Unit 1 Review

Question 1

Who is the artist of Sunflower Seeds?

Accepted Answer

Ai Wei Wei

Question 2

This piece is one of many panels in a series called The Migration Series by...

Accepted Answer

Jacob Lawrence

Question 3

The most basic visual element of art is...

Accepted Answer

Line

Question 4

Which constitutes a departure from traditional military monuments in the Vietnam Memorial?

Accepted Answer

The nonfigurative non-Classical composition made up of engraved names

Question 5

Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal upside down on a pedestal....

Accepted Answer

to invite the viewer to see a ready-made object in a new way

Question 6

This most closely represents which element of art?

Accepted Answer

Value

Question 7

This detail of a Van Gogh painting best shows...

Accepted Answer

Texture

Question 8

In this piece, the artist uses ______ to convey a sense of motion.

Accepted Answer

Line

Question 9

Stonehenge was initially created by a Neolithic culture that can best be described as

Accepted Answer

a society of early farmers who lived in nearby agricultural settlements

Question 10

In Darkytown Rebellion, Kara Walker uses silhouettes of nineteenth-century racist images to....

Accepted Answer

provoke dialogue about how stereotypes still affect African Americans

Question 11

What is the title of this piece by Kara Walker?

Accepted Answer

Darkytown Rebellion

Question 12

The buildings and mountains in the background of this painting convey a sense of...

Accepted Answer

Space

Question 13

The choice of sunflower seeds as the subject matter of the work shown was influenced by their association with...

Accepted Answer

Chairman Mao and China’s Cultural Revolution

Question 14

Pepon Osorio created En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) as

Accepted Answer

an interactive installation that resembles a functioning barbershop

Question 15

Cave painting artists typically used what kind of material as a basis for paint?

Accepted Answer

Red ochre clay from the earth

Question 16

Cave paintings like this date to...

Accepted Answer

15,000 BC or older

Question 17

One reason for Lin’s choice of black granite for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was to elicit

Accepted Answer

a personal connection when the polished surface reflects the viewer

Question 18

With the symbolism of a crack or wound, Vietnam Memorial is most similar to which of the following works?

Accepted Answer

Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo

Question 19

Why might Doris Salcedo, a Columbian woman, have chosen the Jewish term "Shibboleth" as the title of this piece?

Accepted Answer

Both red and blue

Question 20

________ refers to the area within, around, above or below an object or objects in art.

Accepted Answer

Space

Question 21

Quick-to-See Smith's inclusion of cheap trinkets is intended to

Accepted Answer

show a history of exploitative transactions between Natives and Europeans

Question 22

The cave paintings in the Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux are theorized to...

Accepted Answer

document a series of animal-based religious rituals

Question 23

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s experimentation with form and content in the work shown demonstrates his...

Accepted Answer

interest in the role of improvisation and its relationship to jazz music

Question 24

Archaeological evidence indicates that the superimposed animal forms in the Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux represent

Accepted Answer

different artists’ depictions over time

Question 25

This painting was made by...

Accepted Answer

Jacob Lawrence

Question 26

One reason that Ai Weiwei included over a million handmade sunflower seeds spread across a large area was to...

Accepted Answer

allude to the volume of Chinese goods in contemporary global markets

Question 27

Among other reasons, the artist created a crack in the floor to allude to the

Accepted Answer

plight of unwanted immigrants

Question 28

The artist of this photography series, Women of Allah, is...

Accepted Answer

Shirin Neshat

Question 29

This piece by Doris Salcedo is called...

Accepted Answer

Shibboleth

Question 30

What element of art do you see at use in this painting?

Accepted Answer

All three

Question 31

Although the function of Stonehenge has been debated, newer archaeological evidence suggests that it may have been...

Accepted Answer

a center for pilgrimage and healing of the sick

Question 32

The actual shape of a 3D object is called...

Accepted Answer

form

Question 33

Book From the Sky is a piece by...

Accepted Answer

Xu Bing

Question 34

This painting can be attributed to...

Accepted Answer

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Question 35

In A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing referenced which of the following traditional Chinese art forms?

Accepted Answer

Hand-bound books and scrolls printed with blocks

Question 36

The precise arrangement and orientation of the megaliths of Stonehenge suggest that the site was used for the...

Accepted Answer

marking of the summer solstice

Question 37

The feeling of a surface is called:

Accepted Answer

Texture

Question 38

The outline of a 2D area or figure enclosed by lines is...

Accepted Answer

Shape

Question 39

This work by Jacob Lawrence shows a thematic interest in...

Accepted Answer

African American culture and history

Question 40

Stepanova and Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan are both examples of...

Accepted Answer

Political propaganda

Question 41

What is a similarity between The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 and Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth?

Accepted Answer

focus attention on a central line that represents social division

Question 42

Form refers to a three dimensional object.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

One difference in how Xu Bing's A Book from the Sky and Neshat's Rebellious Silence use writing is...

Accepted Answer

Xu uses invented characters while Neshat quotes from a poem

Unit 1 Review

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Unit 1 Review

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