Deck 11: Mind and Body

Question 1

Which Egyptian style showed a new aesthetic that rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, naturalistic approach?

A)Amarna
B)Old Kingdom
C)Middle Kingdom
D)Ptolemaic

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What does a Yakshi represent?

A)Sinfulness
B)Fertility
C)Abjection
D)Sanctity

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The publication of which person's theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late nineteenth century?

A)Michelangelo Buonarroti's
B)Honoré Daumier's
C)Giovanni Battista Piranesi's
D)Sigmund Freud's

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Viola's series entitled The Passions is based on which prior eras' paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment?

A)Byzantine and Gothic
B)Modern and Postmodern
C)Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
D)Renaissance and Baroque

Question 5

In addition to capturing the likeness to a face, which additional element does a successful portrait in art usually capture?

A)Freudian id
B)Idealism
C)Character
D)Romanticism

Question 6

Nancy Burson's series Faces are portraits of children with what shared attribute?

A)Being part of twins or triplets
B)Exploitative working conditions
C)Unusual faces
D)Visual similarity with their pets

Question 7

Which Dutch artist made at least sixty-two self-portraits, often identifiable by the subject matter and his palette of earth tones, dull reds, and luminous yellows?

A)Rembrandt van Rijn
B)Jan Vermeer
C)Peter Paul Rubens
D)Jan Van Eyck

Question 8

What kind of attitude to the human body do Eadweard Muybridge's photos suggest?

A)Idealizing
B)Detached
C)Amorous
D)Abstract

Question 9

What does Doryphoros translate to?

A)Warrior
B)Priest
C)Spear-bearer
D)God of War

Question 10

According to Protagoras, what is man in relation to all things?

A)The measure
B)The animating spirit
C)The beginning
D)The destroyer

Question 11

What kind of pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure's weight?

A)Alla prima
B)Contrapposto
C)Chiaroscuro
D)Idealized

Question 12

Which element does Chuck Close use to convey importance in his portraits?

A)Scale
B)Color
C)Contour lines
D)Texture

Question 13

In addition to the head, which other part of the body is considered most important in many African sculptures?

A)Feet
B)Chest
C)Neck
D)Hands

Question 14

Doryphoros is what type of figure used to represent ideas about the essence of humanity rather than depicting a specific individual?

A)Idealized
B)Naturalistic
C)Romantic
D)Realist

Question 15

Which artist was known for using self-portraits to comment on the factors shaping her life, including her ancestry and her chronic pain?

A)Cindy Sherman
B)Nancy Burson
C)Frida Kahlo
D)Sue Coe

Question 16

What do Rembrandt's portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged?

A)Individualism
B)Social acceptance
C)Sophistication
D)Spirituality

Question 17

Which artist is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals?

A)Cindy Sherman
B)Hannah Wilke
C)Bill Viola
D)Eadweard Muybridge

Question 18

Which photographer focused on critiquing socially prescribed roles and exploring the nature of stereotypes?

A)Eadweard Muybridge
B)Cindy Sherman
C)Edward Weston
D)Lewis Hine

Question 19

How does traditional African sculpture portray the frontal view?

A)As coinciding with the profile view
B)As asymmetrical
C)As the same as the back view
D)As symmetrical

Question 20

How do Frida Kahlo's many self-portraits depict her face?

A)As a reflection of her inner pain
B)With idealized beauty
C)As unemotional
D)In the Cubist style

Question 21

Polykleitos invented and developed a canon of mathematical proportions for the ideal depiction of human figures.

Question 22

What's an example of a new technology from the nineteenth century that both changed the understanding of the human body and the way art was made?

A)Impressionism
B)Advertising
C)Photography
D)Computers

Question 23

​ Which statement is true of Gislebertus's Last Judgment ?

A)It shows the continuation of the classical ideal of the human nude during the Middle Ages.
B)It uses nudity to signal the abjectness of sinners.
C)It offered an important inspiration for Renaissance nudes.
D)It shows the influence of ancient statuary being excavated in central Italy.

Question 24

​ Which characteristics traditional for Japanese art are seen in The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin ?

A)Linear perspective
B)Atmospheric perspective
C)Hatching
D)Flat shapes and contour lines

Question 25

During the Renaissance, which subject matter became popular again as an ideal form?

A)Historical
B)Nude
C)Still-life
D)Self-portrait

Question 26

​ What is the name of the style of painting that involves the motion of the artist's entire body, as seen in Pollock's Lucifer ?

A)Pointillist painting
B)Automatism
C)Action painting
D)A happening

Question 27

​ Which statement is true of the Bust of Nefertiti ?

A)Her portrait exemplifies the continuity of artistic style across periods in Ancient Egypt.
B)Her image copies the iconography of the Palette of King Narmer .
C)Her portrait seems to combine both idealized and individualistic elements.
D)Nefertiti is rendered in the form of the Goddess Isis.

Question 28

​ Edvard Munch's The Scream was influenced by which factor?

A)Freudian concepts of the human psyche
B)Inuit mask-making traditions
C)The Futurist celebration of modernity and speed
D)Romanesque elongated human forms

Question 29

​ The sculpture Laocoön and His Sons displays which characteristic aspect of Hellenistic art?

A)Polykleitos's Canon is the organizing principle for depicting their bodies.
B)The three figures are each rendered in a contrapposto pose.
C)Human vulnerability and extreme emotions are key themes.
D)The three figures' inner turmoil is revealed through psychoanalysis of its main theme.

Question 30

​ Which element did Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet include that suggests the artist's state of mind?

A)Soft pastel colors
B)Lack of clear forms
C)Thick paint
D)Tears

Question 31

A full-body portrait is a life-size depiction of an individual.

Question 32

Ritual tattooing was often used on the eastern islands of the South Pacific as part of initiation rites that prepared an individual for adulthood.

Question 33

​ During what kind of rituals was the Double Mask from the Ejagham People of the Cross River area of Cameroon worn?

A)Initiation rites for warriors
B)Rites intended to foster group cohesion
C)Initiation rites for hunters
D)Rite of passage into adulthood for young women

Question 34

Many late-nineteenth-century French artists were strongly influenced by Japanese prints and paintings.

Question 35

​ What does Lucian Freud's Leigh under the Skylight portray?

A)His lover
B)A goddess
C)A self-portrait
D)A unique man

Question 36

Which was a Mayan practice of body modification?

A)Ritual tattooing during initiation rites
B)Elaborate painting over the face and body
C)Forehead reshaping during infancy
D)Extreme fasting practices to attain a spiritual ideal

Question 37

Italian Renaissance artists were strongly influenced by Hellenistic and Roman sculptures that were being excavated in central Italy.

Question 38

In which period of Greek art were figures often depicted in theatrical poses as though they were on stage in front of an audience?

A)Classical
B)Archaic
C)Bronze Age
D)Hellenistic

Question 39

Anatomical illustration was limited to Europe before the nineteenth century.

Question 40

​ In Marina Abramovic's performance piece The Artist Is Present , which element, along with the artist's body, constitute the art piece?

A)Improvised music
B)Actions of the audience
C)Video footage
D)Backup dancers