Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

What female types does Mickalene Thomas\'s Portrait of Mnonja evoke?

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African-American superstar divas of the 1970\'s

Question 7

Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills the

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Magao Caves

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

When a painting is so real it appears to be photograph, it is called

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photorealistic

Question 13

Jan van Eyck\'s Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami, like RenÃ© 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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

While in prison, howling Wolf made many drawings called

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ledger drawings

Question 17

Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?

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the word can be trusted in a way that images cannot

Question 18

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

Question 19

Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?

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The Ten Commandment forbid images

Question 20

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

Question 21

Titan\'s Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of

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lines of sight

Question 22

The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist\'s

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expressive line

Question 23

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

Question 24

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest it\'s volume are called

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contour lines

Question 25

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

Question 26

Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called

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implied lines

Question 27

Wenda Gu creates calligraphy using

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human hair

Question 28

We know about Vincent van Gogh\'s thoughts on his work The Sower from

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letters he wrote

Question 29

How does ChÃ©rie 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

Question 30

Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as

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impasto

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

When and where was linear perspective first codified?

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during the Renaissance in Italy

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called

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monocular vision

Question 37

Which theme cinnects Paul Strand\'s Geometric Backyards, New York and Julie Mehretu\'s Berliner PlÃ¤tze?

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visual effects of perceptual space

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

Why is the stereoscope such an effective means of describing \"real\" space?

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it mimics binocular vision

Question 41

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In The Loge to emphasise the

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division between male and female species

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

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cooler and less distinct

Question 45

A color\'s brightness or dullness is called its

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intensity or saturation

Question 46

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

Question 47

What is yellow\'s complementary color?

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violet

Question 48

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

Question 49

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

Question 50

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

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