Art Appreciation Chapter 12 Quiz

Chagall's dreamlike depiction of a man floating Over Vitebsk is a metaphor for

displaced Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe

The intent of Saar's mixed media project The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is to:

criticize racism and stereotypes

Hung Liu's Trauma exposes which traditional practice as oppressive to Chinese women?

footbinding

By definition, groups joined through blood or marriage are referred to as ________ relationships.

clan

The large, openwork projections carved at the top of Asmat Bisj poles represent:

penis or phallic forms.

Which art form became popular with the Japanese middle class, and was eclectic in style combining different cultures?

ukiyo-e

Social and economic status is the basis for ________ identification.

class

A group of anonymous women who protest racial and gender discrimination in the arts are known as:

Guerrilla Girls

The Epa headdress called "Orangun" is worn by a widow in a funerary masquerade.

false

n Japan, the warrior-rulers commissioned large folding screens to decorate the drab interiors of their stone castles.

true

James Luna "installed" himself in a museum case as The Artifact Piece in order to challenge preconceived notions about Native-American heritage and identity.

true

The entrance to the Temple of Ramses at Abu Simbel features colossal sculptures of Old Kingdom queens as a reminder of matrilineal descent.

false

Among the Sepik people of Papua, New Guinea, Tambaran ritual cult houses were built as a place to venerate the reproductive power of women

false

Rodia's Watts Towers is often described as folk art, outsider art, or naive art.

true

The _____________ shape and "U" forms are recurring motifs in formline design of Kwakiutl art.

ovoid

In Migrant Mother, Nipomo California Lange used _____________ to compose an objective black and white image for journalistic purposes.

documentary photography

The ancient Romans stored and displayed portrait busts of deceased family members in their homes as a form of ancestor veneration, and as a way to glorify their _____________.

family lineage

Curvilinear forms and pastel colors of _____________ architecture, such as Francois de Cuvillies' Hall of Mirrors, have been associated with femininity

Rococo

The reuse of Classical elements in 18th century art and architecture is identified as a(n) _____________ style.

Neoclassical

James VanDerZee's photographs are a record of the ______________.

Black Renaissance of Harlem

In the Oath of the Horatti, Jacques-Louis David portrays masculinity through the heroic actions of the men reinforced by the __________.

women's passivity

Vermeer is known for his genre paintings, which are _________ .

ordinary scenes from every day life