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Site with over 300 Paleolithic animal depictions (palm prints and stenciled hands) -ANSWER Chauvet Caves
Naturalistic animal representations; stylized and simplified human figures. - ANSWERPaleolithic Art
Lion Panel, Artwork in Chauvet cave, dated 30,000 B.C.E., Charcoal - ANSWER Refers to the New Stone Age period. - ANSWER Neolithic Stonehenge (Neolithic structure of megaliths in England), Salisbury Plain, England,c.2000-1500 B.C.E. Height of stones, 13'6 - ANSWER
Contemporary artist known for memorials and installations. - ANSWER Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Memorial for 58,000 war casualties, 1982), Maya Lin,Washington, D.C. 1982. Black Granite, length 492'. - ANSWER
Places in which to think, without trying to dictate what to think - ANSWER What doesMaya Lin aim to create through her works?
- create places for some human purpose2. create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
- to record and commemorate
- to give tangible form to the unknown
- to give tangible form to feelings and ideas
- to refresh our vision and help us see the world in new ways - ANSWER What do artistsdo?
Kente Cloth (Royal kente woven in hundreds of patterns was reserved for ceremonialoccasions), from Ghana, Asante, mid-20th century. Cotton - ANSWER
Shiva Nataraja (Imagined deity representation, the four arms symbolizing "fear not"),India, 10th century C.E. Bronze - ANSWER
How information comes into our eyes, ears, nose, taste buds, fingertips, and what wemake of it. - ANSWER Looking and Responding to artwork means?
Vanity in Latin - ANSWER What does 'Vanitas' mean? The fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness - ANSWER What concept does 'Vanitas'reflect?
In the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes - ANSWER Where is the concept of 'Vanitas'reflected?
Wheel of Fortune, (Vanitas), Audrey Flack, 1977-78, oil over acrylic on canvas. -ANSWER
Descriptive of a work ofart that depicts forms in the natural world - ANSWERRepresentational Art
Pablo Picasso, First Communion 1895-96, Oil on Canvas, theme: art and appearances -ANSWER
Descriptive art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified,
art and other skilled crafts
- Navajo aesthetics value process over product and do not recognize a border betweenart and life. - ANSWER How do Japanese and Navajo aesthetics challenge traditional Western ideas about art? Hon'ami Koetsu. Teabowl. Momoyama-Edoperiod, late 16 th -early 17 th century. Rakuware - ANSWER
space is presented as awork of art that can be entered, explored,experienced, andreflected upon. Walker'sinstallation allowed the public to enter thewarehouse for the first and last timebefore it disappeared - ANSWER Installation art its historical reliance on slavery: the vast sugar plantations founded by Europeancolonists in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked by African slaves. - ANSWER Subtlety
- A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby by Kara Walker is an artwork commissionedby Creative Time in 2014.
- It is an homage to the unpaid and overworked artisans who refined sugar from thecane fields to the kitchens of the New World.
- The piece was created on the occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar RefiningPlant
- Subtlety, styrofoam, resin, sugar, and molasses, 2014, kara walker - ANSWER What isA Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby by Kara Walker?
Art has historically played a crucial role in shaping and expressing each society'sunderstanding of the sacred, aiding in envisioning, honoring, and communicating with the sacred realm. - ANSWER The Sacred Realm enlightened beings who have deferred their ultimate goal of nirvana(freedom from thecycle of birth, death, and rebirth) in order to help others attain this goal - ANSWER Bodhisattvas
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddahof the South. Tibet. 13 th centuryC.E.Watercolor on cloth. - ANSWER
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas (Picasso condemns the violence andfascism unleashed against ordinary citizens during the Spanish Civil War in Guernica) theme: politics and social order - ANSWER Frida Kahlo. Self-Portrait with Monkeys. 1943.Oil on canvas. (Kahlo paintedself-portraits throughout her career expressing her experience as a woman, as an artist, as a Mexican, affirming that she still exists) theme: looking inward - ANSWER a room lined with mirrors so that anything in it multiplies in endless reflections -ANSWER Infinity Mirrored Room
Yayoi Kusama. Love is Calling. 2013.Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile,acrylic panel,rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers, and sound. theme: inventions and fantasy - ANSWER
- Line
- Shape- Mass
- Light- Color
- Texture
- Pattern- Space
- Time
- Motion - ANSWER Visual Elements Sarah Sze. Hidden Relief.2001. 2001-04.mixed media. (In her hands, we become awareof them as visual elements, bits of ready-made line, mass, color and shape) - ANSWER
red-orange side - ANSWER warm colors blue-green side - ANSWER cool colors the name of the color according to the categories of the color wheel - ANSWER hue harmonies involve colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel - ANSWERcomplimentary color scheme
red and green orange and blue violet and yellow - ANSWER Complimentary colorexamples
Ando Hiroshige. Fireworks at Ryogoku.Woodblock print. 1857. - ANSWER the surface quality-aperception of smooth or rough, flator bumpy, fine or course -ANSWER Texture
any decorative, repetitive motif or design - ANSWER pattern Samuel Fosso. The Chief: He WhoSold Africa to the Colonists, fromSelf-Portraits 1-V.1997.Chromogenic print., example of texture and pattern - ANSWER
the space in and around a work of art is not a void, and it is very much there. - ANSWERspace
Do Ho Suh. Reflection. 2004. Nylon and stainless Steel tube (a traditional Korean entrygate that stood in front of the artist's home, represents a memory of a date (time present vs. time past) example of space - ANSWER
- Cave makes art that depends for its full effect on the motion of yet another potentialparticipant, the performer
- One could disappear into his sound suit, and no one could tell from the outside,whether he was black, white, orange or purple - ANSWER What is the purpose of Nick Cave's art and soundsuits? Nick Cave. Soundsuit. 2011. Knits and applique, metalarmature, vintage black-facedvoodoo dolls, black buglebeads, vintage mammy's cozy, hand mirrors, wiggleeyes, and Felix the cat vintage leather mask., example of time and motion - ANSWER The guidelines of making decisions involved in designing a work of art, regardless of itsform or the culture in which it was made - ANSWER Principles of Design
a sense of oneness, of things belonging - ANSWER Unity difference, which provides interest - ANSWER Variety Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Nets (AOWFA). 2013. Acrylicon canvas. - ANSWER a composition has two sides that do not match - ANSWER Asymmetrical Balance Tawaraya (Nonomura) Sotatsu. The Zen Priest Choka.Edo period, late 16 th-early 17 thcentury. Hanging scroll,ink on paper - ANSWER
means that our attention is drawn more to certain parts of a composition than to others -ANSWER Emphasis
means that certain areas of the composition are purposefully made less visuallyinteresting, so that the areas of emphasis stand out - ANSWER Subordination
Henry Ossawa Tanner. The Banjo Lesson. 1893.Oil on canvas, example of emphasis and
Deadly conflicts in African societies - ANSWER What theme is evoked by the title 'Hideand Seek, Kill or Speak' in Wangechi Mutu's artwork?
A wall painting technique that has been used for large scale murals since ancient times.- ANSWER What is a fresco?
How are pigments applied in fresco painting? - ANSWER Pigments are mixed with waterand applied to a plaster support, usually a wall or ceiling coated in plaster.
Where were the most celebrated frescoes in the 20th century created? - ANSWERMexico
When did the revolutionary government come into power in Mexico? - ANSWER 1921 What did the revolutionary government commission artists to create murals about? -ANSWER Mexico itself - its ancient civilizations, political struggles, people, and hopes for the future What were the Mixtec kingdoms known for? - ANSWER Their arts What did Rivera portray in his frescoes about the Mixtec kingdoms? - ANSWER Apeaceful community of artists at work
Diego Rivera. Mixtec Culture. 1942. Fresco. - ANSWER What are some qualities of tempera paint? - ANSWER It shares qualities with bothwatercolor and oil paint. It dries quickly, making it difficult to blend colors once they are set down. Why is it challenging to blend colors in tempera paint? - ANSWER Tempera paint dries
quickly, which makes it hard to blend colors once they are set down. Jacob Lawrence. In many of the communities, the Negro press was read continuallybecause of its attitude and its encouragement of movement. Panel 20 from The MigrationSeries. 1940-41. Tempera on the composition board. (Lawrence told the storyof the Great Migration- the migration of thousands of African Americans from the South to the North beginning about 1910.) - ANSWER oil paint - ANSWER consists of pigment compounded with oil. Historically, the mostcommonly used oils have been linseed oil, poppy seed oil, and walnut oil (dries slowly and allows artists to manipulate the paint) Amy Sillman. Nut. 2011. Oil on canvas - ANSWER The enormous developments inchemistry during the early 20 thcentury had an impact inartists'studios. - ANSWER What happened in the 20th century?
synthetic artist's colors that are strong,weather proof, and industrial using a vehicle ofplastic resins (can mimic the effects of oil paint, watercolor, gouache, and even tempera.), dries quickly and permanently (similar to tempera) - ANSWER Acrylic (a moreexact name form them is polymer paints):
From the Italian for"paste," a thick application of paint - ANSWER Impasto Beatriz Milhazes. Mariposa. 2004.Acrylic on canvas. - ANSWER describes any printing method in which the image to be printed is raisedfrom abackground. Any surface from which the background areas can becarved away is suitable for relief printing, but the material most commonlyassociated with relief printingis wood - ANSWER Relief
Three historical methods for making art prints-relief, intaglio and lithography-werejoined in the 20 th century by screenprinting - ANSWER Which 3 historical methods were
Richard Throssel (american indian from cree heritage). CrowCamp, 1910. Modernprintfrom a negative. - ANSWER
Raghubir Singh. A Family, Kamathipura,Mumbai. Maharastra. 1977. - ANSWER What device converts a moving image into electronic signals? - ANSWER Video camera What decodes electronic signals to reconstitute an image for display? - ANSWERMonitor
What became a standard fixture in American homes around 1950 for displaying images?- ANSWER Television set
Its own image on a futuristic-style television - ANSWER What does the sculpture of theBuddha contemplate in Nam June Paik's artwork?
An astronaut's helmet - ANSWER What does the television in Nam June Paik's artworkresemble?
The entire mechanism of the relationship between the Buddha, television, and videocamera - ANSWER What is Nam June Paik trying to make the audience aware of in his artwork? Nam June Paik. TV Buddha. 1974. Closed-circuit video installation withbronzesculpture, monitor, video camera - ANSWER
Yin-Yang symbol - ANSWER What is the symbol that embodies the worldview expressedin ancient Chinese philosophy?
Dynamic balance of opposites - ANSWER What concept does the Yin-Yang symbolrepresent?
Male and female, light and dark, action and inaction - ANSWER What are some pairs ofopposites represented by the Yin-Yang symbol?
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (Your Gaze Hits theSide of My Face). 1981. Photograph -ANSWER
Louise Bourgeois. Maman. 1999; cast2001. Bronze, stainless steel andmarble. -ANSWER
The figure was built up by hand,then sensitively worked with tools of stoneand wood -ANSWER Modeling
Figurine of a voluptuous lady. Maya, LateClassic period, 700-900 C.E. Ceramicwithtraces of pigment. - ANSWER
involves a mold of some kind, intowhich liquid or semiliquid material is pouredandallowed to harden - ANSWER casting
those spiritually advanced beings who have chosen to delay their own Buddhahood inorder to help others - ANSWER Bodhisattvas
The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, India, PalaDynasty. 12 th Century. Gilt bronze. -ANSWER
Martin Puryear. C.F.A.O. 2006-07. Painted andunpainted pine and found wheelbarrow. -ANSWER
meant to convey not only the power ofthe rulers but also their serene, eternal existence- ANSWER formal pose
On a loom or frame - ANSWER Where is weaving commonly done? Tunic, from Peru. Inca, c. 1500.Wool and cotton. - ANSWER Metal - ANSWER Where is weaving commonly done? Bottle caps and small food tins such as sardine cans, flattened and stitched togetherwith copper wire - ANSWER What is Sasa made of?
El Anatsui. Sasa. 2004.Aluminum and copper wire. - ANSWER Marcus Amerman. Glass horsemask. 2008. Multicolored glass. - ANSWER The most elementary structural method, based on two uprights (the posts) supporting ahorizontal crosspiece (the lintel, or beam) - ANSWER What is post-and lintel construction? Two uprights (the posts) supporting a horizontal crosspiece (the lintel, or beam) -ANSWER What are the components of post-and lintel construction?
Hoodo (Phoenix Hall) Byodo-in Temple, Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Heian period,c.1053*Stepped truss roof structure - ANSWER
Taj Mahal, Agra, India. 1632-53. Built by the Muslim emperor of India, ShahJahan, as atomb for his beloved wife, Arjummand Banu. - ANSWER
a construction technique inwhich each course of stone projects slightlybeyond the onebelow - ANSWER Corbelling
Interior of the Jain temple of Dilwara,Vimala temple, Mount Abu, South Rajasthan,India.Completed 1032 - ANSWER
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel Tower, Paris.Iron, height 934' (symbol of Paris) -ANSWER
Japan during the 15th and 16th centuries in the cultural context of Zen Buddhism -ANSWER Where did the tea ceremony originate?
To create a moment of tranquility and aesthetic contemplation, to focus the mind, andfoster awareness of the body - ANSWER What is the purpose of the tea ceremony?
In a small space created specifically for that purpose - ANSWER How was the teaceremony traditionally performed?
In a modern way through what he calls 'breathing architecture' - ANSWER How doesKuma interpret the ideas of the tea ceremony?
Kengo Kuma. Teahouse.2007. - ANSWER -Artist Maya Lin (b. 1959) - ANSWER "Each of my works originates from a simple desireto make people aware oftheir surroundings, not just the physical world but also the psychological worldwe live in. I create places in which to think, without trying to dictatewhat to think."
-Picasso - ANSWER "Why should the artist persist in treatingsubjects that can beestablished so clearly withthe lens of a camera?"
Yayoi Kusama - ANSWER "Polka dots are a way to infinity.When we obliterate natureand our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment. I become part of the eternal, and we obliterate ourselves with Love"
