Art Appreciation - RQ ( 1 )

Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but

Aesthetic

J. M. W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway. What are they?

Atmospheric and One point

How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night similar?

They both use expressive line to convey emotion.

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.

In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create

Negative Space

When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called

Nonobjective

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?

One-point linear perspective

According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

Reception, Extraction, Interference

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

The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered

Abstract

In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ?

By increasing the density of the lines

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called

Contour Lines

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

Figure-Ground Reversal

In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their

Flattening of space between foreground and background.

In The Dead Christ, which technique does Andrea Mantegna utilize to adjust the distortion created by the point of view?

Foreshortening

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called

Iconography

The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe

Representational art