Deck 12: Race, Gender, Clan, and Class

Question 1

Works such as Peter Paul Rubens's Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus reveal which expectation about women of that time?

A)The cultural ideal of slender bodies
B)Their assumed helplessness
C)The importance of classical learning
D)The value placed on ethical behavior

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Where did Zapotec ceremonies for a clan's living members occur?

A)Tombs
B)Temples
C)Courtyards
D)Homes

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which artistic group did Marc Chagall's bright colors resemble?

A)Cubists
B)Expressionists
C)Fauves
D)Futurists

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How did the ancient Greeks view Doric architecture?

A)As feminine
B)As Egyptian
C)As masculine
D)As connected with Doryphorus

Question 5

What did ancient Romans believe about their ancestry?

A)It was to be documented in writing.
B)It was the focus of most worship in temples.
C)It was central to their identity.
D)Its importance was the descent through the family of the mother.

Question 6

What kind of figure is Aunt Jemima?

A)Prototype
B)Role model
C)Ancestral portraiture
D)Caricature

Question 7

What did the artists the Guerrilla Girls do?

A)Protest racial and gender discrimination
B)Stage guerilla raids on art shows
C)Protest research on primates
D)Wear gorilla masks as a critique of modern alienation from the natural world

Question 8

Which part of Japanese society was the audience for ukiyo-e prints?

A)Middle class
B)Peasants
C)Nobility
D)Samurai

Question 9

What did the Northwest Coastal people believe that the thunderbird represented?

A)A spirit
B)A shaman
C)The chief
D)The head priest

Question 10

Although artists such as Jacques-Lois David represent the "reality" of gender roles, what role does his work also play with regard to concepts of gender in society?

A)His art critiques gender norms.
B)His art creates gender norms.
C)Hi art caricaturizes gender norms.
D)His art offers an alternative to binary notions of gender.

Question 11

What was Marc Chagall's heritage, often reflected in his works?

A)Dutch
B)French
C)Roman Catholic
D)Jewish

Question 12

Which art movement originated in Paris in the early twentieth century and emphasized exaggerated color in paintings to achieve greater expression?

A)Cubism
B)Surrealism
C)Fauvism
D)Futurism

Question 13

The photographs of James VanDerZee reflect which movement?

A)Cuban revolution
B)Haitian revolt
C)Harlem Renaissance
D)Genre subjects

Question 14

In addition to dress and leisure activities, how else do artists often illustrate social rank?

A)Religion
B)Scale
C)Personality
D)Contrapposto

Question 15

How did French people of the time view Rococo architecture?

A)As masculine
B)As anchored in the values of the common man
C)As feminine
D)As inspired by nature

Question 16

Which style's device of fracturing space to represent instability does Marc Chagall sometimes use in his paintings?

A)Outsider art
B)Pointillist
C)Rococo
D)Cubist

Question 17

What is the revival of Greek and Roman architectural style called?

A)Neoclassicism
B)Impressionism
C)Rococo
D)Pointillism

Question 18

Unlike the Western belief that an individual exists at birth, many South Pacific peoples believe that a person's being is built through a lifetime of which activity?

A)Good deeds
B)Ritual experiences
C)Prayer
D)Honoring one's ancestors

Question 19

Which Chinese practice is examined by Hung Liu?

A)Silk weaving
B)Bamboo lacquering
C)Calligraphy
D)Foot binding

Question 20

What activity, called Tambaran, was performed by Sepik men and took place in large, decorated cult houses?

A)Dances
B)Games
C)Rituals
D)Plays

Question 21

Which paintings depict ordinary scenes from everyday life?

A)Academic
B)Genre
C)Avant-garde
D)Fresco secco

Question 22

In ancient Egypt, the human body was sculpted in different ways depending on the class of the person.

Question 23

In The Kitchen Maid, Vermeer portrays a humble working-class woman with great dignity.

Question 24

Architectural styles such as Rococo and Doric are gendered-different styles are associated with certain qualities that are perceived to be masculine or feminine.

Question 25

Whereas Rococo was associated with the French aristocracy, Neoclassicism was favored by the revolutionaries who overthrew them.

Question 26

What is the significance of beads in Yoruba art?

A)They show power and high status.
B)They represent ancestors, with each bead marking an honored family member.
C)They are connected with fertility and generative power.
D)They both protect the wearer and represent wisdom.

Question 27

​ Which is Vermeer's The Kitchen Maid an example of?

A)Rococo art
B)Folk art
C)Genre painting
D)Gender critique

Question 28

Ancient Romans sometimes used mass production to create marble sculptures.

Question 29

Because of restrictive laws emphasizing cultural separation, nineteenth-century Russian Jews were unable to pursue careers in the arts and found work primarily in the areas of business and manual labor.

Question 30

What kind of art patronage are Japanese samurai associated with?

A)Ukiyo-e prints
B)Genre themes
C)Art that emphasized their masculinity
D)Large screens with bright elements

Question 31

​ Simon Rodia's Watts Tower is an example of what kind of art?

A)Outsider art
B)Fauvism
C)Futurism
D)Pointillism

Question 32

​ In Las Meninas , what does Velazquez reveal about the Infanta Margarita by placing her at the center of the painting surrounded by dwarfs, chaperones, and ladies in waiting?

A)Exalted rank
B)Place in the court ceremony
C)Frivolity
D)Her patronage of the Spanish artist

Question 33

​ Which statement is true of the Yoruba Great Beaded Crown of the Orangun-Ila ?

A)Scale is used to show the importance of the Yoruba leader.
B)Status is conveyed both through materials and symbolic shapes used.
C)The genre painting design emphasizes the wearer's connection with the people governed.
D)The style is influenced by objects acquired from Portuguese traders.

Question 34

​ In The Artifact Piece , which mode of representing his race in contemporary American culture and museums does Native American artist James Luna critique?

A)As primitive
B)As ignorant
C)As extinct and vanished
D)As overly focused on artifacts such as grave goods

Question 35

​ Which statement is true of objects such as this Bisj Pole ?

A)Traditionally their carving and decoration preceding headhunting.
B)Their small size was indicative of their use being carried in ceremonies.
C)Their imagery represented the chief.
D)Their symbolism was meant to enhance fertility through their rituals.

Question 36

​ Georges Seurat's painting La Grande Jatte exemplifies which artistic style?

A)Neoclassicism
B)Fauvism
C)Rococo
D)Pointillism

Question 37

​ In addition to physically supporting the Raven House, Shaughnessy's Interior House Post symbolically renders what aspect of the John Scow clan?

A)Wedding ceremonies
B)The spiritual and mythical foundation
C)Initiation rituals
D)Economic connections with other clans

Question 38

​ How would the voluptuous, fleshy women of Peter Paul Ruben's Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus have been viewed by their original audience?

A)As the ideal of feminine beauty
B)As a continuation of the medieval idea that the human body was abject
C)As rendering a classical form for its classical subject matter
D)As a caricature

Question 39

​ How is the pharaoh's role conveyed in the Temple of Ramses II ?

A)His unique role in Egyptian society is shown through the individual likeness achieved by the artist.
B)The original painting that covered these sculptures rendered his priestly garb.
C)Multiple copies of the ruler's image emphasize his status.
D)By rendering him in stone, he is shown as the bedrock of Egyptian society.

Question 40

James VanDerZee was a commercial studio photographer whose work was strongly influenced by depictions of female stereotypes in films from the 1950s and 1960s.