Art chapters 18-23

When did Islam come into being?

7th century C.E.

What style of art is associated with the New York School?

Abstract Expressionism

How can the art of Dada be described?

Absurd

What type of painting reveals the traces of an act, the painter's dance of creation?

Action Painting

In addressing political or social issues, many artists incorporated words into works, such as Protect Me From What I Want, by borrowing principles from what field?

Advertising

What Persian architectural feature is a large vaulted chamber with a pointed-arch opening, first used as an entrance to royal reception halls in Persian palaces, and later adapted to mosque designs?

An iwan

What postmodern practice takes existing images and recycles them, challenging traditional ideas about authenticity?

Appropriation

With what artistic medium was the term Postmodern first used?

Architecture

How can the idea of pluralism in Postmodernism be described?

Art can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid.

What type of work is Jasper Johns'sTarget with Four Faces?

Assemblage

What type of art was called "degenerate" by Adolf Hitler?

Avant-garde

Teotihuacan was a pilgrimage site for the __________.

Aztecs

In what city was the House of Wisdom built?

Baghdad

What characteristics can be seen in the art of Paul Guaguin, as in his workTe Aa No Areois (The Seed of the Areoi)?

Broad color areas Use of "primitive" artistic influences A quest for the "primitive"

Impressionism got its name from a painting called Impression, Sunrise, by the artist ______.

Claude Monet

What element of art was the focus of Fauvism?

Color

On what source material did Roy Lichtenstein often base his imagery?

Comics

What was the principle aim of art created during the early days of the People's Republic of China?

Communist propaganda

The tautological conceit of Joseph Kosuth's Five Words in White Neon identify it as ______ art.

Conceptual

What religion is most embodied in Li Cheng's Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks?

Daoism

Much Aboriginal art seeks to portray the concept of ______, a medium from which all earthly forms emerged.

Dreamtime

What African country was especially receptive to Christianity, and is the location of the unique Church of St. George?

Ethiopia

What characteristics are common to Song landscape paintings?

Flowing water Shrouding mists Vertical format

Which of the following terms or concepts do not relate to the Bauhaus?

Form should follow function Truth to Materials

What characteristic of Islamic art was a result of Islamic doctrine forbidding idolatry?

Geometric patterns

Which artist developed the Pointillist technique?

Georges Seurat

Which artist said "Show me an angel and I'll paint you one?"

Gustave Courbet

What feature is used in art from Benin royal altars to support the concept of sacred kingship, as in the altar dedicated to King Ovonramwen?

Hierarchical scale

______ appear at funerals of important Igbo men of Nigeria, welcoming his spirit to the other world and easing his transition from one stage of being to the next.

Ijele

What characteristic of Islamic art can be understood from the work, Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion?

Illustrations of people are allowed in secular books in Islamic culture.

What characteristic is fundamental to a happening, exemplified in Saburo Murakami's Laceration of Paper?

Impermanence

Which is not true about Indus Valley Civilization

Indus people did not typically bury objects with the dead.

What art form creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience?

Installation

What was the preferred material for the early Olmec and Maya cultures?

Jade

The work of artist ______ explores historical and personal questions of blackness.

Kara Walker

Walter De Maria'sLightning Field is an example of ______ art.

Land

American Romantic art expressed itself most clearly through what subject?

Landscape

What element was a primary concern of Impressionist art?

Light

What subject did Realist artists seek to depict?

Lives of the middle and lower classes

Which Abstract Expressionist artist was NOT a painter?

Louise Nevelson

One of the names most closely associated with Performance art is __________, who is known for the performance piece Imponderabilia.

Marina Abramović

What genre of art sought to explore the possibilities of pure form?

Minimalism

Which of the following terms or concepts relate to the artist Yayoi Kusama?

Mirrors Installations Coping mechanism for mental health issues

From what source did early Islamic architects draw inspiration for their mosque designs?

Muhammad's residence in Medina

In what style is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres'sJupiter and Thetis?

Neoclassical

The smooth surfaces and triangular, D-shaped eyes are characteristic of works from what culture?

Nok

What work is a good example of a Surrealist work?

Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim

What was NOT an achievement of the Mayan culture?

Oil painting

What culture is often called the "mother culture" because it seemed to have institutionalized the features that mark later civilizations in the Mesoamerican region?

Olmec

What was perhaps the most important art form in the Japanese Heian period?

Poetry

What is a koan designed to do?

Provide "short-circuit" logical thought patterns

What religion is the focus of the work, Bodhisattva Guide of Souls?

Pure Land Buddhism

What symbol, featured at the center of the Nubian gold ornament from the pyramid of Queen Amanishakheto, represents the solar deity Amun?

Rams' head

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of what art form?

Ready-mades

What distinctive aspect of Japanese illustration can be seen in the hand scroll The Tale of Genji?

Removal of the roof to show an interior space

From where did Edouard Manet get inspiration for his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)?

Renaissance works of art

What artist made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form a "combine?"

Robert Rauschenberg

Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the ______ style.

Romantic

What was the subject matter of much Impressionist art?

Scenes of leisure involving the middle class

What still-visible site is from the Eastern Woodlands cultures known collectively as the "mound builders"?

Serpent Mound

What themes, associated with Confucianism, can be seen in the Funerary Sculpture of a Pair of Officials from your text?

Social status Loyalty to superiors Court protocol

What theme permeates the work of Vasili Kandinsky?

Spirituality and art are linked.

What type of source material did Subodh Gupta use in making the work Dada?

Stainless-steel utensils

The Moche of South America left behind thousands of ceramic vessels depicting people, animals and daily activities. These were called __________.

Stirrup Vessels

Zen priest-painters used a painting technique called haboku, "splashed ink," which helped to express what theme?

Sudden enlightenment

Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious?

Surrealism

How did early Buddhist art depict the Buddha?

Symbols of his presence

What Polynesian practice, considered sacred, was performed ritually by a specialist, known as atukuka?

Tattooing

What structure, built during the 14th century under the Nasrid dynasty, was a city fortress that contained gardens, palaces, mosques, baths, and quarters for artisans?

The Alhambra

What are a few characteristics associated with Mughal culture?

The Taj Mahal Illustrated books decorated with jewel-toned palettes Influenced by Persian culture

Which of the following are components of Romanticism?

The power of nature Emotion Exotic settings

Why are many Mimbres ceramics, recovered from graves, shattered or pierced?

They represent release of the soul

What is a principle aim of Daoism?

To bring human life into harmony with nature

What was the initial aim of Cubism?

To invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface

____________ was considered a sacred substance by many North American peoples and the vehicle for delivery became a sculptural art form.

Tobacco

Match the correct term to the correct letter.

Urna = forehead dot Usnisha = hair bun on top of head

What type of art is Matthew Barney'sCremaster Cycle?

Video art

The horseshoe arches seen in the Great Mosque at Córdoba, Spain demonstrates were inspired by _________?

Visigothic architecture

The monumental sculptures of Easter Island were carved from what material?

Volcanic rock

In his notorious Women series, the painter ______ mutated images of beautiful women into grimacing monsters.

Willem de Kooning

What recent art group is known for their shocking images, as well as their skill at marketing and self-promotion? YBA

Young British Artists

Viewed as an act of prayer, ________ became the most highly regarded art in the Islamic world.

calligraphy

Judy Chicago utilized traditional _____________ materials, a opposed to materials associated with fine art, when constructing The Dinner Party.

craft

Much Internet Art shares the quality of being ______.

ephemeral

Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina is known as the ______.

hijra

Small figures known as _________ dolls were created by Pueblo peoples to be used in rituals designed to bring blessings.

kachina

This type of traditional cloth worn in Ghana was traditionally worn my royalty and whose color signified specific concepts was known as

kente

White light reflecting on an object and is modified by the colors around it reflecting upon its surface is called

local color

The people of Kongo use containers called ________ to hold materials that aid in rituals for harnessing the powers of the dead.

minkisi

In Buddhist art, hand gestures called _________ are used to represent the meaning of the message the image of the Buddha is trying to express.

mudras

Hypostyle

multi-columned prayer hall

Ornamental, niche-like scoops used in Islamic architecture are called

muqarnas

Which of the following were factors influencing the development of Impressionist art.

portable oil paints in tubes Ukiyo-e printmaking scientific articles on color

Minaret

prayer tower

The terra-cotta terracotta army of the first Qin emperor, Shihuangdi was created by

sculptors creating the statues from a combination technique of molded and hand built figures

Mihrab

semicircular niche in qibla wall

Housing the Buddha's remains, a ______ is a solid earthen mound faced with stone.

stupa

The concept of the ________________ is central to the concept of Romanticism and can be defined as a mixture of awe and terror.

sublime

Qibla wall

wall that faces Mecca

The carved figures of voluptuous women and sensuous couple on the outside of Hindu temples, demonstrate a belief in ______, spirits that embody ideas of fertility and abundance.

yakshi