Mod 1 Quiz

Match the artwork with the culture of the artist who made it. 1. Niagara 2. Journey of the Sun God Re 3. tea bowl 4. Mona Lisa 5. S.A.C.R.E.D. 6. Abbey Among Oak Trees

1. American 2. Egyptian 3. Japanese 4. Italian 5. Chinese 6. German

Match the methodological approach with its definition: 1. considers the artist's personal experiences 2. considers the role of women presented in an artwork 3. describes the use of formal elements in a work 4. considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed 5. interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols

1. BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS 2. FEMINIST ANALYSIS 3. FORMAL ANALYSIS 4. CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS 5. ICONOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

By using ___ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

A complementary

Memento mori refers to:

A reminder of morality

Allan Houser's work Reverie is:

Abstract and representational

Thomas Struth photographs ________

All of the other answers

________ volume is a space that is enclosed by materials that are not entirely solid.

An Open

This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.

Ando Hiroshige

In The Legend of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ________.

Are evenly balanced

The lines that create the image of the Nazca Spider "drawing" define the ________ of a ________.

Boundary; shape

This artist created the digital work Wondrous Spring using digital media.

Csuri

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

Elements

Robert Mapplethorpe created traditional gendered roles for men and women to connect modern photography with painters from the past. True False

False

Martin Puryear's sculpture C.F.A.O. places emphasis on a large white area of the work that mimics a mask design of the ________ tribe in Gabon, West Africa.

Fang

To imply greater depth, the sculptor who created the relief carvings on the outside of the Ara Pacis Augustae carved the figures in the ________ more deeply than those that are in the background, in order to make them stand out more.

Foreground

This American architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain with an emphasis on the variety of forms and tactile surfaces. Who was this architect?

Frank Gehry

Sculptors Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter experimented with open volume when they created this hanging sculpture, installed in the Evanston Public Library in Illinois.

Ghostwriter

The principles of design are a kind of ________ that artists apply to the elements of art.

Grammar

The video game Transistor uses ________ perspective.

Isometric

Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.

Johannes Vermeer

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, _______ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color.

Josef Albers

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.

Loneliness

Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as ________ forms.

Organic

By using ________ texture to contradict previous tactile experience, artists can invite viewers to reconsider the world around them.

Subversive

Beda Stjernschantz was a member of the Symbolists, who were interested in the relationship between art and music. This was exemplified in a physiological condition known as ________, in which one of the body's senses translates the experience into another sense

Sythethesia

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

Temperature

The sculpture of the Great Sphinx stands as a symbolic guardian of the pyramids at Giza. The ancient Greek definition of a sphinx was a mythological creature whose features were:

The body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a woman

The work was made four years after the Emancipation Proclamation. formal analysis

The texture of the marble is smooth

Ascending and Descending, by M. C. Escher, uses ________ perspective.

Three-point

The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle. True False

True

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

Vibrate

Palmer Hayden's Midsummer Night in Harlem is about:

a community in Harlem, New York

In a two-dimensional work, when the figure becomes the background and the background becomes the figure, we perceive ________.

a figure-ground reversal

Agnolo Bronzino's portrait Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son, Giovanni conveys a sense of:

all of the other answers

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as:

all of the other answers

David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), using:

all of the other answers

Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors?

all of the other answers

A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line where there is not a continuous mark is ________.

an implied line

In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany, the shrunken, twisted body of Jesus and the oversized, anguished head of Mary are accentuated for expressive effect. This distortion of the human body, ________ form that we can all understand, makes the viewer feel uneasy and impresses on us the suffering of mother and son.

an organic

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.

broad emphasis

El Anatsui's artworks reference both ________ and ________.

colonial Africa . . . modern consumerism

The sculpture shows a man standing with a chain around his wrist and a woman kneeling beside him.

context

Henri Matisse drew Woman Seated in an Armchair using ________ line so that he could represent her figure with great economy while being descriptive.

contour

Renaissance artists used a camera obscura to help them understand the basic tenets of linear perspective. Camera obscura is a Latin phrase. What is the closest English translation?

dark room

Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.

depth

In James Allen's etching The Connectors, an image of workers erecting the Empire State Building, the artist created a feeling of great height by using ________ line to lead the viewer's eye diagonally downward.

directional

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

distorts

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic. True False

false

If you are looking straight ahead, an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision. True False

false

A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and a three-dimensional object is known as a ________.

form

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

green has positive associations in Islamic art

The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits

irregular lines

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

lineage

This term refers to the substance contained in an object, but it does not necessarily imply weight.

mass

In the illustration from the manga Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the artists used diagonal lines to create a strong sense of ________.

movement

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

negative

A Summer Shower by the British artist Edith Hayllar employs linear perspective to create depth. The painting contains imaginary sightlines that converge toward a single vanishing point. These lines are also called ________.

orthogonals

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

pointillism

A shape on a flat picture surface that is defined by surrounding empty space is known as ________ shape.

positive

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

prayer figures

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

prism

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

red

A three-dimensional surface that is designed to be viewed from only one direction is known as a ________.

relief

Detective movies of the 1940s were filmed in such dark tones they were referred to as film noir. Filmmakers chose these dark values to enhance the ________ mood of the movies.

serious

In his print "Riverside Bamboo Market, Kyobashi," the artist oriented three ________ in order to emphasize specific points in the work and to enliven the composition.

shapes

The ________ texture of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate is appealing for viewers to touch.

smooth

Match these descriptions of Edmonia Lewis's Forever Free with the type of information it provides.

subject matter

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?

that he was a member of the Order of Santiago

The video game Transistor is designed using units that can be redistributed in any configuration using isometric perspective. These units are called ________.

tiles

80 Backs by Magdalena Abakanowicz was deeply influenced by the artist's personal experiences during World War II.

true

80 Backs by Magdalena Abakanowicz was deeply influenced by the artist's personal experiences during World War II. True False

true

Agnolo Bronzino's painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art. True False

true

Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics. True False

true

Contour line defines the outer edge or profile of an object, and can be used to suggest a volume in space. True False

true

Holbein's The Ambassadors has several references to religious content. True False

true

In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated not just for their color, shape, and pleasing irregular surface, but as part of the experience of sipping tea. True False

true

The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle.

true

Triangular planes make up the surface of a geodesic sphere. Planes that are closer to and facing toward the light source tend to be lighter than planes that are further from it and facing away. True False

true

This type of perspective is used when an object is being viewed from an angle rather than from directly in front.

two-point

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

value

The elements of art form the basic ________ of art.

vocabulary

the Indian painting featuring the Mughal Emperor Babur in his garden (1.8.8), the garden is punctuated by a specific feature that points to the four cardinal directions. What is this feature?

water

Agnolo Bronzino's portrait Eleonora di Toledo and Her Son Giovanni conveys a sense of:

wealth,power,luxury,high status

Which artist's work is directly referenced in Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les trois femmes noires by Mickalene Thomas?

Édouard Manet