Living with Art: Chapter 2

Japan shares what aesthetics characteristics with Western art?

A focus on design

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

Aesthetics

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

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

Before Verrocchio received a patron, what did he have to do?

Be apprenticed under a master artist for years

What does the Navajo philosophy hozho encompass?

Beauty and Happiness

Artists working for the Akbar royal workshop were paid to do what?

Create an illustrated version of a book for their king.

True or False: Being beautiful is a characteristic and requirement of all art.

False

True or false: All representational art is naturalistic.

False

If a contemporary artist wants their works to be purchased, what do they have to do?

Find galleries and museums willing to show their works

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 caused artists to explore abstract and nonrepresentational art?

Invention of the camera

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.

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

Naturalistic

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

Offer pleasure

Because James Hampton was self-taught in his artistic craft, he's often labeled as what kind of artist?

Outsider

Verrocchio is an example of an artist who created art for what kind of audience?

Patrons who commissioned specific works

What makes the Mona Lisa so valuable to current society?

The hype created when it was stolen and recovered

What informs abstract works of art?

The visible world

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.

Verrocchio is an example of an artist who created art for what kind of audience?

abstract

Andrea Del Verrocchio's David was ________ by Piero de'medici, one of wealthiest and most influential in 15th century Florence

commissioned

Representational art that records the true texture, color and actual lighting of materials is known as ______

naturalistic

Art that presents the visual world in such a way that we recognize its likeness is described as ______.

representational

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