AR170 Final
Which of the following statements about Michelangelo Buonarotti is false?
A) Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgement depicts Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden by an angel holding a sword
Which of the following statements is false?
A) Missouri mother is a famous photograph taken by the american photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936
Which of these statements about the artist Louise Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun is false?
A) after Mari Antoinette was beheaded, Elisabeth disguised herself and her daughter and attempted to escape but was caught and executed
Which of the following statements is false?
A) many believe that stained glass was first created by ancient Celts and Vikings both of whom excelled in the making of small colored glass objects that they used to embellish their swords and armor
Which of the following statements is false?
A) nonobjective works of art do contain recognizable imagines from the natural world
Which of the following statements is false? A) printmaking is the act or art of applying paint to a surface to produce a picture B) The fine arts are the non functional art disciplines which involve the production of works to be seen and experienced on an abstract or internal level C) Drawing is the art or act of applying marks such as line, texture, and tone to a surface, usually paper...
A) printmaking is the act or art of applying pain to a surface to produce a picture
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) sculpture is a 3 dimensional art form created by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials
Which of the following statements is false?
A) the public approved of Eric Fischl's sculpture Tumbling Woman because it was such a powerful expression of the human loss and suffering that took during the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) 2D art work exists on a flat surface
Which of the following statements is false?
A) Applied art ceramics are purely aesthetic nonfunctional pieces
Which of the following is false?
A) Assemblages are 3D works of art that move
Which of the following statements is false?
A) Because the Statue of Liberty is made of iron, it was painted with a green waterproof varnish to protect it from the moisture of the harbor that surrounds it
Which of the following statements about the artist Grant Wood is false?
A) Grant Wood was well known to the general public because of the cover illustrations of everyday life that he created for the saturday evening post
Which of the following statements is false?
B) Benvenuto Cellini was instrumental during the 20th century in opening the door for artists to use functional objects to make fine art
Which of the following statements is false?
B) Fantasy art is a type of representational art in which the artist focuses on the emphasis of design qualities such as repetition, harmony, and pattern in the artwork
Which of the following statements is false?
B) Frank Fleming walked with a severe limo due to an accident that occurred on the family farm when he was young
Which of the following statements is false?
B) LOOKQ is an altered version of da Vinci's famous painting the mona lisa
Which of the following statements is false?
B) The palette of king Tutankhamun is a significant egyptian archaeological find dating from about the 31st century BC
Which of the following statements is false?
B) The sculptor Auguste Rodin created a famous sculpture called The Seeker that depicts a man sitting pondering his eternal fate
Which of the following statements is false?
B) Tutankhamun was an egyptian pharaoh of the 11th dynasty who came into power when he was 19 years old
Which of the following statements is false?
B) an artist may emphasize the dominance of certain images or objects within an artwork by making them seem less visually powerful than the images surrounding them
Which of the following statements is false?
B) frontal sculptures are finished on all sides and meant to be viewed from all angles
Which of the following statements is false?
B) stylized artworks are a subcategory of representational art in which the artist makes people or objects appear more beautiful or grand than they would be in real life. focuses upon youth and beauty
Which of the following statements is false?
B) the bayonne tapestry depicts the events leading up to the Saxon conquest of england and culminating in the battle of hastings
Which of the following statements is false?
B) the saltcellar of Francis I was a beautiful golden salieri made for the king of France by the italian sculptor and goldsmith Micehalangelo in the High Renaissance style
Regarding the artist John Henry Fuseli and his painting The Nightmare (1781), which of the following statements is false? (a) John Henry Fuseli moved to Britain and painted The Nightmare in 1781. This shocking image alluded to demonic sex and captured the imagination of viewers, helping Fuseli gain admittance into the Royal Academy of Art, where he later became a teacher and curator of their art collection. (b) The demon depicted in The Nightmare was a mara, or crushing demon, that could sit on sleepers, paralyzing them and inducing nightmares. Later, this demon became known as an incubus (from the Latin word incubare, meaning "to lie on"), and it was believed that it could attack sleeping women and force them to have sexual intercourse against their will. (c) A few years after being accepted into the Royal Academy of Art, a fierce rivalry developed between Fuseli and his former mentor, Sir Joshua Reynolds. The two men grew to hate each other, and their feud became so public that it was ridiculed by political cartoonists of the time period.
C)
Regarding the artist William Blake and his painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed by the Sun (1805-1810), which of the following statements is false? (a) William Blake was a visionary artist, book engraver, poet, and writer. He believed that "true" artists would receive visions from God and were supposed to interpret these visions in their art works. (b) The figures in The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed by the Sun are taken from the book of Revelation in the Bible and could also serve as archetypal symbols of a battle between good and evil. (c) William Blake was known as an Expressionist artist because his art works tried to show the hidden truths and evil that lie just beneath the surface of everyday life. Art historians believe that Blake's disturbing art works may have originated from childhood abuse by his parents.
C)
Which of the following is false? A) applied arts are the functional art disciplines which involve the production of aesthetic works that serve some useful purpose or function B) Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing building and other physical structures C) Painting if the act of creating pictures by inking a surface such as stone, woodblock, or engraved metal
C)
Which of the following statements about Vincent van Gogh is false?
C) Van Gogh's painting the potato eaters was done in the light airy style of impressionism
Which of the following statements is false?
C) abstract art works make no reference to objects from the physical or natural world
Which of the following statements is false?
C) illuminated transcripts are beautiful handwritten books created after the invention of the printing press
Regarding the artist Rene Magritte, which of the following statements is false?
C) in 1940, five days after the germans occupied the country of belgium, georgette berger left magritte and went to france to live with pierre bourgeois
Regarding the artist M.C. Escher and his graphic work Hand with Reflecting Globe (1935), which of the following statements is false?
C) the content of this work is a man sitting inside a room surrounded by objects that seem to have no symbolic meaning
Fresco is a mural painting technique in which paint is applied on top of the dry plaster on walls or ceilings.
False
Grant Wood's painting American Gothic is an example of non-objective art
False
In the video Storm Thorgerson on Rene Magritte we learned that Storm Thorgerson's father was the one who sparked his initial interest in unusual art, especially that of the artist Rene Magritte
False
Adolf Hitler and the nazi party prohibited modern art and wanted to inflame public opinion against the artists who created it. In 1937 they held a public art exhibition in Munich titled degenerate art in which they displayed and ridiculed the works of artists which did not exalt the government "values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience"
True
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. Aesthetic objects can evoke a response inside us because they have qualities of beauty or the power to make us think or feel.
True
Although Edouard Vuillard was associated with the Nabi artists, he was best known for his ability to give viewers an intimate look into the interior lives of the people in his paintings. His domestic scenes revealed a world behind closed doors, a private world that others may seldom see. This is how Vuillard came to be called an "intimiste" painter. His most powerful art works are done in this style.
True
Ceramics is the ancient art of making 3D objects from clay and firing them in a kiln to make them durable
True
Engraving is incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting lines into it. Engravings may be used to decorate metallic or glass objects, or to print images on paper by using a printing plate made of copper. Historically, engraving was an important method of producing images on paper and for illustrating books and printed materials. The artist William Blake often used watercolor paint to add color to his engravings. (a) True (b) False
True
Henri Matisse's painting Large Reclining Nude is an example of an abstract artwork
True
In the video Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Art of Frank Fleming we learned that Frank Fleming was born in 1940 in Bear Creek Alabama and attended UNA for help with a speech impediment
True
In the video Ruby Bridges with President Obama we saw Ruby Bridges at the white house in 2011 viewing Rockwell's painting and speaking with President Obama about her childhood experience and first exposure to racism
True
In the video The Art of Illumination we learned that it took a number of skilled craftsmen to produce a Book of Hours. The writing, the calligraphy, the text was done by scribes, while other people did the decoration of the letters, borders, and line enders
True
In the video The Case for Abstraction we learned that the Italian Futurists wanted to reflect the speed and overstimulation of modern urban life also collapsing space and time into one image
True
In the video Whose Migrant Mother was this we learned that Florence Owens Thompson loved music, storytelling, a dog named montana slim, and a union organizer volunteer
True
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with an early usage of the term "electronic super highway" in application to telecommunications. (a) True (b) False
True
Placing a work of art into context means finding out about the historical, personal, and cultural experiences and influences that surrounded and shaped the artist and their art throughout their life—especially during the time period in which they created the art work that you are looking at. Researching context can give you clues about the meaning of an art work because the influences upon the artist may be reflected in the images found in their art.
True
Romanticism was a complex intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that originated in the late 18th century. Romanticism expressed and emphasized emotion, placed importance upon the individual and creativity and rebelled against purely scientific thought
True
The German expressionist artist and printmaker kathe kollwitz created a sculpture called grieving parents that stands in flanders field.
True
The art movement known as Surrealism sought to reveal the reality behind outward appearances, especially in a psychological sense, and drew heavily on Freudian theories about the unconscious, dreams, irrationality, and fantasy. Because of this, symbolism and dream imagery are central to these art works. (a) True (b) False
True
While the renaissance artist michealangelo's sculpture of David (1501-1504) depicts a biblical figure, the nudity of the figure was influenced by his study of classical greek and roman statues from antiquity that focused upon the perfect of the human form
True
William Harnett's painting Music and Goodluck is an example of representational art
True
the subject matter of Frank Flemings public sculpture the storyteller in Birmingham was based on the southern folklore and paintings of the peaceable kingdom done by Edward Hicks in the 1800's
True