Art Appreciation

The model for Manet’s Olympia was a well known:

Parisian courtesan

Utamaro’s print A Pair of Lovers is an erotic image referred to as a:

Shunga Print

The Japanese term "ukiyo" identifies subject matter known as the:

Floating world

The compositional elements of the African Dogon Primordial Couple convey:

harmony of the first male and female union.

The bulbous form of a tiny limestone carving nicknamed the Venus of Willendorf may have been a/an:

A charm or fetish

Among the Ashanti, a doll was first successfully used in a ritual to conceive a child by a woman named:

Akua

Which popular expression is graphically conveyed by the Aztec Marriage Couple?

Tying the knot

In the 17th century, European missionaries collected native Oceanic carvings to preserve the heritage and religion of the indigenous populations.

False

The contrasting textural surfaces and the title of Bourgeois’ sculpture Blind Man’s Bluff are an invitation to touch the sculpture that may be difficult to resist.

True

The Potawatomi Male Figure was used in a Native American culture as a love doll to cast a magic spell on another person

True

Hershman’s computer-video installation Deep Contact is a scientific animation about the mating rituals of Neolithic cultures.

False

Stone female figures carved with nubile, plank-like bodies were found in the Islands of the Aegean Sea.

Cycladiccla

In India, Krishna is conventionally depicted in the color

Blue

The erotic figures on the exterior of the Kandarya Mahadeva Temple at Khajuraho are relevant to the religion.

Hindu

An , which is a Turkish harem girl, was the subject of a painting by Ingres.

Odalisque

The simplified, cylindrical brass forms of Brancusi’s Torso of a Young Man may be interpreted as a symbol.

Phallic

The ceramic effigy vessel of a Mother and Nursing Child was found in a of the Mississippi Period Cahokian culture.

Tomb

A wall painting in the Pompeiian Villa of Mysteries depicts:

whipping an initiate to a Dionysian cult.

O’Keeffe’s Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow is considered abstract sexual imagery.

True

Masaccio’s The Expulsion from Paradise is of which primordial couple?

Adam and Eve

In ancient Greece, water was collected by women from the community fountain house in a:

Hydria

The subject of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party is a tribute to:

significant women in Western culture.

A bronze vessel with three legs that was used for food during the Chinese Zhou dynasty was a:

Ting

The dominant theme in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper pertains to:

the Christian religion

The simplicity of Mu Qi’s painting, Six Persimmons (by Mu-Qi) , reflects which principle?

Zen Buddhism

A distinctive feature of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is the large, round rooms that served as ceremonial centers called:

Kivas

Safdie’s Montreal Habitat was built with the efficient and economical use of:

prefabricated modular units.

The parts of the Toba Batak House have symbolic meaning with the internal spaces seen as:

maternal or womblike

Fallingwater shows much influence from what architecture, especially in its cantilevered porches and flowing interior space?

Japanese and Chinese

A type of Native American Indian basket created by Pomo women was woven so tightly that it could:

hold water

U.S. Pavilion, a geodesic dome, is an example of the what style?

somewhat post Modernism, but NOT International Style (plain square boxlike buildings)

A Table of Desserts alludes to what?

the idea of vanitas, the impermanence of all earthly things and the inevitability of death.

In Africa, what was a valued resource that could be carved and given as a high-level diplomatic gift?

Ivory

The Japanese tea ceremony is a formalized ritual that was influenced by what?

Zen Buddhism

What in Chinese buildings protects earthen foundations from rain damage?

Wide, projecting eaves

The Mali’s Dogon Cliff Dwellings with Granaries are primarily to accommodate groups of villagers leaving the flat land to farming.

True

Photographer focused on close-ups of natural forms, such as artichokes, to reveal the beauty of inherent textures and patterns.

Edward Weston

The Bamana people of Mali perform a ritual dance with a headdress of a Chi Wara spirit that represents a mythic who introduced farming to the community.

Antelope

The was a portable tent used by Great Plains Indians.

Tipi

The Pompeiian House of Vettii featured an open BLANK with a pool or impluvium for collecting rainwater.

Atrium

Sue Coe’s There Is No Escape is an indictment of the what?

Meat Industry

What is Warhol "celebrating" in Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup and Del Monte Freestone Peach Halves?

Commercialism

Lascaux’s images probably had a(n) ____ purpose linked to nature’s bounty.

Ritual

Prehistoric artists painted images in the ____ of the caves.

Shelter

Australian Aboriginals painted "contour maps" indicating food and water locations; these maps were then ____ after a ritual celebration.

Destroy

Coe’s There Is No Escape is from a series condemning the meat industry called ____.

Porkopolis

The ancient Chinese made ____ vessels for storing wine.

Bronze

As its name suggests, the ancient Greek ____ was used for carrying and storing water.

Hydria

The Pomo tribal baskets, covered with feathers and shells were made as ceremonial ____.

Gifts

Warhol’s work, such as Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup celebrated the commercial art of ____.

Advertising

Salt (during 16th century) was considered so valuable that it was a source of wealth; the European nobility used elaborate saltcellars as a ____ .

Status symbol

Jan Davidsz de Heem’s (from the Netherlands) A Table of Desserts reflects cultural and ____ beliefs.

Religious

Mu Qi’s Six Persimmons emphasizes ____ in life.

Meditation and simplicity

An important component of European still life painting was the idea of ____.

food as beauty

In the early twentieth century, still life paintings were not concerned with ____.

Food as sustenence

The Venus of Willendorf is a statue of

pregnant Venus

The paintings in the Villa of Mysteries were done by the?

Greek

An odalisque was a member of

A Harem

In prehistoric times fertility was

An important concern

Louise Bourgeois’ Blind Man’s Bluff is a sculpture of

Bulbous forms

Historically in India, images of ideal erotic sexuality were ____.

common in temples and miniature paintings

Duane Hanson made what:

Self Portrait with Model; realistically detailed sculpture that fooled the viewer’s eye

Who created "Fallingwater"?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Villa Rotunda

Andrea Palladio

Gnaw (Chocolate blocks)

Janine Antoni

"Pie Counter"

Wayne Thiebaud

"The Expulsion from Paradise"

Masaccio

"Wedding Portrait"

Jan Van Eyck

"A Pair of Lovers"

Kitagawa Utamaro

"Grand Odalisque"

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

"Olympia"

Edward Manet

"Deep Contact"

Lynn Hershman

"Torso of a Young Man"

Constantin Brancusi

"Pregnant Woman"

Alice Neel

"Virgin and Child in Niche"

Rogier Van Der Weyden