Art Study Guide

Johannes Vermeer

Girl With a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist

Austrian businessmen

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of

Of their shape subtle colors and irregular surface

In Japan ceramic tea bowls were appreciated baca use

Emphasize that the Greeks were helpless

In The Massacre at Chios Delacroix chose to portray the Greeks as partly clothed in order to

Emphasize her wealth and good taste

In her portrait by Titian, Isabella d'Este wears a turban, embroidered clothes,and a white ermine stole to

False

Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself

True

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

Painted Wood

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of

Of his experiences in Workd War I

Otto Dix frequently portrayed war scenes in his art because

Aesthetics

Study of beauty

Lincoln is a symbol of American values and identity

The Lincoln memorial in Washington DC is valuable because

Undermine the military will of the German people

The Nazis feared Dixs art because they thought it might

It expresses beliefs in an afterlife

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of The Sun God Re on a coffin chose his subject because

Greek architecture symbolizes values important to Americans

The building that houses the Lincoln Memorial was based on the form of an Ancient Greek temple. Why?

True

The city of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers

Sensation

The controversial exhibition of contemporary British art held in Brooklyn Museum in 1999 was called

The artists own blood

The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is

Calm and introspection

The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of

Nuestro Pueblo

The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by it's creator. That title was

The strength of the institutions of the republic

Thomas Jefferson chose a Roman temple as the model for his design of the Virginia State Capitol because it suggested

False

Titians portrait of Isabella d'Este does not portray Isabella as she really looked

Because it was made from rare ivory

Why do we presume that the head of a woman from Benin was made for someone wealthy

False

William G. Walls The Hudson River Portfolio expressed his belief that Native Americans deserved equal rights

Reconciliation after the Civil War

Winslow Homers Prisoners from the Front was intended to call for

Portray the Turks as fierce murderers

Eugene Delacroix's painting The Massacre at Chios was intended to

He designed it

Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, is it considered his work because