Chapter 2 Quiz: Developing Visual Literacy

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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?

ethnocentric

Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast was painted by

Albert Bierstadt.

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

Mudras

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

Photorealistic

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

René Magritte.

The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered

Abstract

How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?

Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.

Kazmir Malevich called his art

Suprematism

Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on

The Square

In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by

iconoclasts.

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

iconography.

When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called

nonobjective

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work means.

SAMO is a name adopted by

Jean-Michel Basquiat.

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

Ledger Drawings

What is the chief form of Islamic art?

calligraphy

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

images that are not literally what they appear to be.

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

islamic art

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

representational art.

Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist

retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view.


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