Art appreciation ch 4.1-4.7
Martín Ramírez, whose works of art included iconic images of the Madonna, spent thirty-three years in Californian mental hospitals because he suffered from ________.
schizophrenia
Figure 4.23 depicts episodes from the life of Buddha
sculpted as separate scenes all on one block of sandstone
Artists can emphasize the importance of a ruler by portraying him or her
seated on a throne in the center of a composition in elaborate clothing larger than other figures all of these answers
The Kongo kneeling female figure with bowl and child and the artifacts accompanying the Inca mummy of a boy are associated with sacrifice. These artworks ________.
serve as role models for the rest of the community hope to insure prosperity by giving up something of value include imagery and designs with symbolic significance become a meeting point between natural and supernatural realms all of these answers
Art inspired by dreams and the subconscious describes what movement?
surrealism
Whether pagan, Christian, or Buddhist, artworks depicting deities are generally intended to ________.
tell the stories of the key religious figures represent accurately what the key religious figures looked like be appreciated only by those who can read serve as structural elements in religious buildings none of these answers
The most important element in the sunken relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three daughters is
the 3 daughters?
The figure carrying another figure on the right-hand wing of Otto Dix's triptych The War is
the artist
The sculpture showing Shiva's dance indicates that he brings to life
the cycle of the death and rebirth
In which of the following artworks is the identity of the person shown not important?
the morgue
The empty cradle depicted in Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette represents
the queen's pregnancy the death of the queen's youngest daughter the queen's desire for more children the queen's recent divorce from Louis XIV none of these answers
The Palette of Narmer emphasizes
the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
The calendar stone made by the Aztecs reveals how they used astronomical and mathematical knowledge to count
time
What instrument does Marcia Smilack hear when she turns her work Cello Music upside down?
violin
Nick Ut's Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack can be interpreted as the artist's disapproval of ________.
war
Qin Shi Huangdi's army of terracotta soldiers
was found in 1974
What shared aspects of the caves at Lascaux and the catacombs in Rome indicate that these places were sacred to those who used them?
Both sites feature paintings connected to the Christian religion
How do bis poles represent the cyclical nature of human life?
By showing the deceased individual along with ancestors
Which of the following artworks no longer physically exists?
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates The Aztec Templo Mayor Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future Richard Serra's Tilted Arc All of these answers
In Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump the bird is shown
being deprived of oxygen
The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by
bishop bayeux
Francisco Goya's The Second of May and The Third of May
both strongly condemn Spanish rebels
Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace gives us a strong sense of the weaponry favored by the Japanese samurai, which includes:
bow and arrows
The most distributed image in China in the 1960s was of
buddah?
Artworks in public spaces
can excite strong emotions in a community
Artistic depictions of death are more prevalent now than during the Renaissance.
false
Chuck Close painted with ________ to create portraits of friends and family.
fingerprints
Archaeologists Mark Lehner and Roger Hopkins discovered that it takes how many men to tumble a stone weighing less than 1 ton?
4-5
What elements does Hogarth depict with accurate perspective in his engraving published in 1754, based on the teaching of such methods?
A woman handing a candle to a man outside her window Sheep lined up and walking away A bird perched on a tree A sign showing the moon hanging from the building None of these are depicted accurately using the techniques of perspective
What characteristic do the Stela of Naram-Sin, Virgin of Vladimir, and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa share?
An emphasis on light in the form of rays or golden tones
The French government removed Ernest Meissonier's Remembrance of Civil War from an important art exhibition in 1850 because
reminded them of the past
Which artist, in his painting The Human Condition, challenged the Renaissance notion of the "illusionistic window"?
rene magritte
Which of the following is not a characteristic of "community art"?
It tends to be very small, remote, and private
How does the Hopi kachina doll relate to nature?
It uses symbols that we learn relate to nature
What term did Dalí invent that describes the foundation for his paintings?
Paranoiac-critical
Which ancient Greek artist won a contest to create the most convincing painted illusion?
Parrhasius
which of the following statements about absolute power is true?
Rulers believe they receive their power from a divine entity Rulers can govern how they please Rulers can determine the religion of their people Rulers can use money from their subjects to spend on themselves All of these answers
What item was useful to Muslims, who used it to find the direction in which to pray to Mecca and to calculate the time of day?
astrolabe
Which of the following is true of Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994?
The mother and baby are photographed shortly after birth
Why is the act of judgment important in such works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gislebertus's Last Judgment, and Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance?
To emphasize that a person's actions in the present life determine his or her destiny in the afterlife
What common characteristic do the Sumerian bull lyre, Navajo sand painting, and Gèlèdé masquerade share?
We have to imagine important parts of their original presentation
Who worked in a calm state, between heartbeats, and through the night, while creating works of art?
Willard wigan
The Tula warrior columns tell us that the ancient Mexican Toltec people were
a peace loving race?
In African art, such as that of the Senufo people, spirit figures are often shown as:
abstract with exaggerated body parts
From whom did the first emperor of Rome, depicted in the statue Augustus of Primaporta, claim he was descended?
aenas?
Artworks that show interaction between humans and deities
all look the same?
Such sacred places as mosques, temples, shrines, and chapels
are often used for quiet contemplation
When restorers began work on cleaning the Sistine ceiling in 1980, what did they discover had affected the original appearance of the frescoes?
candle smoke the interventions of previous restorers rain damage bacteria from the visits of millions of tourists all of these answers
The Great Pyramids at Giza were designed to mimic part of the constellation Orion in order to
connect the pyramids with the stars the pharaohs would inhabit in the afterlife
What was William M. Harnett investigated for due to the trickery and illusion created in his paintings?
counterfeitting
This chapter examines spirituality expressed in art through ________.
depictions of specific deities references to spirits and ancestors reflections of communication with the spirit world places with sacred resonance all of these answers
Which artwork features a silhouette of a piano and pianist that transforms into a violinist when viewed from a different angle?
encore
What term describes the optical trick of swelling columns at midpoint, which was used in the design of the Parthenon?
entasis
Artworks that engage the theme of the cycle of life ________.
examine the mysteries of life
The artist of the Benin plaque used ________ to signify the central figure's importance.
hierarchical scale?
In the relief sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, the figures of the Lapith people are
idealized
Jean Dubuffet's artworks often contain which technique?
impasto
As seen in the Justinian mosaic from San Vitale, purple robes represent
imperial powers?
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York
is highly geometric
The word vomitoria was used to describe the entryways at the Colosseum because
it conveys the spilling throngs of people leaving the building
Which artist coined the term Art Brut, describing art influenced by children and the mentally ill?
jean dubuffet
Which of the following is not true of the Colossal Heads of the Olmec?
many heads have been discovered underground?
Diego Rivera and Susan Cervantes have both worked in the traditional Mexican medium of
mural painting
When the eye blends two colors that are near each other, creating a new color, this is known as ________.
optical mixture
Contemporary artist Betye Saar was referring to what aspect of traditional African art in her Ancestral Spirit Chair?
personal and communal identity
Timothy O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death is a
photograph
Gunther von Hagens, a German artist who combined anatomy and science, developed this art technique that uses preserved bodies after death
plastination
Which two philosophers, included in the center of The School of Athens, highlight the development of learning in the ancient world?
plato and aristotle
Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.
pointillism
The School of Athens, an architectural illusion created by Raphael, was painted for the library of ________.
pope Julius II
Manmade mountains is another term for
pyramids
Giulio Romano was trained by this artist, who influenced his painting Fall of the Giants:
raphael