Art history

Traditional Chinese paintings were not made from life, but from memory.

true

Art is always a serious endeavor and never functions as entertainment.

true

Regardless of culture, content is always readily apparent in a work of art.

true

Art is whatever a society or a culture determines is art.

true

Every culture, both past and present, has a word that corresponds to ours for art.

true

Contemporary art and popular culture often share the same images.

true

The language of art and architecture consists of (1) formal elements and (2) the principles by which those elements are composed or structured.

true

The elements of art are line,light,value,color ,texture, and pattern shape and volume.space, time,and motion,as well as chance,improvisation, and spontaneity.

true

The principles of composition are balance ,rhythm,proportion,scale, emphasis,unity and variety.

true

Implied lines physically exist

false

Line quality conveys emotional attributes.

true

Value is one step on a gradation from light and dark

true

Tone is another word for value

true

Two dimensional art does not have planar space.

false

There are three types of linear perspective.

true

Scale is the size of something in relation to what we assume is normal.

true

The various branches of art making activity, like painting or sculpture, are called ____.

disciplines

________________sculptures are meant to be viewed from all sides.

freestanding

From an art historical perspective, drawing is one of the newest forms of art making.

false

Ceramics are found in almost every culture, from ancient times to the present.

true

Often used for large murals, true or buon fresco paintings are always painted on wet plaster.

true

The intense colorful powders used to make paint are called pigments.

true

The actual material substances used to create an artwork are called media or medium.

true

A performance is a live-action event that is staged as an artwork.

true

Mixed media artworks designed for a specific interior or exterior space are called installations.

true

Encaustic is one of the oldest forms of painting media.

true

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

ritual

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

porkoplis

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

packaging

Salt was considered so valuable that it was a source of wealth; the European nobility used elaborate saltcellars as a ____ .

status symbol

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

food as vanitias

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

sustancence

Ritual meals include:

all of the above

The architect ____, who designed one of the first innovative tall buildings of the twentieth century, believed that "form follows function" in architecture.

louis sullvian

The use of the still life as a subject matter was an important vehicle for abstraction for early twentieth century American artists.

T

Due to their technological innovations in structural engineering, by the first century CE, average Romans lived in heated apartment buildings with functional sewer systems.

F

Oceanic sculptures such as God Te Ronga and His Three Sons were carved for religious rituals

by specialists called Ta’unga, which is also the word for priest.

true

Potawatomi figure-like carvings were used as "medicine" to control menstrual pain.

true

Some of the earliest artifacts believed to relate to human fertility come from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of history.

true

The Venus of Willendorf is a monumental, Paleolithic sculpture found near the village of Willendorf, Austria.

true

Regardless of time period or culture, fertility figures are universally female.

true

Many of the fertility figures from Oceanic cultures illustrate the significance of family lineage.

true

Polynesian fertility figures were used by everyone in the culture, regardless of rank or power.

true

Aztec marriage ceremonies took place in the groom’s home in front of the hearth.

true

The Mississippians built large truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples.

true

A basic belief in our human legacy is animism. The premise that all the forces of nature are inhabited by spirits.

true

In some religions, followers believe that deities can be present in a work of art.

true

In many religions, simple geometric shapes can symbolize (a) God.

true

Because the Greeks considered themselves superior to other religions that worshipped trees or mountains, Greek gods are generally personified as human-animal hybrids.

true

Hinduism a mudra is a symbolic hand gesture signifying imbalance.

true

The Christian tradition has many kinds of images of God.

true

In Bali, religion is devoid of any artistic expression or depiction.

true

In Mayan culture, ball players were important members of society, and ball games were seen as important religious rituals.

true

The Longmen caves in China, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination comprised of a complex of cave shrines, were supported by imperial patronage.

true

Over a 3,000 year period, Egyptian temple design had more changes and technological breakthroughs than any other concurrent culture.

false/ True?

Gothic cathedrals were all funded by and built in cities.

true

Mortality means

being subject to death

One example of a Stone Age tomb is

newgrange

The Moche tombs revealed that gold and silver were______________.

only for the elite

The Egyptians used the pyramid form to create the meeting place___________.

between life on earth and eternity

The Etruscan tombs were very much like_____________.

houses

The Soldiers from Pit I from the tomb Shi Huangdi, China are made of______________.

ceramic

The Romans felt that family tombs_______________

should be as ostentatious as possible

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

true

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

true

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

To remember military victories, the Romans built arches.

true

An apotheosis means that someone has become humbled.

true

A warrior on horseback is called a equalizer.

false

The Assyrians dominated the Near East for over three hundred years and were known for their ruthlessness and brutality

true

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

true

The film Birth of a Nation established Adolph Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age.

false

The Assyrian Lamassu, guarded the palace gate in Khorsabad to terrify and intimidate all who entered the palace.

true

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

true

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

false

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

false

It is not natural for humans to be drawn to images of death.

false

Human beings create images of death because:

all of the above A, B and C

The images found in the Temple of the Moon from the Moche civilization reflect their mythology and societal values.

true

the rock formation that resembled the mountain represented a microcosm in the Moche worldview.

true

The Aztec cosmology caused that culture to practice human sacrifice on a colossal scale where in four days 40,000 people were sacrificed.

true

If the Aztec people did not make sacrifices similar to the blood sacrifice their sun god had given, then what would happen?

the sun would stop shinning effectively killing all the crops

Two professors designed an experiment using hot sauce that demonstrated that when people are confronted with their own death, they place their allegiance with those who share similar values and punish those who do not.

true

Images of death are used to bind people to a cause, political ideology, religion, or other value system.

true

The Etruscans were the first civilization to give us a vision of both heaven and hell, of redemption and damnation.

true

Etruscan tombs were shaped like beehives and were underground tombs which served as houses for the dead. The tombs were full of reassuring paintings about the afterlife and had all the features of a house. One would find all of the items that a house for the living would have, cozy beds, food, tools and pets.

true

The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of_______________

flat shapes and contour lines

Frida Kahlo’s many self-portraits show her face as___________.

unemotional

According to Protagoras, "man is the ____ of all things."

measure

Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important.

neck

Eadweard Muybridge’s photos of human bodies revealed his ____ attitude towards the human body.

deatached

A(n) ____ pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure’s weight.

contrapposto

____ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals

eadweard muybridge

The publication of ____ theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late nineteenth century.

sigmund freud

Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures.

truw

Artists use the body to address ideas about the essence of humanity as well as cultural ideals.

true