art sayre test1 ch1-3

•  Question 1
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Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?
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	Selected Answer:
They have little context in which to view the work.

•  Question 2
2 out of 2 points


Maya Ying Lin's Memorial in Washington, D.C.:
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	Selected Answer:
was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style.

•  Question 3
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Temple of Confessions (p. 53) could be defined as ______ art.
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	Selected Answer:
performance and installation

•  Question 4
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Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist's life-his African heritage and what else?
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	Selected Answer:
his Catholic upbringing

•  Question 5
2 out of 2 points


Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola (fig. 34, p. 30) is based on ___________.
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	Selected Answer:
a & c

•  Question 6
2 out of 2 points


The Gates is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:
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	Selected Answer:
Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

•  Question 7
2 out of 2 points


Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?
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	Selected Answer:
Richard Serra

•  Question 8
2 out of 2 points


According to Sayre what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
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	Selected Answer:
reception, extraction, inference

•  Question 9
2 out of 2 points


Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?
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	Selected Answer:
the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

•  Question 10
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Abstract art reduces the world to its _______ qualities.
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	Selected Answer:
essential

•  Question 11
2 out of 2 points


What was the inspiration for Marcel Duchamp's controversial Nude Descending a Staircase?
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	Selected Answer:
the chronophotographs of Etienne-Jules Marey

•  Question 12
0 out of 2 points


In America (p. 17), Yukinori Yanagi directly addresses:
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	Selected Answer:
incorrect**how countries break down over time.
something about keeping japan isolated

•  Question 13
2 out of 2 points


We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in:
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	Selected Answer:
religious art

•  Question 14
2 out of 2 points


What material did Sakarin Krue-On use in making Since 1958 (fig. 56, p. 51)?
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	Selected Answer:
human hair

•  Question 15
2 out of 2 points


What motivates artists like Sakarin Krue-On, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Suzanne Lacy?
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	Selected Answer:
socio-cultural issues

•  Question 16
2 out of 2 points


Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called:
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	Selected Answer:
iconography.

•  Question 17
2 out of 2 points


What is that motivates most collectors to buy contemporary art?
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	Selected Answer:
the pleasure of owning art and the prestige it confers upon them

•  Question 18
2 out of 2 points


What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?
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	Selected Answer:
it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it

•  Question 19
2 out of 2 points


In The Language of Art, what, according to Nelson Goodman (p. 16), "selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes, and constructs"?
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	Selected Answer:
the eye

•  Question 20
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In a work of art, "content" refers to:
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	Selected Answer:
what the work expresses or means.

•  Question 21
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Kenneth Clark illustrates an _______ reading in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a "higher state of civilization" than a West African mask.
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	Selected Answer:
ethnocentric

•  Question 22
2 out of 2 points


While Erna Motna's Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming is a very descriptive and, in its way, beautiful painting which has helped to strengthen and revitalize religious practice among Australian Aborigines, there is controversy about this type of painting. Which of these statements best explains the controversy?
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	Selected Answer:
c & d

•  Question 23
2 out of 2 points


Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider__________.
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	Selected Answer:
that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves

•  Question 24
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Which of these statements best describes Sesshu Toyo's Haboku Landscape for Soen?
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	Selected Answer:
all of the above

•  Question 25
2 out of 2 points


Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be _______ rather than functional.
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	Selected Answer:
aesthetic

•  Question 26
2 out of 2 points


When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle (p. 29) shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called:
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	Selected Answer:
nonrepresentational.

•  Question 27
2 out of 2 points


Where does Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama draw inspiration for her work?
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	Selected Answer:
from very personal visual and existential experiences of her surroundings

•  Question 28
2 out of 2 points


In Chapter 3, Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art. What are they?
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	Selected Answer:
monetary and intrinsic

•  Question 29
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The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:
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	Selected Answer:
Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

•  Question 30
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The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha (p. 33) are called:
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	Selected Answer:
mudra.

•  Question 31
2 out of 2 points


Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its:
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	Selected Answer:
political symbolism.

•  Question 32
2 out of 2 points


The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe:
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	Selected Answer:
representational art .

•  Question 33
2 out of 2 points


Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:
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self-sufficiency.

•  Question 34
2 out of 2 points


Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:
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	Selected Answer:
his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

•  Question 35
2 out of 2 points


According to the National Endowment for the Arts what activist role should artists take?
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	Selected Answer:
They should educate the public about the value of art.

•  Question 36
2 out of 2 points


Where did Christo and Jean-Claude locate their temporary installation, The Gates?
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	Selected Answer:
New York's Central Park

•  Question 37
2 out of 2 points


Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
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	Selected Answer:
African ritual masks

•  Question 38
2 out of 2 points


Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
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	Selected Answer:
artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions

•  Question 39
2 out of 2 points


Etienne-Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge were pioneers in the burgeoning art of ____________, which was first explored by the Lumiere Bros in 1895.
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	Selected Answer:
motion pictures

•  Question 40
2 out of 2 points


While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called _______ drawings because they were created on blank accounting notebooks.
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	Selected Answer:
ledger

•  Question 41
2 out of 2 points


Christian art's main purpose through the Middle Ages, like that of the stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral, was __________.
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	Selected Answer:
to educate illiterate people in Christian doctrine

•  Question 42
2 out of 2 points


Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:
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	Selected Answer:
European experience.

•  Question 43
2 out of 2 points


Faith Ringgold's God Bless America (p. 17) features an American flag turned into a prison cell. How is the figure of the woman contradictory?
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	Selected Answer:
She is both patriotic and racist.

•  Question 44
2 out of 2 points


The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript (p. 24), a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in _______ art.
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	Selected Answer:
Islamic

•  Question 45
2 out of 2 points


Which of these statements apply to the remarkable 16th century Mughul ruler, Akbar?
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	Selected Answer:
he promoted religious tolerance, inviting followers of many different religions to participate in his court

•  Question 46
2 out of 2 points


Lorna Simpson's series, The Park (p. 23), includes both images and printed words. The text contributes to the prints in a way that makes the viewer more active in the work. What does the viewer become?
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	Selected Answer:
a voyeur

•  Question 47
0 out of 2 points


What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?
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	Selected Answer:
incorrect**all of the above

•  Question 48
2 out of 2 points


In Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) (pp. 43-44), Manet intentionally rejects traditional painting techniques for what purpose?
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	Selected Answer:
to call attention to his modernity and break with the past

•  Question 49
2 out of 2 points


The goal of the NEA's Art in Public Places Program was___________.
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	Selected Answer:
to expose the general public to contemporary art as a kind of mass audience art appreciation course

•  Question 50
2 out of 2 points


How is Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial (p. 46) similar to works by Edouard Manet and Marcel Duchamp?
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	Selected Answer:
All were initially misunderstood by the public.