Art

be contemplated and entered spiritually

A Tibetan mandala is meant to ...

True

A lot of Earth Art is created to bypass the traditional gallery system. Part of the experience is the effort it takes to travel to a particular site.

Mosque

A mihrab is an architectural term most likely to be on display in a ...

Christianity

A nave and transept are likely found within which religion listed below. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam

walk around in a clockwise direction around the stupa

A practitioner of Buddhism would do what at a stupa?

True

Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement to originate in the United States.

Vincent Van Gogh

Although he had a relatively short career, this Postimpressionist was the most influential on a future generations of artists. Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet

mechanical

Andy Warhol wanted to create art that had a ______look.

25

Approximately how old was Bernini when he sculpted David out of marble? 45, 35, 25, 55

less is more

Architect Mies Van der Rohe believed the philosophy that...

honky-tonk-elements

Architect Robert Venturi believed that architecture should primarily include ...

Her father

Artemisia Gentileschi was a student of .... Bramante, her father, Goya, El Greco

Surrealism

Artists from this particular movement found inspiration in the unconscious mind and dreams. Surrealism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism

Orientalism

Asian art and culture became popular in the 1800's because there was a fascination toward exotic foreign lands. This is known as ...

True

Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity all contain symbolic visual content that express principles of each respective belief system. T/F

abandoned storefront

Claes Oldenburg was most likely to create his art and display it in a/an....

the figure triangle

Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is known for using a compositional device called ...

Yes

Do you personally--wile in your daily life--use abstractions on a regular basis? Y/N

El Greco

Domenikos Thetokopoulos is better known as .... Harikari, Tintoretto, ElGreco, El Goya

a deceased Christ held by his mother

During the Renaissance, a Pieta was an image that was used to visually describe

like the Greek god Apollo

Early representations of Christ often show him

False

Edouard Manet was an Impressionist painter. T/F

Monotheism

Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton introduced ______ to Egypt.

False

Figure 13-2 illustrates a step pyramid at Tikal whose primary purpose was to serve as grain storage. T/F

Suggests that Bonaparte is a strong military leader on a mission to conquer most of Europe.

Figure 16-7 Bonaparte Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass

family home

Figure 19-9 Villa Savoye is the 20th century answer to Villa Rotonda or Monticello. The function of this building was a ...

True

Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect whose buildings were designed in order to blend into nature. T/F

True

Henri Matisse's artwork did not illustrate struggle, shock, or tension. Instead, he was interested in how color and pattern could work together on a canvas. T/F

gathering leftover grains

Image 16-30 The gleaners shows three women...

right shoulder

In 1988, a portion of __________ fell off the Great Sphinx?

The idea that art had to be crafted by hand. The art of the object comes not in its craftsmanship but in its ability to express an idea. context could create meaning. Basically, that by taking an object and placing it in a different context, one could change the intent or meaning behind the object. The world is absurd. Beauty is subjective.

In what ways did Duchamp challenge the traditional notion of creating art with Fountain?

action

Jackson Pollock's work is a good example of ____________ painting.

True

Japanese prints were crucial to the development of Modern Art. Western artists appreciated how they were non-academic and showed trivial events of daily life. T/F

go beyond conventional ways of reading flags and see them anew

Jaspar Johns painted images of the American flag with hopes the viewer would... go beyond conventional ways of reading flags and see them anew, develop a deeper sense of patriotism, think about how many people live in the US, celebrate July 4

a courtship

Jean-Honore Fragonard painted The Swing (Figure 15-34). This piece describes.... a happy drunk, a self-portrait, a courtship, the might of the French government

fame

Louis XIV of France told his court artists, "I entrust to you the most precious thing on earth --my ________.

False

Mannerism painting is even more realistic and accurate than Renaissance painting. T/F

True

Many Egyptian sculptures and wall reliefs were painted to suggest flesh colors. T/F

True

Mark Rothko wanted to surround a viewer with his pictures. Consequently, many of them are more than eight feet tall.

color-field

Mark Rothko's work is a good example of ___________ painting.

Fresco

Mayan wall painting was created using _____________ technique. oil, lithograph, encaustic, fresco

Caravaggio

Michelangelo de Merisi is another name for which artist... El Greco, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci

long after he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement...

color

Monet was interested in how light affects ___________? mood, color, paint, attitude

True

Pablo Picasso found artistic inspiration from African Masks. T/F

True

Palladio's Villa Rotonda is a perfectly symmetrical building that has four identical facades T/F

True

Paul Cezanne used color, rather than linework, to create forms. T/F

Napoleon's sister

Paulina Borghese was illustrated by Antonio Canova as a greek goddess. In reality, Borghese was ...

False

Rembrandt painted the Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq's Company of the Civic Guard. This is also known as Knights of the Round Table. T/F

appear raw as if were built inside out

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers created the Pompidou Center in Paris. This building .....

False

Richard Estes work figure 20-6 Central Savings is a good example of photography. T/F

Baroque

Romantic art would have more in common with which previous art movement?

Caspar David Friedrich

Romantic painters frequently chose politically-charged subject matter. Select the Romantic painter who did not follow this strategy.

Caravaggio made many paintings for the German Republic

Select the FALSE statement about Caravaggio. Caravaggio was attacked by a gang in a bar and stabbed in the face, Caravaggio once attaeked a waiter because he did not like the way his artichokes were seasoned, Caravaggio made many paintings for the German Republic, Caravaggio was an orphan.

Las Meninas includes a sculpture of David and Goliath in it

Select the FALSE statement about Las Meninas (Figure 15-16)... One of the figures in Las Mininas is a princess named Infanta Margarita, Las Meninas includes a sculpture of David and Goliath in it, Las Meninas shows Diego Velasquez painting, Las Meninas shows "behind the scenes" life on the Spanish court

David specialized in images that showed lighthearted scenes of parties, picnics, and love.

Select the False statement about Jacques-Louis David David specialized in images that showed lighthearted scenes of parties, picnics, and love. David painted Oath of the Horatii. David attempted suicide after being rejected for the French Academy's Prix de Rome prixe. Napoleon Bonaparte was a patron to David.

Goy was inspired by the horrific events surrounding Spain's government and Spanish life in the countryside.

Select the TRUE statement about Francisco Goya... Goya was inspired by the horrific events surrounding Spain's government and Spanish life in the countryside. Goya invented Neoclassical painting. Goya was the First Painter to Louis XIV the Sun King. Goya was elected to the Royal Academy of France at age thirty.

Raphael

Select the artist who created The School of Athens. Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello

choreographed storefronts

Select the example of artwork that artist Alexander Calder did NOT make.... choreographed storefronts, miniature circus "performances" with figures crafted from wire and cork, mobiles, larger sculptures called stabiles

star wars

Select the item that did NOT inspire Roy Lichtenstein...

lantern

Select the item that is not visible in Figure 14-28, Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Amolfini and His Bride. chandelier, dog, lantern, ripening peaches

Pointillism & Postimpressionism

Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Figure 17-21) is a good example of ____________. pick all that apply. Impressionism, pointillism, postimpressionism, chiaroscuro

ancient greece

The Age of Reason or the Enlightenment's philosophy would most resemble which ancient civilization?

Gold

The Death Mask of Tutankhamen is ...

terra-cotta clay

The First Emperor of Qin----Qin Ahi Huang--was buried along with many life-sized human figures made out of ___________. terra-cotta clay, marble, limestone, glass

False

The French Salon was a place where people in Paris went to get their hair done. T/F

True

The Japanese collective TeamLab believes that a reason the video game Super Mario Brothers is successful is a result of the use of Japanese space: it scrolls horizontally like a traditional narrative scroll painting. T/F

Athene holding Nike in the palm of her hand

The Parthenon once held a large ivory and gold sculpture of ...

False

The Realists would create images of the past, such as stories from Ancient Greece and Rome, and try to make them look as realistic as possible. T/F

True

The Salon des Refuses was a government-sponsored art exhibition. T/F

Fauves

The ______ were also called the "wild beasts." Fauves, Cubists, Expressivists, Impressionists

wrapping things

The artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude made artwork out of ...

True

The artist Hieronymus Bosch created iages that taught moral lessons. T/F

Donatello's David

The first freestanding life-size bronze figure since ancient times was ...

False

The images of humans in illuminated manuscripts are both anatomically correct and well-drawn images because all medieval artists were taught to draw the figure from life. T/F

responding to the German bombing of a small Spanish town

The message behind Figure 18-15 Guernica is.... a festive celebration of light, responding to the German bombing of a small Spanish town, describing a stampede about the perils of running with the bulls, a celebration of Fascism

True

The surrealist challenged the human perception of reality. They would ask the public to question what is real. They proposed that much of what we consider reality is learned behavior. Treachery of Images is about how language changes the way we see the world. As soon as we label an object with a name, we quit seeing the original object for what it actually is. It becomes something else. T/F

French aristocracy

The type of person who purchased artwork of the Rococo was most likely.... a trader from the Great Silk Road, French aristocracy, Dutch, The French Government

True

There is not just one consistent Buddha representation. Instead, the iconic Buddha figure is adapted by different cultures and countries to reflect their respective ideals. T/F

Georges Braque

This artist worked alongside Pablo Picasso to develop Cubism. Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Umberto Boccioni, Georges Braque

Futurism

This artistic movement glorified war as a way of purifying the world. They were also fans of technology while maintaining a disdain for classical art. futurism, cubism, expressionism, fauvism

synthetic

Three Musicians by Picasso, is a good example of which type of cubism? analogous, synthetic, analytic, abstract

hellenes

What the Greeks called themselves

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Which artist was selected to design the bronze doors for Florence's baptistery?

Giotto would choose one significant moment and illustrate just that moment

Which is a key element about the way the artist Giotto told stories ...

Blue Mountain Valley of Indonesia

Which of the following is not a cultural site for early civilization? Blue Mountain Valley of Indonesia, Yelloq River Valley of China, Indus River Valley of India, Nile Valley of Egypt

False

William de Kooning wanted to show clear landscapes in his paintings T/F

Giverny

___________ is the small French town near Paris where Monet initially rented (and later purchased) a farmhouse. Orly, saint-denis, aries, giverny

Minarets

___________ were added to the exterior of Hagia Sophia as part of the conversion process from a Christian church into an islamic mosque.

False

postimpressionists worked in a very unified style. It is difficult to tell their work apart from one another. T/F