Prebles Artforms Chapter 1 and 2 Review
Iconography is most helpful to interpret
how subjects, symbols, and motifs convey meaning.
Which of the following is an example of a figurative work of art?
Alana's Grandma
What is one consequence of professional training today in art schools, colleges, and university art departments?
Artists have more knowledge of historical and contemporary art history and alternate points of view.
What is one reason that people see art differently?
Looking at art is always an individual, subjective experience.
What is one reason that Echelman's choice of netting for Her Secret Is Patience contributes to the viewer's understanding and enjoyment of the work?
Netting is flexible and responds gracefully to the winds in Phoenix, so the work harmonizes with the city and forces of nature.
Which of the following is an example of outside art?
Rodia's Watts Towers
What distinguishes the practice of seeing from that of looking?
Seeing involves our memories, emotions, and imagination.
What is one way that Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of flowers like Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V altered our perceptions of flowers?
She abstracted the form and eliminated the details.
Which of the following factors is common to all trompe l'oeil paintings?
They are highly illusionist.
What is one practical way to focus on a painting's form rather than its subject?
Turn the painting upside down.
How does Robin Rhode's He Got Game encourage viewers to be creative?
Viewers must alter their habitual ways of looking to understand the photograph.
Which of the following terms best describes the ability to bring forth something new that has value?
creativity
What is one factor that experts determined is universally common to children's drawings when they are six or younger?
depicting the world in symbolic rather than realistic ways
Which of the following activities would best be described as "seeing"?
finding recognizable images in clouds
Which artists create work based primarily on cultural traditions and practices?
folk artists
Nonrepresentational works focus the viewer's attention on
pure visual forms.
Which of the following traits is associated with creative people today?
questioning
A visual work of art is executed through the use of a medium and
skill
How does your textbook define a work of art?
the visual expression of an idea or experience
