The Visual Arts Unit 8

Unit #8 1) What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate? a) all of the answers b) the power of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian c) God’s support for Justinian d) the power of Maximianus, the Bishop of Ravenna 2) What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc? a) an animal hunt b) a bloodletting ritual c) a sexual act d) a sacrifice of a child 3) What is true about Hyacinthe Rigaud’s portrait of Louis XIV? a) the king was in his sixties when this portrait was painted b) the king is shown in the royal palace of the Louvre c) the king is wearing a gown lined with white ermine fur d) the king is wearing high heels to emphasize his legs and make him taller 4) What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters? a) lithography b) lost-wax casting c) low-relief carving d) sunken-relief carving 5) In the a) a powerful speaker b) all of the answers , the Roman Emperor Augustus is portrayed as ________. c) a descendant of Venus d) a great military leader 6) The Stela of Hammurabi: a) has an entire law code written on it b) contains a picture of the sun at the very bottom c) all of the answers d) shows a servant standing before a ruler 7) Ernest Meissonier’s painting was removed by the French government from the 1850 Salon exhibition because: a) it was thought to misrepresent what had really happened b) it was not very good c) it was too powerful a reminder of recent events d) the abstract style was not in fashion 8) The fact that Goya’s paintings and portray different sides committing acts of violence shows that Goya was condemning war in general. a) True b) False 9) Chris Burden’s work a) a computer-generated video b) an oil painting c) an installation d) a readymade 10) The a) 290 feet b) 63 feet c) 5 feet is ________. is approximately ________ long. d) 152 feet 11) Michael Fay’s a) Afghanistan b) Vietnam was inspired by his experiences as a Marine in: c) Korea d) World War II 12) Anselm Kiefer’s a) the Kabbalah b) all of the answers c) Kristallnacht d) the Holocaust refers to: 13) Théodore Géricault’s painting depicts: a) a boat race across the English Channel b) the results of a shipwreck off the coast of West Africa c) French people relaxing on the Riviera d) the mythological monster Medusa destroying ships 14) The figures in Picasso’s a) b) c) d) are: distorted and in anguish quietly grieving participating in a folk dance preparing for a counter-attack 15) The film is ________. a) a made-up story following what might have happened if Western countries had intervened in the Rwandan genocide b) a documentary filmed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda c) based on a true story of one man’s protection of vulnerable Tutsi people during the Rwandan genocide d) a controversial propaganda film made by the Hutu militia 16) Match the artwork with the issue or incident to which it refers: a) Unite NOLA: Hurricane Katrina b) Migrant Mother: the Great Depression c) Hotel Rwanda: the Tutsi genocide d) Falling Woman: the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 e) Rokeby Venus: the imprisonment of a suffragette leader 17) What was the solution to the discontent over Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.? a) a more traditional memorial statue was created and placed nearby it b) it was moved somewhere less prominent c) veterans were allowed to paint graffiti on it d) it was knocked down e) it was covered over with a layer of white plaster 18) What medium was used in the making of Wenda Gu’s ? a) human hair b) felled trees c) animal skins d) terracotta e) white marble 19) Which of the following was used to make the sculpture ? a) realistic rendering b) abstract artistic interpretation c) a canon of proportions d) children’s drawings e) death masks 20) What concepts of beauty are conveyed in the sculpture of a head, believed to represent a king of Ife? a) elegant lines, delicate features, and a composed demeanor b) both internal attributes as well as external appearance c) the community’s core values of composure, wisdom, and power d) all of the other answers e) graceful and refined facial features 21) Which type of beauty does Kaigetsudô Dohan’s painting represent? a) the physical beauty of a young geisha’s apprenticeship b) the kind of beauty that will win the woman the beauty pageant in which she is participating c) supernatural beauty bestowed by the gods d) the beauty inherent in the woman’s musical abilities, represented by the instrument she holds e) the inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geisha 22) What did the artist of do to create the work? a) she took pictures of thousands of nude people b) she dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair c) she instructed a room full of models to stand still and not speak d) she impersonated a famous work of art e) she direct other people to paint with their bodies 23) The key component of Spencer Tunick’s installation at Zócalo, Mexico City, is ________ a) a group of police officers b) replicas of famous sculptures c) thousands of nude bodies d) a replica of Mt. Vesuvius erupting e) all of the answers 24) What does the body of the figure represented in Alberto Giacometti’s look like? a) a non-objective representation that does not look anything like a body b) a fictional projection of what an alien might look like c) an abstraction based on the artist’s creative choices d) exactly like the person being represented 25) Which of the following is emphasized in Lewis Wickes Hine’s ? a) the muscular male physique as a complement to the power of industrial machines b) the complementary nature of a balanced family in which co-parenting occurs c) the dominant role machinery plays over man in the factory setting d) the prowess of a ruler who is able to regain his stamina and composure after defeat 26) What was the inspiration for Cindy Sherman’s a) old photographs b) old clothes series? c) all of the answers d) old records e) old movies 27) What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make? a) classically inspired sculptures b) documentary photographs and films c) instrumental musical performances d) feminist posters and pamphlets e) dynamic multimedia installations 28) What does the text accompanying the image of the woman in indicate? a) that this picture is an acceptable example of a Classical reclining nude b) that we clearly know the identity of the person depicted c) that the artist has passed her entrance exams to graduate school d) that the woman is lying down for a medical inspection e) all of the other answers 29) Which of the following is an important message in artworks that show gender as ambiguous? a) that it is always better to be first than it is to be green b) that works of art cannot provide an arena for creative displays of identity c) that people can never choose how they want to be seen d) that all art is political e) that gender is a construction and people do not all fit in predetermined categories 30) What is the subject of Catherine Opie’s series? a) lesbian couples in their everyday settings b) high school football games c) staged depiction of radical performance artists d) all of the other answers e) a variety of landscapes the artist found interesting