chapter 1 quiz questions

Paleolithic Period

Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to what period?

It creates a space for contemplation and remembrance.

How can the purpose of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial be described?

To give tangible form to the unknown

What role best describes the artist's intention when creating the Shiva Nataraja statue?

The Starry Night

Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as ______.

Pure and timeless

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life attempting to create what kind of forms?

Awareness of the process of looking itself

The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is what?

The interpretation of each viewer

According to the author, what is the most important meaning of an artwork?

The fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

Vanitas paintings meditate on what subject?

Kente cloth

What work from your text is an example of an artist creating an extraordinary version of an ordinary object?

Learn language

What human ability seems as deeply ingrained as the impulse to make and respond to art?

To record and commemorate

What artistic purpose is illustrated in the text by the painting, Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau?

Vanitas painting

What type of work is Audrey Flack's, Wheel of Fortune?