Chapter 2

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

mudras

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

photorealistic

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

Nonobjective

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

Representational art

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider

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

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

The Ten Commandments forbid images

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art

The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot

In a work of art, "content" refers to

What the work means

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

Abstract

WHat is the chief form of Islamic art?

Calligraphy

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

Clark surmised that the mask was a symbol of fear and darkness. He did not recognize the ritual function of the mask that affects its features. The masks were worn in celebratory ceremonies as vehicles through which the spirit world became accessible, and its features were exaggerated to separate it from the "real."

Define the terms "forms" and "content"

Form-What does it look like, What spae is it, what color is it? Content-What it means

Jan Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His wife Glovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. THe use or study of these symbols is called

Iconography

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

It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi Text inscribed over her face, showing her as a liberated and equal to men

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

the feeling of light in the apinting