Art Appreciation Test 3

Front 1

Indus River valley civilization was highly developed and already in decline by _________

Back 1

2000 b.c.

Front 2

Indian Art was influenced by western art when ________ conquered parts of Afganistan and Pakistan

Back 2

Alexander

Front 3

Siddharta Guatama (563-483 BCE) was the founder of _______.

Back 3

Buddhism

Front 4

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are:

Back 4

a. everyone/thing is suffering
b. suffering is caused by desire
c. eleminate desire and eleminate suffering
d. eleminate desire by meditation (8 fold path)

Front 5

The term Bodhisattva means a person who is on the point of achieving enlightenment, but who _______________________

Back 5

holds back to help others

Front 6

Three principal gods of Hinduism are:

Back 6

1. Brahman (creator)
2. Vishnu (sustainer)
3. Shiva (destroyer)

Front 7

The Hindu god most often venerated in Hindu art is _______

Back 7

Shiva

Front 8

Garba Briha is Sanskrit for _______ chamber, a characteristic feature of Hindu Temples.

Back 8

womb

Front 9

T/F. The Gupta style is characterized by dynamic and theatrical effects and poses.

Back 9

False

Front 10

T/F. The Gupta style is considered a low point in Indian aesthetics.

Back 10

False

Front 11

In Hindu art, the god Krishna is usually colored ______.

Back 11

blue

Front 12

Bronze is an alloy or mixture of _________ and zinc or tin.

Back 12

copper

Front 13

Chinese artists ___________ their poems as much as they __________ their paintings.

Back 13

painted; wrote

Front 14

Literati painting evelved when Chinese artists refused to work for ________ invaders.

Back 14

mongol

Front 15

In Chinese art and myth, evil comes from the North. Why would this be the case?

Back 15

Because the mongols are despised and they come from the North.

Front 16

Bamboo as a subject emerged during the development of Chinese Literati painting. Bamboo symbolizes ________ and ______.

Back 16

strength; flexibility

Front 17

The Buddhist Stupa is architecturally related to the Chinese _____.

Back 17

bugota

Front 18

Briefly describe the three main religions of China during the pre-modern period:

Back 18

a. confucianism- scholarly rational and about authority
b. daoism- chance and accident, balance

Front 19

Genghis Khan and the Mongols invaded Northern China in the year ______-.

Back 19

1200

Front 20

The mongol invasion of China in the 12th century led to the rise of ______.

Back 20

Literati

Front 21

T/F. Chinese master artists often copy the work of earlier artists

Back 21

True

Front 22

Celadon is a unique ceramic glaze that is usually colored ______.

Back 22

green

Front 23

The four main islands of Japan are:

Back 23

1. Hokkaido
2. Honshu
3. Shikoku
4. Kyushu

Front 24

Shinto is primarily an elaborate form of _______ worship.

Back 24

ancestor

Front 25

The shrine at Ise has been exactly rebuilt every _____ years since ______.

Back 25

20; 600 A.D.

Front 26

The best place to study ancient Chinese architecture is in __________

Back 26

Japan

Front 27

What distance is covered in the series by Hiroshige, "53 stations of the Tokaido Road"?

Back 27

300 miles

Front 28

The Japanese process of making woodblock prints is known as ____________, which means "pictures of the ________ world".

Back 28

Ukiyo-e; floating

Front 29

Hokusai did a famous series of Woodblock Prints titles _________. Name the most famous image from the series.

Back 29

36 Views of Mt. Fuji; Great Wave

Front 30

What idd rural Japanese usually grow in their attic spaces?

Back 30

silk worms

Front 31

Hardwood from what tree was commonly used for woodblock prints?

Back 31

cherry tree

Front 32

Physiognomy is the study of ________ to reveal personal characteristics. What Japanese ukiyo-e artist worked according to physiognomic principles?

Back 32

facial features; Utamaro

Front 33

The Muslim world centered on Turkey was long known as the ______ empire.

Back 33

Ottoman

Front 34

One reason animals and people don't usually appear in Islamic art is the _____________

Back 34

1st Commmandment

Front 35

The word Muslim is Arabic for "One who _______."

Back 35

submits

Front 36

A MIHRAB is a niche in the wall of a mosque that faces _______.

Back 36

Mecca

Front 37

The Mughal rulers of India bridge ______ and _____ empires.

Back 37

Hindu; Persian

Front 38

T/F. The Taj Mahal is essentially an elaborate grave marker.

Back 38

True

Front 39

Very few ancient artworks are found on the African continent primarily because:

Back 39

Most African art was made with perishable materials

Front 40

The great dividing line between African cultures is the ______

Back 40

Sahara

Front 41

A hierarchical view of the world implies that there is a __________ best kind of art.

Back 41

single

Front 42

Australian Aboriginal art deals mainly with the ________, a time in their oral history before the known world existed

Back 42

dreamtime

Front 43

Autralian Art is widely known for the use of the ______ style, in which the interanl organs of an animal are diagrammed.

Back 43

xray

Front 44

Why didn't Hawiians and other Polynesians develop ceramics?

Back 44

They didn't have clay because the islandds where volcanic islands

Front 45

What is the significance of the way Paul Revere is dressed in his portrait by Copley?

Back 45

It's a protest. He is wearing banned linen.

Front 46

An artwork that aims to teach the viewer something is known as _________.

Back 46

didactic

Front 47

Academic art today is held to be _____ and thus not true art.

Back 47

formulaic

Front 48

Eakin's Gross Clinic directly states that ______, not ___________ is the source of good.

Back 48

reason; emotion

Front 49

Rosa Bonheur was a painter of ________.

Back 49

animals

Front 50

What are the three revolutions that the text describes as giving rise to the Modern Ages:

Back 50

1. American Revolution
2. French Revolution
3. Industrial Revolution

Front 51

Devotion to a revolution demands belief in the idea of _________.

Back 51

progress

Front 52

The Enlightenment celebrated the power of _________, while Romanticism celebrated ____________

Back 52

reason, emotion

Front 53

Thomas Cole is recognized as the founder of the _________ ___________ School of Art, an important group of American landscape painters.

Back 53

Hudson River

Front 54

Cole's method of landscape painting often ties the picture "age" to two events in the natural world:

Back 54

a. time of day
b. weather

Front 55

Delacroix accused the French Academy of teaching beauty as if it were _________.

Back 55

algebra

Front 56

____________ describes a style of art and literature that depicts ordinary existance without idealism, exoticism or nostalgia

Back 56

Realism

Front 57

Plein Aire Painting became possible with the invention of ____________

Back 57

paint tubes

Front 58

Name the four main post Impressionists:

Back 58

1. Seurat
2. Van Gogh
3. Gauguin
4. Cezanne

Front 59

______________ is the strategy that uses small dots of color to build an image.

Back 59

Pointilism

Front 60

Duchamp's Fountain is a demonstration of the idea that everything can be considered art in a bid for radical artistic _________.

Back 60

freedom

Front 61

Dali's Slave Market is an intentional rejection of __________.

Back 61

reason

Front 62

Courbet was able to reject both ____________ and ___________ strategies by avoiding the historic/allegorical on the one hand and religious/herioc on the other.

Back 62

neo-classical; romantic

Front 63

Edouard Munch was one of the forerunners of German ________________

Back 63

expressionism

Front 64

"The crumbling of the ______ was to my soul the crumbling of the entire world. Kandisnky

Back 64

atom

Front 65

The early 20th century was a period characterized by cultural fragmentation. Describe two specific events that mirrored or led to this new view of the world:

Back 65

a. psychology (Freud)
b. relativity (Einstein)

Front 66

The term _______ means "wild Beast" and refers to this group's capricious and arbitrary use of ________

Back 66

fauve; color

Front 67

Kandinsky's paintings refer to _________ composition.

Back 67

musical

Front 68

Name and briefly describe the two kinds of Cubism:

Back 68

1. analytic- analyzes reality
2. synthetic- synthesize an idea

Front 69

Dada and Surrealism were essentially a protest agianst _________.

Back 69

reason

Front 70

Semiotics is the study of __________.

Back 70

signs

Front 71

The New York School has two main divisions. Name them and describe their main approach:

Back 71

1. ABEX- gesture
2. colorfield-emotion