Deck 33: Art and Science

Question 1

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Jean Dubuffet's Cow with the Subtle Nose combined new scientific advancements in photography with Renaissance techniques of linear perspective.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

Which artist collected artworks, now housed in Switzerland, made by the insane?

A) Salvador Dalí
B) Jean Dubuffet
C) Jasper Johns
D) Martín Ramírez
E) Marcia Smilack

Question 7

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 8

Art Brut is art that is:

A) raw and instinctive
B) practiced and precise
C) happy and free
D) expensive and time-consuming
E) made by kindergarten kids

Question 9

Why did Jasper Johns paint the 1965 version of his Flag in green, orange, and black?

A) because they are the complements of the U.S. 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 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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?

Question 13

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 14

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 Science of the Mind
D) The Beatles
E) a dog's bark

Question 15

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

Question 16

Surgical dissections and artists studying anatomy have nothing in common.

Question 17

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of the 1965 version of Jasper Johns's Flag 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 18

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 19

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

Question 20

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

Question 21

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

Question 22

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 23

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

Question 24

Diagnosed schizophrenic Martín Ramírez painted a series of self-portraits cataloguing his different states of personality.

Question 25

Artworks by Martín Ramírez, made during his time in Californian mental hospitals, often:

A) are made from a number of sheets of paper pasted together
B) have a visionary feel
C) depict the same motifs
D) are related to his life in Mexico
E) all of the other answers

Question 26

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes: