ART 101 FINAL STUDY GUIDE

Why was Tilted Arc controversial?

a. Because some people believed it was a safety hazard b. Because some people thought it was ugly c. Because some people thought it would encourage criminal activity d. Because some people thought it could attract terrorists e. All the above*

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of ________?

A Readymade

The crouching male Olmec transformation figure is becoming which animal

A jaguar

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of ________ painting.

An Academic

Art from South Africa in the Chapter is known as ________

Andean

Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.

Architect

The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in?

Catacombs

Which of the following space shuttle launches inspired Rauschenberg's lithograph Hotshot

Columbia

Metopes are an element of which architectural order?

Corinthian

Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque part of which movement?

Cubism

Which of the following cultures did not have a written language?

Cycladic

When columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint, this is called ________?

Entasis

Artworks based on which of these religions can be found in India

a. Buddhismb. Hinduism c. Islam d. Buddhism and Hinduism e. All of the above*

What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing

a. Dancing the world into existence b. Balancing contradictory qualities c. Bringing life the endless cycle of birth and rebirth d. Stamping out evil and ignorance e. All the above

Spirituality encompasses________.

a. Our sense of connected to others b. Our awareness of both mind and body c. Our wish to understand lifes meaning and the world around us d. Both A and B e. All the above*

Artwork in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries can be _____

a. Representational b. Abstract c. Non-Objective d. Experimental e. All of the Above*

Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?

a. Revolutions in France and America b. The Enlightenment c. The Age of Reason d. Industrialization e. All of the above*

Conceptual art emphasizes_______.

a. The way the final artwork looks and exists in the world b. The ideas behind the artwork over its realization c. How many theories an artwork can reference d. What is actually there over what we know to be there e. All of the above*

A shaman is a person who_______.

acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans

What does Trompe L'oeil mean

Fool the eye

Which of the following materials was considered most valuable by the Spanish?

Gold

Who painted Paris Street, Rainy Day?

Gustave Caillebotte

The Great Stupa __________

Holds the Buddha's remains

The Great Sphinx of Giza is associated with the pyramid of which pharoah?

Khafre

The synagogue in Dura Europos was built in this period

Late Antiquity

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man

Leonardo

The goddess Tlazolteotl was responsible for_________.

Life and death

The tall towers surrounding a mosque, from which the faithful are called to prayer, are called

Minarets

There are _______placed on the spires of the Great Mosque at Djenne in Mali

Ostrich Eggs

Sacred Yombe objects are called nkisi nkondi. The singular nkisi means ________.

Sacred Medicine

Which of the following tools or materials was the main one Matisse used to make his cutouts?

Scissors

The parts of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa that remain are made of?

Stone

Ziggurats of the ancient Near East served as _________.

Temples and civic centers

Which of the following materials was considered the most valuable by the Inca?

Textiles

Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts?

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from?

The Middles Ages

The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?

The Northern Renaissance

For whom is the message contained in I Am Your Grandma intended

The artist's future unborn grandchild

Monticello was built for and by________.

Thomas Jefferson

A colophon is a kind of?

Writing

Which of the following influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat, as seen in his painting The Nile?

a. African Heritage b. Earlier Artworks c. African-American Experience d. Earlier Artworks e. Linguistics f. All of the above*

The doors of the Church of Saint Michael's at Hildesheim, Germany,________.

a. Are made of bronze b. Depict scenes from the book of Gensis c. Depict secenes from the life of Christ d. Pair Old and New Testament stories from the Christian Bible e. All the above*

Community Art may be______.

a. Be made by numerous people b. Be made for large numbers of viewers c. Be situated in public places. d. Represent the common interests of a group e. All the above*