ART 111 QUIZ 1
Why do we presume that the carved mask from Benin discussed in the chapter was made for someone wealthy?
Because it was made of rare ivory
Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, it is considered his work because ________.
He designed it
Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.
Johannes Vermer
Stolen art loses much of its value because ______
Lacking a good title and proper provenance prevents its resale
During his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh ______.
Practiced as an artist for only 10 years
The medium of Marc Quinn's Self is:
The artists own blood
Traditionally, artists in China learned their craft by ______.
The copying the work of a great master
Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated ______
The sensations of a fall day by the river
African masks displayed in museums were originally made ______.
To be worn during spiritual or magical ceremonies
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 City of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers
True
The Degenerate Art show did not attract many visitors as it toured Germany.
True
Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because:
it offends people's religious beliefs its sexual content seems pornographic it carries a political message that worries the authorities its moral values seem improper
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was famous partly because it was ________.
looted by the Nazi's
Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.
sculpture and painting
Frederic Church's painting Niagara is a vehicle for expressing the artist's thoughts about ______.
the expansion and development of America the beauty of the American landscape God's support for the country.
The term Formal Analysis can refer to all of the following except:
the owner ship history of a piece of ART
Louise Nevelson's work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.
False
The Degenerate Art Show displayed the art in a flattering way to show love and support of Europe's modern master artists.
False
The artist Ai Weiwei was censored in China because:
he created an artwork based on the destruction of a school during an earthquake in China because of shoddy construction.