Art Test 1

In a work of art, "content" refers to

What the work expresses or means

How did Vincent Van Gogh die?

He committed "suicide", shot in the stomach

The eleventh-century bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) was made in ________.

India

What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?

feminist posters and pamphlets

The stained-glass window from Gothic Cathedral is an excellent example of the use of

iconography

The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

iconography

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called ________.

impasto

Viewers were shocked by Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), because of the

juxtaposition of nude and clothed figures

The goddess Tlazolteotl was responsible for ________.

life and death

Francisco Goya's Disasters of War is an example of art as a vehicle for

Protest on war/social causes/commentary

Jazz provided a notable influence on the work of

Romare Bearden

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

The ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is

trompe l'oeil

One of Frida Kahlo's sketchbooks contain the image of a monster that represents some of the pain and hardship that she endured. What did she call this monster?

"El Horrendo 'Ojosauro' primitivo" (horrible, monstrous Eyesaurus)

Jackson Pollock's work is an example of

Abstract Expressionism

Frida Kahlo painted The Two Fridas shortly after she was divorced from which famous Mexican painter?

Diego Rivera

One could be classified as an outsider artist because of his

Lack of awareness for art history.

What is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf?

fertility statue

In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize

fertility/wealth

Which theories focus attention on the composition of an artwork and how earlier artworks may have influenced it?

formal theories

The line created by the vein in Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas makes reference to what personal aspect of her life?

her lineage (or bloodline)

Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called

iconography

What makes Frida Kahlo's work a part of Surrealism movement?

includes unexpected, illogical, and fantastic elements that reflect a logic that makes sense only in dreams

In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the dog symbolize in our culture

loyalty

The term "vanitas" in art includes references to ________.

the fleeting nature of life; a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability

Some believe that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated with

the great mother goddess

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

the ideas behind the artwork over its realization

What aspects of Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomforted many viewers when it was first exhibited?

the painting technique,the nude woman seated next to men dressed in contemporary clothing, the fact that the woman looks out at the viewer

To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?

the unfair treatment of women by art institutions

The believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions

The sculpture of the goddess Tlazolteotl giving birth to the maize god was made by which culture?

Aztec

Which of the following historical references can be seen in Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column?

Catholic martyr St. Sebastian, Greek temple column

The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.

Classical Greek sculptures

In 1863, Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) was rejected by the public due to its

Modernity

Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as the economic system, cultural values, and politics, use

Sociocultural/Contextual theories

Rene Magritte's This is Not a Pipe asks us to consider__________.

That images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be _______ rather than functional

aesthetic

Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer?

aesthetics

Romare Bearden's work is an example of

assemblage/photo montage

What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing?

bringing to life the endless of cycle of birth and rebirth, stamping out evil and ignorance, balancing contradictory qualities like creation and destruction, dancing the world into existence

In what way is Frida Kahlo's face iconic?

eyebrows

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

mudra

In his Obey campaign poster Shepard Fairey used a striking contrast between positive and ________ shapes to attract the attention of the public.

negative

When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

nonrepresentational

James Hampton is considered an ________.

outsider artist

James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was made using ________.

random scraps of metal found (scavenged materials)

We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in

religious art

Figurative art is a type of

representational art

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe

representational art

What creates the various degrees between representational and non-objective?

representational- depicts the appearance of things/ non-objective- presents visual forms with no specific references anything outside themselves, non-figurative

The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo suffered from a disabling back injury but was able to continue working through periods of pain using what medium?

sketching in her diary