Art Appreciation Final, chapters 8, 9, 10, 11

Mortality means ____.

being subject to death

The earliest tombs were ____.

hill shaped

One example of a Stone Age tomb is ____.

Newgrange

The Egyptians used the pyramid form to create the meeting place ____.

between life on earth and eternity

The Egyptians painted important people with their heads in profile and their eyes ____.

in frontal position

The Etruscan tombs were very much like ____.

houses

The Soldiers from Pit 1 from the tomb Shi Huangdi, China, are made of ____.

ceramic

The Moche tombs revealed that gold and silver were ____.

only for the elite

Greek grave markers usually showed ____.

quiet, everyday moments

The Romans felt that family tombs ____.

should be as ostentatious as possible

The bronze canopy in St. Peter’s by Bernini is called a ____.

baldacchino

Probably the most famous Islamic mausoleum is the ____.

Taj Mahal

A small shrine that contains the remains of a holy person is called a ____.

reliquary

In Africa, ____ are venerated in sculptures.

ancestors

European cemeteries were often organized either in the ____ system or a picturesque, romantic one.

grid

The ____ Day of the Dead celebration is a remembrance of all the dead.

Mexican

Memorial festivals held in New Ireland are called

malanggans

The AIDS Memorial Quilt ________.

changes every time it is displayed

Tribute in Light was displayed in

New York

Ancient tombs were often oriented to the movement of

celestial bodies

Newgrange, in Ireland, was rediscovered ____.

in 1699 by men quarrying for building stone

Egyptian pharaohs were believed to be descendants of the most powerful god, Re, the ____.

Sun God

A ____ is a city of the dead.

necropolis

Etruscan tomb chambers were carved directly out of soft bedrock called ____.

tufa

Ruled by warrior-priests from 150-800 CE, the ____ civilization extended for more than 400 miles along the Pacific Ocean in, what is now, modern Peru.

Moche

The tombs of the ____, from Scandinavia, reflect how important sea travel was to their civilization.

Vikings

In ancient ____, the dead were buried along roadways, outside the city walls, in highly visible funerary monuments to illustrate the individual’s fame or standing in society.

Rome

Early Christians buried their dead in vast underground networks called ____.

catacombs

In 313, under Emperor ____, Christianity became the official religion of Rome.

Constantine

The wealthy and powerful among Islamic societies were sometimes buried in mausoleums adjoining ____.

mosques

____ are bones, tissues, and possessions of deceased holy persons that are preserved and venerated.

Relics

____ was a major art and cultural movement of the nineteenth century that emphasized a return to a simple, rural way of life.

Impressionism

The Day of the Dead is a popular celebration, mixing Christian and ____ beliefs.

aztec

The ancient Egyptians’ funerary monuments took the form of pyramids, which were geometric mountains.

true

The Great Pyramids in Egypt have large interior chambers, which were used for public burial rituals

false

The pyramids of pharaohs Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu are the largest among all the periods and are situated on the west bank of the Nile.

true

The garden was a pleasure in Egyptian life and was featured in their imagery of the afterlife.

true

The soldiers from the funeral complex of Shi Huangdi in China are all standardized figures with similar bodies, gestures, and faces.

false

Modern cemeteries developed in response to an increase in urban populations and concerns about pollution and sanitation.

true

The clay soldiers from the tomb of Shi Huangdi were originally painted in vivid colors.

true

The ancient Greeks developed the earliest commemorative funerary architecture in Europe and the Middle East.

true

The Romans developed the concept of cemeteries with small plots marked by upright monuments.

false

Early Greek grave markers were originally painted with vivid colors.

true

By the rule of Henry VII of England, all church burials were banned because tombs were overwhelming church interiors.

false

Artistic devices used to glorify a ruler’s image include an idealized image and ____.

symbols

In the Egyptian sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty, the figures are shown ____.

standing by his side

In this image, Justinian is shown as a(n)____.

emperor-priest

This image is an example of a(n) ____.

mosaic

The twelve figures flanking Emperor Justinian in this image allude to ____.

the 12 apostles

The Crowned Head of an Oni demonstrated the Yoruba and Benin skill in ____.

metallurgy

In ancient Hawaii, only royalty could own or wear precious objects made of ____.

feathers

Royal kahili were simply ____.

fly whisks

Triumph of the Will was a film glorifying ____.

hitler

Palaces are different from ordinary residences by ____

their grand size

Achaemenid architecture is especially distinguished by ____.

its grand use of columns

Versailles was built in the ____ style.

Baroque

The Lamassu was a figure that stood on ____.

five legs

The Houses of Parliament were built in the ____ style

Gothic Revival

The Maori Meeting House represented the ____ of a great ancestor.

body

To remember military victories, the Romans built ____.

arches

An apotheosis means that someone has become ____.

deified

A warrior on horseback is called a(n) ____.

equestrian

The Benin Plaque with Warrior and Attendants represented the king’s ____.

power

Picasso’s Guernica dramatized the 1937 destruction of the Basque capital during the ____.

Spanish Civil War

The Palette of King Narmer glorifies ____.

war

The Assyrians dominated the Near East for over three hundred years and were known for their ____.

ruthlessness and brutality

A fantastic creature, the Lamassu had the head of a ____.

human

England’s Houses of Parliament used new building materials such as ____.

cast iron

The first to photograph war, ____ made 3,500 photographs covering both sides of the U.S. Civil War.

Mathew Brady

____ have symbolized peace in Western art.

doves winged allegorical figures women all of the above!!!

A ruler’s image is often ____, meaning it is depicted without flaws and often with youthful vigor.

idealized

The Palette of King Narmer represents the forceful ____.

unification of Egypt

To emphasize Christianity in the image The Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, a soldier’s shield displays the ____, an ancient symbol of Christ.

Chi-Rho

The film ____ established Adolph Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age.

The Triumph of the Will

Abandoned prior to Spanish conquest, the ____ created Palenque, a large palace complex with high platforms and relief sculpture.

Mayans

The ____ in China was built as a sign of Imperial power and as an instrument to maintain power.

Forbidden City

The seat of power for King Louis XIV of France, ____ was originally Louis’s grandfather’s hunting lodge.

Versailles

The ____ of China, considered to be a "wonder of the world," is a monumental example of war architecture.

Great Wall

Known for its cinematic technique, the film The Battleship Potempkin used ____ to allow viewers to piece together the story from fleeting images.

montage

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., was designed to glorify the Vietnam War.

false

Guernica was a temporary memorial honoring the victims of September 11.

false

Emperor Justinian’s wife, Theodora, was depicted as having equal rank and power to her husband.

true

Hawaiian royal objects were made of materials that were taboo to all others except royalty.

true

The imagery in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will was strictly documentary and was not manipulated by the director.

false

King Louis XIV of France was also called the Sun King because he identified himself with the god Apollo.

true

The Palette of King Narmer was used for mixing black eye makeup worn by ancient Egyptian men and women.

true

Art protesting a particular war was first seen____.

about two-hundred years ago

Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808, sympathize with____.

the Spaniards

Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz____.

protested against wars

Much of John Heartfield’s art protested against ____.

Nazi Germany

David Alfaro Siqueiros protested against the ____.

The Spanish civil war

Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated best____.

the struggle between life and death

The Surrealists believed in automatism, which includes the idea of____.

intuition

Tomatsu Shomei’s photographs are of victims of ____.

the atomic bomb

Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is ____ in its portrayal of fighting as thrilling, dangerous, and liberating.

romantic

Leon Golub’s Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its____.

large size

Lewis Hine’s photos of child laborers have long ____, which fully documented their youthfulness.

titles

Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of____.

African Americans

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by____.

Shahn

Jacob Lawrence’s artistic style was____.

flat and simple

William Kentridge created charcoal drawings and film animations reflecting the causes and injustices of ____.

apartheid

Edward Kienholz’s work is based on his experiences as ____.

a mental hospital worker

Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests.

humor

Yinka Shonibare’s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without Their Heads is a parody of a work by____.

Gainsborough

Abrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government was____.

a fresco

The ____ Codex Borbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.

Aztec

This painting was ____.

painted six years after the event from sketches the artist made

The function of this painting was to ____.

illustrate an event that occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte’s army occupied Madrid

This work is an example of art as ____.

social protest

The subject matter in this work deals with ____.

the Peasant War in Germany in the sixteenth century

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy.

narrative

Osorio’s mixed-media ____ The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?) affirms the worth of Puerto Rican culture in New York, while depicting how the people are depicted in mass media.

installation

____ did a series of forty-one paintings on the life of Francois-Dominique Toussaint-L’Ouverture, a slave who led a revolt in Haiti that resulted in the abolition of slavery there in 1794.

Jacob Lawrence

In Jacob Lawrence’s tempera paintings, the use of space and color, as well as the bright patterns of handmade rugs, indicate the influence of ____.

Cubism

The Aboriginal Memorial commemorates all the native peoples of Australia who died as a result of the ____.

the European settlement

____ is an African American artist who creates life-size, cutout silhouette figures based on racist imagery of the slave era in the United States.

Kara Walker

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government was painted when ____ was still a patchwork of city-states in constant turmoil, rather than a unified nation.

Italy

In The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger portrays Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve as ____, indicated by the objects on the table between them, which reflect their interest in culture, arts, mathematics, and astronomy.

humanist

The ____ is the normal, existing state of affairs, which appears natural or inevitable instead of constructed or evolving.

status quo

The nineteenth-century French artist ____ was known for his pointedly satirical, political cartoons.

Honore Daumier

Robert Motherwell was influenced by the Surrealist concept of ____, which incorporates intuition, spontaneity, and the accidental when creating artwork.

automatism

Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic was made in response to the influenza epidemic of 1918.

false

Tomatsu Shomei’s Senji Yamaguchi of Urakami is an example of documentary photography.

true

Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions.

false

Edward Kienholz’s The State Hospital uses ugliness to criticize the way society deals with people it deems incompetent.

true

Hatoum’s Light Sentence deals with personal identity, the body, surveillance, and control.

true