4.3-4.5 art

Why did Jasper Johns paint his Flag (4.4.11) in green, orange, and black?

because they are the complements of the US flag's actual colors

Which of the following styles relates to Marilyn (Vanitas)?

contemporary photorealism

Whirling Log Ceremony depicts:

creation myth

What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing?

dancing the world into existence balancing contradictory qualities, for example creation and destruction bringing to life the endless cycle of birth and rebirth stamping out evil and ignorance Correct! all of the other answers

What did Heather Dewey-Hagborg gather for DNA samples?

hair cigarettes gum answers b and c Correct! all of the other answers

How does Christian Marclay's video installation relate to the cycle of life?

he focuses on the construct of time as seen in popular culture

Muqarnas resemble:

honeycombs

What is significant about August 13, 3114 BCE?

in Maya belief, it was the day of the creation of man

The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers (4.4.4):

is a representation of the Maya story of creation shows five figures riding a crocodile refers to the arrangement of the stars in the Milky Way answers a and c Correct! all of the other answers

The oculus in Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua:

is just a painted illusion

How does Marilyn (Vanitas) relate to the Cycle of Life?

it includes time pieces, fruit, and nostalgic photographs

How does The Taj Mahal relate to the cycle of life?

it was meant to be the world's richest mausoleum and it serves as a tomb

What is true about the Aztec Sun Stone (4.4.5)?

it was originally painted in bright colors it is carved with symbols representing the ways Earth was previously destroyed it functioned like a calendar answers b and c Correct! all of the other answers

Fanny/Fingerpainting by Chuck Close was ________.

made with the artist's finger and thumbprints

The sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal shows him ________.

marking the intersection of the earthly realm and the underworld

Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama?

mirrors infinity dots cosmos Correct! all of these words relate to her work

Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is a:

painting of the artist looking in a mirror

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

pointillism optical mixture afterimage effect answers a and b Correct! all of the other answers

Pieter Claesz made which of the following types of artworks?

realistic still-life paintings

What did Venus do for Pygmalion?

she brought his sculpture of a beautiful woman to life

How is it clear that the Yombe sculpture of a kneeling female figure with bowl and child (4.3.9) represents a nature spirit associated with ancestors?

she is painted white and has shiny eyes

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique, which means a dramatic use of light and dark:

tenebrism

Lord Pacal was the ruler of which place?

the Maya city-state of Palenque

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of Jasper Johns's Flag (4.4.11) a solid rectangle with a black dot in the middle?

the artist wanted the viewer to rest their eyes on this rectangle after looking at the one in the painting's top half

For whom is the message contained in I Am Your Grandma intended?

the artist's future unborn grandchild

What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?

the bar top the barmaid liquor and wine bottles answers a and b Correct! all of the other answers

Ancient Greek architects were not aware of how optical illusions could skew the appearance of buildings.

False

Because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish, the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo's time.

False

Cubist paintings are completely non-objective and do not contain any recognizable objects.

False

Georges Seurat feverishly painted Sunday on La Grande Jatte in one weekend.

False

Giulio Romano created two unrelated decorative schemes in his designs for the exterior and interior of the Palazzo del Tè in Mantua.

False

Illusion cannot be created using the medium of fresco.

False

In Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg created exact replicas of her friends.

False

Madame X was a well-known Parisian prostitute.

False

Navajo sand paintings are only made when someone has died or is getting married.

False

Photographs, such as Andres Serrano's The Morgue (Gun Murder), cannot display the perspective technique of foreshortening.

False

Salvador Dalí's painting The Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks, ants, and a distorted face, all of which are symbols of his mother, who died the month before this was painted.

False

Surgical dissections and artists studying anatomy have nothing in common.

False

The Palazzo del Tè in Mantua, Italy is falling apart (triglyphs are slipping and columns have broken in two) due to age and poor construction.

False

Which part of William Harnett's The Old Violin is real and not just painted?

the blue envelope

Which part of René Magritte's The Human Condition is painted?

the entire scene

Thomas Eakins painted a surgery he witnessed in person. Who is shown in the painting, but was unlikely to be at the actual surgery?

the patient's mother

The scenes in Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry were inspired by the artist's imagination and dreams rather than daily life at the time he lived.

False

The sheep and trees in Hogarth's False Perspective correctly decrease in size to show that they are further away.

False

When it was completed, The Taj Mahal exactly matched Shah Jahan's original plans.

False

When the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was completed in 1989, artists, scholars, and scientists throughout the world universally applauded the restorers' efforts.

False

Willard Wigan carved his Statue of Liberty into wax.

False

Willard Wigan created a lifesize replica of the Statue of Liberty for the people of France.

False

The eleventh-century bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) (4.3.12) was made in ________.

India

Muqarnas are used in which type of architecture?

Islamic

Who is the artist of I Am Your Grandma?

Jillian Mayer

Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows?

Leon Battista Alberti

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1)?

Leonardo

Who is the artist of Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry?

Limbourg Brothers

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

True

Synesthesia is when stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in another, for example visualizing color when one hears music.

True

Trompe l'oeil means "fool the eye".

True

Trompe l'oeil techniques are used to make artworks look extremely realistic.

True

When The Clock by Christian Marclay is screened it is shown in real time, in essence making it function as a clock.

True

William Hogarth's False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective.

True

Who is the architect of The Taj Mahal?

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, Abd al-Karim Ma'mur Khan, and Makramat Khan

The Rainbow Maiden is depicted in which work?

Whirling Log Ceremony

Which artist was investigated by the US Treasury Department for counterfeiting because his painting of a dollar bill looked so real?

William Harnett

Which two ancient Greek painters were masters of illusion?

Zeuxis and Parrhasius

Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ________.

an abstract portrait

Which of the following space shuttle launches inspired Rauschenberg's lithograph Hotshot?

Columbia

Bis pole sculptures were made by which culture?

Asmat

Which culture made the Calendar Stone (Sun Stone)?

Olmec Maya Celtic Egyptian Correct! none of the other answers

Vitruvius was:

Roman architect

Which of these works relates to Tonatiuh?

Sun stone

Andrea Mantegna included a peacock, to represent marriage, on the ceiling of the room he painted for the Duke of Mantua.

True

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

True

Hosteen Klah is a shaman-singer that made weavings of Navajo sand paintings.

True

In the video I Am Your Grandma, the artist uses technology, references to existing artworks, and popular culture to explore identity.

True

Magritte questions the idea of the "illusionistic window" in his work The Human Condition.

True

Parmigianino created his skillful and unusual Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror to give to Pope Clement VII because he thought it might help him to get commissions for more artworks.

True

Parnassus, Disputa, and Jurisprudence are the titles of three paintings—along with Raphael's School of Athens—in the library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican.

True

Rituals that connect with ancestors and nature spirits are as important as the tasks of daily life for African peoples like the Yombe.

True

Marcia Smilack's synesthetic photograph of ripples on water made her think of the sound of ________.

a cello

The crouching male Olmec transformation figure is becoming which animal?

a jaguar

Julian Beever is ________.

a sidewalk chalk artist working today

Pablo Picasso's painting Girl before a Mirror reflects his knowledge of ________.

all of the other answers

The term "vanitas" in art includes references to ________.

all of the other answers

When columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint, this is called ________.

entasis

What does the half circle at the top of the pages of Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (4.3.6) represent?

the solar chariot with Phoebus the sun god the sun at its appropriate spot in the sky for the month represented relevant signs and degrees of the zodiac for the month represented answers b and c Correct! all of the other answers

Which of the following statements relates most closely to Christian Marclay's The Clock?

the straightforward nature of a time piece also reflects the complexity of life

Scientific analysis of Sargent's Madame X helped art historians further understand:

the way critics responded when it was exhibited

Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror relates to the theme of vanitas through which of the following elements?

the woman looks in a mirror to contemplate her beauty, which will fade over time

Bis poles were made for what purpose?

to honor someone who had just died to depict the ancestors and acknowledge their role in daily life to carry the deceased into the afterlife to serve a ritual function in male initiation and memorial feasts Correct! all of the other answers