ART 111 QUIZ 1

Why do we presume that the carved mask from Benin discussed in the chapter was made for someone wealthy?

Because it was made of rare ivory

Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, it is considered his work because ________.

He designed it

Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.

Johannes Vermer

Stolen art loses much of its value because ______

Lacking a good title and proper provenance prevents its resale

During his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh ______.

Practiced as an artist for only 10 years

The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:

The artists own blood

Traditionally, artists in China learned their craft by ______.

The copying the work of a great master

Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated ______

The sensations of a fall day by the river

African masks displayed in museums were originally made ______.

To be worn during spiritual or magical ceremonies

In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated not just for their color, shape, and pleasing irregular surface, but as part of the experience of sipping tea.

True

The City of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers

True

The Degenerate Art show did not attract many visitors as it toured Germany.

True

Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because:

it offends people's religious beliefs its sexual content seems pornographic it carries a political message that worries the authorities its moral values seem improper

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was ________.

looted by the Nazi's

Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.

sculpture and painting

Frederic Church's painting Niagara is a vehicle for expressing the artist's thoughts about ______.

the expansion and development of America the beauty of the American landscape God's support for the country.

The term Formal Analysis can refer to all of the following except:

the owner ship history of a piece of ART

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.

False

The Degenerate Art Show displayed the art in a flattering way to show love and support of Europe's modern master artists.

False

The artist Ai Weiwei was censored in China because:

he created an artwork based on the destruction of a school during an earthquake in China because of shoddy construction.