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Q: Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture? a. roadside billboards d. oil paintings b. television commercials e. all of the other answers c. comic books

Q: An x-ray of Picassos Girl before a Mirror showed that the artist altered the body of Marie-Thrse Walter while working on the painting.

Q: The ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun god Re (0.0.1) was painted on ________. a. a vase d. the wall of a tomb b. stone e. copper c. a coffin

Q: The elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography.

Q: The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time. a. motion d. volume b. color e. texture c. light

Q: When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange: a. waited all day for the woman and her family to return to their camp b. first passed the pea-pickers camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures c. refused to let the prints be published d. used actors in a studio pretending to be migrants e. none of the other answers

Q: Discuss the idea that certain photographs can become so familiar that they are deemed icons. What makes a particular picture iconic? Think about famous photographs that might come under this title. What are their similarities? Does the reason they are so famous have to do with the artist, or another factor?

Q: The term vanitas in art includes references to ______. a. the fleeting nature of life b. the passing of time c. memento mori d. transient sights, smells, and sounds e. all of the other answers

Q: Trompe loeil techniques are used to make artworks look extremely realistic.

Q: Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ______. a. a realistic still life painting d. an abstract portrait b. a colorful sculptural landscape e. video art c. a piece of functional pottery

Q: Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror relates to the theme of vanitas through which of the following elements? a. the rotten food in the corner reflects the fact that all living things decay b. the woman looks in a mirror to contemplate her beauty, which will fade over time c. the realistic depiction of a cemetery reminds us that death is inevitable d. the instruments remind us that life, like music, is transient e. the skull on the table represents death

Q: Pablo Picassos painting Girl before a Mirror reflects his knowledge of ______. a. the history of art d. images of the goddess Venus b. Dutch still life painting e. all of the other answers c. Renaissance and Baroque figure studies

Q: Compare Pieter Claeszs painting Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball with Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror. Begin by describing each artwork, both in terms of what it looks like stylistically and its subject matter. Next, consider the underlying meaning of each artwork. Name several similarities and differences in both form and content. Finally, consider how the appearance of each artwork contributes to our understanding of its message.

Q: Pentimenti was the term used by Picasso for his young students.

Q: Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________. a. compositional unity d. realism b. conceptual unity e. symmetry c. chaos

Q: To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusais famous The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color. a. style d. design b. piece of paper e. medium c. relief block

Q: Mount Fuji, the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusais famous print The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, is sacred to believers of ________. a. Islam d. Hinduism b. Christianity e. Scientology c. Shinto

Q: In the painting The Third of May, 1808, this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast good and bad. a. Suzanne Valadon d. Rosa Bonheur b. Chuck Close e. Edward Weston c. Francisco Goya

Q: In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create a/an ________ rhythm, with a benign effect, in the lower half of the work. a. erratic d. wild b. wistful e. all of the other answers c. stable

Q: Francisco Goya used visual rhythms to convey ideas and emotions in his works The Third of May, 1808 and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Do the rhythms in Goyas works communicate the dichotomy of good and evil to you? If so, how? If not, what other meanings are created?

Q: This Spanish artist created artworks in both print and paint that depict horrific events that happened during the French occupation of Spain between 1808 and 1814. a. Albrecht Drer d. Max Beckmann b. Pablo Picasso e. Rembrandt c. Francisco Goya

Q: In Francisco Goyas Family of Charles IV: a. the royal family is portrayed in an idealized way b. the artist includes a portrait of himself standing at his easel c. Charles IV is shown knighting his son, Ferdinand VII d. the family are very simply dressed e. none of the answers

Q: Francisco Goyas The Second of May, 1808 depicts: a. the coronation of Napoleon b. the execution of Spanish rebels c. Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers d. a horse race e. none of the other answers

Q: The fact that Goyas paintings The Second of May, 1808 and The Third of May, 1808 portray different sides committing acts of violence shows that Goya was condemning war in general.

Q: What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene? a. pattern d. scale b. always use the color blue e. none of the other answers c. unity

Q: The gardens at the Taj Mahal were heavily influenced by the royal palaces and gardens of the Christian French monarchy.

Q: The Taj Mahal ________. a. is asymmetrical when viewed from above b. is covered with smooth white marble and lacks any writing c. is surrounded by gardens that represent Paradise d. stands alone, and is not part of a larger complex e. none of the answers

Q: Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand. a. acrylic paint d. tempera b. fresco e. encaustic c. oil paint

Q: Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist? a. Masaccio d. Nicolas Poussin b. Caravaggio e. all of the other answers c. Sofonisba Anguissola

Q: Artemisia Gentileschis Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement? a. early Renaissance d. Medieval b. Mannerism e. Classical Greek c. Baroque

Q: Gustav Klimts work Judith I features: a. gold leaf d. flattened figures b. an element of danger e. all of the other answers c. decorative patterning

Q: The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, happened because: a. Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judiths people b. Judith was jealous because he was her adulterous husband c. Judith was vengeful because he had killed her son d. Holofernes was a magician and Judith was his assistant for this trick e. none of the answers

Q: In Goyas The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewers attention in this way are known as ________ lines. a. directional d. irregular b. regular e. organic c. contour

Q: The Taj Mahal features four towers, each 162 feet high, called ______, a characteristic feature of Islamic architecture. a. minarets d. mihrabs b. qiblas e. sahms c. minbars

Q: The unique foundation structure of the Taj Mahal may be compromised because of lower water levels in the Yamuna River in recent years.

Q: In the Islamic faith, gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth.

Q: Olmec heads were easily found at La Venta because they were still on prominent display, exactly as the Olmec had left them.

Q: In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks. a. Raphael d. Michelangelo b. Claes Oldenburg e. Leonardo da Vinci c. Dorothea Tanning

Q: When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall. a. a cartoon d. an intonaco b. a layout e. an arrezzo c. a sketch

Q: Raphaels The School of Athens contains: a. accurate portraits of ancient scholars and writers b. accurate portraits of sixteenth-century scholars and writers c. ancient scholars looking like sixteenth-century artists d. contemporary scholars looking like ancient artists e. only people the artist knew personally

Q: Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens? a. because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art b. because there were no longer deities during the Renaissance c. because the artist was Greek d. because the huge flowers the artist wanted to carve fell apart e. none of the answers

Q: Analyse the ways in which illusion is created in Raphaels School of Athens. What are the artists methods for creating depth in the painting? How does the painting contribute to the wider scheme of Pope Julius IIs library?

Q: The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. a. Kubla Khan d. Gengis Khan b. Gunga Din e. Shah Jahan c. Alexander the Great

Q: The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry. a. radial and bilateral d. round and square b. organic and geometric e. left and right c. positive and negative

Q: The designers of the Taj Mahal went to great lengths to use radial and bilateral symmetry. Based on what you have read about the building and its history, what were the main ideas that the architects wanted to communicate to viewers? Why?

Q: The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to ______. a. show the power of his reign b. commemorate and entomb his third wife c. use as a summer home d. use as a mosque for daily prayers e. none of the answers

Q: The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a Colossal Head is directly related to its mass.

Q: What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive? a. they are lifelike individual portraits b. they were created without metal tools c. they can be seen from space d. they were done by children e. all of the other answers

Q: In 1940 Matthew and Marion Stirling found ________ at the site of ________. a. Inca mummies . . . Cerro Gordo b. Aztec fishing boats . . . Tenochtitlan c. Olmec colossal heads . . . La Venta d. Maya paintings . . . Bonampak e. Kwakiutl masks . . . British Columbia

Q: What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work? a. she took pictures of thousands of nude people b. she impersonated a famous work of art c. she instructed a room full of models to stand still and not speak d. she dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair e. she directed other people to paint with their bodies

Q: The painting called Dead Christ focuses the viewers attention on ________. a. the immediacy of Christs body and the fact that he is no longer alive b. the grief of the women who are prominently placed in the center of the picture c. the agony that Christ endured while he was being crucified d. the injustice of the treatment Christ received prior to the crucifixion e. none of the other answers

Q: Compare Yves Kleins Anthropomtries de lpoque bleue (4.9.11a) with Loving Care by Janine Antoni (4.9.12). Briefly describe what each one looks like, in terms of materials used, shape, size, and so on, concentrating on the most noticeable similarities and differences. What are the artists intentions for each artwork? What does comparing the artworks in this way reveal that you had not thought of before making the comparison?

Q: Who is the artist of The Morgue (Gun Murder)? a. Andrea del Sarto d. Carl Andre b. Andres Serrano e. Andrea Frasier c. Andrea Mantegna

Q: The key component of Spencer Tunicks installation at Zcalo, Mexico City, is ________. a. a group of police officers b. thousands of nude bodies c. replicas of famous sculptures d. a replica of Mount Vesuvius erupting e. none of the other answers

Q: The Morgue (Gun Murder) is shocking because: a. we know exactly who this person is b. the crime scene is especially gory c. as a society we no longer have a direct relationship with the dead d. the deceased is wearing such elaborate clothing e. we see dead bodies all the time in present-day life, so it is not shocking

Q: Spencer Tunick considers his artworks to be ________. a. performances d. drawings b. photographs e. priceless c. installations

Q: Photographs, such as Andres Serranos The Morgue (Gun Murder), cannot display the perspective technique of foreshortening.

Q: Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks? a. Man Pointing d. Walking Man b. Recumbent Figure e. Discus Thrower c. Blue Nude II

Q: The goddess Tlazolteotl was responsible for ________. a. war and rain d. childbirth and marshmallow treats b. life and death e. light and dark c. warriors and architecture

Q: What is the medium of Yves Kleins Anthropomtries de lpoque bleue? a. metal sculpture d. pastels on paper b. performance e. sticks and bones c. sculptural clothing

Q: Rineke Dijkstras series Mothers focuses on ________. a. depicting mothers with their newborn children b. presenting childrens views of their mothers as seen in their personal drawings c. side-by-side comparisons of mothers from different socio-economic classes d. the ideal of motherhood as depicted in literature throughout time e. mothers who have promoted their children in their art careers

Q: Anthropomtries de lpoque bleue introduced which of the following for the very first time? a. living brushes b. International Klein Blue c. monochromatic paintings d. a musical accompaniment to the presentation of art e. a nude audience and clothed performers

Q: What is the medium of Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994? a. charcoal on paper d. gelatin silver print b. oil on canvas e. film c. color photograph

Q: Who is the artist of Loving Care? a. Yasumasa Morimura d. Vanessa Beecroft b. Yves Klein e. Spencer Tunick c. Janine Antoni

Q: Who is the artist of Dead Christ? a. Andrea del Sarto d. Carl Andre b. Andres Serrano e. Andrea Frasier c. Andrea Mantegna

Q: Which of the following issues are raised by Yasumasa Morimuras Portrait (Futago)? a. the meaning of an artwork gains depth when one knows about the context b. race and gender can be seen as artificial constructions c. we should not make assumptions about identity based on appearances d. our understanding of who we are can be directly influenced by the past e. all of the other answers

Q: The sculpture of the goddess Tlazolteotl giving birth to the maize god (4.3.1) was made by which culture? a. Yoruba d. Olmec b. Asmat e. none of the other answers c. Aztec

Q: Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others? a. Titian, Venus of Urbino b. douard Manet, Olympia c. Yasumasa Morimura, Portrait (Futago) d. they were all made at the same time e. no one knows the date of at least one of these artworks

Q: The sculpture of a head, which probably represents a king of Ife (4.9.6), was made using which medium? a. bronze d. terra-cotta b. ivory e. none of the other answers c. limestone

Q: The site of Ise Jingu is located where? a. Iran d. the United States b. Japan e. Egypt c. France

Q: What concepts of beauty are conveyed in the sculpture of a head, believed to represent a king of Ife (4.9.6)? a. the communitys core values of composure, wisdom, and power b. both internal attributes as well as external appearance c. elegant lines, delicate features, and a composed demeanor d. graceful and refined facial features e. all of the other answers

Q: Why is the building at Ise Jingu rebuilt every twenty years? a. because the wood used to build it lasts precisely that long b. because that is how long Amataerasu Omikami lived c. because nature is cyclical and the shrine, too, must be renewed and refreshed d. because if rebuilding it was postponed any longer the next generation would not know how it was built e. all of the other answers

Q: Kaigetsud Dohan was an artist from which culture? a. African d. Mexican b. Japanese e. Indian c. Italian

Q: Where is the Rothko Chapel located? a. Iran d. the United States b. Japan e. Egypt c. France

Q: Which type of beauty does Kaigetsudo Dohans painting Beautiful Woman represent? a. the physical beauty of a young geishas apprenticeship b. the inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geisha c. the kind of beauty that will win the woman the beauty pageant in which she is participating d. supernatural beauty bestowed by the gods e. the beauty inherent in the womans musical abilities, represented by the instrument she holds

Q: Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________. a. to be seen one at a time, never in groups together b. to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality c. to be seen either in bright light or in total darkness, never in between d. to exist entirely separately from the architecture in which it was housed e. to avoid creating a contemplative environment for the viewer

Q: Titians Venus of Urbino shows ________. a. a full-bodied figure, understood to be a sign of fertility b. a Classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting c. a French model in the guise of a prostitute with an assertive gaze d. a Japanese man pretending to be a female icon of Western culture e. none of the other answers

Q: Compare and contrast the interior decoration of two places of worship from this chapter: Mark Rothkos Chapel in Houston, Texas (4.2.16), and Berninis sculpture in the Cornaro Chapel, Rome, Italy (4.2.8). How do both artists inspire devotion in visitors to these chapels? In your response, consider the period in which these works were made and the audience they were created for.

Q: When and where was the artist of Olympia working? a. prehistoric Europe d. twentieth-century Japan b. sixteenth-century Italy e. twenty-first-century America c. nineteenth-century France

Q: What was the artist of Olympia trying to do? a. persuade the gods to bestow good fortune on the community b. convince viewers that a fictional figure actually existed c. pretend that his walls were actually windows onto a beautiful garden d. update a Classical subject for his own time e. all of the other answers