Chapter 1 : What is Art?

Question 1

According to Lois Fichner-Rathus _____ creates Beauty, Enhances our Environment, Reveals Truth, Immortalizes, Glorifies, Expresses Religious Beliefs, Reinforces Ideology, Expresses Fantasy, Simulates the Intellect and Fires the Emotions, Creates Order and Harmony, Expresses Chaos, Records and Commemorates Experience, Reflects the Social and Cultural Context, Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness, Elevates the Commonplace, and Meets the Need of the Artist.

Answer 1

Art

Question 2

THe language or vocabulary of art includes the visual ______, principles of deign, style, form, and content.

Answer 2

Elements

Question 3

In recording experience, artists frequently record the activities and objects of their time and places, as seen in __________’s Nighthawks, which also used a specific socio-culural context to communicate an unsettling, introspective mood or aloneness.

a. Edward Hopper
b. Eugene Defacroix
c. Grant Wood
d. Gianiorenzo Bernini

Answer 3

a. Edward Hopper

Question 4

In Chagall’s I and the Village, fleeting memories of life are pieced together like so many pieces of a dreamlike puzzle, reflecting the very fragmentary nature of memory itself, and expresses _____.

Answer 4

Fantasy

Question 5

In ______________________’s Liberty Leading the People, rifles, swords, a flag–even pistols–join in an upward rhythm, underscoring the classical pyramid shape of the composition. The imagery of the painting is also a narrative in which raises social consciousness.

a. Edward Hopper
b. Eugene Delacroix
c. Grant Wood
d. Gianlorenzo Bernini

Answer 5

b. Eugene Delacroix

Question 6

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is an example of _____-made art, and also elevates the commonplace.

Answer 6

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