Art 111 Chapter 2 & 3

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in?

Islamic art

In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is?

Rene Magritte

Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?

depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator"

At the center of a scandal of the famous Armory Show of 1913 was held in?

New York City

Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?

They have little context in which to view the work.

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called?

form

Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist's life-his African heritage and what else?

his Catholic upbringing

The stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral is an excellent example of the use of?

iconography

In 1863, Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the public due to its?

modernity

In Chapter 3, Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art. What are they?

monetary and intrinsic

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

mudras

When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle (p. 29) shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:

non-representational

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Temple of Confessions can be defined as what kind of art?

performance and installation

Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its?

political symbolism

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe?

representational art

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider?

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

What specific component of the National Endowment for the Arts made works of art available to the general public?

the Arts in Public Places program

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

In Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Manet intentionally rejects traditional painting techniques for what purpose?

to call attention to his modernity and break with the past

Maya Ying Lin's Memorial in Washington, D.C?

was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style