Chapters 18-23

What did Confucius urge people to honor?

Ancestors and Heaven

Which three countries and regions most heavily exchanged culture peacefully with China?

India, Central Asia, and Persia

T. C. Cannon stated that any art made by an _____ was _____ art.

Indian; Indian

What was the relationship between Nubia and Kush?

Kush was the most famous Nubian kingdom.

Who was Siddhartha Gautama?

The Buddha

What does the Arabic word masjid, which is the origin of the word mosque, mean?

"Place for bowing down"

Giorgio de Chirico believed that for art to enter the realm of dreams, what must the art exclude?

Recognizable material

A samurai is a Japanese word for _______.

Warrior

African Islamic art can be seen the ______ at Djenn'e, in Mali.

mosque

Which are aspects of an African masquerade?

-Costume -Music -Dance

What images ornamented the Qur'an?

-Geometric patterns -Stylized plant forms

What does 'Pre-Columbian' mean?

Art that was created before Columbus arrived in the Americas

The Yuan dynasty scholars regarded themselves as the true inheritors of ______ past.

China's

The most remote and isolated island in the Polynesia is known as ______ Island.

Easter

The ____ is considered to be the king of all birds by the Aborigines.

Emu

True or false: Photorealism cannot exist without photography, and vice versa.

False

Unlike Buddhism, the Jain religion is not widespread beyond the country of ______.

India

During the Asuka period Chinese culture passed through the country of _____ on its way to Japan.

Korea

Pop artists dealt with which type of subject matter?

Mass-produced images from advertising and the media

Who were the primary followers of the Jain faith between the 11th and 16th centuries?

Merchants and traders

The 19th century Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal documented much of India, he was much acclaimed, at one point, a Prince gave him the noble title of ______,

Raja

What tribe was T. C. Cannon a part of?

The Caddo and Kiowa from Oklahoma

What group of artists focused their compositions on the exploration of the mechanical motion?

The Futurists

What core belief does Hinduism and Buddhism share?

The cyclical nature of time

Jenny Holzer's pieces, such as Protect Me from What I Want, are completed using which materials?

Words

Experimentation with ______ and ______ defined the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century.

color; form

Robert Rauschenberg called his work _______ paintings, or assemblage, because they used oil, cloth, pencil, newspaper, and other materials.

combine

The Asmat believe that all ____ is caused by either human or supernatural enemies.

deaths

The Abstract Expressionists large scale was designed to ______ the viewer, as though in a movie theater.

engulf

The ability to absorb and incorporate ______ with older traditions is one of Japan's continuing strengths.

new ideas

As evidence of the spread of the Christian faith, there are eleven _____ churches in Ethiopia today.

rock-cut

In comparing the rulers of ancient Egypt and the kings of Benin both are considered ______.

sacred beings

During the Yuan dynasty there was a split between the ______ and the government.

scholars

During the Heian period men and women were expected to be accomplished in many artistic practices, especially ______.

poetry

The "pop" in Pop art is short for the word ______.

popular

Tobacco was considered a sacred substance, and was viewed as form of ______.

prayer

Many times in African sculpture, abstraction is used to indicate that the work does not represent actual people but instead ____ and ideas.

spirits

Yinka Shonibare considers the fabric that he uses in his work to be his _______.

voice

The protective chest piece and skirt on a samurai warrior is called a _____.

yoroi

Nok was named after the town _____.

Nigeria

Which characteristics or themes are found in Romantic paintings?

-Mystery -Emotion

Which substances does the pipe use in its creation?

-Pearls -Stone -Beaver teeth

Fauves means what in English?

"Wild beasts"

What are the common characteristics of Abstract Expressionist works?

-A large scale -The technique of automatism -Nonrepresentational subjects

Which characteristics best describe Cubism?

-Depictions of objects are broken down to simple geometric shapes. -Objects were depicted as if view from several viewpoints simultaneously.

What are the some of the developments found in all three of the major Mesoamerican civilizations?

-Farming techniques -A calendar system -Architectural traditions

What are common media in African sculpture?

-Fiber -Clay -Wood

Which elements did Mondrian use most prominently in his art?

-Geometric shapes -Primary colors

How is art used to dramatize the exceptional nature of the sacred Yoruba ruler?

-He wears a beaded crown with abstracted faces of the king's ancestors. -The robes are regal. -He holds a beaded staff.

Lala Deen Dayal used his camera to document which subjects?

-Landscapes -Indian royalty -Common people

What were some of the modern technological devices that shocked the world with their destruction during World War I?

-Machine guns -Submarines -Poison gas

What are the aims of Feminist art?

-Recovering women's art of the past -Nurturing contemporary women artists -Seeking more equal representation in museums and galleries

What decorative motifs can be found in the Mimbres style of ceramic vessel?

-Sheep or other animals -Geometric designs -Stepped pyramids

The Berber people occupied which areas?

-Spain -Morocco -Algeria

What does Asian art from the spiritual realm include?

-Statues of sacred deities -Manuscripts -Temples

Which is a possible occasion for an African masquerade?

-The funeral of an important community member -A young girl's initiation into adulthood -A communal need for spiritual guidance

Against what were the Dada artists protesting?

-The middle class -Business as usual

Which statements accurately describe the story of tobacco in the Americas?

-The smoke it produced formed a bridge between this world and the spirit world. -The stone pipe is a North American invention. -Smoking it was considered a form of prayer.

Carvings of the Dogon people may have been kept in a shrine, where it served as an alter. This would have been considered an area of communication between what realms?

-This world and the world of spirits -This world and the spirits of ancestors

Which characteristics describe haniwa?

-Unglazed -Natural materials -Simplified

Who are the three principal deities of Hinduism?

-Vishnu -Shiva -Devi

Which are some of the cultural artistic and exports from China?

-Writing -Architecture -Philosophy

When did China become a republic?

1912

How long did the Anasazi people inhabit the dwelling in Mesa Verde, Colorado before mysteriously abandoning it?

About a hundred years

What is the purpose on art in many African societies?

Art is used to dramatize and support sacred kinship.

In works of Mesoamerica, how were royal rulers often portrayed?

As shamans

The ______ were the most powerful culture in the region at the time of the Spanish conquests of the early 16th century.

Aztecs

Often the subject of Buddhist compositions, a _____ is a saintly being that delayed its own release in order to help others attain enlightenment.

Bodhisattva

Which artistic pursuits do Islamic cultures hold in high esteem?

Book arts

What do the different colors in the Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture by Piano and Rogers represent?

Building parts are color coded by function.

What was the most highly regarded art in Islamic lands?

Calligraphy

Which artist created the painting, Impression: Sunrise, which was in part, responsible for the coining of the term Impressionism?

Claude Monet

The Anasazi people lived in what we now call Colorado, they built what is known as _____ ______.

Cliff Palace

What tool used to construct Web sites and other aspects of the online experience was appropriated into a new medium by artists?

Coding

In Fauvist paintings, which element is considered to be a fully independent expressive element?

Color

Which style of the New York School continued to be explored by artists, even after the first generation of innovators had passed away?

Color field painting

At the beginning of the 20th century, in works such as Still Life on Table: "Gillette" and The Emigrant, ______ artists began incorporating text into art.

Cubist

Mixing life up with art, often with a dose of humor, artists in the sixties, making assemblages or creating Happenings were compared by critics to an earlier movement, which was called _____ art.

Dada

The Netherlands-based movement that believed art created from basic geometric shape and primary colors would promote intellectual calmness, came from a group known as ______.

De Stijl

Through Nubia, the rich resources of Africa such as: ebony, ivory, gold, incense, and leopard skins flowed into _______.

Egypt

For Armed Innocence II. Hammam photographed the _______ soldiers, trying to catch unguarded moments that show their innocence and vulnerability.

Egyptian

True or False: The Islamic culture feels that only religious objects are deserving of praise and attention.

False

True or false: The Asmat culture had constant interference from outsiders over the course of history.

False

True or false: When the French painter Daumier, printed a lithograph of a family who had been needlessly shot to death by the French military, the king gave him a medal.

False

During the Momoyama period, what did regional lords build?

Fortified castles

Which artist painted many images of people from Tahiti, whom he believed were spiritually inspiring, as well as beautiful physically?

Gauguin

What is the phrase coined in the 1960s that characterizes the way in which homes with a phone, radio and television are interconnected?

Global village

According to Yinka Shonibare MBE, what is the work Cake Man essentially about?

Greed and the burden of having wealth, yet its never enough

What school of artists was named for a review of their groundbreaking 1874 exhibition as the Anonymous Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, and so on?

Impressionists

Which statement describes the origins of Islam?

Islam arose during the 7th century C.E. when the angel Gabriel was believed to have revealed the word of God to the Prophet Muhammad.

Due to its ephemeral and nonphysical nature, what can be said about art created on the Internet?

It can never be truly owned in the way a singular painting or sculpture can.

How does Eugène Delacroix's The Women of Algiers exemplify the Romantic movement?

It features figures in a exotic setting.

What is the Qur'an?

It is a holy book of Islam, a recitation of Muhammad's teachings which were collected after his death.

In the Dreamtime religion, as a person ages, they become closer to the realm of their ancestors, and when someone dies, what happens to their spirit?

It is reabsorbed into the Dreaming

What is the most important aspect of installation art?

It is site specific.

Why did Hammam title her photographic series of youthful soldiers Photoshopped into beautiful backdrops, Upekkha?

It is the Buddhist principle of being serene in the face of chaos.

Why is the Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture a famous piece of architecture?

It is turned inside out, with exposed duct work and an escalator going up the side.

Why did Pure Land Buddhism become popular during the Heian period?

It provided a simpler, more comforting message.

Why is Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) an example of American Romanticism?

It shows majestic representations of nature.

What does the camera do to an image that is part of the fascination for photorealists such as Chuck Close?

It slightly distorts the image.

Works such as Donald Judd's Untitled (Stack), with its simple repeating iron boxes, fits into which 20th-century art movement?

Minimalism

What was a consistent subject matter that the artist Hokusai used in his popular series of wood block prints?

Mount Fuji

Beginning in the 16th century, the _____ developed a distinct artistic tradition, merging Persian, Islamic, and Indian influences.

Mughals

With its hidden brushstrokes and subject matter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis follows what artistic style?

Neoclassicism

The Mogollon culture was located in which area today?

New Mexico

Which of the border of China was a source of continual invasion?

Northern

What did artists in the Realism movement find most inspiring?

Ordinary people and the events of present-day life

Which artist influenced both Picasso and Georges Braque in the development of the Cubist style?

Paul Cezanne

Based off of his interest in color theory, Georges Seurat developed a technique of painting involving small dots of color placed close together and blended by the eye. What was the name of this technique?

Pointillism

The earliest art that we find from the Mesoamericans is often called ____-_____

Pre-Columbian

Regardless of where they are in world, the followers of Islam face the ______ wall during prayers, which is oriented toward the city of ______.

Qibla; Mecca

What three-dimensional art form played an important role in the Song dynasty's art world?

Sculpture

By juxtaposing images of soldiers against backgrounds of beautiful destinations, what does Nermine Hammam convey in Armed Innocence II?

Serenity in the midst of calamity

A belief in numerous nature deities, _______ is sometimes called the native religion of Japan.

Shinto

Which idea and theme did Dada and Surrealism most embrace?

Silliness

After the Tang dynasty devolved, the ______ dynasty reunited the country.

Song

Cut into a volcanic rock, with a plan in the shape of a cross, which Christian church in Ethiopia is still visited by pilgrims today?

St. George at Lalibela

What is the work that Easter Island is famous for creating?

Statues

The Indus city, Mohenjo-daro, shows that the people there were quite sophisticated in their architecture and city planning. Which is one of their accomplishments?

Stone house foundations, gridded streets, and drainage systems

What is the name of the stylized animal face that is a prominent motif in Shang art?

Taotie

What was the art created during the early years of the People's Republic focused on doing?

Teaching the Communist ideals

Dominating a large coastal area in the central Andes from 0 to 600 C.E. what was one of the first South American civilizations to leave a substantial body of art?

The Moche

The Taj Mahal was produced by which Indian culture?

The Mughals

Why did many mosques feature stunning geometric design patterns?

The Qur'an warns against the worship of idols.

Where did American artists find their inspiration for Romanticism?

The landscape

What is the artist focusing on in Process art?

The materials used and the method of construction

For what artistic innovation are the Moche best known?

The use of molds for the mass production of ceramics

True or false. During the Momoyama period the shogunates were strong rulers.

True

True or false: It is possible that the art-producing Noks created sculptures as far back as 500 B.C.E..

True

True or false: Minimal art had an industrial fabricated look that was very impersonal.

True

True or false: Scholars have not been able to translate the inscriptions found on seals from the Indus Valley.

True

True or false: The phrase "avant-garde" is a French military term for the first group of soldiers that go into battle.

True

Whereas Minimalism favors tough, industrial materials, Process art tends to favor what kinds of materials?

Unconventional, ephemeral, and temporary materials

As viewers of art, we can look at and enjoy many different styles of artwork, while artists must choose a path and direction for growth of their ______.

art style

The Silk Road is a network of roads connecting which two cultures?

Western Europe and Asia

The Shang dynasty was over thrown by the ______, who ruled for the next eight hundred years.

Zhou

Wearing a crown brings forth the idea that the Yoruba ruler is one with his godly ______ for his head merges with theirs.

ancestors

During the 1960s and 1970s artists were concerned with jolting the American public out of its complacent, conformist society and into ______.

awareness

Scenes from ghost stories and folk tales were popular subject matter in the ______ ______ of the ukiyo-e

block prints

Although many Polynesian cultures used feathers for decoration of items, the most spectacular use is in the ____ of Hawaii.

cloaks

Confucianism begins with respectful relationships within the ______ and then extends to include others.

family

The Polynesian peoples believed that certain materials, such as ______, were sacred to the gods.

feathers

Art that focuses on the traditional female experience was a part of the early phase of ________ art.

feminist

Women have been historically underrepresented in the art world; ______ movements of the 1970s helped to change this and reveal many female artists who had be overlooked.

feminist

Artists, curators, dealers, collectors, journalists, critics and other art related professionals are connected via the internet like never before, collectively referred to as ______.

global art world

Many works of art presented in this chapter on the Arts of Asia describe the ______ ______, including landscapes and block prints like The Great Wave.

natural world