ART APPRECIATION 115 CMU
How is a viewer's experience of the Rubin vase (page 68) similar to that of experiencing Olafur Eliasson's Suney (page 73)?
Perception changes in response to light
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
Photorealistic
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:
Religious art
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art
The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot
A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called
One-point perspective
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought not to b merely functional, but
Aesthetic
How is Sol LeWitt's line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?
Analytic
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?
Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions
In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their
Flattening of space between foreground and background
Lines that are loose and free-form are called
Gestural lines
Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as
Impasto
Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called
Implied lines
What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure
It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it
What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture from the Ivory Coast
It represents the imagination transforming an everyday object for good
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called
Mudras
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called
Nonobjective
The terms "naturalistic art" are sometimes used to describe
Representational art
Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist
Retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view
Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:
Self-sufficiency
The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was
To teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art"
In a work of art, "content" refers to
What the work means
According to Sayer, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"
reception, extraction, inference
The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider
that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves