Art Appreciation Final
Which artist creates incredibly convincing sculptures of everyday people?
Duane Hanson
The 9/11 Memorial has been achieved without any controversy over its final design.
False
What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?
Feminism
Who is the artist of The Dinner Party?
Judy Chicago
Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1)?
Leonardo
Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?
Pointillism
Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?
Sandro Botticelli
A shaman is a person who ________.
a. acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans
How do practitioners cultivate mental calm in the Japanese zen garden?
a. by raking the gravel regularly
What was the artist of The Hip Hop Project (25) trying to do?
a. effectively become a part of a number of different communities
Holy relics located in churches ________.
a. taught people about the stories of the Koran
French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows:
a. the faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed by:
all of the other answers Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Sullivan Frank Gehry Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it represents?
all of these were propagandistic artworks The Armada Portrait Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen Napoleon Crossing the Alps Stela of Hammurabi
Which artwork did Catherine Opie make?
b. Do the Right Thing
What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
b. feminist posters and pamphlets
Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________.
b. to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed to:
be a temple of spirit, a monument
Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?
because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity
Community art may ________.
c. be situated in public places
Willem de Kooning intended his painting Woman I to ________.
c. reflect universal ideas of powerful women
What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her
c. she was ashamed of the photograph
Which artwork did Carrie Mae Weems make?
d. Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Spirituality encompasses ________.
d. all of the previous answers our sense of being connected to others our awareness of both mind and body our wish to understand life's meaning and the world around us
The layout of The Dinner Party alludes to:
d. ancient religions that worshiped a mother goddess
A visitor to a Gothic cathedral would have found him or herself surrounded by:
d. traffic in the market square
4. Muslim practice includes ________.
e. all of the other answers gathering to pray in a mosque praying in the direction of Mecca praying to Allah praying five times per day
Why were the Roman catacombs of sacred importance?
e. all of the other answers pagan, Christian, and Jewish Romans used them they were the burial places of many Romans' ancestors they served as temples for many religious observances the paintings there could be relevant for multiple religions
What is the subject of Catherine Opie's Domestic series?
e. all of the other answers staged depiction of radical performance artists high school football games a variety of landscapes the artist found interesting lesbian couples in their everyday settings
What is not true about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
e. all of the other answers are true the names of the dead are carved into the wall alphabetically it aligns with two other American monuments the wall is reflective it was designed by a student
Lange's Migrant Mother
raised awareness of the severity of the Great Depression
To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?
the practices of an exclusive swingers' club
Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
they wanted a more traditional monument with figures
Velázquez's Rokeby Venus
was attacked for its ideal beauty
Fischl's Falling Woman
was covered up for its shocking reality
Nolde's Crucifixion
was mocked by the Nazis
