Art 1301 - Quiz 5

Pietro Martini's print of the 1785 Salon shows how the paintings were displayed:

according to a hierarchy

Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kauffmann, ________.

all of the other answers (are inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, convey a moral message, place an emphasis on civic duty, are serious in tone)

The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers

all of the previous answers (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)

Michael Fay's Storm and Stone was inspired by his experiences as a Marine in:

Afghanistan

The Hudson River School painted ________.

American landscapes

A critic praised Monet's work Impression Sunrise by saying it had given a viewer such clarity of thought and purpose that he ran out of the gallery and immediately began writing a novel.

False

Auguste Rodin was told by a government official that he should put clothes on his overly sexualized figures in The Kiss.

False

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

False

Nick Ut never found out what happened to the Vietnamese girl he photographed running away after a napalm attack in which she had been burned.

False

The German artist Anselm Kiefer was defending the rights of the Nazis in the artwork Breaking of the Vessels.

False

The Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay were both built in the twentieth century to house the enormous art collections of the French government.

False

The glass and metal pyramid of the Louvre in Paris, France, was part of the original design

False

Vincent van Gogh committed suicide by bleeding to death after slicing off his left ear.

False

Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?

Paul Cézanne

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson challenges negative stereotypes of African-Americans.

True

The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by women.

True

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, with the intention that it later be torn down.

True

Willard Wigan carves grains of rice and sand and paints them with an eyelash.

True

Where is the Hall of Mirrors?

Versailles

Which of these artists created a war artwork that was an interactive performance?

Wafaa Bilal

The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification.

iris-patterns from the original photograph

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

polished metal plates

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of the 1965 version of Jasper Johns's Flag 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

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

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced