ART * Quiz 01 {1-2}

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the

c) Mogao Caves.

In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:

c) René Magritte.

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

c) calligraphy

Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by:

c) painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it.

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

d) Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions.

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

d) The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called

d) iconography.

When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called:

d) photorealistic.

According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

d) reception, extraction, inference

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider

d) that images and words not only refer to things that we see but are also the things themselves.

The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to

d) the feeling of light.in the painting.

Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on:

d) the square.

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with:

b) images that are not literally what they appear to be.

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called:

b) ledger drawings.

The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe

b) representational art.

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

a) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?

a) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

a) mudras.

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their

a) self-sufficiency.

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in

b) Islamic art.

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

b) It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face, showing her as liberated and equal to men.

What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?

b) ethnocentric

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

b) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.

The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was:

b) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."

In a work of art, "content" refers to

b) what the work means.