ARTH 271 Chapter 1

The earliest known cave paintings are found at __________.

Chauvet

Which of the following artworks provoked a controversy about city funding for the Brooklyn Museum when it was exhibited at that institution?

Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary

The design of a cromlech is characterized by the _______.

arrangement of large stones in a circle

The construction technique of hollowing holes out of the capstones that snugly fit over projections on the upright stones is known as ________.

mortise and tenon

What feature did Claude Perrault include in the Louvre to proclaim the king's grandeur?

squat podium

The earliest objects classified as "art" date as far back as _______ years.

40,000

What do ethnographers find significant about the incorporation of the natural rock shapes in the depiction of the subjects of some cave paintings?

It suggests that the spirit of an animal was discerned in cave bulges.

anthropomorphized

attribute human characteristics or behavior to (a god, animal, or object).

Originally, scholars dated cave paintings by their _________.

degree of naturalism

A megalithic upright slab of stone, sometimes placed in rows by prehistoric peoples.

menhir

What did Andy Warhol and John Singleton Copley have in common?

Both painted portraits.

Which of the following structures resembled a flying saucer to many people?

Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Which of the following structures is anthropomorphized?

Gianlorenzo Bernini's plaza with a colonnade at St. Peter's

How does the figure from Hohlenstein-Stadel and the figure Woman of Willendorf differ?

The figure from Hohlenstein-Stadel is a hybrid figure, while the Woman of Willendorf is a homogeneous representation of a person.

Among the Paleolithic cave paintings found thus far, the predominant representations are of _________.

animals

Which of these is NOT typically an original context of an artwork?

commercial gallery

An image formed by combining different images or different views of the subject.

composite image

In the nineteenth century, art began to be ______.

displayed in museums

A structure formed by two or more large, upright stones capped by a horizontal slab. Thought to be a prehistoric tomb.

dolmen

What aspect of Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe most clearly draws a connection to icons of Christ and the Virgin Mary?

gold of the background

The Woman from Brassempouy would NOT be considered polychromatic because it ________.

is in a single color

Çatal Hüyük is the site of what is thought to possibly be the oldest known _______.

landscape painting

From the Greek mega, meaning ″big,″ and lithos, meaning ″stone.″ A huge stone such as those used in cromlechs and dolmens.

megalith

Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Bison, Lascaux Cave, France, ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE

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The circular arrangement at Stonehenge suggests that the monument's function was _____.

ritual

Arch of Titus, Forum Romanum, Rome, ca. 81 CE

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Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996

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In the Gravettian period, sculptors frequently represented _________.

women

Northern and western European Neolithic dwellings were mostly framed in _________.

wood

Claude Perrault, East front of the Louvre, Paris, 1667-70

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Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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Animal Hunt, Catal Huyuk, ca. 6000

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Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

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Duane Hanson, Man on a Mower, 1995

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Interior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956-59

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Frank Lloyd Wright, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956-59

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Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

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John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Joseph Scott

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Lee Friedlander, Albuquerque, 1972

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Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.), 1919

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Matthias Grünewald, The Crucifixion (center panel), ca. 1509/10-15

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Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, ca. 3150-3125

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Raphael, The Alba Madonna, 1510

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Schematic Plan of Lascaux Cave System

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St. Peter's, Rome, 1607-15

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The first known large-scale sculptures are from present-day ______.

Jordan

Which artist made work that announced art is about ideas made visual, and is not necessarily about craft?

Marcel Duchamp

How can we determine that post-and-lintel construction was NOT used to build the house at Mezhirich?

The "walls" and "ceiling" are composed of single continuous forms.

What did Andy Warhol and Peter Paul Rubens have in common?

They both used assistants.

Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, 1633

What is the art piece?

What work wound NOT be classified as a "readymade"?

Work that has been created, not found.

According to Pliny's story, Parrhasius won a painting competition because his painting was so realistic that it fooled_________.

Zeuxis

What do Duane Hanson's Man on a Mower and Apoxyomenos (Scraper) have in common?

technical finesse

A style of art that aims to depict the natural world as it appears.

naturalism

Because of the size of its stones, the tomb at Newgrange can be determined to be from the _______ era.

neolithic

The period in which humans settled, built substantial structures, and engaged in specialized activities such as weaving and producing oven-fired pottery is known as the _______ period.

neolithic

Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait can be considered a "speaking likeness" because of the _________.

open mouth

An image created from what the eye sees, rather than from memory.

optical image

A basic system of construction in which two or more uprights, the posts, support a horizontal member, the lintel. The lintel may be the topmost element or support a wall or roof.

post and lintel

Duane Hanson's sculptures demonstrate ________.

realism to be capable of serving social commentary.

A technique of printing in which paint or ink is pressed through a stencil and specially prepared cloth to produce a previously designed image. Also called serigraphy.

silkscreen

John Singleton's Copley's portrait Mrs. Joseph Scott was intended to hang in ________.

the public spaces of the patron's residence

What behavior of prehistoric Homo sapiens sapiens has been proposed as linked to a new human brain structure associated with the capacity for abstract thought?

the use of symbolic language

The possible meaning of these figures as mourners is most suggested by their _______.

tombal context

A form of construction using three stones—two uprights and a lintel—found frequently in Neolithic tomb and ritual architecture.

trilithic