AH II Exam 3

The secular destiny renounced for the spiritual life represents the dual nature of the Buddha. Which of the following artworks represents that dual nature?

Emerald Buddha

Chinese gardens encourage the viewer to wander and ponder. The viewer was to look with a meditative eye at the arrangements of natural and artificial elements. Which of the following elements would appear in Chinese garden design?

Fantastic rockwork

Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them.

Flattening forms

The rulers of the Punjab Hills states were related to the Rajputs. Which of the following subjects would the Punjab Hills states rulers' commission for painting?

Stories of krishna, avatar of Vishnu

When confined to the reservations, Plains Indians took to recording their past exploits and history. They also recorded their reactions to their new surroundings often far from their places of birth. Which of the following would they use for this purpose of record-keeping?

Ledger books

____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect

Louis Henry Sullivan

Which of the following would account for the success of the Inka to control their empire?

Superb system of roads

A splashed-ink picture often hovers at the edge of liability. Which of the following describes this style?

Rapid brush strokes, sometimes even dripping the ink onto the paper

Describe the aesthetic principles that were developed around the late 15th century and grew to have importance in the tradition of the tea ceremony and the utensils used.

Sabi, value found in the old and weatherd and wabi, value found in refined simplicity.

Henry Moore's Reclining Figure is said to have been inspired by ____.

a pre-Columbian figure, the chacmool

What is another name commonly used for the former Imperial Palace Compound?

Forbidden city

Which area of India resolutely resisted Mughal expansion?

Northwestern India

Which of the following never supplanted India's rich tradtions?

Western religion

The North Coast Indians used masks for which of the following types of ceremonies?

healing rituals

Marco Polo's travels in China during the Yuan dynasty resulted from which of the following?

increased trade between Europe and China

Which of the following is the preferred medium for East Asian literati?

ink on paper

India gained independence from the British in what year?

1947

The People's Republic of China was established in ____.

1949

When can humans join the Katsina world?

After death

Where is Taj Mahal?

Agra

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?

Alexander Calder

Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

Chuck Close

How did Barnet Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?

By simplifying the composition

What is the Chinese term for the Japanese Zen

Chan

Which of the following statements about Dada is tue?

Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art

Who belonged to the Pittura Metafisica movement, which greatly influenced Surrealism?

De Chirico

Gopuras, a very popular structural motif, can be found in temple complexes in the far south of India. Which of the following describes this structural motif?

Gateway Towers

Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties

Helen Frankenthaler

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul

Which of the following religions was growing as a political and religious force in 13th-century India?

Islam

The placement of the relief of the Coyolxauhqui was critical not only to Aztec religious observances but also to the political persona of the empire. Which of the following was the location of the relief?

It was placed at the bottom of Great temple's stairs.

Why is Machu Picchu of great archeological importance?

It was undisturbed since Inka times

The Ming bureaucracy allowed China to be overrun by this group of invaders who then established the Qing dynasty. Which of the following invaders is that group?

Manchus

A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and eastern philosophy.

Marcel Duchamp

The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focsued on color was ______

Mark Rothko

In ____, the angularity of the figures rough paint surface contributed to the save nature of scene.

Max Beckmann's Night

Which of the following Postclassic groups was considered preeminent in the art of writing?

Maya

The last Chinese native dynasty was which of the following?

Ming

Dry landscape or rock gardens became very popular in Japan during which of the following periods?

Muromachi

The Great Temple, Madurai, has extremely rich ornamentation. Which of the following is the subject matter of this ornament?

Pantheon of Hindu deities and attendants

Which of the following is a characteristic of literati painting?

Personal conversation in pictures and words

Which of the following animals represented Inka royal power in art?

Puma

The Inka imposed not only political and economic controls over the conquered populations but also artistic control as well. Which of the following was an example of their artistic control?

The conquered had to wear local dress at all times

Coatlicue is the mother of the gods according to Aztec mythology. She is at once savage and awful, and all her attributes symbolize sacrificial death. Which of the following would be one of those attributes?

The excised human heart she wears as a necklace

What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive lonliness of modern humans

Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

The social history of Missouri

Hokusai's The Grate Wave off Kanagawa combines Western and Japanese traditions. Which of the following describes the Japanese tradition?

The wave is more traditionally flat and in the foreground.

Indian miniatures were designed for which of the following?

To be held in the hands

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

An alcove used to display prized objects or hang scrolls of painting or calligraphy is called which of the following?

Tokonama

The goal of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____

create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

documentary photos at the time of the performance

When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?

during the 1950s

By the 19th century, the British were the official rulers of India. They brought the Industrial Revolution and railroads to India. The Victoria Terminus was conceived of as which of the following?

A cathedral to modernization

which of the following are the descendants of the nomadic hunters who arrived in the southwest from Northwestern Canada sometime between 1200 and 1500?

Apache

The ancient art of creating quilled beaded, and painted clothing has evolved into elaborate costumes today for which of the following ceremonies?

Competitive dances called powows

What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Cubism

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationship?

Cézanne

The photographer ____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor

Dorothea Lange

Which phrase best expresses the sculptures style of Boccioni?

Dynamic movement

Which of the following works demonstrates the Furturists' interest in motion?

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Nishiki-e, or brocade, pictures were highly valued because of their sumptuous and brilliant colors as well as being printed on best-quality paper. During which of the following periods were such works created?

Edo

Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?

Edward Weston

The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.

Impressionism

Navajo sand paintings, or dry paintings, are used in sacred ceremonies and destroyed at the ceremony's conclusions. Prototypes are passed from artist to artist and must be strictly followed because mistakes can render the ceremony ineffective. Based on this information, which of the following would describe sand, or dry, painting?

It is highly stylized

Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?

It replaces traditional stationary artworks

Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?

It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

Jackson Pollock

Who did Bichitr include in a portrait of Jahangir?

James I of England

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of _____.

Japanese woodblock prints

During the Qing dynasty what European group was invited to the imperial court?

Jesuit missionaries

During the Ming dynasty, which of the following was considered the most prestigious painting style?

Landscape painting

____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.

Louis Henry Sullivan

____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms

Louise Nevelson

_____ developed the teory of Neoplasticism.

Mondrian

The Great Temple at Madurai is dedicated to____.

Shiva and his consort

Rajput paintings resembles Mughal and Persian painting. It can be said that the resemblance is in format and material. Which of the following would indicate a sharp difference from Mughal and Persian Painting?

Most Rajput artists were anonymous

Plains peoples' shield paintings were often based on which of the following?

Personal religious visions

The feathered serpent is one guise for which Mesoamerican diety?

Quetzalcoatl

The Delhi sultanate was established in 1206 by _____.

Qutb al-Din Aybak

Which of the following artists went to China and studied with Ming masters?

Sesshu Toyo

Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining the Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?

Stuart Davis

The Berlin version of collage, which consisted of "found" details, was called____.

photomontage

The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.

the sunlight of the portal

Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa combines Western and Japanese traditions. Which of the following describes the Japanese tradition?

the wave is more traditionally flat and in the foreground

The portrait of Jaswant Singh was created in which of the following media?

watercolor on paper

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her painting are inhabited by

women and children