Art Appreciation Chps 1-3

What aspect of George Green's... marooned in dreaming: a path of song and mud is characteristic of Abstract Illusionism?

Images of abstract sculptures that seem to float on the surface

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the

Magao Caves

Give an example from the textbook of an artwork used for political purposes.

Michelangelo's "David"

Hung Liu's Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for "female" and "Nu-Wa" in a red box in the middle of the canvas. Who is Nu-Wa, and how do Hung Liu's lines work together to depict her?

Nu-Wa is a Chinese goddess. Hung Liu's lines work together to create an image of the wholeness & unity of creation

What material was used by Chris Ofili for the Holy Virgin Mary that created great controversy when it was exhibited at what museum in the United States? Why was the painting called "an attack on religion itself"?

Ofili used elephant dung covered with resin, it was called that because the material was used to depict a religious subject.

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

reception, extraction, & inference

How does the use of line in Eugene Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus differ from David's Death of Socrates?

it has a diagonal recession rather than horizontal & vertical lines, & it lacks a grid

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?

it pursued wrongdoers by night, and punished them when nails, blades, and other pieces of iron were driven into it

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

something "seen but not looked at, not examined"

Kazmir Malevich called his art

suprematism

Beatriz Milhaze's Carambola is based on

the square

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work means

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

ledger drawings

Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of

lines of sight

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

mudras

How did Michelangelo's David become political?

it was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the medici family

What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon?

the traditional representation of the female nude

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

the word can be trusted in a way that the imaged cannot

Lines that are loose and free-form are called

gestural lines

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

It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing & Farsi text inscribe over her face showing her as liberated & equal with men

The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was

to teach the public how to see & appreciate "advanced art"

Identify the four roles that artists play that have not changed over time. Cite examples for each from Chapter 1.

1) Create a visual record of their time and place 2) Helps us to see the world in new ways 3) Make functional objects more pleasurable 4) Give more immortal ideas

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

1960's Civil Rights Movement

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

Puget Sound on the Pacific Coat was painted by

Albert Bierstadt

Name some determinants of the monetary value of a work of art.

Artist reputation, prestige of owning art, rarity of work, investment

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?

Artists are critical thinkers, which means they question assumptions and explore new directions

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called

Contour lines

Explain the concept of Dreaming in Australian Aboriginal culture, as in Old Mick Tjakamarra's Honey Ant Dreaming.

Dreaming is the presence, or mark of an Ancestral Being in the world

Define the terms "form" and "content"

Form: the overall structure of a work of art Content: what the work of art expresses or means

How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?

He owned it

Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as

Impasto

How does Cherie Samba's Calvary use line to draw a parallel between the painter and Christ?

Implied lines are over the artist, connecting him with the soldiers imminent whipping

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

Islamic art

Explain the term "trompe-l'oeil."

It's a term that describes a piece of illusionist art designed to trick the eye.

SAMO is a name adopted by

Jean-Michel Basquiat

What period of time and place does Manet depict in Olympia?

Parisian modern life in the 1860's

Discuss the creative process of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. What transformations took place in the early sketches, and how does the final product differ from the artist's initial sketch? [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 _____]

Picasso abandoned all known form & representation of traditional art. The artist is Rene Magritte

Jean-Michel Basquiat painting Charles the First is filled with personal, ambiguous imagery that the artist summed up as "royalty, heroism, and the street." Cite some motifs that illustrate each of these concepts, in positive or negative ways, in the painting.

Royalty- crown: " Most kings get their head cut off" Heroism- "S": (for Superman)

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 had "serious artistic value"

Hung Liu studied and taught painting with a strict classical line that is associated with the style of

Russian Social Realism

Use examples from the chapter to illustrate how artworks featuring the American flag can have different meanings.

The American flag has many important meanings such as freedom to people, but to Jasper Johns it was used to show bigotry

We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from

The letters he wrote

What did Kenneth Clark not recognize about a carved mask from the Sang tribe of Gabon in West Africa?

The mask was used in rituals

Compare and contrast the use of line in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Sol LeWitt.

Van Gogh: expressive/emotional Sol LeWitt: precise/analytic

In Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, what does the mirror reflect?

a man in a red turban who is possibly the artist himself

The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered

abstract

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but

aesthetic

How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 best described?

analytic

When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is

autographic

How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?

both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light

In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?

by increasing the density of the lines

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

calligraphy

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements,

carefully drawn structural line & uncontrollable driplines

What type of line did Hung Liu say was closer to the real Chinese traditions than her training in the Russian Social Realist Style?

drip technique

What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African Mask?

ethnocentric

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's

expressive line

In Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, what abstract concepts does the dog symbolize?

faith, fullness, & marital fidelity

In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Serie: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?

grid lines

Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using

human hair

In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by

iconoclasts

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____

iconography

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with

images that are not literally what they appear to be

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

implied lines

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?

it reiterates the rationality of Socrates's actions

Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by

painting a tompe-l'oeil mural of four 35 foot high sculptures of the Lewis & Clark expedition of 1804-1805, created an allusion

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called

photorealistic

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

religious art

When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called

representational

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

representational art

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

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

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

self-sufficiency and innovative design

Conventionally, vertical and horizontal geometries have been identified with which form of human anatomy? Give an example.

strong vertical & horizontal lines have been associated with the male form. i.e. David's Death of Socrates

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider

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

Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?

the 10th commandment forbid images

Yoshitomo Nara's Dead Flower contrasts its menacing subject with the use of a heavy outline associated with

the cuteness of a juvenile style

The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to

the feeling of light in the painting

What are the main themes of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, and what motifs does he use to portray these themes?

themes of life & death, the towns & the heavens connecting them, with the motifs of stars & the church

How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's the Starry Night similar?

they both use expressive line to convey emotion