Art Study Guide
Johannes Vermeer
Girl With a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist
Austrian businessmen
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of
Of their shape subtle colors and irregular surface
In Japan ceramic tea bowls were appreciated baca use
Emphasize that the Greeks were helpless
In The Massacre at Chios Delacroix chose to portray the Greeks as partly clothed in order to
Emphasize her wealth and good taste
In her portrait by Titian, Isabella d'Este wears a turban, embroidered clothes,and a white ermine stole to
False
Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself
True
Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river
Painted Wood
Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of
Of his experiences in Workd War I
Otto Dix frequently portrayed war scenes in his art because
Aesthetics
Study of beauty
Lincoln is a symbol of American values and identity
The Lincoln memorial in Washington DC is valuable because
Undermine the military will of the German people
The Nazis feared Dixs art because they thought it might
It expresses beliefs in an afterlife
The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of The Sun God Re on a coffin chose his subject because
Greek architecture symbolizes values important to Americans
The building that houses the Lincoln Memorial was based on the form of an Ancient Greek temple. Why?
True
The city of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers
Sensation
The controversial exhibition of contemporary British art held in Brooklyn Museum in 1999 was called
The artists own blood
The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is
Calm and introspection
The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of
Nuestro Pueblo
The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by it's creator. That title was
The strength of the institutions of the republic
Thomas Jefferson chose a Roman temple as the model for his design of the Virginia State Capitol because it suggested
False
Titians portrait of Isabella d'Este does not portray Isabella as she really looked
Because it was made from rare ivory
Why do we presume that the head of a woman from Benin was made for someone wealthy
False
William G. Walls The Hudson River Portfolio expressed his belief that Native Americans deserved equal rights
Reconciliation after the Civil War
Winslow Homers Prisoners from the Front was intended to call for
Portray the Turks as fierce murderers
Eugene Delacroix's painting The Massacre at Chios was intended to
He designed it
Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, is it considered his work because