Art 111 Exam 1

Question 1

Is a banana and duct tape really a work of art?

Answer 1

Own response

Question 2

Realistic Art

Answer 2

Subject painted from everyday life in a natural manner and it looks real

Question 3

Representational Art

Answer 3

taking an object and using it to represent something else

Question 4

Abstract Art

Answer 4

Pure form to express ideas and emotions

Question 5

non-objective art

Answer 5

do not focus on an object)

Question 6

Lascaux Cave

Answer 6

where visitors are no longer allowed because of the deterioration of the paintings

Question 7

Venus of Willendorf

Answer 7

Fertility goddess statue

Question 8

Venus de Milo

Answer 8

Statue created by the greeks that campuses grace, harmony and beauty, by using math

Question 9

Duchamp(DADA ERA)

Answer 9

who presented a men’s urinal entitled “Fountain

Question 10

Van Gogh’s Starry Night

Answer 10

Post Impressionism

Question 11

Art effects culture

Question 12

Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic ( ART INFLUENCING CULTURE)

Answer 12

Regionalism

Question 13

Edward Hoppers Nighthawks

Answer 13

Social realism

Question 14

Mondrian’s non-objective work influence on fashion

Question 15

Pop Art by Andy Warhol( Culture influences art)

Answer 15

Soup Can

Question 16

JEFF KOONS BASKETBALLS

Answer 16

CONTEMPORARY ART

Question 17

Hugh Dalziel Duncan is a sociologist with a theory regarding art.

Answer 17

Art is the ‘Prime Mover of social action. HUMANS ELABORATE THINGS AND WE ARE ALL ARTISTS

HIS EXAMPLE OF ELABORATION WAS SEX

HOW SEX IS APPLIED TO CARS

Question 18

METAPHOR

Answer 18

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 19

Kandinsky’s painting Composition VII and Cy Twombly’s painting Untitled relate to the classical music of Mozart’s Flute Quartet

Answer 19

are examples of non-objective art BECAUSE OF THEIR PURE FORM

Question 20

BLACK AND BLACK’S THEORY OF METAPHOR

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUBJECT OF METAPHOR

Answer 20

hat we are specifically looking at would be the secondary subject. What the artist’s intent is would be the primary subject of the metaphor.

EXAMPLES INCLUDED VANGOUGHS STARRY NIGHT AND POTATOE EATERS

Question 21

PAINTINGS THAT TELL A STORY

Answer 21

NARRATIVE

Question 22

We saw videos illustrating the ideas above including George Carlin’s Baseball and Football, Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First

Answer 22

VIDEOS THAT ILLUSTRATE COMEDY IS A FORM OF ART