Deck 6: Reproduction and Sexuality

Question 1

Which of the following is associated with creation myths and was considered the mother and father of all humankind?

A)Shunga
B)Primordial couple
C)Aztec couple
D)Milarepa's concept of universality

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What was the intended purpose of Potawatomi figures?

A)Aid women in childbirth
B)Alleviate menstrual pain
C)Control human behaviors and health
D)Cure infections

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following did early cities in the New Stone Age foster?

A)Suspicion of religion
B)Equality of the sexes
C)Division of labor
D)Development of hunting and gathering

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What term is used for when an artist paints thickly and directly onto the canvas?

A)Contrappasto
B)Plein aire
C)Chiaroscuro
D)Alla prima

Question 5

What was an odalisque a member of?

A)An ode-writing society
B)A religious order
C)A harem
D)An aristocratic family

Question 6

What did the Moche, the Maya, and Alice Neel create versions of?

A)Ceramic vessels
B)Male torsos
C)Pregnant women
D)Flower paintings

Question 7

Near the confluence of major rivers, which Native American society built large, truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples?

A)Mississippians
B)Texans
C)Hudson Bay Society
D)Coloradan

Question 8

Which element did ancient cities require in order to function?

A)Many houses and streets
B)High walls
C)Major rivers
D)Protective mountains

Question 9

Mesopotamia, the site of the early city-states, takes its name from its location between two rivers-the Tigris and which other river?

A)Euphrates
B)Nile
C)Lagash
D)Anatolia

Question 10

What was the prevailing attitude toward fertility in prehistoric times?

A)It was encouraged.
B)It was an important concern.
C)It was discouraged.
D)It was carefully regulated.

Question 11

What is the English translation for Japanese shunga prints?

A)Floating world
B)Golden age
C)Pen and ink
D)Spring pictures

Question 12

Which feature characterizes Moche pottery?

A)Stylized images of ideal beauty
B)Highly structured geometric patterns
C)Naturalistic imagery of everyday life
D)Elaborate decorative ornamentation

Question 13

What do Georgia O'Keeffe's works often feature?

A)Fruits
B)Seeds
C)Faces
D)Flowers

Question 14

With what have many critics associated Georgia O'Keeffe's imagery?

A)Female sexual organs
B)Aboriginal contour paintings
C)Japanese shunga prints
D)Paleolithic fertility figures

Question 15

What do we call the stiff, angular marble figures from the Cycladic Islands, often found in burial sites?

A)Odalisques
B)Potawatomi
C)Plank idols
D)Akua'ba dolls

Question 16

In Mesopotamia, what kind of symbols developed into the first writing?

A)Hieroglyphic
B)Cursive
C)Rebus
D)Cuneiform

Question 17

Oceanic sculptures such as God Te Rongo and His Three Sons were created for religious rituals. What is another term for the specialists, called Ta'unga, who carved them?

A)Priest
B)Teacher
C)Healer
D)Leader

Question 18

Thinking about the historical context of India, which of the following statements characterizes images of ideal erotic sexuality?

A)Rare due to the prevailing morality of the culture
B)Common in temples and miniature paintings
C)Controversial, so limited to the privacy of people's homes
D)Banned by various controlling rulers

Question 19

Which category of art depicts erotic imagery?

A)Niche
B)"Pompeian Red"
C)Shunga
D)Kidder

Question 20

What do the many symbols in Jan van Eyck's Wedding Portrait include?

A)A church and a priest
B)A dog and a mirror
C)Cats and a bird
D)Vanitas imagery

Question 21

Which artwork incorporates a politicized depiction of sexuality?

A)Georgia O'Keeffe's Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow
B)Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your body is a battleground)
C)Louise Bourgeois's Blind Man's Bluff
D)Kitagawa Utamaro's A Pair of Lovers

Question 22

Adam and Eve can be considered Christianity's primordial couple.

Question 23

How is Kitagawa Utamaro's A Pair of Lovers characteristic of ukiyo-e prints?

A)The floating life is rendered through the nautical themes evident in the print.
B)It mirrors the spiritual and physical union of deities such as Krishna and Radha.
C)Taking its cue ultimately from the Buddhist notion of the transience of life, it celebrates a scene of lovemaking.
D)It has been considered by critics to covertly render female genitalia in the elaborate background patterning.

Question 24

Which statement characterizes the tradition of nineteenth-century French paintings of nude women?

A)Images such as Grande Odalisque rendered life in harems as part of the women's suffrage movement.
B)By depicting women nude, their sexual enjoyment was celebrated.
C)Manet's Olympia disrupted prior norms by showing the woman with a commanding presence.
D)They were used by wealthy men to select their sexual companions.

Question 25

​ Although the Figure of a Deity: A'a Rurutu from the Austral Islands in central Polynesia was an ancestor deity, what else did it represent?

A)The act of creating humans
B)A shape-shifting shaman
C)A marriage ceremony
D)A religious prophet

Question 26

​ Which formal element does the Bamana fertility figure from Mali emphasize?

A)Strong diagonal lines
B)Varied surface textures
C)Crisply defined geometric forms
D)A nuanced range of warm colors

Question 27

Which statement is correct about Cycladic figures such as the Idol from Amorgos ?

A)Usually found in graves, perhaps they were connected with renewal.
B)Their small size fueled speculation that they were meant to be cradled in the palm of a hand.
C)They stood as eternal guards at the entrance of graves.
D)They were found in pairs, suggesting they were viewed as a primordial couple.

Question 28

​ Which statement is true of Barbara Krueger's work Untitled (Your body is a battleground)?

A)She makes a powerful antiwar statement.
B)Although initially an abortion rights image, it's come to stand for other controversial issues.
C)The split image refers to cross-dressing, questioning binary assumptions about gender.
D)It's an example of abstracted sexual imagery.

Question 29

Some of the earliest artifacts believed to relate to human fertility come from the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras of history.

Question 30

What was depicted in the murals at Pompeii's Villa of the Mysteries?

A)A goddess's sacred childbirth
B)The marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne
C)A ritual welcoming a young woman into the cult of Dionysos
D)The ancient Roman ritual celebrating a young woman's first menstrual period

Question 31

Polynesian fertility figures were used throughout society, regardless of rank or power.

Question 32

Regardless of time period or culture, fertility figures are universally female.

Question 33

Many of the fertility figures from Oceanic cultures illustrate the significance of family lineage.

Question 34

​ What is the Venus of Willendorf a statue of?

A)Venus de Milo
B)A pregnant Venus
C)The Paleolithic goddess of love
D)An anonymous fertile woman

Question 35

Aztec marriage ceremonies took place in the groom's home in front of the hearth.

Question 36

What role did the Potawatomi Male Figure have in nineteenth-century Native American society?

A)It was an amulet used to protect from illness and other dangers.
B)It was a love doll used to inspire desire in its victim/target.
C)It was a funerary marker.
D)It was a symbol of the aspirations for fertility and bounty in the user.

Question 37

What's an example of how the gaze is used within art history?

A)It describes the way participants in the floating world rendered in Japanese ukiyo-e prints look back at the viewer.
B)The gaze is how celebrants in a ritual union look at one another.
C)The gaze describes art historical analysis of the iconography of an image.
D)It's a privileged, one-directional mode of looking, such as when a European male looks upon a nude painting of a harem member.

Question 38

​ How can Brancusi's Torso of a Young Man be described?

A)Its style is extremely realistic.
B)Brancusi took his inspiration from an African sculptural style.
C)It shows the direct influence of earlier male torsos, such as those by Rodin.
D)Although it is largely abstract, it explores sexuality.

Question 39

​ Virgin and Child in a Niche by Rogier van der Weyden has which subtext?

A)Adam and Eve shown on the sides are her spiritual guides.
B)Although the Virgin is shown as a loving mother, she is also appears to be quite serious in anticipation of her son's death.
C)The Virgin's serious demeanor reflects the pain of childbirth.
D)The Virgin's fertility is correlated with the fertility of the earth.

Question 40

How was sexuality incorporated into ancient Roman visual culture?

A)Scenes of lovemaking were found in homes on ordinary objects such as lamps.
B)As in archaic Greece, the male nude was acceptable but the female was not.
C)Sexuality was viewed as a way to connect ritually with the Unbounded.
D)The institution of temple prostitution was celebrated in art.