Chapter 4

Formal analysis is important because it is helpful in understanding the _____ of a work of art.

The Ttlaloc Vessel is frontal and symmetrical, which is symbolic of ____.

Content is about a work of art's

Dona Schlesier's mixed-media piece Setting Cycles has a subject matter, which is ____.

A subtext of Hopper's Nighthawks would be ____.

Artistic metaphors and symbols are: ______.

Iconography uses _____ to suggest concepts and ideas.

Ideological criticism deals with work of art's _____ significance.

Structuralist believe that in order to understand a work of art, one must study the structure of art and the complex _____ of all its parts.

Deconstruction involves the belief that any image has a ____ of meaning .

While ___ was important to modernist, ____ is important to postmodernist.

Psychoanalytic criticism helps to interpret artwork with strong ___ content.

Feminist criticism deal with ____ in art.

According to ___ , all art supports some particular political agenda, cultural structure, or economic/ class hierarchy.

Context refers to the social and ____ conditions that encompass a work of art.

Gerhard Richter's series of fifteen painting entitled October 18,1977 reflects _____ ideas.

In a work of art, content is conveyed primarily in three ways: through its symbolic references; through written materials and cultural context; and ______.

Brazilian born Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanja creates a stainless steel ping pong table called untitled 2008(the future will be chrome). This work is a good example of _____ because gallery goers can play on it.

The subtext in an artwork refers to ___.

The role of the art critics is ____

Relational aesthetic focuses on human relationship and social spaces, rather than empathizing art objects in private galleries, homes, or museums.

The most obvious factor in determining the content of a work of art is it subject matter.

Symbols are culturally determined and cannot be taught.

From the moment a work of art is made, its content is subject to change.

Art historians and art critics from different periods of time often have the same interpretation of the same work of art.

The subject in Neshat's art Islamic women and femininity in a country where women's actions and rights are limited by law.