Chapter 2 Art 100 College Course following the textbook 'A World of Art' by Henry M. Sayre


•	Question 1
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	What is the CONTENT of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?
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It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West
			
•	Question 2
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	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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a voyeur
			
•	Question 3
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	What does Erna Motna's Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming depict?
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a highly representational landscape
			
•	Question 4
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	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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iconography.
			
•	Question 5
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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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ethnocentric
			
•	Question 7
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	Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist_______________.
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retains realistic elements but presents the world from a personal or subjective point of view
			
•	Question 8
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	The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe:
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representational art .
			
•	Question 9
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	In The Treason of Images, the artist combines awareness, creativity, and communication by encouraging the viewer to look closely at an object. The artist is:
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René Magritte.
			
•	Question 10
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	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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Islamic
			
•	Question 11
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	Which of these statements best defines visual literacy?
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the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images
			
•	Question 12
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	Erna Motna's painting, Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming, (p. 28) depicts the preparations for a corroboree, or:
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a celebration ceremony.
			
•	Question 13
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	The Triumphal Entry page from the Shahnamah manuscript, a sacred text, exemplifies the preference of word over image in _______________art.
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Islamic
			
•	Question 15
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	What is the chief form of Islamic art?
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calligraphy, the fine art of handwriting
			
•	Question 16
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	The representation of _______ has consistently aroused controversy throughout the history of the Western world.
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the Christian god
			
•	Question 17
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	Christian art's main purpose through the Middle Ages, like that of the stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral, was __________.
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to educate illiterate people in Christian doctrine
			
•	Question 18
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	Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider__________.
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that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves
			
•	Question 19
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	The stained-glass window from Chartres Cathedral is an excellent example of the use of iconography in art, which means ___________________.
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it uses a system of symbols which is easily understandable to most Christians
			
•	Question 20
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	Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:
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European experience.
			
•	Question 21
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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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mudra.
			
•	Question 22
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	Abstract art reduces the world to its _______ qualities.
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essential
			
•	Question 24
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	Jan van Eyck's The Marriage Of Giovanni Arnolfini depicts many objects that, many used to think, have symbolic meaning. The study of these symbols is called:
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iconography
			
•	Question 25
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	When works of art like Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle, show no reference to the concrete world, it is usually called:
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non-objective
			
•	Question 26
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	What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?
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it depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face
			
•	Question 27
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	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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nonrepresentational.
			
•	Question 28
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	While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called _______ drawings because they were created on blank accounting notebooks.
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ledger
			
•	Question 29
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	Why are images of humans traditionally banned in Islamic art
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Depicting a human is thought to be competing with the "creator."
			
•	Question 30
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	In a work of art, "content" refers to:
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what the work expresses or means.