QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
1.Formal - Correct answers✔✔_________________ analysis is the integrated study of the
elements and principles of art.
composition - Correct answers✔✔Formal qualities contribute to an artifact to make it
________________________ satisfying.
content - Correct answers✔✔______________________ is an artwork's theme or message.
subject matter - Correct answers✔✔A ________________________ is a work of art in which all
of the smaller parts are arranged to make a unified whole.
1.
2. ideas
3. messages - Correct answers✔✔Subject matter of an artifact refers to what is obvious to
viewers as they _______________ at it; while subtext is the underlying ________________ or
________________________.
metaphor - Correct answers✔✔A visual ___________________ is an image or symbol within an
artifact that refers to something else.
- Correct answers✔✔Iconography is a system of ______________________ that refer to
complex ideas.
, conditions - Correct answers✔✔Context consists of external ________________ that surround
an artifact.
1.
2.
3. - Correct answers✔✔Context can include an artifact's ______________________
surroundings or the _____________ in which the viewer ____________________ the artifact.
meanings - Correct answers✔✔Art critics produce writings about artifacts that help us to
understand the full ______________ of the work.
formalist - Correct answers✔✔_________________ criticism emphasizes formal analysis.
political - Correct answers✔✔Ideological criticism refers to the ________________________
underpinnings and can include cultural structure or economic or class hierarchy.
1. product
2. pasts, their unconscious urges and social histories - Correct answers✔✔Psychoanalytical
criticism argues that art should be studied as the ________________________ of artists'
________________________.
- Correct answers✔✔Postmodern _________________________ believe that artifacts can have
multiple meanings because every viewer approaches a work of art with a different perspective.
15. - Correct answers✔✔Cindy Sherman's photographs seek to _____________________
stereotypes of women in Western cultures.