Armory Show in New York.

Lorna Simpson's series, The Park, includes both images and printed words. The text contributes to the prints in a way that makes the viewer more active in the work. What does the viewer become?

A voyeur

How does abstract art differ from nonrepresentational art?

Abstract art may refer to the objective world, whereas nonrepresentational art does not.

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in The Women of Avignon?

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

African ritual masks

All of these works exhibit a significant degree of abstraction EXCEPT

Apollo Belvedere.

Which of the following artworks is an example of abstraction?

Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola

What is a characteristic of both Triumphal Entry (page from a manuscript of the Shahnamah of Firdawsi) and Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting?

Both are nonrepresentational works of art.

How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I similar to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Man's Love Story?

Both employ abstraction in their approach to the landscape.

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?

Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator."

Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:

European experience

Which of the following images is an example of representational art?

Howling Wolf, Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge

Why can no images be seen in this representation?

In Islamic culture, words were trusted more than images.

How is naturalism in art distinct from realism?

In naturalism, the artist takes a more subjective point of view than in realism.

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in

Islamic art.

How does text operate similarly in Lorna Simpson's She and Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

It calls attention to the viewer's preconceptions about the image.

In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:

René Magritte.

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?

Richard Serra

Faith Ringgold's God Bless America features an American flag turned into a prison cell. How is the figure of the woman contradictory?

She is both patriotic and racist

How does subject matter differ from content?

Subject matter is what is literally represented, while content is what an artwork means or expresses.

In René Magritte's painting The Treason of Images, the phrase "This is not a pipe" refers to which of the following concepts?

The image is a representation of a pipe but not the object itself.

Define subject matter.

The literal, visible image in a work of art, as distinguished from its content, which includes the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image.

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called:

iconography.

All of these are traditional religious symbols except the

man's fur tunic.

Abstract art

may depict the real world in unrecognizable form.

In Chapter 3, Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art. What are they?

monetary and intrinsic

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

mudra

When works of art like Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle, show no reference to the concrete world, it is usually called

non-objective.

All of the following terms apply to Albert Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak EXCEPT

nonobjective.

When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle (p. 29) shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:

nonrepresentational.

What characterizes the use of iconography in both Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Charles the First?

ordinary objects that convey elevated ideas

According to Sayre what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

reception, extraction, inference

We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in:

religious art

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider__________.

that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves

What specific component of the National Endowment for the Arts made works of art available to the general public?

the Arts in Public Places program

The representation of what subject has consistently aroused controversy throughout the history of the Western world?

the Christian god

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

the artist wearing a chador and holding a gun

All of the following are examples of the iconography of Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami EXCEPT

the bride's swelling stomach, representing her pregnancy.

What detail functions iconographically in both Amitabha Buddha (Amida) and Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami?

the hands

All of the following details in Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami are believed to convey symbolic meaning EXCEPT

the man's fur-lined hat.

Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola is based on ___________.

the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

Which of the following aspects of Albert Bierstadt's painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak renders the image naturalistic rather than realistic?

the substitution of the Alps for the Rocky Mountains

The lancet window at Chartres Cathedral, the Amitabha Buddha (Amida), and Jan Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami share

the use of iconography

If a Buddhist person in China is not able to tell that this image represents such scenes as the Annunciation of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi, it would likely be because he or she is

unfamiliar with the iconography.

This painting might represent a

wedding

The content of a work of art refers to

what the art means or expresses

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work expresses or means

Lorna Simpson's She and René Magritte's The Treason of Images both challenge the relations between

words and images.

Kazimir Malevich's Black Square demonstrates the

dynamic possibilities of pure form.

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

ledger drawings.

What is the content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?

It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West

Why would Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Man's Love Story be considered abstract?

Its representation of the world departs from observed reality.

Which of these works is nonobjective?

Kazimir Malevich's Black Square

What is the relationship between form and content?

They're opposed to each other; form is the literal shape and mass whereas content is the meaning of an image.

Where did the court painters for the 16th century Mughal ruler, Akbar, draw inspiration for their illuminated manuscripts?

Western paintings and prints

Jean-Michel Basquiat's work is known for

a highly personal iconographic system

Naturalism in art is

a personal and subjective approximation of reality

Iconography refers to

a system of symbolic imagery.

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Man's Love Story is a good example of which type of art?

abstraction

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be _______ rather than functional.

aesthetic

The distrust of images in both Islam and Protestantism derives from a(n)

an apprehension about emulating God's creation

Which of these is not a principle of "green architecture"?

architects look to continue to use building techniques and materials that have been in use since the Industrial Revolution in the West

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

calligraphy

The use of text within a work of art

can obscure or clarify the meaning of the work.

Visual literacy enables the viewer to

communicate the effects of a work of art.

Muslims and sixteenth-century Protestants share a(n)

distrust of images

What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?

ethnocentric

In Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini "wedding" portrait, the dog symbolizes what?

faithfulness and marital fidelity.

Where does Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama draw inspiration for her work?

from very personal visual and existential experiences of her surroundings

Which of these statements apply to the remarkable 16th century Mughal ruler, Akbar?

he promoted religious tolerance, inviting followers of many different religions to participate in his court

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

The stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral is an excellent example of the use of

iconography.

The subject matter of a work of art

is what is literally depicted.

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

it depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifledividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face

What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?

it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

Art historian Kenneth Clark's discussion of African masks underscores that

knowledge of art's cultural context is important to understanding its meaning.

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe

representational art

Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I could best be described as

representational but not realistic.

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon can best be described as

representational.

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view.

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

self-sufficiency.

The pipe could best be described as the __________ of René Magritte's The Treason of Images.

subject matter

By definition, a(n) __________ represents something more than its literal meaning.

symbol

It is most likely that the woman is portrayed holding her dress over midsection to

symbolically suggest pregnancy.

In Islamic culture, the word

takes precedence over images.