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The sand paintings of this tribe are an integral part of their lives and used in ritual
healing and as a connection to the spirit world.
a. The Aztecs
b. The Aborigines
c. Asante People
d. The Navajo Tribe - Correct Answer-d. The Navajo Tribe
The impulse for humans to create art goes back over 30,000 years b.c. This is
illustrated by the cave painting found in the Chauvet cave known as:
a. The Venus of Willendorf
b. The Wooly Mammoth Panel
c. The Lion Panel
d. Hall of the Running Bulls - Correct Answer-c. The Lion Panel
The painting by 17th century Mughal artist Manohar called 'Jahangir Receives a
Cup' is an example of the role of art to _________________.
a. To create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
b. To record and commemorate
c. To give tangible form to feelings and ideas
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d. Make tangible the unknown
e. Create a place for human purpose - Correct Answer-b. To record and
commemorate
Hieronymus Bosch, an early 16th century painter from the Netherlands, painted a
three-panel painting of fantastic scenes of the imagination and visions of heaven
and hell titled:
a. The Last Judgement
b. The Garden of Earthly Delights
c. The Book of Revelations
d. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Correct Answer-b. The Garden of Earthly Delights
The artist's creative process is demonstrated by the creation called 'Kandors Full
Set'; miniature glass reproductions of the city of Kandor, the birthplace of
Superman by contemporary artist:
a. Tara Donovan
b. Mike Kelley
c. Janine Antoni
d. Maya Lin - Correct Answer-b. Mike Kelley
In Jan Van Eyck's painting 'The Arnolfini Wedding' the dog symbolizes 'fidelity' or
faithfulness. This symbolism is understood through the process of:
a. enlightenment.
b. iconography.
c. mudras.
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d. religious worship. - Correct Answer-b. iconography.
This artist created a sculpture called 'Gnaw' in which she gnawed on a 600 pound
block of chocolate and lard:
a. Janine Antoni
b. Maya Lin
c. Audrey Flack
d. Ann Hamilton - Correct Answer-a. Janine Antoni
An example of an 'installation' given in the text was a 35 foot Sphinx made of
sugar called 'A Subtlety' or 'The Marvelous Sugar Baby' by the African-American
artist:
a. Henry Ossawa Tanner
b. Meta Warrick Fuller
c. Kara Walker
d. James Hampton - Correct Answer-c. Kara Walker
This private chapel in France for King Louis IX and his court contains long vertical
stain-glass windows as if ascending upward to the heavens:
a. The Chartres Cathedral
b. The Sainte-Chapelle Cathedral
c. Reims Cathedral
d. The Cathedral at Notre-Dame - Correct Answer-b. The Sainte-Chapelle
Cathedral
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Contemporary sculptor Robert Smithson created a 1500 foot sculptural form off
the shore of the Great Salt Lake of Utah using only natural materials called:
a. The Oxbow
b. The Nasca Project
c. The Spiral Jetty
d. Running Fence - Correct Answer-c. The Spiral Jetty
This artist had worked as a janitor in Washington for over twenty years. After his
death in the 1960's, a massive alter-like construction made of scraps of furniture,
cardboard, and tin foil was discovered in a garage he had rented and which he had
been secretly working on for fifteen some odd years:
a. Robert Smithson
b. James Hampton
c. Joseph Smith
d. Mike Kelley - Correct Answer-b. James Hampton
An example of 'abstract' art can be seen in this famous female's sculpture 'Woman
With Packages':
a. Audrey Flack
b. Louise Bourgeois
c. Helen Frankenthaler
d. Janine Antoni - Correct Answer-b. Louise Bourgeois
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