The Visual Arts Unit 7

Unit #7 1) Community art may ________. a) Be made for large numbers of viewers b) Be situated in pubic placces c) Be made by numerous people d) Represent the common interest of a group e) All the other answers 2) One important similarity between Stonehenge and a) All the other answers b) It took a highly organized team to construct them c) Only one person could experience them at a time d) Both structures have exactly the same dimensions e) They are both located in England is that ________. 3) What function were the terracotta warriors inside Qin Shi Huangdi’s tomb intended to serve? a) To scare away any potential tomb robbers b) To trick visitors into finding the real tomb and its treasures c) To provide jobs in the kingdom d) To guard the emperor in the afterlife e) All of the answers 4) The panels of the sound box from a lyre found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur (4.14) are believed to show ________. a) Activities likely performed in the supernatural realm of the dead b) A sacred event, like a marriage or funeral procession c) Music and rituals being performed d) Animals acting like humans e) All of the other answers 5) Why was controversial? a) Becasue the artist made it for a specific place and moving it was the equivalent of destroying it b) Because some people thought it would encourage criminal activity c) Because some people thought it was ugly d) All of the other answers e) Because some people did not want to walk around it 6) Why was Diego Rivera’s mural for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center controversial? a) All of the other answers b) Because the artist got paid without ever finishing the mural c) Because the artist offered to add a picture of Abraham Lincoln d) Because the artist was inspired by Mexican murals e) Because the artist included elements inspired by his communist beliefs 7) Spirituality encompasses ________. a) our awareness of both mind and body b) our sense of being connected to others c) our wish to understand life’s meaning and the world around us d) all of the answers 8) A wooden chair decorated with brass and iron tacks, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (4.25), ________. a) was an object that served to tie generations of people together b) all of the other answers c) was used throughout a person’s life d) is believed to have belonged to a Ngombe chief e) served as a tangible reminder of a person’s status and values even after he died 9) a) b) c) d) e) was meant to show Teresa ________. being pierced by an angel’s arrow as a role model to be followed by other devout Christians as a devout Christian all of the other answers being infused with divine love 10) A shaman is a person who ________. a) has the most wealth in their community b) acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans c) usually becomes a ruler of their society d) is always recognized as a gifted artist e) all of the other answers 11) Why were the Roman catacombs of sacred importance? a) they served as temples for many religious observances b) they were the burial places of many Romans’ ancestors c) pagan, Christian, and Jewish Romans used them d) the paintings there could be relevant for multiple religions e) all of the other answers 12) Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________. a) to be seen either in bright light or in total darkness, never in between b) to avoid creating a contemplative environment for the viewer c) to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality d) to exist entirely separately from the architecture in which it was housed e) to be seen one at a time, never in groups together 13) Rineke Dijkstra’s series focuses on ________. a) side-by-side comparisons of mothers from different socio-economic classes b) presenting children’s views of their mothers as seen in their personal drawings c) the ideal of motherhood as depicted in literature throughout time d) depicting mothers with their newborn children e) mothers who have promoted their children in their art careers 14) Bis poles were made for what purpose? a) to carry the deceased into the afterlife b) they serve a ritual function in male initiation and memorial feasts c) to honor someone who had just died d) to depict the ancestors and acknowledge their role in daily life e) all of the other answers 15) What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing? a) all of the other answers b) dancing the world into existence c) bringing to life the endless of cycle of birth and rebirth d) balancing contradictory qualities, like creation and destruction e) stamping out evil and ignorance 16) The sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal shows him ________. a) being overtaken by the world tree b) c) d) e) marking the intersection of the earthly realm and the underworld trying to trick the gods while playing a mythical ballgame ignoring the lineage of his ancestors as a decaying corpse 17) In Hunefer’s book of the dead, how is his heart depicted? a) all of the other answers b) being weighed against a feather c) as the representation of his soul d) in a canopic jar e) as a symbol that he lived an honorable life 18) Why are the bodies of the damned in the tympanum from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare so graphically grotesque? a) the art of this period depicted all humans as ugly b) the artist was suffering from depression c) to give a strong warning to viewers that they should live a virtuous life d) all of the other answers e) the artist secretly wanted to keep people from going to church 19) Which of these artworks reveals a culture’s understanding of astronomy? a) all of the answers b) The Aztec Sun Stone c) The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers d) Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi’s astrolabe 20) Joseph Wright of Derby’s technique, which means a dramatic use of light and dark: a) contrapposto b) tracery c) atmospheric perspective features this d) repoussé e) tenebrism 21) Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat’s a) divisionism ? b) afterimage effect c) all of the answers d) optical mixture e) pointillism 22) Which artist collected artworks, now housed in Switzerland, made by the insane? a) Marcia Smilack b) Martín Ramírez c) Jasper Johns d) Jean Dubuffet e) Salvador Dalí 23) Art Brut is art that is: a) raw and instinctive b) expensive and time-consuming c) happy and free d) created to illustrate children's books e) practiced and precise 24) Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes: a) < ... people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant small could be.= : Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty b) < I hear with my eyes and see with my ears.= : Marcia Smilack, Cello Music c) < ... nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time.= : Salvador Dalí, Persistance of Memory d) < It is a picture that even strong men find it difficult to look at long …=: Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross 25) Who advised artists in his treatise illusionary windows? a) Leon Battista Alberti b) Ovid that paintings should look like c) Pliny the Elder d) Ludovico Gonzaga e) Giorgio Vasari 26) Which part of William Harnett’s is real and not just painted? a) b) c) d) e) the sheet music the violin the blue envelope the small newspaper clipping the door handle 27) Ron Mueck’s is a: a) manipulated photograph b) miniature pot c) ritual mask d) oversized sculpture e) computer-generated holograph 28) Julian Beever creates illusionistic images on ________. a) canvas with oil paint b) beaches with colored sand c) sidewalks with chalk d) wall of buildings with spray paint e) ceilings in fresco 29) was ________. a) created by the artist sitting buckets of paint and then moving around on a canvas b) a realistic painting that was smeared by the artist's fingers while the paint was still wet c) an art project created by school children d) made with the artist’s finger- and thumbprints 30) Match the term with its definition: a) Entasis: a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns b) Anamorphosis: a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint c) Foreshortening: a technique used to show the projection of an object into space d) Oculus: a round opening in the center of a dome e) Putti: nude infant angel boys