Art Appreciation Ch. 1-5 – Flashcards
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Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:
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his proclivity for things seen but not examined
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Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:
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self-sufficiency
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What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?
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it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it
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How did Michelangelo's David become political?
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it was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from t her Medici family
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Painter Richard Haas improved the unappealing facade of the Oregon Historical Society by
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painting a trompe-l'oeil mural on it
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What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke?
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African-American superstar divas of the 1970's
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Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the
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Magao Caves
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Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but
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aesthetic
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What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avigon?
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African masks he saw at a Paris museum
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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?
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artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions
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What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?
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It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face
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When a painting is so real it appears to be photograph, it is called
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photorealistic
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Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with
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images that are n it literally what t hey appear to be
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Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist
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retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view
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How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?
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he owned it
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While in prison, howling Wolf made many drawings called
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ledger drawings
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Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
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the word can be trusted in a way that images cannot
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What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask?
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ethnocentric
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Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?
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The Ten Commandment forbid images
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The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider
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that images and words refer to things that we see but are not the things themselves
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Titan's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of
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lines of sight
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The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's
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expressive line
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In Rembrandt van Rijn's The Three Crosses, how did the artist create darkening landscape as the eye mo 've s away from the crucified Christ?
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by increasing the density of the lines
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Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest it's volume are called
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contour lines
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How are Rembrandt's Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night similar?
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they both use expressive line to convey emotion
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Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called
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implied lines
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Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using
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human hair
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We know about Vincent van Gogh's thoughts on his work The Sower from
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letters he wrote
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How does Chérie Samba's Calvary use line to draw a parallel between the painter and Christ?
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implied lines arc over the artist, connecting him with the soldier's imminent whipping
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Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as
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impasto
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What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast?
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it represents the power of imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good
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In The Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna utilizes what technique in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view?
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foreshortening
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When and where was linear perspective first codified?
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during the Renaissance in Italy
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In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?
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his interests were in things other than verisimilitude
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In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
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figure-ground reversal
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A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called
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monocular vision
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Which theme cinnects Paul Strand's Geometric Backyards, New York and Julie Mehretu's Berliner Plätze?
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visual effects of perceptual space
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There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it?
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it is much lighter than it appears because it is hollow
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Which element of Janine Antoni's Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion if flattened space?
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vantage point
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Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing "real" space?
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it mimics binocular vision
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Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In The Loge to emphasise the
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division between male and female species
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J.M.W. Turner uses two types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway. What are they?
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atmospheric and one-point
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The artist Artemisia Gentileschi 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
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tenebrism
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With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear
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cooler and less distinct
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A color's brightness or dullness is called its
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intensity or saturation
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Artists sometimesbchoose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors. This is an example of the expressive use of
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arbitrary color
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What is yellow's complementary color?
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violet
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In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil woth dark was first fully developed by
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How does Mary Cassatt assert a more active role for the woman in her painting In The Loge?
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The woman's face and hand enter the space of light used for the male zone
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Paul Colin's Figure of a Woman, surely derived from the artist's association with Josephine Baker, achieved the techniques of chiaroscuro by using
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black and white crayon on beige paper
