Exam 2

Which of these art forms are capable of expressing actual time and motion?

-bioart -performance -film

What does rhythm do in an artwork?

-gives structure to the experience of looking -guides our eyes from one point to another

Which of these themes does Jillian Mayer explore in I Am Your Grandma?

-using technology to deal with identity -legacy leaving -attachments made to people we have never met such as distant or long-dead relatives -genealogy

Which style of art from the 1960s is particularly associated with exploiting the physiology of seeing in order to create optical effects such as the illusion of movement?

Op Art

Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques of male athletes. T/F

True

Which type of earlier artwork served as a model for the goddess's figure in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus?

classical Greek sculpture

What is the name for the principle of art that involves drawing attention to particular content?

emphasis

a ziggurat is a tomb

false

What is the name for the center of interest or activity in a work of art, often employed to draw the viewer's attention to the most important element in it?

focal point

What type of motion is featured in Gianlorenzo Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne?

implied

What did Anthopometries de l'epoque bleue by Yves Klein introduce for the first time?

living brushes

What is the name for a design when it is used as a unit within a pattern, like the plants on the side of this pot?

motif

What is the name for the principle of art that involves an arrangement of predictably repeated art elements?

pattern

In which of these art forms foes the body and its actions become the artwork?

performance

Which of the following is a central theme in ORLAN's work?

the impossibility of physical perfection

The Taj Mahal is a

tomb