Art Midterm Getlein's Living With Art v10 Ch 113 Guide Questions
with Answers
Maya Lin major work is _____ - correct answers Vietnam Veterans Memorial
What are the roles artists fill? - correct answers To create places for some human purpose and extra-
ordinary versions of ordinary objects, To record and commemorate, To give tangible form to the
unknown
3 Methods used by prehistoric painters. - correct answers Animal fats and pigments were mixed
together, Reed brushes were used, Powdered pigments were blown through hollow reeds
4 Things you know about the drawings and paintings found in Chavet Cave. - correct answers Created
32,000 years ago, used prehistoric methods, over three hundred depictions of all kinds of animals, pics
were drawn, sprayed, carved, etc.
5 Relate theories regarding the purpose of Stonehenge. - correct answers Graveyard or religious
complex
6 The sculpture "Shiva Nataraja" represents ... - correct answers "giving tangible form to the unknown."
7 We know about Van Gogh's life due to this fact. - correct answers the many letters he wrote to friends
and relatives
8 Art created by nonprofessionals is referred to with these labels .... - correct answersFolk Art, Naïve Art,
Intuitive Art, Outsider Art
9 To discover why the sculptor of the 'Amida Nyorai' depicted the subject with elongated earlobes,
specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of .... - correct answersiconography
10 Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about ... - correct answersThe artist, the audience
11 What is the 'Pieta' in Christian art? - correct answersMary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after
he was taken down from the cross
, 12 What is the definition of "naturalistic"? - correct answersIf a work of art is faithful to our visual
experience; realism
13 When discussing a work of art's ______ we are discussing the size, shape, material, color, and
composition. - correct answersform
14 What did you learn about Jeff Wall's "A Sudden Gust of Wind"? - correct answersShows him thinking
of Hokusai and that photography has taken over from painting the project of depicting modern life
15 Hieronymus Bosh best-known work of art? - correct answersThe Garden of Earthly Delights
16 The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as ... - correct answerstombs
17 Frida Kahlo uses her own life's events as her subject - correct answersAfter a street car accident. Self-
portrait with monkeys
18 "Themes in art" found in your textbook. - correct answersThe sacred realm, politics and the social
order, stories and histories, looking outward the here and now, looking inward the human experience,
invention and fantasy, the natural world
19 What do these have in common? Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in
Bamiyan, Afghanistan - correct answersdesigned as a place or worship or meditation
20 What is learned from the inscription in the painting 'White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang' by Wang Jian -
correct answersHis painting was inspired by a work by the earlier 14th century master Zhao Mengfu,
who in turn admired Dong Yaun, a 10th century painter known for a view of this same region.
21 "The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak" and atmospheric perspective. - correct answersis used to
maximum effect in the work
22 What are some of the ways 'line' is used in art. - correct answersboundaries between forms, direction
and motion, shadows and highlights, spatial depth on flat surfaces.
with Answers
Maya Lin major work is _____ - correct answers Vietnam Veterans Memorial
What are the roles artists fill? - correct answers To create places for some human purpose and extra-
ordinary versions of ordinary objects, To record and commemorate, To give tangible form to the
unknown
3 Methods used by prehistoric painters. - correct answers Animal fats and pigments were mixed
together, Reed brushes were used, Powdered pigments were blown through hollow reeds
4 Things you know about the drawings and paintings found in Chavet Cave. - correct answers Created
32,000 years ago, used prehistoric methods, over three hundred depictions of all kinds of animals, pics
were drawn, sprayed, carved, etc.
5 Relate theories regarding the purpose of Stonehenge. - correct answers Graveyard or religious
complex
6 The sculpture "Shiva Nataraja" represents ... - correct answers "giving tangible form to the unknown."
7 We know about Van Gogh's life due to this fact. - correct answers the many letters he wrote to friends
and relatives
8 Art created by nonprofessionals is referred to with these labels .... - correct answersFolk Art, Naïve Art,
Intuitive Art, Outsider Art
9 To discover why the sculptor of the 'Amida Nyorai' depicted the subject with elongated earlobes,
specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of .... - correct answersiconography
10 Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about ... - correct answersThe artist, the audience
11 What is the 'Pieta' in Christian art? - correct answersMary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after
he was taken down from the cross
, 12 What is the definition of "naturalistic"? - correct answersIf a work of art is faithful to our visual
experience; realism
13 When discussing a work of art's ______ we are discussing the size, shape, material, color, and
composition. - correct answersform
14 What did you learn about Jeff Wall's "A Sudden Gust of Wind"? - correct answersShows him thinking
of Hokusai and that photography has taken over from painting the project of depicting modern life
15 Hieronymus Bosh best-known work of art? - correct answersThe Garden of Earthly Delights
16 The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as ... - correct answerstombs
17 Frida Kahlo uses her own life's events as her subject - correct answersAfter a street car accident. Self-
portrait with monkeys
18 "Themes in art" found in your textbook. - correct answersThe sacred realm, politics and the social
order, stories and histories, looking outward the here and now, looking inward the human experience,
invention and fantasy, the natural world
19 What do these have in common? Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in
Bamiyan, Afghanistan - correct answersdesigned as a place or worship or meditation
20 What is learned from the inscription in the painting 'White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang' by Wang Jian -
correct answersHis painting was inspired by a work by the earlier 14th century master Zhao Mengfu,
who in turn admired Dong Yaun, a 10th century painter known for a view of this same region.
21 "The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak" and atmospheric perspective. - correct answersis used to
maximum effect in the work
22 What are some of the ways 'line' is used in art. - correct answersboundaries between forms, direction
and motion, shadows and highlights, spatial depth on flat surfaces.
