In the Great Mosque (1.9.9) there are red and white stone wedges that make up the series of repeating arches that dominate the interior. What are these stone wedges called?
voussoirs
What is the name for any side of a building that is intended to be looked at?
a facade
This American painter used small abstract motifs to create a huge self-portrait.
Chuck Close
The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
field
The Great Mosque in this Spanish city displays repetitive rhythms that can be associated with worship activities, such as reciting prayers.
Córdoba
There is rhythm in an artwork when it has at least this many points of reference.
two
A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.
motif
This sixteenth-century Flemish artist designed the work Hunters in the Snow using rhythms and subsidiary rhythms that lead the viewer’s eye through the work.
Pieter Bruegel
The American quilt artist Deborah Coates used simple motifs to create patterns that implied “freedom,” because her work was dedicated to freeing slaves. What was the specific quilt motif that she used?
Birds in the Air
Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.
close-up
In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create ________ rhythm, with a benign effect, in the lower half of the work.
a stable
Which of the following can create a pattern?
the warp and weft of woven cloth
fish scales
dried, cracked mud
stacks of cans
all of the other answers
In the Maya lintel showing Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc there is a pattern of small, square modules that runs across the top of the image and then down the left side. These modules are called __________ and can be interpreted to tell us the identity of the subjects in the artwork .
glyphs
A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.
a repetitive
The Blue Room is an artwork featuring multiple patterns by this twentieth-century French painter
Valadon
Palmer Hayden’s Midsummer Night in Harlem is about:
a community in Harlem, New York
The subject matter of Clive King’s “Chaos Machine” is ________.
based on the artist’s experience
the collapse of a coal tip near Aberfan, Wales
the tragic deaths of Welsh children
an abstract representation of grief
all of the other answers
What is the difference between analysis and critique?
analysis refers to the appearance or meaning of the artwork itself
What does the cross on Velázquez’s tunic in Las Meninas signify?
that he was a member of the Order of Santiago
Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?
a blog about a painting
Sumerian votive figures were used as:
prayer figures
80 Backs by Magdalena Abakanowicz was deeply influenced by the artist’s personal experiences during World War II.
T
Formal analysis can be done on paintings, but not on sculptures.
F
Holbein’s The Ambassadors has several references to religious content.
T
Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understanding the meaning of Velázquez’s Las Meninas.
T
Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Younger’s painting The Ambassadors?
memento mori
iconography
anamorphosis
memento mori and anamorphosis only
all of the other answers
Hieronymus Bosch worked closely with and was deeply influenced by the Surrealist artists of the twentieth century.
F
Memento mori refers to:
a symbol of mortality
The atmosphere of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.
loneliness
Feminist analysis of Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres considers the role of women in nineteenth-century France, but not viewers’ perspectives on gender.
F