ARTS Test 1

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

calligraphy

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

depicts a muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face

Why did Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag?

his proclivity for things seen but not examined

How did Michelangelo's David become a political statement?

it symbolized republics freedom from the Medici family

According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

reception, extraction, inference

Define naturalism.

retaining realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view

Define aesthetic.

sense of beauty

What is content?

what the work expresses or means

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

Mudra

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:

Spiritual Art

Who is SAMO?

Tag name for Basquiat

On what basis did a Cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's work?

The Work possessed "serious artistic value"

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot

Define nonobjective

When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

African masks he saw at a Paris Museum

What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke?

African-american superstar divas of the 1970's

What inspired Faith Ringgold's God Bless America?

Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

Creative thinking

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?

It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it

What does the painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider?

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

How are Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami and René Magritte's The Treason of Images similar?

they both have iconography