Art Exam 1

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None of the other answers
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What is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf ?
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limestone
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The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium?
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egyptian
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Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?
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a canon of proportions
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What method was used to make the sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty?
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a Greek athlete
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What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?
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Sandro Botticelli
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Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?
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Classical Greek sculptures
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The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.
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a Classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting
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Titian's Venus of Urbino shows ________.
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19th century France
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When and where was the artist of Olympia working?
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Update a classical subject for his own time
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What was the artist of Olympia trying to do?
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Titian, Venus of Urbino
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Which reclining nude was made first and served as an influence on the others?
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Auguste Rodin, the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture
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What is so revolutionary about Walking Man and who made it?
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using painted paper cutouts
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How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?
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hierarchical scale
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When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.
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spiritual
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The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck used hierarchical scale to communicate importance in his painting Madonna in a Church.
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Hierarchical.
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This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.
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surrealist
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This group of artists sometimes used distorted scale to create dreamlike images that subvert our conscious experiences.
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proportions
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The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.
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palm
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In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.
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Plato . . . Aristotle
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In The School of Athens, the artist focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center of the work. They are ________ and ________.
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Raphael
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In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
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head
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The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.
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a harmonious
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The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body
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elements
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Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.
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subordinate
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The opposite of emphasis is ________.
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broad emphasis
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When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard for any particular area, this is called ________.
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focal point
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This is the specific part in an area of emphasis to which the viewer's eye is drawn.
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placing the Virgin in the center- directing all other figures' eyes toward the Virgin- placing a dove above the Virgin's head- dressing the Virgin in a different color to all the other figures= All of the other answers
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In Dieric Bouts's work The Coronation of the Virgin, the artist focuses the viewer's attention on the Virgin Mary by
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draw attention to Icarus` fall
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The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.
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Subordination
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In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.
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direction, dramatic play, placement, line
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Artists can use ________ to organize the elements in a work and draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
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contrast
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In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.
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Francisco de surbaran
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The Funeral of St. Bonaventure is a painting by the Spanish artist ________.
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blood spurting from holofernes`s neck
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Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point.
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Baroque
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Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.
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a symbol of mortality
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Memento mori refers to:
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iconography, memento mori, anamorphosis
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Which terms apply to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors.
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prayer figures
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Sumerian votive figures were used as:
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represents a feminist analysis of her body
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's portrayal of the woman's body in Grande Odalisque is _______.
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museum website
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Which are acceptable resources for studying art?
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that he was a member of the order of santiago
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What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?
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wanted artist to be of high status
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The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter ________.
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all of the other answers
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In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is:
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white marble
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Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from:
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all the previous answers
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What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate?
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sunken-relief carving
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What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters (4.6.7)?
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information about a particular society
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The Stela of Hammurabi is...
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Constantine
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Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of Rome?
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Depict two consecutive days of violence
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Francisco Goya's The Second of May, 1808 depicts:
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embodied by women
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The Bayeux Tapestry is...