AHS 100 exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
Chauvet Cave, France - correct answer ✔✔- Earliest paintings dates to 32,000ya
- Friends found the cave art in early 90s
- Are depictions of cave bears, rhinos, human handprints, mountain lions, bison, etc
- Torch marks on wall - used to get off burnt wood
- Torch marks can be dated, sometimes they are over paintings
- Dated the charcoal with AMS dating
-made purely for pleasure
What artists do? - correct answer ✔✔1. create places for some human purpose
2. create extraordinary versions of the ordinary
3. to record and commemorate
4.to give tangible form to the unknown
5. to give tangible form to feelings and ideas
6. refresh our vision and help is see the world in new ways
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial - correct answer ✔✔create places for some human
purpose
- a place for contemplation and remembrance
-created a memorial that honored the human sacrifice of the war
-v-shaped wall of black granite inscribed with the names of the missing, the captured , and the
dead
, -set into the earth exposed by slicing a great wedge from a gently sloping hill, it suggests
perhaps a modern entrance to an ancient burial ground
-polished surface acts as a mirror reflecting the nearby trees, monuments, and the visitors
themselves
Shiva Nataraja - correct answer ✔✔-give tangible to the unknown
-Hindu god: Lord of dance
-dance destruction and rebirth of the world
-the end of one cycle of time the beginning of another
-1st hand: holds small drum whose beat summons creation
-2nd hand: holds the flame of destruction
-3rd hand: points to the raised foot beneath which worshipers may seek refuge
-4th hand: raised with palm to the viewer which means fear not
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889 - correct answer ✔✔give tangible form to feelings and
ideas
-expresses his personal feelings
-intrigued by the belief that people journeyed to a star after their death and continued their life
-surrounded by halos of radiating light, the stars have an exaggerated, urgent presence, as
though each one were a brilliant sun
-a great wave or whirlpool rolls across the sky-a cloud, perhaps, or some kind of cosmic energy
-landscape rolls like waves
-tree reaches for the stars as though answering their call
-everything is in motion
-nature seems alive, communicating in its own language while the village sleeps
answered to pass
Chauvet Cave, France - correct answer ✔✔- Earliest paintings dates to 32,000ya
- Friends found the cave art in early 90s
- Are depictions of cave bears, rhinos, human handprints, mountain lions, bison, etc
- Torch marks on wall - used to get off burnt wood
- Torch marks can be dated, sometimes they are over paintings
- Dated the charcoal with AMS dating
-made purely for pleasure
What artists do? - correct answer ✔✔1. create places for some human purpose
2. create extraordinary versions of the ordinary
3. to record and commemorate
4.to give tangible form to the unknown
5. to give tangible form to feelings and ideas
6. refresh our vision and help is see the world in new ways
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial - correct answer ✔✔create places for some human
purpose
- a place for contemplation and remembrance
-created a memorial that honored the human sacrifice of the war
-v-shaped wall of black granite inscribed with the names of the missing, the captured , and the
dead
, -set into the earth exposed by slicing a great wedge from a gently sloping hill, it suggests
perhaps a modern entrance to an ancient burial ground
-polished surface acts as a mirror reflecting the nearby trees, monuments, and the visitors
themselves
Shiva Nataraja - correct answer ✔✔-give tangible to the unknown
-Hindu god: Lord of dance
-dance destruction and rebirth of the world
-the end of one cycle of time the beginning of another
-1st hand: holds small drum whose beat summons creation
-2nd hand: holds the flame of destruction
-3rd hand: points to the raised foot beneath which worshipers may seek refuge
-4th hand: raised with palm to the viewer which means fear not
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889 - correct answer ✔✔give tangible form to feelings and
ideas
-expresses his personal feelings
-intrigued by the belief that people journeyed to a star after their death and continued their life
-surrounded by halos of radiating light, the stars have an exaggerated, urgent presence, as
though each one were a brilliant sun
-a great wave or whirlpool rolls across the sky-a cloud, perhaps, or some kind of cosmic energy
-landscape rolls like waves
-tree reaches for the stars as though answering their call
-everything is in motion
-nature seems alive, communicating in its own language while the village sleeps
