art appreciation Unit 1

Why does the creative journey behind many works of art remain a mystery?

Access to the process behind a finished product is hidden.

In the royal courts of 16th-century Mughal India, how did artists live and work?

Artists worked collaboratively, featuring their best talents to create each image. Artists lived in residence and were paid a monthly salary.

What does the Navajo philosophy hozho encompass?

Beauty and Happiness

What reference does Doris Salcedo uses for Shibboleth?

Biblical references to affiliations

How did Childe Hassam create unity in A Northeast Headland?

By using blues and grays.

Enrique Chagoya's Elevation of the Spirits uses conceptual unity to critique what areas?

Colonialism Artist's heritage Cultural influences

Which are reasons early man may have created art?

Desire to create meaningful order Desire to communicate Explore the limits of the raw materials used

Which characteristics are needed to create unity and variety?

Diversity, Wholeness, Interest

Being beautiful is a characteristic and requirement of all art.

False

All representational art is naturalistic.

False. Naturalistic art is just one type of representational art that focuses on recording the object as it appears in its environment.

What are some of the traits creative people tend to possess?

Flexibility, Sensitivity, Originality

Although Käthe Kollwitz's Woman with Dead Child is an emotional piece, what causes viewers to find beauty in it?

Formal use of the visual elements

What theory is based on perceiving incomplete information as a whole?

Gestalt

Wang Jian gives the viewer an aerial view in White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang for what purpose?

He wants the viewer to travel through the landscape mentally.

What study involves the interpretation of art, which is an important activity of art scholars?

Iconography

Before the invention of cameras, artists were obsessed with recreating the natural world in what way?

In a naturalistic way that recreated the visible world as it appears

Which characteristics added to the fame of the Mona Lisa during Leonardo's lifetime?

It had almost a lifelike appearance.

Why do we now consider James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly a work of art?

It has a unique visual expression.

Why would Self-Portrait with Monkeys give Frida Kahlo a sense of existence?

It was her way of validating her existence despite her crippling pain.

How do we know what Vincent van Gogh was feeling when he painted The Starry Night?

Letters he wrote

Pérez de Aguilar goal with Painter's Cupboard was to create what kind of work?

Naturalistic

Art that decried any use of the visible world as a starting point was know as what kind of art?

Nonrepresentational

What are the principles of design?

Proportion and scale Balance Unity and Variety

Why is the principle of variety used?

Provide interest in image

Art that seeks to present the world as it appears in nature is known as ______.

Representational

What is the technique that best describes the foundation on which Western art was built from the Renaissance to the 20th century?

Representational

Which of the following was designed as a place of worship or mediation?

Sainte-Chapelle Great Mosque at Cordoba The Buddha's in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

The artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are known for their huge sculptures which play with what concept?

Scale

Which are characteristics of abstract art?

Sections of an object dispersed in a composition Compositions that distort perspectives Recognizable forms that lack detail

Why is James Hampton's sculpture of the Second Coming considered art?

Someone saw artistic value by the unknown artist.

Society views artists as

Specialists

According to one theory, what distinguishes artists from other "skillful makers"?

Style

What is the term that categorizes art by its appearance?

Style

What did Leonardo da Vinci's Study of Human Proportions According to Vitruvius intend to illustrate?

The ancient idea of perfect human proportions

What does a statue of Shiva represent?

The idea that time works in a circle

What pushes artists to create works of art?

The need to contribute ideas or objects to society

What makes the kente an extraordinary version of an ordinary object?

The patterns signify status.

What informs abstract works of art?

The visible world.

How can an asymmetrical composition look balanced?

The visual weight on each side is similar.

How can creativity be cultivated?

Through training and focusing on the task

For what reason would an artist create this statue of Shiva?

To give visible form to a divine being

Every profession uses creativity, but artists specialize in what type of creativity?

Visual

What is used to make a symmetrical composition if it does not possess absolute symmetry?

Visual Weight

In what ways does nonobjective art differ from abstract art?

Visual elements are central to what is represented. It avoids depicting a visual relationship to the visible world.

How does Henri Toulouse-Lautrec use variety in Divan Japonais?

With Various colors.

What kind of planning did Maya Lin do for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

A process of research, contemplation, and intuition

What are ways to create an asymmetrical composition?

A simple form balanced with a complex form. Smaller elements balanced with a large form. Contrasting color values on the same size forms.

In Gustav Klimt's painting Death and Life, which general principle of visual balance applies?

A smaller dark form can balance a bigger light one.

Bottle of Vieux Mare, glass, Guitar and Newspaper is an example what type of painting?

Abstract

What philosophical field asks questions about the nature of art and its audiences?

Aesthetics

What is significant about Judith Baca's use of a drainage canal for Great Wall of Los Angeles?

Although public, it received little attention just as the history of certain populations in the area.

Suggested by the nature of perception, what is the key to looking at art?

Being aware of what may be influencing what we are looking at

How can an everyday object be distinguished from similar objects?

By adding a unique mark

What do trained artists generally do to create a composition?

Combine experience with an understanding of the elements and principles of design

Roman emperors did what to demonstrate their political power visually?

Commissioned statues in their likeness to be distributed

Analyzing an artist's journals and letters for biographic details that impact our understanding of a work of art is an example of establishing ______.

Context

Iconclasm means the _______ of images based on religious beliefs

Destruction

What is a key characteristic of nonrepresentational art?

Emphasis on formal qualities

What did painting allow Vincent van Gogh to do?

Express his feelings and ideas

True or false: One can only be born with creativity, cultivating it is impossible.

False

The role of art and understanding of its role in society have been consistent throughout history.

False. ( Though art has been made by cultures throughout history and around the world, the status of art in those times and places has by no means been consistent. For example, in some places artists have obtained relatively high social status, in others artists have held very low social position.)

When designing Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier used what to base the proportions?

Golden Section

Which of the following was created for a large group to worship in?

Great Mosque

What makes art made from surrounding natural materials unique?

It almost always leaves behind evidence of its existence. It's created with the understanding it will change appearance.

Why is meaning important for art?

It distinguishes itself it from other works that require the same skills.

What is significant about Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth?

It reflects the experiences of immigrants in Europe

On this painted cloth titled Thirteen-Deity Jnanadakini Mandala, what does the symmetrical balance of the mandala communicate?

It represents the cosmic order and logic of life for Tibetan Buddhists.

What approaches does Georges de la Tour use to create emphasis in The Magdalen with Smoking Flame?

Light Line

Recent theories suspect cave paintings had what purpose?

Magical properties with connections to the spiritual realm

Art is often associated with beauty because they both do what?

Offer Pleasure

What characteristics make Perez de Aguilar's Painter's Cupboard representational?

Painting the light as it appears in the real world Recreating the materials as they appear Using shadow to reveal the direction of the light

Who used the golden section?

Renaissance architects and artists

How can the principle of rhythm be identified?

Repetition of elements in a composition

Which principle applies when elements create a pattern in a work of art?

Rhythm

The range of ________'s work makes him difficult to categorize. In addition to paintings, prints and combination pieces, he has done extensive set and costume design for Merce Cunningham and others, as well as graphic design for magazines and books

Robert Raushenberg

When a set of traits or style is associated with a particular group of artists, the group is known as ______.

School.

When we focus on the visual information we need in daily life and relegate the remaining information to the background, what are we practicing?

Selective perception

If a line is drawn down the center of a composition, and each side corresponds to the other, what does this composition have?

Symmetrical Balance

The work Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk gives viewers a glimpse into what aspect of daily life?

The domestic duties of court ladies

What intangible concepts does the dance of the Shiva statue represent?

The end of one cycle and the beginning of another The destruction and rebirth of the world

Why was Liberty Leading the People returned to Delacroix?

There was fear that it would provoke an uprising.

Art spaces designed for humans have what kind of purpose?

To bring them together in commonality of interest

Why would an artist subordinate some parts of a composition?

To draw attention to the areas of emphasis

For what reason would an artist create a work based on historical events?

To help remind the viewer of the event

Stonehenge is an example of the human impulse to create art for what purpose?

To structure and order the ideas of humans

How is Robert Rauschenberg's Windward able to communicate the location depicted?

Use of symbols shared by a specific society and culture

What does producing a text alongside the work Kandors Full Set, by Mike Kelley, allow viewers to do?

Witness a slice of the creative process that produced the work

Art that simplifies forms of the visible world is known as ______.

abstract

The ability to make images is uniquely

Human

What caused artists to explore abstract and nonrepresentational art?

Invention of Camera

What does symmetry in art often represent?

Order, Harmony, Authority

True or false: Using the central axis determines if a piece is asymmetrically balanced.

false