Quiz 1
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was typical of his portraits of the wives and sisters of ________.
Austrian businessmen
Why do we presume that the head of a woman from Benin was made for someone wealthy?
Because it was made from rare ivory
The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of
Calm and introspection
When artists are censored it usually stops them from producing any further work.
False
Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.
Johannes Vermeer
The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. That title was?
Nuestro Pueblo
What is the oldest art museum in America?
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:
The artist's own blood
Agnolo Bronzino's painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art.
True
Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics.
True
In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated not just for their color, shape, and pleasing irregular surface, but as part of the experience of sipping tea.
True
The Rarity of an artwork and its value, are often closely related
True
The city of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers.
True
The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle.
True
Titian's portrait of Isabella d'Este does not portray Isabella as she really looked
True
El Anatsui's artworks reference both ________ and ________.
colonial Africa . . . modern consumerism
The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the Sun God Re (0.0.1) on a coffin chose his subject because ________.
it expresses beliefs in an afterlife
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was ________.
looted by the Nazis
Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is made of ________.
painted wood
When conducting a formal analysis of a work of art, you would probably want to consider the artist's use of:
scale emphasis texture color
Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?
television commercials comic books roadside billboards oil paintings
The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:
the artist's own blood
Niagara Falls was a popular subject for North American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized:
the presence of God in nature the beauty and power of nature America's territorial expansion grandeur
José de Rivera's sculpture Infinity can be described as non-objective because its subject matter is ________.
unrecognizable
Agnolo Bronzino s portrait Eleonora di Toledo and Her Son Giovanni conveys a sense of:
wealth, power, luxury, high status
The Ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun God Re was painted on?
A Coffin
Allan Houser's work Reverie is:
Abstract and representational
A graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.
False
Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself.
False
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who rigidly stuck to traditional methods and rules of art.
False
Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.
False
The self-portrait of the Dutch artist Rembrandt stolen from the Swedish National Museum was one of many that the artist painted on copper.
False
In her portrait by Titian, Isabella d'Este wears a turban, embroidered clothes, and a white ermine stole to ________.
emphasize her wealth and good taste
David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), using:
implied line: the edges of the pool seem to point toward Peter none of the other answers scale: Peter appears to be taller than the hills in the background color: Peter's red jacket stands out