Name:___________________________________________________ Date: ______________________
Art Appreciation 1113, Quiz #1
Matching. Match the letter of the proper definition to the number of its vocabulary. 3 pts each
1. Iconography C____________
2. Abstract Art J_or M__________
3. Mudra G_________________
4. Neolithic B_______________
5. Paleolithic H _______________
6. Lascaux L _________________
7. An artist E ________________
8. Installation Art K___________
9. Subject matter A____________
10. Style N__________________
A. The objects in a work of art.
B. New stone age
C. Means “describing images.” Images that describe or tell a story
D. large stones
E. Creates extra ordinary versions of ordinary things.
F. Art that fools the eye.
G. Symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism.
H. Old stone age
I. Middle stone age
J. art that represents forms not seen by us in life, the unknown.
K. Art that can be entered and experienced in a space.
L. Setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its
Paleolithic cave paintings.
M. Generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or
of an observable object or thing.
N. A characteristic or group of characteristics that we recognize as
constant, recurring or coherent
True or False. Circle “T” for true or “F” for false for each statement. 2 pts each
11.
12.
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14.
T
T
T
T
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F
F
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F
15. T or F
16. T or F
17. T or F
18. T or F
19. T or F
20. T or F
Art is a nonverbal form of communication.
The Chauvet Cave Paintings date as far back as 30,000 B.C.E.
Kente Cloths are purely aesthetic and have little or no meaning behind their designs.
In the painting “The Garden of Earthy Delights,” Bosch creates a world where humans
live exemplary Christian lives.
Picasso began his career painting abstract art and steadily moved towards realistic
representation.
Artists give tangible form to the unknown.
Selective perception is focusing on information we do not desire.
In the mid 18th century craft such as pottery and textiles were merged with Painting and
Sculpture in the term Fine Art.
Social order and power can be depicted through time in architecture.
Clementine Hunter was known for her folk art depictions of everyday life on a plantation.
Image recognition. Name the artist and the title of each artwork displayed. 5 pts each
21. Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
22. Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles D’Avignon (the ladies of the avenue)
23. Renee Magritte
The Rape
24. The Arnolfini Marriage
Jan Van Eyck
25. Georges Seurat
Bathers at Asnieres
26. Pablo Picasso,
Guernica
Extras were: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Lascaux Cave, 16,000 b.c.e., Starry
Night, Van Gogh
Essay. Write a one or two paragraph essay answering the following questions. 10 pts each.
27. In understanding art and appearances, we learned about Hitler’s degenerate art show. Explain what
this show was and why Hitler had it made. Name two of the artists included in the show.
The grounds for choosing the "unworthy" pieces of art were quite simple and cruel: anything that was out
of tune with Hitler's way of thinking, was considered to be "degenerate". Hitler believed the art must
serve the purpose of exaltation of the Aryan way of life. In this case, with this great aim, art is perfect and
eternal. To Hitler's mind.
The authors of the banned works, mostly expressionists, were proclaimed mad. It would be curious to
learn that most of those artists are known as the most prominent among their contemporaries, and are still
admired. They are: Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch, many others, and the most degenerate
artist of the world, Pablo Picasso.
28. Maya Lin created the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. Explain her concept in design.
She created a space where visitors to the memorial would journey through a slow escalation to the war, to
its dramatic peak (at the walls largest point), and back down to a few names as narrows down. Both ends
of the memorial point towards monuments synonymous with America, the Washington Monument and
the Lincoln Memorial. While looking into the Vietnam Memorial, the viewer is overcome with a mass of
names from fallen soldiers. Then the viewer notices themselves staring back at the mirror-like reflective
surface of the Memorial. The viewers are called to ponder themselves in the equation.
Extra Credit. Write a brief explanation for the questions posed. 2 points each.
From the movie Basquiat:
4. Who is this a depiction of (I discussed it in reference to halos during lecture)?
Apollo