The Power of Art

One of the most famous Japanese National Treasures is the ________ carved in the eleventh century by the sculptor Jocho.

Amida Buddha

Some of the earliest known paintings were done by the Ice Age cave dwellers who painted the caves at Lascaux which is located in present day ________ .

France

The Renaissance court painter Hans Holbein the Younger painted ________ to show how art is sometimes used to declare the power of the ruler.

Henry VIII

________ painted the Mona Lisa, which is one of the most well-known works of art in the Western world.

Leonard da Vinci

The Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C was designed by the artist ________

Maya Ying Lin

The Nineteenth Century French painter Courbet was a ________ .

Realist

Elizabeth's Murray's painting, Kitchen Painting, exhibits ________ in the shaped canvases.

a spontaneous playfulness

In the Seventeenth Century Mughal manuscript painting "Jahangir Prefers a Sufi Shaikh to Kings" Jahangir prefers the offerings of

a wise old saint

The fertility symbol The Venus of Willendorf was meant to be touched, held, carried, and worshipped. These small objects were not necessarily meant to be beautiful and were known as ________ .

amulets

The Latin word ars which means "skill" is the source for the term ________ .

art

The earliest known paintings were painted by tribal Ice Age cave dwellers whose primary subjects were ________

bulls, horses and bison

Art work that is created by an untrained artist is sometimes called ________

folk art

The artist Bettye Saar used ________ when she created The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.

found objects

Willem de Kooning's painting of A Woman and a Bicycle has caused some people to remark, ________ .

my child could paint that

Originally was challenged when Andy Warhol created 30 Are Better Than One (Mona Lisa) because _______

of the multiplication of images

Ansel Adams's Clearing Winter Storm is an example of ________ .

photography

The classical sculpture of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus by the artist Praxiteles is an example of the Greek's desire to express their ideals of ________ .

physical beauty and athletic strength

The Navaho ________ "eye-dazzler" is an example of crafts or decorative arts.

rug

________ is Italian for "the soft mist of a fountain".

sfumato

Eskimos of the Arctic Circle could contact the spirits of animate and inanimate objects through a magician or priest called a ________ .

shaman

The Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris has soaring vertical lines, paintings and statues and ________ , which are expressions of religious art.

stained glass windows

In the painting The Little Dear, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo expresses her ________ .

suffering

The design of New Zealand's $10 bill has imagery on it that represents ________ .

the country's past and future

Pipilotti Rist's ________ , Selfless in the Bath of Lava, questions the viewer's attitudes toward art.

video installation

To understand art our primary question should be ________ ?

why does it look this way?