ART 101 Chapter 1-2

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The Ziggurat at Ur can best be described as ______.

A Sumerian temple base

The painting Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Disemboweled Bison, is unique in Paleolithic art regarding the presence of _____.

A male figure

A henge, or ____, was a type of megalithic monument found almost exclusively in Britain.

An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle

In the Neolithic period, agriculture and raising stock became humankind's major food sources. Which area transitioned to these activities first?

Anatolia and Mesopotamia

With its relief decorations of a dragon, lion, and bull, the Ishtar Gate comes from ______.

Babylon

The convention of representing animals' horns in twisted perspective in cave paintings or allowing the viewer to see the head in profile and the horns from the from is termed _______.

Descriptive

The Human with Feline Head sculpture was found in ______.

Germany

The remains of what appear to be the oldest stone temples have been discovered in ______.

Gobekli Tepe

The emphasis on the anatomy of the nude woman figurine (Venus of Willendorf) suggests early man's interest in ______.

Health and fertility

One of the suggested purposes for Paleolithic cave paintings is thought to have been ______.

Insurance for the survival of the herd

The Ancient Near East now encompasses the modern nations of ________.

Iraq and Iran

Catal Hoyuk has a most remarkable mural, a landscape. Which statement best defines the term landscape?

It is a picture of a natural setting in its own right without any narrative content.

The use of ____ along with its large scale suggests that the Human with a feline head was important to its creator.

Mammoth ivory

Monuments from the Neolithic period in Western Europe, such as Stonehenge, are characterized by ____.

Megalithic architecture

The stylistic conventions of rigidly frontal symmetry, abnormally large eyes and tightly clasped hands are characteristic of the sculpture from ________.

Sumer

One of the most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, the Hall of the Bulls, was discovered in ______.

The Lascaux caves

The figures in the deer hunt wall painting from Catal Hoyuk are rendered in ______, which describes what a human body is, as opposed to its appearance from a specific viewpoint.

The composite view

____ was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art.

The profile view

Two predominate themes found in Assyrian art were _______.

War and hunting

The regular appearance of ____ distinguishes paintings produced in the Neolithic period from those in the Paleolithic period.

human figures


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