AHS 100 CH1-7+

By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of?

brass casting

The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is?

bronze.

How does Pat Steir use line to express pleasure in The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style?

by combining a variety of styles

Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process in which medium?

clay

The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is?

clay

Ellsworth Kelly's Brier exhibits which type of lines?

contour

The Greek Kouros illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called?

contrapposto

The Chinese symbols within a red square on Hung Liu's Relic 12 represents the

creation goddess

How does Rembrandt create shadow in The Three Crosses?

denser line

The area where line almost disappears in Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses represents

divine light

One of the basic signatures of contemporary abstract painting is the

dripping line

Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are generally referred to as?

earthworks

Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of?

firing it.

Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates what ancient sculptural convention?

frieze

Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these?

happenings

Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?

in-the-round

The primary function of an outline is to

indicate a dimensional shape

Ancient Egyptian stone funerary figures, such as King Menkaure, were carved to bear the spirit of the deceased into the eternity of the afterlife, known as the?

ka.

For Vincent van Gogh, the figure of The Sower represents

longing for the infinite

The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re, is an example of

low relief sculpture

Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add?

naturalism

In Vincent van Gogh's The Sower, the line showing the circular shape of the sun would best be considered a(n)

outline

In his view, Matthew Ritchie uses straight lines because they

represent a wound or direction

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates orients line so as to emphasize

stability

Wood and stone carvings are examples of?

subtractive sculpture

The function of contour lines is to

suggest a dimensional form

What visual devices create the contrasting symbolic relationship between reality and utopia in Wenda Gu's united nations-china monument: temple of heaven?

the cursive writing and the table

What distinguishes Eugene Delacroix's approach to painting from that of Jacques-Louis David?

the emotional emphasis of his work

The Yoruba Display Piece produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king's power and ?

the power of the community's women

One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is?

the wood's grain

How are the lines of Vincent van Gogh's The Sower similar to Eugene Delacroix's Study for the Death of Sardanapalus?

they emphasize movement

How does Hung Liu use drips in her painting?

to achieve a sense of liberation

reception, extraction, inference

According to Sayre what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

Einsteins Theories

According to Sayre, our notion of space has changed abruptly and even become "fluid" since the beginning of the twentieth century due to

They should educate the public about the value of art.

According to the National Endowment for the Arts what activist role should artists take?

They are both positive forms that contain negative space.

Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon share a similar trait. What is it?

the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola is based on

The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi shows an extraordinary grouping of what type of work?

Ceramics

political symbolism.

Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its

Motion Pictures

Etienne-Jules Marey was a pioneer in the then burgeoning art of what?

Contingent is a typical work by the artist?

Eva Hesse.

They have little context in which to view the work.

Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?

controlled

How can we describe Sol LeWitt's use of line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C?

All were initially misunderstood by the public.

How is Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial similar to works by Edouard Manet and Marcel Duchamp?

drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements

What creates a sense not only of enclosure and connection, but also movement and direction?

Implied Line

modernity

In 1863, Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the public due to its

implied line

In Giacometti's Man Pointing, our eye is directed down his right arm and past his pointed finger to some imagined point of interest beyond. This is an example of which formal element?

His interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude.

In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?

simple black outlines and ironic messages

In House, how does Jaune Quick-to-See Smith evoke the simplicity of traditional Native American lifestyles that have disappeared?

foreshortening

In The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utilizes what technique in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view?

what the work expresses or means.

In a work of art, "content" refers to

Which of these statements is NOT true about the Qing Dynasty masterpiece Yu the Great Taming the Waters?

It is carved into the largest piece of marble ever quarried.

How does "assemblage" primarily differ from other sculptural processes?

It utilizes "found" objects.

Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The Burghers of Calais?

It was cast in several pieces and then welded together

it reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions

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?

iconography.

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:

The Japanese style of "superflat" takes inspiration from

Japanese prints

his proclivity for things seen but not examined

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

one point linear perspectives

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

create value by hatching and cross-hatching

Line can be used to delineate edges of form in space, imply movement, and

was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style.

Maya Ying Lin's Memorial in Washington, D.C.

aesthetic

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be _______ rather than functional.

Unique expressives lines

Pat Steir's series The Drawing Lesson Part 1, Line # 1 is about various artists'

Self-Sufficient

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

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

Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

Which artist writes instructions allowing placement and arrangement of lines to be determined by museum staff?

Sol LeWitt

Expressive line

The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's

Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

a composition

The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called

Mundra

The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called

Representational Art

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe

What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?

They are both earthwork

What do Vincent van Gogh & Sol LeWitt's lines have in common?

They are recognizably their own

Titian uses which implied shapes in Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin to link the separate horizontal realms of his composition?

Triangles

Which artist described his work as "almost a cry of anguish?"

Vincent van Gogh

religious art

We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in:

Natural materials found on site

What is generally the preferred medium of Andy Goldsworthy

It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West

What is the content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?

it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?

It represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good.

What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast

it depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face

What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?

African masks he saw at a Paris museum

What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in The Women of Avignon?

socio-cultural issues

What motivates artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Suzanne Lacy?

during the Renaissance in Italy

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

in both depending on how you look at it

Where is the negative space in the Rubin vase?

At Jesus's Head

Where is the vanishing point in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci?

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

Which artwork was described as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?

architects look to continue to use building techniques and materials that have been in use since the Industrial Revolution in the West

Which of these is not a principle of "green architecture"?

the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?

Richard Serra

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?

ledger drawings.

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator

Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art?

It mimics binocular visions

Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?

Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is?

a series of installations

When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material such as clay, the process is called?

additive.

A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as?

an environment.

What helps contribute to the violence seen in Cheri Samba's Calvary?

angular line

What is the source of Chinese artist Hung Liu's painting of women?

archival photographs

In Sky Cathedral the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called?

assemblage