Art Final Part 6

What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing?

dancing world into existence, balancing contradictory qualities, bringing to life the endless cycle of birth and rebirth

What does Rineke Dijkstra's series Mothers focus on?

depicting mothers with their newborn children

True or false: Mayan bloodletting rituals were only enacted on slaves.

false

True or false: because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish, the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo's time.

false

What does the term "vanitas" in art reference?

fleeting nature of life

Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows?

leon battista alberti

What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere?

liquor and wine bottles, bar top, barmaid

Who is the artist of Dead Christ?

mantegna

Which statement is true of the oculus in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua, painted by Andrea Mantegna?

painted illusion

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

pointillism

What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters?

sunken-relief carving

True or false: the term "iconic" refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable characteristics.

true

Bis pole sculptures were made by which culture?

asmat

Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy?

aztec sun stone, maya flint, muhammad

What is it called when columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint?

entasis

Which statement is true of the Stela of Hammurabi?

entire law code written on it

True or false: "Trompe l'oeil" means "fool the eye."

true

True or false: William Hogarth's False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective.

true

True or false: artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

true

True or false: astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.

true