Art Appreciation Test Q&A

Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of ________.

Austrian businessmen

The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of ________.

Calm and introspection

When artists are censored it usually stops them from producing any further work.

False

The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is recognizable as a man on a horse. This is called a/an _______ artwork.

Representational

Agnolo Bronzino's painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art.

True

Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics.

True

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 head of a woman from Benin (0.0.22) shows the influence of European trade routes, as well as having local spiritual significance.

True

The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle.

True

El Anatsui's artworks reference both ________ and ________.

colonial Africa . . . modern consumerism

The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the Sun God Re (0.0.1) on a coffin chose his subject because ________.

it expresses beliefs in an afterlife

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

looted by the Nazis

Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of ________.

painted wood

When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art, you would probably want to consider the artist's use of:

scale emphasis texture color

Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?

television commercials comic books roadside billboards oil paintings

The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:

the artist's own blood

Niagara Falls was a popular subject for North American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized:

the presence of God in nature the beauty and power of nature America's territorial expansion grandeur

Allan Houser's work Reverie is:

Abstract and representational

A graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.

False

Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself.

False

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional methods and rules of art.

False

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

False

The self-portrait of the Dutch artist Rembrandt stolen from the Swedish National Museum was one of many that the artist painted on copper.

False

In her portrait by Titian, Isabella d'Este wears a turban, embroidered clothes, and a white ermine stole to ________.

emphasize her wealth and good taste

David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), using:

implied line: the edges of the pool seem to point toward Peter none of the other answers scale: Peter appears to be taller than the hills in the background color: Peter's red jacket stands out