Visual Arts Exam 1

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the McCarthy era in the 1950s. parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Desert Storm conflict.

Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Which artist created a work that was referred to as an "explosion in a shingle factory" ?

Marcel Duchamp

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the Mogao Caves. the Great Wall of China. the city of Beijing. Beijing National Stadium.

Mogao Caves.

nonobjective/representational work of art

art that makes no reference to the natural world and that explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements

Realism

artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy

no space

artwork focuses specifically on

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express his proclivity for things seen but not examined. his own patriotism during the McCarthy era. a universal concept of freedom. the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.

his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

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. aesthetics. content. form.

iconography.

Which of the following is a requirement of an artist?

openness

In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space? overlapping images line atmospheric perspective linear perspective

overlapping images

Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing façade of the Oregon Historical Society by painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it. covering the building with white paint. applying stucco to the building. designing a grand stairway to the entrance.

painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it.

representational work of art

portrays natural objects in recognizable form

The bold vertical lines in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America represent

prison bars

The intention of Tilted Arc from the Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan was to

question political power

The first step in the process of seeing is

reception

According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"? looking, seeing, believing detection, processing, reference reception, extraction, inference reception, interpreting, understanding

reception, extraction, inference

Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as controlled. impasto. analytic. implied.

impasto

In using trompe l'oeil for the Oregon Historical Society mural, Richard Haas was trying to convince the audience that the

sculptures are three-dimensional

What was so controversial about Robert Mapplethrope's works of art?

sexual content

SAMO is a name adopted by John Taylor. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Willem de Kooning. Charlie Parker.

Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on the zigzag. the horizontal line. the square. a triangle.

the square.

subject matter

what the image literally depicts

content matter

what the image means

In a work of art, "content" refers to the way it looks. the culture that produced it. its style. what the work means.

what the work means.

abstract art

work that doesn't really resemble things in the real word

The four fundamental roles artist take as they approach their work

1) may help us see the world in new and innovative ways 2) create visual records of specific times and places 3) imbue objects with beauty and meaning 4) give form to feelings and ideas

outline

a line that shows or creates the outer edges of a shape; emphasizes flatness

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? Native American sites he visited African masks he saw at a Paris museum his collection of Asian ceramics the imagery on Korean tapestries

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke? avant-garde paintings of female figures in motion Spanish prostitutes as depicted in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon the Virgin Mary and the female saints in Jan van Eyck's The Ghent Altarpiece African-American superstar divas of the 1970s

African-American superstar divas of the 1970s

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities? Artists must be willing to "buck the system." Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions. They must "look" like artists, dressing in turtlenecks and berets or sporting lots of tattoos. Artists are always "outsiders," meaning they stand in opposition to the dominant paradigms of their day.

Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions.

How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light? Both paintings are highly representational. Both paintings are photorealistic views of real landscapes. Both paintings employ trompe-l'oeil. Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.

Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.

What do Michelangelo's David and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase have in common?

Both were originally rejected by the public

How does Chérie Samba's Calvary use line to draw a parallel between the painter and Christ? Implied lines arc over the artist, connecting him with the soldier's imminent whipping. Expressive lines in bright colors create a halo effect around the artist. Precise lines are painted to show the whips strike the artist. Grid lines are drawn connecting the artist with the soldiers' whips.

Implied lines arc over the artist, connecting him with the soldier's imminent whipping.

The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in Korean art. Japanese art. Chinese art. Islamic art.

Islamic art.

Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space? It works with a computer. It mimics monocular vision. It mimics one-point perspective. It mimics binocular vision.

It mimics binocular vision.

What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure? It is purely aesthetic. It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it. It is a fertility idol. It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.

It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece? It reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions. It refers to the passion of the moment. It is merely a compositional consideration. It does not; it is purely coincidental.

It reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions.

Michelangelo's figure of David represents

Republican Florence

Kazmir Malevich called his art Suprematism. Realism. Dreaming. Cubism.

Suprematism.

How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night similar? They both use controlled lines to create stability. They both use expressive lines to convey emotion. They both combine drip and horizontal lines to create energy. They both connect imagery with grid lines.

They both use expressive lines to convey emotion.

In addition to their role as sacred objects, minkisi also served what cultural function?

They symbolized resistance to colonial influences

How does the Western experience of Oceanic, African, and Native American art typically differ from the experience of the works in their cultures of origin?

Westerners typically approach these works in museums as "art", but in original cultures, they were functional objects

implied line

a line where no continuous mark connects one point to another, but where the connection is nonetheless visually suggested; creates movement and direction; ex: line of sight

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but iconographic. utilitarian. objective. aesthetic.

aesthetic.

How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described? personal romantic analytic soft contour

analytic

In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ? by using grid lines by using pure contour lines by increasing the density of the lines by using impasto

by increasing the density of the lines

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called outlines. implied lines. grid lines. contour lines.

contour lines.

Paul Cézanne's Mme. Cézanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artist's strong interest in color. composition. design. subject matter.

design.

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)? in the twentieth century in the United States during the Classical period in Greece during the Renaissance in Italy in the twelfth century in Japan

during the Renaissance in Italy

expressive lines

express emotions

Which medium is preferred by time-based artists for its high image quality? screen projection paint film photography

film

In The Dead Christ, which technique does Andrea Mantegna utilize to adjust the distortion created by the point of view? verisimilitude oblique projection foreshortening isometric projection

foreshortening

In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create perceptual scale. spatial perspective. foreshortening of space. negative space.

foreshortening of space.

contour line

form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume, its recession, or projection in space

In the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck represents many key figures of the Christian religion, thereby primarily fulfilling which role of the artist?

giving form to the inmaterial

Which element of Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) creates a visual contradiction to the work's title? its representation of spatial depth its placement of vantage point its use of color its use of negative space

its representation of spatial depth

We know about Vincent Van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from letters he wrote. inventories. contemporary reviews. inscriptions he wrote on the painting.

letters he wrote.

A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called one-point perspective. binocular vision. monocular vision. pyramidal vision.

monocular vision.

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called calliforms. bismillah. handies. mudras.

mudras.

The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider that we are often fooled by what we see, as with trompe-l'loeil paintings. that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves. that images and words not only refer to things that we see but are also the things themselves. that there is a direct, one-to-one relationship between objects and the words we use to name them.

that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves.

Yoshitomo Nara's Dead Flower contrasts its menacing subject with the use of a heavy outline associated with the cuteness of a juvenile style. stability and clarity. the drama of an energetic style. the simplicity of a naïve style.

the cuteness of a juvenile style.

deep space

the distance between the foreground and background of a work of art

The title of Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light refers to the town on Long Island where the artist lived. the practice of painting outdoors. the name of the artist's sailboat. the feeling of light in the painting.

the feeling of light in the painting.

form

the overall structure of an artwork

What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon? the traditional representation of the female nude the belief that line is the most important element in art the use of classical models in modern photography the role of religion in art

the traditional representation of the female nude

Francis Bacon's artwork is so expensive because

they are relatively rare

Which element of Janine Antoni's Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space? vantage point vanishing point orthogonal line figure-ground line

vantage point