chapter 2 quiz Flashcards
What in Willem de Kooning’s North Atlantic Light helps us recognize what looks like a sailboat at the paintings center?
The title
What helps us interpret complicated/abstracted works of art?
critical thinking and visual literacy
How do Magritte’s surrealist paintings challenge what we see in the physical world?
words and images can refer to things we see, but they aren’t the actual things themselves.
what is the basic subject matter behind the Surrealist art movement?
dreams & different conscious states of mine
Women of Allah is the title by which the artist that uses both words and images to make political statements about Iranian women?
Shirin Neshat
What type of art portrays natural objects in recognizable form and imagery?
representational art
______ is a form of visual trickery in which painted forms seem to be real. It is It is sometimes called trompe l’oeil (trying to fool the eye)
illusion
what type of art is a form of representation that retains realistic elements?
naturalistic art
what type of art simplifies reality to capture a certain essence or atmosphere?
abstract art
what type of art is meant to represent an idea that transcends the real world, and imagery that isn’t readily familiar?
non- representational art
what is the overall structure of a work of art?
form
___ is what a work of art expresses or means
content
___ is judging another culture’s artwork based only on your culture’s conventions, and a tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture
ethnocentrism
what is a system of visual images widely understood by a given culture?
iconography
Jean Michel Basquiat uses iconography in his painting Charles the First. List some of these
S logo, God, Thor,
