Art Week 2 Review

1. In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is René Magritte. 2. How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light? o Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light. photorealistic. 3. When a painting is so real it appears to be a photograph, it is called photorealistic. 4. While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called ledger drawings. 5. In the sixteenth century, The Ghent Altarpiece, which represents the divine, was threatened by Iconoclasts. 6. Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte's The Treason of Images, is concerned with images that are not literally what they appear to be. 7. The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called mudra. 8. The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in Islamic art. 9. The terms "naturalistic art" or "realistic art" are sometimes used to describe representational art. 10. Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art? o Because Muhammed said that to depict a human is to claim that one can make that human image come to life. 11. What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence? o it depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face 12. When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called nonrepresentational/non-objective 13. Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe? The Ten Commandments forbid images. 14. How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization? He owned it. 15. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express? his proclivity for things seen but not examined 16. On what basis did a Cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe' s work? The work was not controversial. 17. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their self-sufficiency. 18. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure? It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it. 19. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. 20. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? African masks he saw at a Paris museum 21. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"? reception, extraction, inference 22. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in religious art. 23. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but aesthetic 24. How did Michelangelo's David become political? o It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici family. 25. What female types does Mickalene Thomas's Portrait of Mnonja evoke? o African American superstar divas of the 1970s 26. Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called iconography 27. In a work of art, "content" refers to Content: what a work of art is about. (Subject matter). 28. The painting The Treason of Images asks us to consider that images and words refer to things that we see but are not things themselves 29. The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered abstract 30. What is the chief form of Islamic art? calligraphy and geometric shapes.