Art Appreciation Chapter 1

What role best describes the artist's intention when creating the Shiva Nataraja sculpture?

• to record and commemorate

• to give visual form to the unknown

• to celebrate the familiar

• to create a place for human purpose

• to create an extraordinary version of an ordinary object

Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC?

• Frank Gehry

• Maya Lin

• Gilian Wearing

• Paul Pujol

• Zaha Hadid

Early in World War II, these people were or this group was tasked with protecting Europe’s cultural treasures and art. After the war, they were tasked with locating, taking inventory of, and returning looted art to rightful owners. Who were they?

• The Louvre Museum European Collections Unit

• The Monuments Men

• The Fine Arts and Archives Section

• European and American art Historians

As a demonstration of how art affects our lives, a graphic designer in 1994 created a two-color logo for which transportation or shipping company that was so successful it has endured decades later? The logo is seen on packaging, planes, and trucks.

• United Parcel Service

• Federal Express

• United States Postal Service

• U-Haul

Wynwood Walls is an area of public artworks in__________ that transformed__________ into huge art canvases.

• Spain, Warehouses

• Spain, Shipyards

• Florida, struggling restaurants and shops

• Florida, shipyards

• Florida, warehouses

Which description does NOT apply to Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain?

 

• Duchamp did not make the piece but just designated it as an artwork.

• All the choices apply to Fountain

• The piece was entered into an art exhibition in New York

• It was destroyed by insulted art exhibition organizers.

Art is not only images to view, but includes places created for particular human purposes such as:

• van Oosterwijck's Vanitas

• the Colosseum

• FedEx Truck

• the Mona Lisa

The commissioned art installation Shibboleth, a title that references a biblical story of belonging and not belonging, was comprised of what?

• A partially bricked room with cement hanging that looked ready to collapse

• a metallic chain-link wire fence with cut pieces

• a long, tapering granite floor surrouded by broken pieces of columns

• a cement floor that contained long, large cracks

What Italian artist explores and defines contemporary visual culture by creating humorous digital paintings devoted to the incorporation of selfies and memes?

• Dito Von Tease

• Doris Salcedo

• Artemisia Gentilleschi

• Ernesto Neto

• Beatriz Milhazes

Human actions and nature regularly damage and demolish art. In Utah at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument close to the Escalante River, someone tried to saw out a portion of what object with tremendous historical and spiritual value?

• an Anasazi fossil in a cliff face

• an 81 million year old tyrannosaurus skeleton

• an ancient Native American petroglyph

• Anasazi pottery shards ina cliff face

• ancient Native American gemstones embedded in rock