Living With Art Chapter 2 & 3

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Fisherman’s Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

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Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a founder of the French Impressionist movement of painting, a name derived from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise.

Front 2

What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

Back 2

All these answers are correct:
folk art
outsider art
intuitive art
All these terms involve art created by people with no formal training in art processes and are self-taught. Each term is associated with different approaches to the art object ranging from utilitarian to unconventional; art that is outside of the mainstream art world.

Front 3

During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both

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were felt to provide pleasure
Philosophers thought the character of pleasure was intellectual and the viewer’s gaze upon an object is to take pleasure in what he or she was seeing.

Front 4

________ is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

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Pietà
Pieta means “pity” in Italian, and describes the emotional connotation of the image in regard to the religious iconography.

Front 5

Ann Hamilton’s Mantle is an example of

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installation
Installation art forms involve a space presented as a work of art that can be entered, experienced, explored, and reflected upon.

Front 6

Which of the following is an example of a theme in art?

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art and nature
Themes provide a framework for exploring how complex a form of expression or subject can be

Front 7

Whereas the Christian image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by

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bodhisattvas
Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings and wear halos signifying their holiness

Front 8

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica was a protest against

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the bombing of a civilian population
Picasso’s reaction to the horror of this incident impelled him to paint Guernica depicting the horrors of the war.

Front 9

The range of ________’s work makes him difficult to categorize. In addition to paintings, prints, and combination pieces, he has done extensive set and costume design for Merce Cunningham and others, as well as graphic design for magazines and books.

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Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg’s art dissolved boundaries between media, art and non-art, and art and life. He chose to “ennoble the ordinary”.

Front 10

Artist Frida Kahlo is well-known for her

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self-portraits
Kahlo sought to record her human experience through her self-portraits.