Deck 34: Art and Illusion

Question 1

The Painted Garden from the Villa of Livia is one of the finest landscapes painted by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Illusion cannot be created using the medium of fresco.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is a:

A) photograph pasted onto a piece of convex wood
B) photograph of the reflection of the artist in a convex mirror
C) painting of a photograph of the artist
D) painting of the artist looking in a mirror
E) none of the other answers

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Parmigianino created his skillful and unusual Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror to give to Pope Clement VII because he thought it might help him to get commissions for more artworks.

Question 5

What did Venus do for Pygmalion?

A) gave him the love of Helen of Troy
B) spent one night with him
C) brought his sculpture of a beautiful woman to life
D) granted him immortality
E) none of the other answers

Question 6

Which artist creates incredibly convincing sculptures of everyday people?

A) Chuck Close
B) Audrey Flack
C) Duane Hanson
D) Georges Braque
E) all of the other answers

Question 7

William Hogarth's False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective.

Question 8

Which two ancient Greek painters were masters of illusion?

A) Raphael and Donatello
B) Zeuxis and Parrhasius
C) Praxiteles and Doryphoros
D) Kallikrates and Iktinos
E) none of the other answers

Question 9

Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows?

A) Pliny the Elder
B) Leon Battista Alberti
C) Giorgio Vasari
D) Ludovico Gonzaga
E) Ovid

Question 10

Trompe l'oeil means "fools the eye".

Question 11

Andrea Mantegna included a peacock,to represent marriage,on the ceiling of the room he painted for the Duke of Mantua.

Question 12

Julian Beever is ________.

A) a sidewalk chalk artist working today
B) a Renaissance fresco painter
C) an ancient Greek architect
D) an eighteenth-century printmaker
E) none of the other answers

Question 13

The sheep and trees in Hogarth's False Perspective correctly decrease in size to show that they are further away.

Question 14

Which artist was investigated by the US Treasury Department for counterfeiting because his painting of a dollar bill looked so real?

A) Julian Beever
B) Chuck Close
C) Shigeo Fukuda
D) William Harnett
E) Ron Mueck

Question 15

What theme is not represented in the paintings that decorate the walls of the library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican?

A) theology
B) law and justice
C) humility
D) philosophy
E) poetry

Question 16

Julian Beever utilizes the technique of anamorphosis.Research other anamorphic artworks,such as the stretched eye by Leonardo da Vinci or the skull in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors (see Chapter 1.10).Write an essay in which you consider the reasons why artists use this unusual illusionistic technique.

Question 17

Parnassus,Disputa,and Jurisprudence are the titles of three paintings-along with Raphael's School of Athens-in the library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican.

Question 18

Which part of William Harnett's The Old Violin is real and not just painted?

A) it is all a painted illusion
B) the blue envelope
C) the door handle
D) the sheet music and violin
E) the small newspaper clipping

Question 19

The oculus in Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua:

A) cannot close, so allows both sun and rain to enter the room
B) is just a painted illusion
C) has a balustrade that is strong enough for small children to climb
D) is opened and closed using machinery
E) none of the other answers

Question 20

Analyse the ways in which illusion is created in Raphael's School of Athens.What are the artist's methods for creating depth in the painting? How does the painting contribute to the wider scheme of Pope Julius II's library?

Question 21

Fanny/Fingerpainting was ________.

A) made from 1,000 old newspapers
B) made with the artist's finger- and thumbprints
C) the largest photograph made at the time
D) a self-portrait of an award-winning school teacher
E) none of the other answers

Question 22

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
foreshortening

Question 23

Ancient Greek architects were not aware of how optical illusions could skew the appearance of buildings.

Question 24

Write an essay describing the optical illusions used by the architects of the Parthenon to manipulate the appearance of the temple.How were these optical illusions created?

Question 25

Study the process Chuck Close undertakes when creating artworks.Write an essay discussing both the mechanical nature of this process as well as the way in which he makes his artworks very personal.

Question 26

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
entasis

Question 27

Cubist paintings are completely non-objective and do not contain any recognizable objects.

Question 28

Giulio Romano created two unrelated decorative schemes in his designs for the exterior and interior of the Palazzo del Tè in Mantua.

Question 29

When columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint,this is called ________.

A) encaustic
B) entasis
C) tenebrism
D) hourglass
E) silhouette

Question 30

What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?

A) the bar top
B) the barmaid
C) liquor and wine bottles
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers

Question 31

Select two artworks that reject traditional notions of illusionism and compare the ways illusionism is manipulated,perhaps even rejected,and the reasons each artist chose to do so.You may select from René Magritte,William Hogarth,Georges Braque,Chuck Close,Édouard Manet,or Audrey Flack.

Question 32

Which element of Audrey Flack's Marilyn (Vanitas)can be linked to the term vanitas?

A) mirror
B) clock
C) calendar
D) hourglass
E) all of the other answers

Question 33

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
oculus

Question 34

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
putti

Question 35

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
anamorphosis

Question 36

Which part of René Magritte's The Human Condition is painted?

A) the entire scene
B) the scene outside of the window
C) the canvas that is on the easel
D) the entire artwork is a photograph
E) everything is painted except the canvas on the easel, which is a photograph

Question 37

Perform a formal analysis of Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.Identify the visual ambiguities in the painting,and propose why you think the artist made such choices.What might they suggest to the viewer?

Question 38

The Palazzo del Tè in Mantua is falling apart (triglyphs are slipping and columns have broken in two)due to age and poor construction.

Question 39

Magritte questions the idea of the "illusionistic window" in his work The Human Condition.

Question 40

Compare Braque's Man with a Guitar,1911 (4.5.13)with Juan Gris's Bottle of Banyuls,1914 (3.8.24).Each artwork represents a different phase of Cubism: analytic and synthetic.Through an analysis of these two images,explain the differences and similarities of these two phases.

Question 41

Match the term with its definition:
a.a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
b.nude infant angel boys
c.a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
d.a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
e.a round opening in the center of a dome
f.reminders of mortality
vanitas