Acadec art 2022-2023 as told by Gen

After her husband's passing, what did Patience Lovell Wright do to support her family?

• sculpt wax portraits with her sister

• selling embroidery

• worked in a textile factory

• Married a cooper, Joseph wright

Answer explanation

After her husband of 2 years, Joseph Wright died, Patience Lovell Wright was left to support her family. Her and her sister, Rachel Wells were entirely self taught from childhood and went into business creating wax portraits

Puritan Portraitists favored which style?

• Elizabethan

• Edwardian

• Van Dyck

• Grand Manner

Answer explanation

The Elizabethan Style was popularized in The Americas, while the Grand Manner Style was more popular with the British

Fasces is a bundle of rods meant to symbolize power in ancient Rome, In Gilbert Stuart's "Lansdowne Portrait", how is this represented?

• Engraved on The Federalist Papers on Washingtons desk

• on George Washington's medallion

• carved into a table leg

• on George Washingtons sleeve

Answer explanation

"The table leg is carved to resemble fasces, the bound bundle of rods meant to symbolize power in ancient Rome" (2022-2023 art resource guide page 63)

Where did Gilbert Stuart FIRST flee to avoid his debtors?

• Long Island

• Philidelphia

• Ireland

• London

Answer explanation

Ugh Gilbert Stuart... Basically this jerk moved to England in 1777 to learn and study art, his piece The Skater, brought attention to him and people paid him to paint them (commissions). However, "the commissions could not keep pace with Stuart's Extravagant lifestyle"(page 61 of 2022-2023 Art resource guide) and in order to avoid his debts he fled to Ireland.

What is the name of the small repeating patterns were printed onto cotton?

• Calico

• repetition

• Calotype

• Mitotouche

Answer explanation

I remembered this on the test and the first round because calico cats have small repetitive patterns, think calico kitties when you see repetitive patterns

Which fellow Artist did Phillis Wheatly dedicate a poem to?

• Scipio Moorhead

• Selina Hastings

• Patience Lowell wright

• Prudence punderson

Answer explanation

Phillis Wheatly befriended the renound Scipio Moorhead, who happened to be her neighbor. The poem dedicated to her fellow african american artist is named "To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works" (a mouthful, IK). He is also belived to have painted the portrait of Phillis Wheatly :)

Who was believed to have been sending secret intel from British officials to The Americas during the revolutionary war through art?

• Patience Lovell Wright

• Robert Edge Pine

• Edmonia Lewis

• Kiki Smith

Answer explanation

It was believed that Patience Lovell Wright was sending intel from her British offical friends to her sisters INSIDE the wax heads of her sculptures. Shes so hot for that. (shes the sir Isaac Newton to my Ananya)

Where was Gilbert Stuart born?

• Newport, Rhode Island

• Penn, Rhode Island

• Ireland

• Philidelphia

Answer explanation

In 1755, Gilbert Stuart was born in Newport, Rhode Island, his father a Scottish Immigrant. He left to study in England in 1777 with Benjamin West. From there he fled to Ireland to escape debtors and the returned to America in 1793.

In "The First, Second, and last Scene of Morality", What is the artist's allusion to herself?

• A slave, representing herself nurturing a baby

• a reflection in the mirror of herself

• Her initials on the coffin

• a painting of herself in the background

Answer explanation

Prudence Punderson alludes to herself in "The First, Second,and Last Scene of Morality" by adding her initials "P.P." on the coffin.

What are the measurements of "The First, Second, and Last Scene of Morality", Prudence Punderson c. 1776-83?

• 13 inches tall, 17 inches wide

• 15 inches tall, 14 inches wide

• 32 inches wide, 37 inches tall

• 42 inches tall, 53 inches wide

Answer explanation

(Yes this is an actual question from round one, irdk why the measurments are important but wtv... )

"...and measures 13 inches tall and under seventeen inches wide"(page 57, Section 2 2022-2023 Art resource guide)