Introduction Quiz

28 August 2022
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Allan Houser's work Reverie is representational because:
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it includes two shapes that we recognize as faces (pg 43)
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Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because:
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it offends people's religious beliefs its sexual content seems pornographic it carries a political message that worries the authorities its moral values seem improper (pg 40)
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Examples of graphic art include:
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posters advertising signage social media (pg 29)
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Katsushika Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken's footprints in a painting that communicated ________.
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the sensations of a fall day by the river (pg 26)
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Marc Quinn's Self, a self-portrait made from frozen blood, is created in ________ scale.
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life-sized (pg 38)
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Over the years, public opinion of the Watts Towers has varied, but people have never thought that:
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it is a perfect example of the Neoclassical style (pg 32)
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Stolen art loses much of its value because:
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lacking good title and proper provenance prevents its resale (pg 37)
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Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art.
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sculpture and painting (pg 33)
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What can we NOT conclude from a formal analysis of David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)?
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the man in the red jacket is the artist's ex-lover (pg 44-45)
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Which of the following statements is untrue?
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Katushika Hokusai carved and printed all of his artworks himself (pg 33)