Art 2 Flashcards
What does Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer by Ella Fitzgerald portray aliens as?
A species that would be disgusted by humans.
What is Come Sail Away by Styx’s main message?
An escape from Earth.
What does the “Star Child” in Mothership Connection (Star Child) by Parliament possibly represent?
Individuals who feel alienated or disconnected.
Whose perspective is in the lyrics of “Aliens Exist” by Blink-182?
A little boy who has an alien in his closet.
What does the “space invader” signify in “Space Invader” by Ace Frehley?
An alien who will save the earth from destruction.
What instrument is featured in “After the Ball” by Charles Harris?
Violin.
What elements does Freedom: 90! by George Michael have that are similar to 2000’s pop songs?
Various instruments, expressive lyrics, and a catchy melody.
What genre of song is “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M?
It is a rock song.
What is “Brændt” by Lis Sorensen about?
How a previous lover burned and deserted a girl.
What major conspiracy could “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden be refencing?
Y2K.
What does “I Saved the World Today” by Eurythmics have in common with “After the Ball”?
The violin, and how it is used/played.
What African genre is “Embe Dodo” nostalgic for?
Zilizopendwa
What band is Peter Solo the leader of?
Vaudou Game
What is vaudou music really about?
It is about love, peace and connection to traditional cultures.
What is Pas Contente about and what does it really mean?
This song is about how voodoo or vaudou music is not treated properly, and the song’s title literally means not happy.
What is so different about the modern reimagining of Orfeo?
It brings together elements from multiple cultures, such as Greek and Indian.
What is the Walmart Effect?
The Walmart effect is an effect caused by the huge chain Walmart, and basically states that Walmart is a bad thing due to its business practices but is still an essential part of anybody’s shopping.
Who was Supermarket Shopper made by?
Duane Hunson, 1971
What does Supermarket Shopper portray?
It portrays an obese woman excessively buying many sorts of American consumerist processed food, and the woman still has curlers in her hair, showing how lazy Americans are.
Who is Walt Whitman in the poem “A Supermarket in California”?
A childless, lonely old grubber shopping at a supermarket.
Why is 99 cents such a popular price in America?
The one cent difference looks a lot bigger and convinces people to buy more.
Who founded Lithodomos?
Simon Young
How does Lithodomos work?
Lithodomos is an easy technology which can give an immersive VR experience with a smartphone and $5 cardboard viewers.
What is the Ochre Atelier about?
The Ochre Atelier is a reimagination of Amedeo Modigliani’s final studio, in a VR simulation made in Unity.
Who was Amedeo Modigliani?
He was an Italian artist who primarily worked in France, and his oeuvre includes both sculptures and paintings, most recognizably of nudes.
What is the Diet of Finland?
Finland’s legislative body from 1809 to 1906.
Who was the VR experience built by of a certain Scandinavian country’s old legislative body?
Zoan Oy, a company that is the largest VR studio in Finland.
How can the VR experience be accessed in the National Museum of Finland?
By figuratively “walking” into the actual painting made by Alexander II (The Opening of the Diet 1863).
What physical feature of dinosaurs might have not been recognized until further archaeological efforts?
Feathers on dinosaurs.
Where and when were the dinosaur fossils with feathers discovered?
In China and in the early Cretaceous period
What is one trait of early paleo artists shown in The Primitive World by Adolphe François Pannemaker, 1857?
That fossils were just blank slates for any artist to project their own imaginations.
What is the deeper meaning of The Ichthyosaur and the Plesiosaur (Lias Period) by Édouard Riou, 1863?
Since the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur are portrayed as natural enemies by scientists and artists, they provided allegorical vessels for naval conflicts around this era.
What do some people believe that the predators in Laelaps by Charles R Knight, 1897 signify?
That these predators represent the savagely competitive paleontologists Othniel C Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, both of whom would blow up dig sites with dynamite to obstruct the other’s discoveries.
