Art Criticism
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Course Introduction
Art Criticism is a course designed to introduce students to the principles and practices of evaluating, interpreting, and discussing artworks across various media and historical periods. Through a combination of theoretical readings, case studies, and practical analysis, students learn to apply critical frameworks and vocabulary to assess artistic intent, meaning, and value. The course encourages the development of written and verbal critique skills, fosters an understanding of the cultural and social contexts of art, and promotes informed dialogue about aesthetic and conceptual issues in both historical and contemporary art environments.
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Art Past Art Present 6th Edition by David G. Wilkins
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Chapter 1: Experiencing Art
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Q1) Daniel Chester French's Minuteman is animated by a suggested sense of movement created by the contrast of the vertical axis with the:
A) horizontals of the base.
B) cantilever of the hat.
C) diagonals of right leg and musket.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q2) In Bernini's Apollo and Daphne,the ____________ is energized by the extension of the figures' limbs and the sculptural form.
Answer: surrounding space
Q3) The ancient Chinese Terra-cotta warrior proclaims instability and transience. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The term used to describe how the appearance of a work of art is tied to the period during which it was created is ____________.
Answer: historical style
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) On the North American continent,the most conspicuous remains from the Neolithic period are:
A) animal heads.
B) cave paintings.
C) giant earth mounds.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q2) The design of the modest clay pot found in the River Thames may be explained by:
A) aesthetic desire.
B) its function as a container.
C) being an aid in firing.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q3) The building up of the walls of a clay vessel by successively adding long ropes of clay and then smoothing the joints is called ____________.
Answer: coiling
Q4) Bacchus was the ancient Roman god of ____________ and ____________.
Answer: wine; fertility
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) Egyptian tomb wall paintings tell us a great deal about ancient Egyptian life and customs because the tomb decorations:
A) had to preserve pleasant everyday life for the ka. B) were forbidden to involve abstraction. C) were produced by unskilled laborers.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
Q2) Egyptian temple architecture stresses: A) monumentality. B) durability. C) stability.
D) weight.
E) all of these.
Answer: E
Q3) The shallow renderings on the Votive Palette of King Narmer are suppressed into what is essentially a two-dimensional medium called ____________.
Answer: low relief
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) In addition to inscribed drawings on the exterior of the Dongson bronze drum that reveal the importance of elegant boats,what else would have been depicted on such drums?
Q2) In Roman engineering,how has the transition from the circular base of the dome to the piers or walls below been traditionally handled?
Q3) The planned urban centers of Mesoamerica had streets and buildings that were oriented ____________.
Q4) Among the most significant of all Roman artistic accomplishments is the Empire's use of the architectural device(s) of:
A) concrete.
B) the vault.
C) the arch.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) How is each of the attendant figures found in Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb at Lintong,Xi'an in China identifiable?
Q6) The Temple of Portunus is not truly peripteral.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) In the Carolingian period image of Saint Matthew from the Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims,we see the revival of classical elements in the:
A) toga.
B) modeling.
C) spontaneous technique.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) The interior space of the Mosque at Córdoba functioned as a place for liturgical worship.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The exterior of Old St.Peter's was elaborately and exquisitely adorned with precious materials,including gold,jewels,and mosaics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does the word catacomb mean,and from where is it derived?
Q5) Why was care taken in the creation of a mosaic to adjust each tessera so that its surface was at a slight angle to that of the neighboring tesserae?
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Chapter 6: Art From 1000 to 1400
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Q1) In the amber bead necklaces excavated from the tomb of Princess Chen at Qinglongshan Village in Inner Mongolia,the spacers are carved in the shapes of geometric forms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gothic architecture (p.206) is easily identifiable because of its use of:
A) stained-glass windows.
B) ribbed cross vaults.
C) flying buttresses.
D) pointed arches.
E) all of these.
Q3) In Giotto's Lamentation in the Arena Chapel,what do the angels do?
Q4) The main subject of Ife art is the human head,rendered how?
Q5) In the apse fresco from San Clemente in Tahull,Spain,the drapery flutters and folds in a(n) ____________.
Q6) The high,narrow nave of the Gothic cathedral is the climax of a long tradition in Christian art in which architects tried to invent a physical space that would express Christianity's ____________.
Q7) What problem with Romanesque pilgrimage churches was solved with the use of an ambulatory?
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Humanistic studies in Renaissance Italy involved what disciplines in its curriculum?
Q2) Giorgio Vasari argued that the transition to the High Renaissance occurred with the art of ____________.
Q3) On the interior of The Altarpiece of the Lamb,what aspects are considered to unify the painting and to be the work of Jan van Eyck?
Q4) In Sandro Botticelli's Realm of Venus,the unpredictable nature of love is suggested by the:
A) blindfolded Cupid.
B) rancid lemons.
C) stormy sky.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Originally,the Inka mountain retreat of Machu Picchu included:
A) ceremonial plazas.
B) housing for various classes.
C) sectors devoted to agriculture.
D) temples.
E) all of these.
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) The Mannerist qualities in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment are believed to result from:
A) the leaden psychological climate of Rome.
B) the Reformation.
C) the brutal sack of Rome in 1527.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) In Brueghel's Peasant Wedding Feast,the composition is based on the strong right-to-left ____________ of the table.
Q3) What political qualities were associated with Michelangelo's David because of its being carved in Florence in 1501-04?
Q4) Why is Titian's technique known as having a painterly quality?
Q5) Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece was painted for the chapel of a monastic hospital that specialized in treating:
A) dangerous Christian mystics.
B) patients with skin diseases.
C) renegade Catholic converts.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 9: Seventeenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Rembrandt's etching of Christ Preaching,a child is visible in the foreground doing what?
A) considering Jesus's words
B) arguing with Christ
C) drawing in the dust
D) all of these
E) none of these
Q2) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q3) On the Taj Mahal,the lotus dome that crowns the building sits atop a high drum. A)True B)False
Q4) In the seventeenth century,landscape became a truly popular theme in the ____________ for the first time in the history of Western art.
Q5) In Velázquez's Water Carrier,the influence of Caravaggio is evident in the half-length,lifesize figures,as well as in the dark background and ____________.
Q6) In essence,what is Artemisia Gentileschi saying in her 1630 painting titled Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting?
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Chapter 10: Eighteenth-Century Art
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Q1) The view that human knowledge is pragmatically gained from experience and sensation is called:
A) empiricism.
B) Victorianism.
C) classicism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing reaffirms the pleasures of:
A) lovers' games.
B) playing chess.
C) idyllic partying.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) Because Reynolds depicts the subject as an allegorical figure in his Allegorical Portrait of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse and his composition recalls Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling figures,we find that Reynolds is aspiring to the ____________.
Q4) Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe was stimulated by a serious study of ____________ and study of the works of Renaissance and Baroque artists.
Q5) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
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Chapter 11: Nineteenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Arles in 1888-89,van Gogh adopted what Japanese belief about the color yellow?
Q2) In the period of Romanticism,a revealing consistency in the various arts can be discerned.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Seurat systematized contemporary scientific advances in color theory to create what he termed ____________.
Q4) The style of Hiroshige's woodblock prints focuses on the subtleties of a particular ____________ and ____________.
Q5) In Thomas Cole's paintings,why is his emphasis on the uniqueness of American scenery significant?
Q6) In Japanese woodblock technique,the design is carved into the wood,leaving the lines and solid areas raised above the cut surface of the wood.
A)True
B)False
Q7) At the Parisian Salon of 1863,there was such an outcry about the rejected works that a special exhibition of rejected works was set up,known as the ____________.
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) The artists of Die Brücke,including Kirchner,deeply probed the psychological relationship between the:
A) guild and patron.
B) artist and world.
C) shaman and patient.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) In his Schröder House of 1923-24,how does Gerrit Rietveld establish a series of complex relationships?
Q3) Despite its purity and reductive beauty,why did the International Style quickly reach a dead end?
Q4) In Hopper's Nighthawks the harsh interior light is used to:
A) reveal the personalities of the sitters.
B) encourage deep psychoanalysis.
C) expose the lack of communication.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?
Q6) How did Duchamp enter his mass-produced objects called "ready-mades" into the realm of art?
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) Warhol's multiple images of Marilyn Monroe are born from the aesthetic numbness produced by the commercial environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The subject of Wandjuk Marika's The Birth of the Djang'kawu Children at Yalanghara is a creation and journey myth.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How do works in the style called Color Field Painting operate?
Q4) How are Bilbao's shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry's 1997 Guggenheim Museum building in that city?
Q5) In his photographic essay The Americans,Robert Frank employed his "snapshot aesthetic" in producing many commercial glamour photos.
A)True B)False
Q6) In each of the works in his series Homage to the Square,Albers sets square planes of color within larger ____________.
Q7) Laurie Anderson's performance-concerts synthesize ____________ and
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) In Kara Walker's Insurrection! installation,projected light casts our shadows on the walls,and thus works to:
A) involve us.
B) render the work invisible.
C) scare children present.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) The photographs of Andreas Gursky:
A) are visually stunning.
B) are enormous in size.
C) often present a dialogue between architecture and human presence.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) How will James Turrell's Roden Crater project be like Stonehenge?
Q4) What is the metaphor used by Santiago Calatrava to describe his design for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub?
Q5) Mariko Mori's Wave UFO sets out to provide an experience that can express the inner self through ____________.
Q6) What sort of unexpected materials have been used for art in the last few years?
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