art exam 1
elements
Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.
blood spurting from holofernes`s neck
Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point.
Baroque
Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.
direction, dramatic play, placement, line
Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
Depict two consecutive days of violence
Francisco Goya's The Second of May, 1808 depicts:
None of the other answers
What is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf ?
Auguste Rodin, the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture
What is so revolutionary about Walking Man and who made it?
a canon of proportions
What method was used to make the sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty?
sunken-relief carving
What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters (4.6.7)?
Update a classical subject for his own time
What was the artist of Olympia trying to do?
using painted paper cutouts
How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?
draw attention to Icarus` fall
The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.
information about a particular society
The Stela of Hammurabi is...
limestone
The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium?
head
The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.
a harmonious
The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body
Classical Greek sculptures
The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.
subordinate
The opposite of emphasis is ________.
wanted artist to be of high status
The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ________.
proportions
The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.
surrealist
This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.
focal point
This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.
Hierarchical.
This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
a Classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting
Titian's Venus of Urbino shows ________.
all the previous answers
What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate?
that he was a member of the order of santiago
What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?
a Greek athlete
What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?
hierarchical scale
When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.
broad emphasis
When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.
19th century France
When and where was the artist of Olympia working?
museum website
Which are acceptable resources for studying art?
Constantine
Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of Rome?
Titian, Venus of Urbino
Which reclining nude was made first and served as an influence on the others?
iconography, memento mori, anamorphosis
Which terms apply to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors.
Sandro Botticelli
Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?
prayer figures
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
placing the Virgin in the center- directing all other figures' eyes toward the Virgin- placing a dove above the Virgin's head- dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures= All of the other answers
In Dieric Bouts's work The Coronation of the Virgin, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary by
all of the other answers
In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is:
contrast
In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.
Plato . . . Aristotle
In The School of Athens, the artist focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.
palm
In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.
Raphael
In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
Subordination
In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.
white marble
Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from:
represents a feminist analysis of her body
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman's body in Grande Odalisque is _______.
a symbol of mortality
Memento mori refers to:
egyptian
Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?
embodied by women
The Bayeux Tapestry is...
spiritual
The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.
Francisco de surbaran
The Funeral of St. Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.