Deck 33: Art and Science

Question 1

Compare the Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (4.4.9)with another work of architecture that is "green" or environmentally friendly.Consider not only how they both were built,but also how the structure represents the company or organization housed within.

Answer 1

Answers will vary.

Question 2

Vitrivius was:

A) a Roman architect
B) a Greek sculptor
C) a Renaissance painter
D) a Roman poet
E) none of the other answers

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Research the Body Worlds exhibition.Select three figures that were in the exhibition,and discuss whether or not you consider these figures to be art.What has the "artist" done to the bodies to change them from their natural state? Do you think there are ethical issues with using a deceased human body as an artistic medium?

Answer 3

Answer will vary.

Question 4

The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers (4.4.4):

A) is a representation of the Maya story of creation
B) shows five figures riding a crocodile
C) refers to the arrangement of the stars in the Milky Way
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 5

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

Question 6

Thomas Eakins painted a surgery he witnessed in person.Who is shown in the painting,but was unlikely to be at the actual surgery?

A) an anesthetist
B) the patient's mother
C) the famous surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross
D) medical students
E) all of these people were at the actual surgery

Question 7

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique,which means a dramatic use of light and dark:

A) tenebrism
B) tracery
C) repoussé
D) shadow puppetry
E) none of the other answers

Question 8

Study Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.How did the artist create drama in the scene? How do the reactions of the figures to the experiment add meaning to the artwork? What aspects of this painting can be seen as representative of the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Question 9

Because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish,the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo's time.

Question 10

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1)?

A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo
D) Donatello
E) Bernini

Question 11

Surgical dissections and artists studying anatomy have nothing in common.

Question 12

Body Worlds is controversial because the figures in the exhibition never gave permission for their bodies to be used.

Question 13

What is true about the Aztec Sun Stone (4.4.5)?

A) it was originally painted in bright colors
B) it is carved with symbols representing the ways Earth was previously destroyed
C) it functioned like a calendar
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 14

Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy?

A) The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers
B) The Aztec Sun Stone
C) Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi's astrolabe
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 15

Willard Wigan created a lifesize replica of the Statue of Liberty for the people of France.

Question 16

Astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.

Question 17

Astronomy was very important to the Aztecs and the Maya.Find an example of a more recent artwork that references the extraterrestrial,such as Kathy Strauss's monoprint of the Milky Way (2.3.19).Why have artists over thousands of years been fascinated by the universe? Has modern science altered the ways that space is depicted by artists?

Question 18

What is significant about August 13,3114 BCE?

A) In Maya belief, it was the day of the creation of man
B) In Aztec belief, it was when the earth was destroyed by floods
C) It was the day the Aztec conquered the Maya
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 19

Willard Wigan carves grains of rice and sand and paints them with an eyelash.

Question 20

Astrolabes were treated as purely scientific instruments that did not need decoration or inscriptions.

Question 21

An x-ray of Picasso's Girl before a Mirror showed that the artist altered the body of Marie-Thérèse while working on the painting.

Question 22

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:
a.Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
b.Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
c.Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
d.Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
e.Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
"I hear with my eyes and see with my ears."

Question 23

"Pentimenti" is the term used by Picasso for his young students.

Question 24

Salvador Dalí's painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks,ants,and a distorted face,all of which are symbols of his mother,who died the month before this was painted.

Question 25

When the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was completed in 1989,artists,scholars,and scientists throughout the world universally applauded the restorers' efforts.

Question 26

Marcia Smilack's synesthetic photograph of ripples on water made her think of the sound of ________.

A) an electric guitar
B) a cello
C) a double bass
D) The Beatles
E) a dog's bark

Question 27

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of Jasper Johns's Flag (4.4.15)a solid rectangle with a black dot in the middle?

A) the artist was symbolizing the disappearance of American values
B) the painting is unfinished
C) the artist wanted the viewer to rest their eyes on this rectangle after looking at the one in the painting's top half
D) this painting is a part of series, and the red and white portions of the flag are on other paintings
E) none of the other answers

Question 28

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:
a.Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
b.Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
c.Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
d.Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
e.Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
"When I was a child I experienced this state of self-obliteration,so I painted the same motif endlessly."

Question 29

Why did Jasper Johns paint his Flag (4.4.15)in green,orange,and black?

A) because they are the complements of the US flag's actual colors
B) he felt these colors were more patriotic than red, white, and blue
C) they coordinated with the client's home
D) it was part of a series in which different colors were tested on the flag for their ability to trigger an emotional response
E) none of the other answers

Question 30

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:
a.Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
b.Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
c.Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
d.Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
e.Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
". . . nothing more than the soft,extravagant,solitary,paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time."

Question 31

Georges Seurat feverishly painted Sunday on La Grande Jatte in one weekend.

Question 32

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:
a.Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
b.Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
c.Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
d.Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
e.Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
"It is a picture that even strong men find it difficult to look at long . . ."

Question 33

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:
a.Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
b.Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
c.Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
d.Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
e.Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
". . . people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant small could be."

Question 34

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

A) pointillism
B) optical mixture
C) afterimage effect
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 35

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists,whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

Question 36

Do you think that artworks should undergo restoration? If during the restoration the artwork changes,what does this mean for the original artist's vision? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of restoring artworks.

Question 37

Synesthesia is when stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in another,for example visualizing color when one hears music.

Question 38

Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama?
a.mirrors
b.infinity
c.dots
d.cosmos
e.all of these words relate to her work