Art 160 Chapter 4.4 Gateways to Art

all of these words relate to her work

Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama?

False

Surgical dissections and artists studying anatomy have nothing in common.

True

Synesthesia is when stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in another, for example visualizing color when one hears music.

False

Astrolabes were treated as purely scientific instruments that did not need decoration or inscriptions.

False

When the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was completed in 1989, artists, scholars, and scientists throughout the world universally applauded the restorers’ efforts.

all of the previous answers

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat’s Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

all of the previous answers

Which of these artworks reveals a culture’s understanding of astronomy?

True

Astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.

False

Georges Seurat feverishly painted Sunday on La Grande Jatte in one weekend.

True

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

True

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

True

An x-ray of Picasso’s Girl before a Mirror showed that the artist altered the body of Marie-Thérèse while working on the painting.

False

Salvador Dalí’s painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks, ants, and a distorted face, all of which are symbols of his mother, who died the month before this was painted.

False

Body Worlds is controversial because the figures in the exhibition never gave permission for their bodies to be used.

in Maya belief, It was the day of the creation of man

What was significant about August 13, 3114 BCE?

All of the previous answers

What is true about the Aztec Sun Stone (4.4.5)?

A cello

Marcia Smilack’s synesthetic photograph of ripples on water made her think of the sound of

a roman architect

Vitrivius was:

True

Willard Wigan carves grains of rice and sand and paints them with an eyelash.

False

"Pentimenti" is the term used by Picasso for his young students.