Sayre, World of Art 7th ed. 2013
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Quiz 1: CHS 1-8
Chapter 1: A World of Art
vocabulary: aesthetics
Explain how these artworks illustrate the roles of the artist through different ways of seeing and interpreting the world and individual experiences.
6. Ahearn and Torres. Pat.
9. Monet. Gare St. Lazare.
10. Kwei. Coffin in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod.
13. Picasso. Seated Bather.
20. van Eyck. God.
Political Art and the Physical and Psychological Process of Seeing
How do these artists use the American flag to convey their particular political views?
21. Johns, Three Flags
22.Ringgold, God Bless America
24. Warhol. Race Riot.
Explain the role of African masks.in Picasso development of the cubist style: 17. Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
Chapter 2: Developing Visual Literacy
Explain how these artworks demonstrate the combined use of words and images to create meaning:
1. Magritte. The Treason of Images.
5. Neshat. Rebellious Silence.
vocabulary: representational, abstract, nonobjective, nonrepresentational, realistic, illusionistic, form, creativity, naturalistic, ethnocentric, content, iconography, subjective, subject matter, sublime
Match the vocabulary to the following artworks:
8. Bierstadt. Rocky Mountains
vocabulary: form, content, composition
15. Malevich. Black Square.
Explain which of the above terms this work illustrates and why:
Vocabulary: ethnocentric, conventions
Read Kenneth Clark's quote from his Civilisation. Explain how the following works of art illustrate reflect stylistic conventions and Clark's ethnocentric views:
17. Apollo Belvedere
18. African mask
vocabulary: iconography
Identify the iconography in the following works:
19. Stained Glass window from Chartres Cathedral
20. Amitabha Buddha
21. van Eyck. Arnolfini Wedding.
Chapter 3: Seeing the Value in Art
Explain the controversial content and public reception of each of these artworks:
4. Offili. Holy Virgin Mary
5. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass
7. Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
10. Calder, La Grand Vitesse
12. Michelangelo, David
15. Gomez –Pena and Sifuentes. Temple of Confessions
Chapter 4: Line
vocabulary: outline, contour line, implied line, implied line, line of sight, expressive line, analytical line, classical line, gesture, romantic line
Match the vocabulary to the following works. Identify and define the type of line used in each work:
6. Gaudier-Brzeska, Female nude
5. Jaune Quick to See Smith. House.
8. Titian, Assumption
14. Van Gogh, Starry Night
18. LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 681
20. Johns, Numbers in Color
25. David, Death of Socrates
28. Delacroix, Study for Death of Sardanapalus
Chapter 5: Space
vocabulary: shape, mass, two and three-dimensional space; negative shapes, scale, one and two-point linear perspective, vanishing point, foreshortening, axonometric, binocular
Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following artworks:
2) Sultan, Lemons
4) Puryear, Self
5) Hepworth, Two Figures
15) Leonardo, Last Supper
18) Caillebotte, Place de l'Europe
24) Mantegna, Dead Christ
29) Matisse, Harmony in Red
Chapter 6: Light and Color
vocabulary: atmospheric (aerial) perspective, chiaroscuro, modeling, tenebrism, hatching and cross hatching, primary, secondary and intermediate colors, intensity or saturation, analogus and complementary color schemes, polychromatic, perceptual, arbitrary, simultaneous color contrast, symbolic color, pointillism, key/value
Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following images:
3. Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks
4. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed
5. Colin, Figure of a Woman
7. Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes
9. Michelangelo, Head of a Satyr
29. Jane Hammond, Fallen
31. Cara Grande Feather Mask
33. Seurat, La Chahut
41. Monet, Grainstack
42. Bonnard, Terrace at Vernon
43. Van Gogh, Night Café
Ch 7 Other Formal Elements