Art1480: Chapter 3 Quiz

The most extensive cave paintings are referred to as what?

'Cathedrals' of the Paleolithic

True or False: It is believed that musical instruments were used in ceremonies and other rituals performed while people viewed the images that had been painted on the walls and ceilings deep within caves.

True

True or False: Traditionally, many indigenous peoples communicated with animals. This practice still has great importance today.

True

According to psychologist James Hillman, what has caused beauty to be repressed in present society?

All of these

In what ways were animals central to the lives of early humans?

All of these

What did early humans gain from circling around a fire at night?

All of these

What animal form does the Hindu deity Ganesha take?

An elephant

Who said the following about creativity?: "The driving force is humanity's instinctive love of novelty - the discovery of new entities and processes, the solving of old challenges and disclosure of new ones, the aesthetic surprise of unanticipated facts and theories, the pleasure of new faces, the thrill of new worlds."

E.O. Wilson

True or False: Spiritual, educational, and practical facets of the lives of early humans did not converge within cave paintings.

False

True or False: The experience of beauty is not a somatic, bodily experience that provokes the person experiencing it to respond.

False

Sobek is the Egyptian god symbolizing what two seemingly contradictory things?

Fertility and War

Who said the following about the role of pattern recognition?: "Many scientists start with a fundamental feeling that there is a pattern, that there is something wonderful, fascinating, awesome in what lies behind the observed phenomena. Many designers of things start at fundamentally the same point. I think they are both starting with intuitions about processes and structures, about order and disorder."

Martin Kemp

When it comes to the ability to skillfully observe natural phenomena, artists and scientists alike rely on the ability to detect ____.

Patterns

The definition of _______ is: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Science

The Spear Bearer is a great iconic sculptural work that showcases the importance the Greeks (and humans in general) placed on harmony and _________.

Symmetry

True or False: While pragmatic needs led early humans to feel compelled to create cave paintings, they were also driven by the very human need to be creative.

True

What do all biblical stories, creation myths of ancient peoples, and legends of distant societies have in common?

They all reflect human emotions - hopes and fears.

True or False: According to psychologist James Hillman, an idea of beauty is useful, functional, and practical.

True

True or False: Animals, more than any other aspect of nature, powerfully stir peoples' emotions in unique ways.

True

True or False: Cave drawings of women dancing and flutes made from the bones of birds led archaeologists to believe that visual art, music, and dance were created together, as a whole.

True

True or False: Innate to human beings, and encoded in much of nature, is a preference for symmetry.

True

The work of creating cave paintings is discussed as having life or death consequences. What was not discussed as something that would have to have been considered when studying the animal subjects of these works?

Which animals provide the most nutritional value?

Archaeologists have discovered that areas that are painted correspond to locations in caves with the most ______________.

acoustic resonance

The practical and conceptual skills needed to produce the lifelike images in cave paintings exemplify the ways that ____ and _____ intersect.

art, science

Anthropologists believe that _______ served the purpose of being intermediaries between animals, humans, and spirits.

shamans