art

Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère invites us to consider points of view in its subject and composition. Interpretations of this painting include ________ approaches.

ALL OF THESE

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through:

ALL OF THESE

In art, the design principle of balance functions to:

ALL OF THESE

The field of philosophy called aesthetics asks the question

All these answers are correct.

What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

All these answers are correct.

"All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone" was said by

Anthony Caro.

Wheel of Fortune was created by

Audrey Flack

Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

Claude Monet.

When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its

FORM

Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because

His work had a major influence on subsequent artists There are a limited number of his paintings He plays a large role in Western art history His paintings allow the viewer to feel with the artist himself ALL OF THESE

Christian Boltanski draws upon the _______ to create his work _______.

Holocaust; Altar to the Chases High Schoo

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

ORGANIC

________ is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

Pietà

Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong use of:

RHYTHM

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through use of:

SCALE

The 10th-century copper sculpture illustrated in this chapter is the work of an artist performing the role of "giving tangible form to the unknown." The unknown, in this case, is the physical form of the deity

Shiva

________ is the best-known work of the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Nineteenth-century American painters employed the American landscape as a subject. One such artist was Thomas Cole who focused on an area of the Connecticut River to create

The Oxbow.

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt

Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as

The Starry Night.

Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hamilton's Throne of the Third Heaven... body of work?

The artist intended the work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption

Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.

VARIETY

discuss the various dangers faced by works of art as they age. Include a discussion of the conservation of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

Various factors affect the degradation of an artwork, such as light, temperature, humidity, and pollutants. Conservation aims to slow the effects of time. Because of the experimental nature of da Vinci's Last Supper, the painting began to deteriorate soon after its completion, and conservators spent two decades restoring it to a more luminous, but fragmentary, image.

Which work of art uses hierarchical scale?

a royal altar to the hand

The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create images of the "correct" or "perfect" human, as have many cultures both ancient and modern. This set of proportions was created using:

a squared grid.

According to the author,

a work of art may fall into more than one theme.

Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the

all of these

One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is

all of these

Representational art with an approach to naturalism covers:

all of these

Which of the following was designed as a place of worship or meditation?

all of these: Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is

all of these: at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, and on the horizon line

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms that were

all of these: simple, pure, and timeless.

In a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is:

along the vertical axis down the center of the composition.

Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's

art dealer, brother, financial supporter, and emotional supporter-ALL OF THESE

Whereas the Christian image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by

bodhisattvas.

Lines are used in art to indicate

boundaries between forms, direction and motion, shadows and highlights, spatial depth on flat surfaces. ALL OF THESE

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.

chiaroscuro

Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create ________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art.

conceptual

Annette Messager's Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Eden both demonstrate the use of:

conceptual unity

The subject matter of Edward Hopper's Gas

depict aspects of everyday life.

In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by:

distributing visual weight accordingly.

In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of

foreshadowing

2.Compare and contrast form and content in two works, one of which has visual unity and the other conceptual unity.

form is the way an art looks. contrast is what a work is about or its subject. Visual unity is based on shapes color and lines. whereas conceptual unity is based on a unity of ideas. form and visual unity are based off the visual aspects of art. content and conceptual unity are based off ideas and subject matter.

Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of

hatching

he use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.

hierarchical

To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of

iconography.

Another term for asymmetrical balance is:

informal balance

Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world?

james turrell

No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the ability to

learn language.

Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

line

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?

motion

Andy Warhol's images created from celebrities are portrayed through mass produced:

multiple silkscreen images.

If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is

naturalistic

Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses:

order and authority.

In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by ________, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by ________.

outlines;contour lines

During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ________ came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts.

painting, sculpture, and architecture

Compare and contrast the ways in which still photography, film, television, video, and computer technologies have transformed mass communications. Make specific reference to several recent examples of mass communication in which these technologies were used to convey messages through various types of images.

photos in magazines and news helps people see what is going on in todays world.

The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are

position and overlap.

A necessary feature of pattern is

repetition

The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors.

romans

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

secondary

Passive pink" refers to the color that

seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of:

symmetrical balance

The Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ________ to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.

symmetry

Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to

the Paleolithic Period.

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for

the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair.

Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about

the artist and the audience

The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of:

the circle and square.

The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon:

the golden section.

Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South are similar in all these ways EXCEPT

they share the same iconography.

After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that

they still debate the work's iconography.

The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as

tombs

Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a

triangle

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ________ of the colors.

values

Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional theme of:

vanitas.

Artists can portray _________ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted surface.

visual

The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its

visual characteristics.

During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both

were felt to provide pleasure.

According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is

what it means to the viewer.

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________ light.

white