Art Appreciation 4.1-

Kachinas

For the Hopi, _________ are supernatural spirits that personify events and natural elements.

Illusionary windows

Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his treatise On Painting that paintings are _________ __________.

Caspar David Friedrich Abbey Among Oak Trees

The artist reflected the presence of God in the human world in this work.

Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus

The artist revived the appearance of the female nude in this work.

William de Kooning Woman I

The artist showed an abstracted form in this work

Chuck Close Fanny

The artist took finger painting to a new level with this work

Timothy O'Sullivan Harvest of Death

The artist took his famous photograph about the horrors of the Civil War.

Edouard Manet A bar at the Folies Bergere

The artist used a mirror in this work to suggest that the viewer should question reality

Andrea Mantegna Dead Christ

The artist used foreshortening to more intimately connect the viewer with this work

Janine Antoni Loving Care

The artist used her own hair as a paintbrush for this piece.

Gunther von Hagens Basketball Player

The artist used his knowledge of anatomy and science to create this work.

Otto Dix The War

The artist, who fought in World War 1, recorded the horrors he witnessed in this triptych

Michelangelo Sistine Chapel

The cleaning of this work took twice as long as it took Michelangelo to paint it.

maya Lin

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

Francesco Mazzola

__________ _________ painted his self-portrait on wood, but it looks to be painted on a convex mirror.

Oculus

a round opening at the center of a dome

Physiology

a science that studies the workings of the body and its organs.

trompe l'oeil

an extreme kind of illusion meant to deceive the viewer

Anamorphosis

A distorted representation of an object so that it appears correctly proportioned only when viewed from one particular position

Pointillism

A late 19th-century painting style that uses short strokes of differing colors that optically combine to form new perceived colors.

Psychology

A science that studies nature, development, and the human mind.

Flint

A tool or object made from the very hard, sharp-edged stone of the same name.

Sun Stone

Also referred to as the calendar stone, this reveals how the Aztecs counted time.

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror

An x-ray of this work shows how the artist changed his original concept.

Bis

Ancestor poles known as _____ represent both stories about the cyclical nature of human life and the social and family ties that connect the community.

Plastination

Gunther von Hagens developed ___________, which preserves bodies after death and allows them to be arranged in poses.

Hindu

In India, connections between present, future, and past lives are central to the _______ belief system.

Surrealism

In the 1920's, this artistic movement was inspired by dreams and the subconscious.

Jullian Mayer I am Your Grandma

In this piece, the artist shows interest in leaving a legacy for her descendants

Astrolabe

Made up of layers of disks that fit into a larger brass dial, this could find the direction of Mecca and calculate the time of day.

China

Mao's portrait is a powerful national symbol of _______, even though his legacy remains very controversial.

Vanitas

Refers to a person's pride, materialism, and inevitable mortality.

Microscope

The British artist Willard Wigan created artworks possible only because he used a _________.

Julian Beever; Anamorphosis

The British artist _______ ________ applies this form of representation to his sidewalk art.

Hand

The ______ was a commonly used unit of measurement in Egyptian art.

Chris Jordan Gyre

The artist appropriated imagery from artist Katsushika Hokusai for this work

JR Women are Heroes

The artist brought attention to the conditions of the poor in Brazil with this piece

Jenny Saville Branded

The artist choose an unconventional approach to depicting the female body in this piece.

Rene Magritte The Human Condition

The artist confronts the viewer with issues of representation and truth in this work.

Jacques-Louis David Napoleon Crossing the Alps

The artist displays the charcteristic style of Romanticism in this work.

Patrick Dougherty Na Hale 'Eo Waiawi

The artist incorporates natural elements into this large-scale sculpture.

Audrey Flack Marilyn (Vanitas)

The artist made this work to comment on human mortality

Jasper Johns Flag

The artist makes us take a second look at familiar subjects in this piece.

Theodore Gericault Raft of the Medusa

The artist memorialized a scandalous event in history with this painting

Gustave Courbet Fox in the Snow

The artist painted a representation of the violent forces of nature in this work.

Pablo Picasso Guernica

The artist painted this as a passionate response to attcks carried out in Spain in 1937

Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Stills

The artist plays the role of all women in this series.

Samsara

The endless cycle of death and rebirth in which Hindus believe.

Predella

The horizontal section on the bottom of a triptych altarpiece

Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace

This 23-foot-long scroll employs isometric perspective from a bird's-eye-view

Bayeux Tapestry

This 275-foot-long work records the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings

"Degenerate Art"

This Nazi-curated exhibition ridiculed modern art

Flint

This also incorporates elements of the cosmology and astronomical knowledge of the Maya.

Emil Nolde

This artis was a member of the Nazi party and had to paint in secret.

Frida Kahlo

This artists self-portraits reflect on her identity and mixed cultural background.

Spike Lee Do the Right Thing

This film focuses on race relations and social justice.

Richard Serra Tilted Arc

This is an example of public art

Woman from Willendorf

This is one of the earliest known artworks, believed to be a fertility figure.

Palette of Narmer

This is the earliest surviving ancient Egyptian artworks, showing the unification of Egypt after a great war

Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother

This photograph brings up issues of ethics regarding photo subjects

Nick Ut Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack

This photograph was so shocking, many questioned its authenticity.

The Armada Portrait

This was painted to commemorate the English victory of 1588.

Carrie Mae Weems From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

This work embodies an interest in personal and cultural identity.

Georges Seurat Sunday on La Grande Jatte

This work focused on the way that the human eye perceives color.

Andres Serrano The Morgue (Gun Murder)

This work imitated Andrea Mantegna's use of foreshortening

Catherine Opie Melissa and Lake, Durham, North Carolina

This work investigated the nuances of gender and identity.

Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession

This work is a product of the artist's personal struggles and mental illness.

Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe

This work refers to a famous incident in this artists life.

Duane Hanson Museum Guard

This work shares the physical and psychological space of the viewer.

Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man

This work showed the artists interest in the proportions of the human body.

Thomas Eakins Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross

This work shows a realistic, dramatic depiction of a medical procedure.

Joseph Wright An experiment on a bird in the air pump

This work shows a scientist demonstrating the creation of a vacuum.

Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory

This work was based on a term the artist invented called paranoiac-critical.

Eric Fischl Falling Woman

This work was censored shortly after its reveal

Velazquez Rokeby Venus

This work was the aim of a violent protest