Renzo Piano’s Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture". Such buildings are praised for their |
self sufficiency and innovative design |
Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express |
his tendency to show things seen but not examined |
The imagery in Faith Ringgold’s "God Bless America" was inspired by |
Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s |
What is the function of the "nkisi nkonde" figure? |
It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it |
Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing facade of the Oregon Hisotrical Society by |
painting a tompe-l’oeil mural on it |
According to Sayre (the textbook’s author), what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"? |
reception, extraction, inference |
What might have affected Pablo Picasso’s severe style of representation seen in "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon"? |
African masks he saw at a Paris museum |
Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but |
aesthetic |
We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial", to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in |
religious art |
On what basis did a Cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work? |
The work possessed "serious artistic value" |
How did Michelangelo’s "David" become political? |
It was placed in Florence’s government square as a symbol of the Republic’s freedome from the Medici family |
The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress in 1967, was |
to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art" |
Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities? |
Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions |
What female types does Mickalene Thomas’s "Portrait of Mnonja" evoke? |
African-American superstar divas of the 1970’s |
Dunhuang is the site of the great collection of the aearly Chinese are that fills the |
Mogao Caves |
In "The Treason of the Images", the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is |
Rene Magritte |
Jan van Eyck’s"Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami" depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use of study of these symbols is called |
Iconography |
While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called |
ledger drawings |
When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph is it called |
photorealistic |
Beatriz Milhaze’s "Carambola" is based on |
the square |
Jan van Eyck’s "Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami", like Rene Magritte’s "The Treason of Images", is concerned with |
images that are not always what they appear to be |
In the sixteenth century, "The Ghent Altarpiece" which represents the divine, was threatened by |
iconoclasts |
The painting "The treason of images" asks us to consider |
that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves |
The "Triumphal Entry" page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of the word over image in |
Islamic art |
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called |
mudras |
The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe |
representational art |
The title of Willem de Kooning’s "North Atlantic Light" refers to |
the feeling of light in the painting |
Why are images traditionally frowned on in the islamic art? |
The word can be trusted in a way that imaged cannot |
In a work of art, "content" refers to |
what the work means |
What kind of bias does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than West African mask? |
ethnocentric |
What is the chief form of Islamic art? |
calligraphy |
What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence? |
It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face, showing her as liberated and equal with men |
Naturalism is a type of representation in which the artisit |
retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view |
Kazmir Malevich called his art |
suprematism |
SAMO is a name adopted by |
Jean-Michael Bsquiat |
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called |
represntational |
The less representational an artwork resembles the real world, the more it is considered |
abstract |
"Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast" was painted by |
Albert Bierstadt |
How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book "Civilization"? |
He owned it |
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 |
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist’s |
expressive line |
In Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Three Crosses, how did the artist create a darkening landscape as the eye moves away from the crucified Christ? |
by increasing the density of the lines |
Titian’s Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of |
lines of sight |
How is Sol LeWitt’s line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best descrived? |
Analytic |
How are Rembrandt’s Three Crosses and Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night similar? |
They both use expressive line to convey emotion |
Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called |
implied lines |
Yoshitomo Nara’s Dead Flower was not used in this lecture because of its |
juvenile style of language |
What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon? |
the use of classical models in modern photography |
When a style of line becomes associated as an artist’s work, we say it is |
autographic |
Lines that are loose and free-form are called |
gestural lines |
Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using |
human hair or pen and ink |
In his paintings, Van Gogh builds up his lines thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as |
impasto |
Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called |
contour lines |
We know about Vincent Van Gogh’s thoughts on his work The Sower from |
Letters he wrote |
Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece? |
it reiterates the rationality of Socrates’ actions |
In Pat Steir’s The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line? |
grid lines |
Leonardo’s The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective? |
one-point linear perspective |
Gustave Caillebotte’s Place de l’Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective |
two-point linear perspective |
In Harmony in Red -The Red Room- , Henri Matisse deliveratily intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why? |
He preferred flat space and disliked shading |
Paul Cezanne’s Mme Cezanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artists strong interest in |
design |
What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture for the Ivory Coast? |
It represents the imagination transforming an everyday object for good |
How is a viewer’s experience of the Rubin vase similar to that of experiencing Eliasson’s Suney? |
Forms are intentionally distorted |
Where is the vanishing point in the perspective analysis of Duccio’s Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maesta Alterpiece? |
at several points in the compostion |
In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space? |
overlapping images, fine line work, crazy amount of lines |
Which element of Matisse’s Harmony in Red -The Red Room- create a visual contradiction to the work’s title? |
its representation of spatial depth |
What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci’s perspective system in The Last Supper and the painting’s actual location? |
The painting’s perspective is directly linked to the architectural space of its location |
In the nineteenth century, Japanese prints began to influence European painters, particularly in their |
flattening of space between foreground and background |
In The Dead Christ, which technique does Andrea Mantegna utilize to adjust the distortion created by the point of view |
foreshortening |
In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase of as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called? |
figure-ground reversal |
Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon share a similar trait. What is it? |
they are both positive forms that contain negative space |
A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of visions is |
one-point perspective |
Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space? |
It mimics binocular vision |
In architecture, the enclosing walls of a room create |
foreshortening of space |
Which theme connects Paul Strand’s Geometric Backyards, New York, and Julie Mahretu’s Berliner Platze? |
order versus disorder |
There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear’s Self. |
it is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow |
Which element of Janine Antoni’s Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space? |
figure-ground line |
When and where was linear perspective for codified |
during the Renaissance in Italy |
Paul Strand’s Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a twentieth-century effort to challenge the viewer’s perspective with |
patterns of light and dark |
Artist Artemisia Gentilischi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky". This technique is called |
tenebrism |
The artist that painted La Chahut (the can-can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as |
pointillism |
Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize the |
division between male and female spaces |
J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain,Steam,and Speed- The Great Western Railway. What are they? |
atmospheric and one-point |
Paul Colin’s Figure of a Woman, surely derived from the artist’s association with Josephine Bake, achieved the techniques of chiaroscuro by using |
black and white crayon on beige paper |
With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear |
cooler and less distinct |
Ben Jones’ Black Face and Arm Unit uses color and line in the form of bands, ornaments, and scarifcations reminiscent of the facial decorations in |
ancient african sculpture |
How does Mary Cassatt assert a more active role for the woman in her painting In the Loge? |
the woman’s face and hand enter the space of light used for the male zone |
Michelangelo’s Head of a Satyr renders form through the use of |
cross hatching |
The author describes Chuck Close’s painting Stanley as "layered" pointillism because |
it is made of thousands of little square paintings |
One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effect of light is |
chiaroscuro |
color’s brightness or dullness is called its |
intensity or saturation |
On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as |
cool colors |
on Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between secondary and primary are called |
intermediate colors |
The range of colors that an artist had preferred to use in a work is referred to as the |
palette |
Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of |
arbitrary color |
the impressionists were concerned with rendering |
perceptual color |
Which medium did sculptor Dan Flavin employ to transform a room? |
fluorescent lighting |
at the end of the nineteenth century, which invention allowed color to be projected with increased brightness and clarity |
the electric light |
In the history of art, with what has the color black been associated? |
Goethe associated black with the absence of good, but for African Americans, black is a color of pride |
The background mountains in Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks provide a mediocre example of |
atmospheric perspective |
In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully developed by |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
In the 1660’s who discovered that color is a direct function of light through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors? |
Isaac Newton |
The temperature of Jane Hammond’s Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be descrived as |
warm |
what did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen? |
digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf |
what is yellow’s complementary color? |
violet |
Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into |
volume |
The artist that painted La Chahut (the can-can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as |
pointillism |
The artist that painted La Chahut (the can-can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors. The resulting process came to be known as |
poin |
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