Symbols |
Artistic devices used to glorify a ruler’s image include an idealized image and ____. |
Standing Side by Side |
In the Egyptian sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty, the figures are shown ____ |
Emperor-Priest |
In this image, Justinian is shown as a(n)____. |
Mosaic |
This image is an example of a(n) ____. |
The Twelve Apostles |
The twelve figures flanking Emperor Justinian in this image allude to ____. |
Metallurgy |
The Crowned Head of an Oni demonstrated the Yoruba and Benin skill in ____. |
Feathers |
In ancient Hawaii, only royalty could own or wear precious objects made of ____. |
Fly Whisks |
Royal kahili were simply ____. |
Hitler |
Triumph of the Will was a film glorifying ____. |
Their Grand Size |
Palaces are different from ordinary residences by ____. |
Its grand use of columns |
Achaemenid architecture is especially distinguished by ____. |
Baroque |
Versailles was built in the ____ style. |
Five Legs |
The Lamassu was a figure that stood on |
Gothic Revival |
The Houses of Parliament were built in the ____ style |
Body |
The Maori Meeting House represented the ____ of a great ancestor. |
Arches |
To remember military victories, the Romans built ____. |
Deified |
An apotheosis means that someone has become ____. |
Equestrian |
A warrior on horseback is called a(n) ____. |
Power |
The Benin Plaque with Warrior and Attendants represented the king’s ____. |
Spanish Civil War |
Picasso’s Guernica dramatized the 1937 destruction of the Basque capital during the ____. |
War |
The Palette of King Narmer glorifies ____. |
Ruthlessness and Brutality |
The Assyrians dominated the Near East for over three hundred years and were known for their ____. |
Human |
A fantastic creature, the Lamassu had the head of a ____. |
Cast Iron |
England’s Houses of Parliament used new building materials such as ____. |
Mathew Brady |
The first to photograph war, ____ made 3,500 photographs covering both sides of the U.S. Civil War. |
All of the Above |
____ have symbolized peace in Western art. |
Idealized |
A ruler’s image is often ____, meaning it is depicted without flaws and often with youthful vigor. |
Unification of Egypt |
The Palette of King Narmer represents the forceful ____. |
Chi-Rho |
To emphasize Christianity in the image The Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, a soldier’s shield displays the ____, an ancient symbol of Christ. |
The Triumph of the Will |
The film ____ established Adolph Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age. |
Mayans |
Abandoned prior to Spanish conquest, the ____ created Palenque, a large palace complex with high platforms and relief sculpture. |
Forbidden City |
The ____ in China was built as a sign of Imperial power and as an instrument to maintain power. |
Versailles |
The seat of power for King Louis XIV of France, ____ was originally Louis’s grandfather’s hunting lodge. |
Great Wall |
The ____ of China, considered to be a "wonder of the world," is a monumental example of war architecture. |
Montage |
Known for its cinematic technique, the film The Battleship Potempkin used ____ to allow viewers to piece together the story from fleeting images. |
False |
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. |
True |
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. |
False |
The imagery in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will was strictly documentary and was not manipulated by the director. |
True |
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. |
About two hundred years ago |
Art protesting a particular war was first seen____. |
The Spaniards |
Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808, sympathize with____. |
Protested against wars |
Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz____. |
Nazi Germany |
Much of John Heartfield’s art protested against ____ |
Spanish Civil War |
David Alfaro Siqueiros protested against the ____. |
The struggle between life and death |
Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated best____. |
Intuition |
The Surrealists believed in automatism, which includes the idea of____. |
The atomic bomb |
Tomatsu Shomei’s photographs are of victims of ____. |
Romantic |
Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is ____ in its portrayal of fighting as thrilling, dangerous, and liberating |
large size |
Leon Golub’s Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its____. |
Titles |
Lewis Hine’s photos of child laborers have long ____, which fully documented their youthfulness. |
African Americans |
Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of____. |
Shahn |
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by ___. |
Flat and Simple |
Jacob Lawrence’s artistic style was____. |
apartheid |
William Kentridge created charcoal drawings and film animations reflecting the causes and injustices of ____. |
A mental hospital worker |
Edward Kienholz’s work is based on his experiences as ____. |
Humor |
Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests. |
Gainsborough |
Yinka Shonibare’s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without Their Heads is a parody of a work by____. |
A fresco |
Abrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government was____. |
Aztec |
The ____ Codex Borbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest. |
painted six years after the event from sketches the artist made |
This painting was ____. |
illustrate an event that occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte’s army occupied Madrid |
The function of this painting was to ____. |
Social Protest |
This work is an example of art as ____. |
The Peasant War in Germany in the sixteenth century |
The subject matter in this work deals with ____. |
Narrative |
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy. |
Montage |
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. |
Jacob Lawrence |
____ 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. |
Cubism |
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 ____. |
European Settlement |
The Aboriginal Memorial commemorates all the native peoples of Australia who died as a result of the ____. |
Kara Walker |
____ is an African American artist who creates life-size, cutout silhouette figures based on racist imagery of the slave era in the United States. |
Italy |
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. |
Humanists |
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. |
Status Quo |
The ____ is the normal, existing state of affairs, which appears natural or inevitable instead of constructed or evolving. |
Honore Daumier |
The nineteenth-century French artist ____ was known for his pointedly satirical, political cartoons. |
Automatism |
Robert Motherwell was influenced by the Surrealist concept of ____, which incorporates intuition, spontaneity, and the accidental when creating artwork. |
False |
Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic was made in response to the influenza epidemic of 1918. |
True |
Tomatsu Shomei’s Senji Yamaguchi of Urakami is an example of documentary photography. |
False |
Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions. |
True |
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 |
Renaissance and Baroque |
Viola’s series titled The Passions is based on ____ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment. |
flat shapes and contour lines |
The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of ____. |
Action Painting |
In Pollock’s Lucifer, the style of painting called ____ involved the motion of the artist’s entire body. |
Thick Paint |
Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____ to show the artist’s state of mind. |
Scale |
Chuck Close uses ____ to convey importance in his portraits. |
Unusual Faces |
Nancy Burson’s Faces are portraits of children with ____. |
A unique man |
Lucian Freud’s Leigh under the Skylight is a portrait of ____. |
Individualism |
Rembrandt’s portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged ____. |
unemotional |
Frida Kahlo’s many self-portraits show her face as ____. |
Fertility |
A Yakshi is a representation of ____. |
Measure |
According to Protagoras, man is the ____ of all things. |
Spear-Bearer |
Doryphoros translates to ____. |
Its restrained emotions |
The Doryphoros is idealized in several ways, including ____. |
Symmetrical |
Traditional African sculpture portrays the frontal view as ____. |
Neck |
Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important. |
Changing |
Laocoön and His Sons revealed ____ Greek attitudes about the body during the Hellenistic period. |
soul/body |
Medieval Christians felt the ____ was more important than the ____. |
Detached |
Eadweard Muybridge’s photos of human bodies revealed his ____ attitude towards the human body. |
Amarna |
The Egyptian ____ style was a new aesthetic, which rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, elegant, naturalistic approach. |
the suffering inherent in modern, urban life |
Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet was a vehicle for commentary about ____. |
contrapposto |
the suffering inherent in modern, urban life |
contrapposto |
A(n) ____ pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure’s weight. |
Eadweard Muybridge |
____ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals. |
Sigmund Freud’s |
The publication of ____ theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late nineteenth century. |
actions of the audience |
In Marina Abramovic’s performance piece, The Artist Is Present, the artist’s body and the ____ are the art piece. |
character |
A successful portrait in art is usually considered someone’s likeness, not only in face but also in ____. |
individualized |
The first attribute of a specific portrait is usually ____ features, rather than the broadly stylized features evident in generic figures |
group cohesion |
Double Mask from the Ejagham People of the Cross River area of Cameroon was worn during rituals that promoted ____. |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
The Dutch artist, ____ made at least sixty-two self-portraits, often identifiable by the subject matter and his palette of earth tones, dull reds and luminous yellows. |
Frida Kahlo |
____ was known for using self portraits to comment on the factors shaping her life, including her ancestry and her chronic pain. |
Idealized |
A(n) ____ figure, such as Doryphoros, is often used to represent ideas about the essence of humanity, rather than depicting a specific individual. |
Hellenistic |
In ____ Greece, figures were often depicted in theatrical poses as though they were on stage in front of an audience. |
Nude |
During the Renaissance, the ____ as an ideal form became popular again. |
photography |
In the nineteenth century, new technologies such as ____ changed the understanding of the human body and the way art was made. |
False |
Chuck Close is a painter known for making highly idealized figurative paintings based on classical notions of ideal beauty. |
True |
Nancy Burson achieved a grainy, fuzzy look in her photographic series Faces by using a cheap plastic camera. |
False |
A full-body portrait is always a life-size depiction of an individual. |
True |
Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures. |
False |
In Medieval Europe, human nature was held in high esteem, and images of the body symbolized the purity of God’s divine realm |
True |
Italian Renaissance artists were strongly influenced by Hellenistic and Roman sculptures that were being excavated in central Italy. |
True |
Many late nineteenth century European artists were strongly influenced by Japanese prints and paintings. |
True |
Ritual tattooing was often used on the eastern islands of the South Pacific as part of initiation rites that prepared an individual for adulthood. |
Chapter 9 – 11 Art Appreciation
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