Test 1

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the

Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanity of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?

Grid lines

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express

His proclivity for things seen but not examined

Sends Gu creates calligraphy using

Human hair

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called

Iconography

Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as

Impasto

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

Implied lines

Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them

Kinetic

Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of

Lines of sight

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the

Magao Caves

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

Mudras

In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create

Negative space

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

Nonobjective

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

One-point linear perspective

Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called

Op Art

Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by

Painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it

The impressionists were concerned with rendering

Perceptual color

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

Photorealistic

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is

Chiaroscuro

What proof of time and place does Manet depict in Olympia?

19th century Paris, France.

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

Calligraphy

What did Sir Isaac Newton design to organize colors? Name the three primary colors, as defined by Newton on this device

A prism that emitted red, green, and blue

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

Abstract

In Manuel Neri's sculpture Mujer Pegada series No. 2, the smooth and rough areas of bronze provide examples of

Actual texture

Objects that are intended to simulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to not be merely functional but

Aesthetic

When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis, we say that the work is

Afocal

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of

An asymmetrically balanced composition

How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?

Analytic

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements

Carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drop lines

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan

As a mausoleum for his favorite wife

Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini's David and Michelangelo's David?

Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action

In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?

By increasing the density of the lines

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

Clark did not realize that the mask was to be used in rituals, nor did he realize the aspects of the mask that represented rituals.

Define the term "complimentary colors," and give an example.

Complimentary colors, when combined, negate each other.

On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually though of as

Cool colors

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

Cooler and less distant

Michelangelo's Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of

Cross-hatching

In Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, the artist has organized the design of the composition to emphasize the most important part of the composition, which is the

Crucifix

How does the use of line in Eugène Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus differ from David's Death of Socrates?

Delacroix's painting lacks horizontal and vertical lines, but has diagonal recession. Also, David's painting uses grid while Delacroix's does not.

What did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?

Digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf

Describe the materials used by contemporary African sculptor El Anatsui in works that are influenced by kente cloth

Discarded aluminum caps and liquor bottles. Calls into question the slave trade.

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

Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because

Everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji

The Starry Night by Van Gogh indicates the power of the artist's

Expressive line

In the Rubin case illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

Figure-ground reversal

Define the words "form" and "content"

Form refers to the style, techniques and media used. Content...refers to what the work means.

Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour?

In the child's (Jesus') face

How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo's palette?

Intensely saturated and bright colors were used by Michelangelo to combat dirt

A color's brightness or dullness is called its

Intensity or saturation

On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called

Intermediate colors

In 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

Isaac Newton

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 liberated and equal to men.

What is the subject matter of Isidro Escamilla's Virgin of Guadelupe?

It depicts the Virgin Mary at Tepeyac

The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as "layered" pointillism because

It is made of thousands of little square paintings

Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?

It mimics binocular vision

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?

It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it

How did Michelangelo's David become political?

It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici family.

The artists that painted La Chahut (The Can-Can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as

Pointillism

Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates

Radial balance

According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing?"

Reception, Extraction, Inference

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

Representational art

Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of

Rhythm

Max Ernst developed a technique called frottage, which involves

Rubbing a sheet of paper over a textured surface

Renzo Piano's Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their

Self-sufficiency

Use examples from the chapter to explain the difference between shape and mass

Shape takes a two-dimensional form while mass takes a three-dimensional form. Ellsworth Kelly has 3 figures of two-dimensional spaces

Compare and contrast The use of line in the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt favored mathematical drawings, so his lines were very geometric as opposed to Van Gogh's lines that are very sharp and sporadic.

The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of

Symmetrical balance

Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murkey." This technique is called

Tenebrism

Define the quality of a work of art that we call texture

Texture is used to describe a work of art's ability of tactile sensations

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 16th century Northern Europe?

The Ten Commandments forbid images

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

The feeling of light in the painting

Rudy Burckhardt's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in

The process of paintings

Proportion is defined as

The relationship between the parts of a composition and the whole

In what way can large-scale work be considered a temporal art form?

The spectator moves through time and space to view it

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.

On what basis did a Cincinnati Jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's work?

The work possessed "serious artistic value"

Gustavo Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day is on what specific type of perspective?

Two-point linear perspective

When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with

Visual weight

The temperature of Jane Hammond's Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be described as

Warm

In a work of art, "content" refers to

What the work means