Art Appreciation Chapter 2
While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called ____________.
Ledger drawings
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered ____________.
Abstract
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast was painted by ____________.
Albert Bierstadt
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called ____________.
Mudra
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called ____________.
Nonrepresentational/Non-Objective
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called ____________.
Photorealistic
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 ____________.
Rene Magritte
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe ____________.
Representational art
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.
Kazmir Malevich called his art ____________.
Suprematism
How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?
Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light
What is the chief form of Islamic art?
Calligraphy
SAMO is a name adopted by ____________.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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 art
How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?
He owned it
In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by ____________.
Iconoclasts
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
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with ____________.
Images that are not literally what they appear to be.
The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in ____________.
Islamic art
What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?
It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text
The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider ____________.
That images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves
Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?
The Ten Commandment forbid images
The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to ____________.
The feeling of light in the painting
Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on ____________.
The square
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.
In a work of art, "content" refers to ____________.
What the work means