Art Appreciation Quiz 1.10

(Q003) Iconographic analysis interprets objects and figures in an artwork as:

signs or signals

(Q004) Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz spent much of her life in her home country under Communist rule by the Soviet Union. The regime emphasized the collective over the individual. This experience is reflected in her artworks in the following way:

the appearance of multiple, repeated figures

(Q008) When researching an artwork, you might use primary and secondary sources of information. An example of a secondary source might be:

a scholarly journal article

(Q012) Which of the following statements is true of "Chaos Machine" by Clive King?

abstraction allowed the artist to respond to a tragic accident from his childhood

(Q002) A group of artists might share a style—an identifiable kind of visual expression—because:

all of these

(Q009) Psychological analysis of The Scream by the artist Edvard Munch tells us that the painter was:

Expressing anxiety

(Q006) When it tells about an artist's life, feminist analysis is a subset of ________ analysis.

biographical

(Q005) The statement in question #4 relates to which type of analysis?

biographical context

(Q011) Pablo Picasso studied and copied Las Meninas because:

he wanted to develop his own individual style

(Q001) The tools of formal analysis help us to:

understand how the artist applied the elements and principles to his or her artwork

(Q010) A formal analysis of Las Meninas by Diego de Silva y Velázquez would concentrate on this aspect of the work:

what was in the foreground and background

(Q007) Some people argued that Robert Mapplethorpe should not have been awarded public funding, because:

of his identity as a gay man and the sexual nature of his photographs