Chapter 2 Quiz: Developing Visual Literacy
What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?
ethnocentric
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast was painted by
Albert Bierstadt.
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called
Mudras
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called
Photorealistic
In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is
René Magritte.
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered
Abstract
How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?
Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.
Kazmir Malevich called his art
Suprematism
Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on
The Square
In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by
iconoclasts.
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.
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called
nonobjective
In a work of art, "content" refers to
what the work means.
SAMO is a name adopted by
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called
Ledger Drawings
What is the chief form of Islamic art?
calligraphy
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with
images that are not literally what they appear to be.
The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in
islamic art
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic 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.
