Art 160

The Emperor Justinian I can be linked to which of the following major works of architecture?

Hagia Sophia in present-day Turkey San Vitale in Ravenna none of the previous answers the monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai

In this sixteenth-century work, the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel uses rhythm to direct the viewer's attention through the work.

Hunters in the Snow

Name an artist that created woodcuts that depicted images using both positive and negative space. He created Tessalations.. He explored figure-ground reversal where removed material prints white and preserved material prints black. For an extra ½ point name the date he produced the print - Sky and Water ________. His name was:

MC Escher

What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy? [MC L1]

Mosaic

Which painter and watercolorist was the first woman to have her work shown at the Louvre during her lifetime?

Sonia Delaunay

Christ as the Good Shepherd was a common theme in early Christian art.

True

Frederic Edwin Church created the medium of oil paint on Canvas to represent the beauty and power of the landscape to symbollize the presence of God in nature and to be a landmark for America. This is an of a realistic depiction of Niagara falls which is painted as a result of self expression about how the Frederic viewed the landscape.

True

In the sixth-century Christ icon from the monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai (3.36), the artist represented the dual nature of Christ as both human and god.

True

The carving technique Michelangelo used for his sculpture Awakening Slave makes the figure appear to be permanently trapped within the stone.

True

The manuscript painting of The Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad on his Steed from a copy of Nizami's Khamsa (3.43) shows Muhammad and the angel Gabriel surrounded by flames. These flames are symbolic rather than literal.

True

The term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world."

True

True or false: iconoclasm is the destruction of images.

True

An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called ________.

a kouros

The Dura Europos synagogue contains ________.

a shrine for the Torah

Artists who model forms using soft pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.

armature

Scroll to view the image below that uses negative and positive space. The image in the negative space is to be a symbol suggested for speed and precision. That symbol that is not easily seen but embedded in the negative space is an (Fed EX)

arrow

What method of sculpture is the artist using when he or she gathers objects and fabricates them into an artwork?

assemblage

Japanese woodblock printer Kitagawa Utamaro was most famous for his depictions of ________.

beautiful women

Artists use ________ _____________ to draw the outline or outer edge of the subject. This can be seen in especially in Cartoons. This is evident in Drawings by Matisse and Picasso.

c. Contour Lines

Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist, practiced what kind of painting when he created large-scale works to celebrate the Socialist movement in Mexico?

fresco

Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because __________

he wanted to develop his own individual style

Artemisia Gentileschi lived at a time when women were not easily accepted into the art profession but she was supported by ______, who was also an artist.

her father

The Great Stupa ________.

holds remains of Buddha

This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space

installation

Such artists as Jan van Eyck took advantage of the transparency of oil paint glazes to attain a rich ______ , as though lit from within.

luminosity

What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?

mosaic

In Islamic art it is not uncommon to see complex interlaced __________, which are designs repeated as units in a pattern.

motifs

Forms or shapes that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________

organic

The artist Chuck Close used a repeated pattern of organic concentric rings set into a diamond pattern to create his large __________ .

paintings

This type of arch was integrated into Gothic architecture in order to help direct the worshiper's gaze upward.

pointed

The objects made by the Pacific Island cultures often have both ________.

practical usefulness and sacred significance

The artistic traditions of Africa and the Pacific Islands share

prominence given to mythological beliefs, ancestor worship, and lineage a reliance on traditional methods of construction and decoration a tendency to integrate and respond to the environment

Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture is created to be viewed from one side only.

relief

Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.

sculpture

Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as __________

signs or symbols

Because art from Africa and the Pacific Islands follows traditional methods, it:

tends to look the same over long periods of time

The cross bars on the Kanaga mask made by the Dogon people of Mali (3.106) represent ________.

the upper realm of the sky and the realm of the earth below

A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:

what was in the foreground and background

African masks are most meaningful to the groups that made them:

when they are being used in ceremonial performances or masquerades

The medium of the Yoruba twin figure (3.103) is ________.

wood

A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called ________ sculpture.

(a) a kinetic

What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?

(b) they were created without metal tools

The traditional Japanese textile art of tsumugi-ori has been lost and forgotten over time.

False

This African-American artist created the work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (2.4.18) from an assemblage of found objects

Betye Saar

What is not true about the Great Stupa?

Buddha's portrait appears in artworks throughout

The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period.

Byzantine

Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?

Chiseling

For the Chinese, calligraphy, painting, and poetry were three entirely separate artforms.

False

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.

False

The Easter Island moai figures are identical, with no unique individual features.

False

Chuck Close's Self Portrait of 1997 is made up of small units that are unrecognizable, or __________ .

abstract

The juxtaposition of different buildings and styles of architecture in New York City creates a composition like ________ painting.

cubist

The moai of Easter Island represent:

deified ancestors who were chiefs

Psychological analysis of Nighthawks by the artist Edward Hopper tells us that the painter was __________

expressing loneliness

Cowrie shells in artworks by both African and Pacific Island peoples often represent:

fertility

If you were to build a cathedral with a huge stainedglass window covering nearly an entire wall, you would use these architectural features to ensure the building's structural stability.

flying buttresses

Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before?

flying buttresses and rib vaults