Art appreciation ch 4.1-4.7

Which of the following is not a characteristic of "community art"?

It tends to be very small, remote, and private

The word vomitoria was used to describe the entryways at the Colosseum because

it conveys the spilling throngs of people leaving the building

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York

is highly geometric

Manmade mountains is another term for

pyramids

Archaeologists Mark Lehner and Roger Hopkins discovered that it takes how many men to tumble a stone weighing less than 1 ton?

4-5

Qin Shi Huangdi's army of terracotta soldiers

was found in 1974

What common characteristic do the Sumerian bull lyre, Navajo sand painting, and Gèlèdé masquerade share?

We have to imagine important parts of their original presentation

Artworks in public spaces

can excite strong emotions in a community

Which of the following artworks no longer physically exists?

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates

The Aztec Templo Mayor

Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future

Richard Serra's Tilted Arc

All of these answers

Diego Rivera and Susan Cervantes have both worked in the traditional Mexican medium of

mural painting

This chapter examines spirituality expressed in art through ________.

depictions of specific deities

references to spirits and ancestors

reflections of communication with the spirit world

places with sacred resonance

all of these answers

Whether pagan, Christian, or Buddhist, artworks depicting deities are generally intended to ________.

tell the stories of the key religious figures

represent accurately what the key religious figures looked like

be appreciated only by those who can read

serve as structural elements in religious buildings

none of these answers

In the relief sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, the figures of the Lapith people are

idealized

Figure 4.23 depicts episodes from the life of Buddha

sculpted as separate scenes all on one block of sandstone

In African art, such as that of the Senufo people, spirit figures are often shown as:

abstract with exaggerated body parts

Contemporary artist Betye Saar was referring to what aspect of traditional African art in her Ancestral Spirit Chair?

personal and communal identity

Artworks that show interaction between humans and deities

all look the same?

What characteristic do the Stela of Naram-Sin, Virgin of Vladimir, and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa share?

An emphasis on light in the form of rays or golden tones

What shared aspects of the caves at Lascaux and the catacombs in Rome indicate that these places were sacred to those who used them?

Both sites feature paintings connected to the Christian religion

Such sacred places as mosques, temples, shrines, and chapels

are often used for quiet contemplation

Artworks that engage the theme of the cycle of life ________.

examine the mysteries of life

Which of the following is true of Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994?

The mother and baby are photographed shortly after birth

How do bis poles represent the cyclical nature of human life?

By showing the deceased individual along with ancestors

The sculpture showing Shiva's dance indicates that he brings to life

the cycle of the death and rebirth

The Kongo kneeling female figure with bowl and child and the artifacts accompanying the Inca mummy of a boy are associated with sacrifice. These artworks ________.

serve as role models for the rest of the community

hope to insure prosperity by giving up something of value

include imagery and designs with symbolic significance

become a meeting point between natural and supernatural realms

all of these answers

In which of the following artworks is the identity of the person shown not important?

the morgue

Artistic depictions of death are more prevalent now than during the Renaissance.

false

How does the Hopi kachina doll relate to nature?

It uses symbols that we learn relate to nature

The Great Pyramids at Giza were designed to mimic part of the constellation Orion in order to

connect the pyramids with the stars the pharaohs would inhabit in the afterlife

Why is the act of judgment important in such works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gislebertus's Last Judgment, and Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance?

To emphasize that a person's actions in the present life determine his or her destiny in the afterlife

The calendar stone made by the Aztecs reveals how they used astronomical and mathematical knowledge to count

time

What item was useful to Muslims, who used it to find the direction in which to pray to Mecca and to calculate the time of day?

astrolabe

In Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump the bird is shown

being deprived of oxygen

Who worked in a calm state, between heartbeats, and through the night, while creating works of art?

Willard wigan

Gunther von Hagens, a German artist who combined anatomy and science, developed this art technique that uses preserved bodies after death

plastination

Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.

pointillism

When the eye blends two colors that are near each other, creating a new color, this is known as ________.

optical mixture

What instrument does Marcia Smilack hear when she turns her work Cello Music upside down?

violin

Which artist coined the term Art Brut, describing art influenced by children and the mentally ill?

jean dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet's artworks often contain which technique?

impasto

Art inspired by dreams and the subconscious describes what movement?

surrealism

What term did Dalí invent that describes the foundation for his paintings?

Paranoiac-critical

Martín Ramírez, whose works of art included iconic images of the Madonna, spent thirty-three years in Californian mental hospitals because he suffered from ________.

schizophrenia

When restorers began work on cleaning the Sistine ceiling in 1980, what did they discover had affected the original appearance of the frescoes?

candle smoke

the interventions of previous restorers

rain damage

bacteria from the visits of millions of tourists

all of these answers

Which ancient Greek artist won a contest to create the most convincing painted illusion?

Parrhasius

The School of Athens, an architectural illusion created by Raphael, was painted for the library of ________.

pope Julius II

Which two philosophers, included in the center of The School of Athens, highlight the development of learning in the ancient world?

plato and aristotle

What was William M. Harnett investigated for due to the trickery and illusion created in his paintings?

counterfeitting

Which artwork features a silhouette of a piano and pianist that transforms into a violinist when viewed from a different angle?

encore

What term describes the optical trick of swelling columns at midpoint, which was used in the design of the Parthenon?

entasis

Giulio Romano was trained by this artist, who influenced his painting Fall of the Giants:

raphael

Chuck Close painted with ________ to create portraits of friends and family.

fingerprints

What elements does Hogarth depict with accurate perspective in his engraving published in 1754, based on the teaching of such methods?

A woman handing a candle to a man outside her window

Sheep lined up and walking away

A bird perched on a tree

A sign showing the moon hanging from the building

None of these are depicted accurately using the techniques of perspective

Which artist, in his painting The Human Condition, challenged the Renaissance notion of the "illusionistic window"?

rene magritte

Artists can emphasize the importance of a ruler by portraying him or her

seated on a throne

in the center of a composition

in elaborate clothing

larger than other figures

all of these answers

As seen in the Justinian mosaic from San Vitale, purple robes represent

imperial powers?

Which of the following is not true of the Colossal Heads of the Olmec?

many heads have been discovered underground?

which of the following statements about absolute power is true?

Rulers believe they receive their power from a divine entity

Rulers can govern how they please

Rulers can determine the religion of their people

Rulers can use money from their subjects to spend on themselves

All of these answers

The empty cradle depicted in Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette represents

the queen's pregnancy

the death of the queen's youngest daughter

the queen's desire for more children

the queen's recent divorce from Louis XIV

none of these answers

The most important element in the sunken relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three daughters is

the 3 daughters?

The Palette of Narmer emphasizes

the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

From whom did the first emperor of Rome, depicted in the statue Augustus of Primaporta, claim he was descended?

aenas?

The artist of the Benin plaque used ________ to signify the central figure's importance.

hierarchical scale?

The most distributed image in China in the 1960s was of

buddah?

Timothy O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death is a

photograph

The French government removed Ernest Meissonier's Remembrance of Civil War from an important art exhibition in 1850 because

reminded them of the past

Francisco Goya's The Second of May and The Third of May

both strongly condemn Spanish rebels

Nick Ut's Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack can be interpreted as the artist's disapproval of ________.

war

The Tula warrior columns tell us that the ancient Mexican Toltec people were

a peace loving race?

The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by

bishop bayeux

Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace gives us a strong sense of the weaponry favored by the Japanese samurai, which includes:

bow and arrows

The figure carrying another figure on the right-hand wing of Otto Dix's triptych The War is

the artist