Chapter 2: What Is a Work of Art? Flashcards
Which of the following cannot be a work of art?
a. a car
b. a sunset
c. a photograph
d. pottery
b. a sunset
Which of the following terms means sustained attention and loss of self-awareness?
a. participation
b. content
c. artistic form
d. subject matter
a. participation
In order for something to be art it must
d. be human made
The elements of painting include
a. color, lines, texture, and light
Which of the following is some value expressed in a work of art?
d. subject matter
Which of the following paintings represents an idealized female nude?
b. Giorgione, Sleeping Venus
It is easier to change parts around without losing meaning in
d. Adams’ Execution in Saigon
Which of the following is true of spectator attention?
c. It dominates most of our experiences.
Which of the following groups finds the participative experience easiest?
a. young children
Which of the following means the organization of a medium that results in clarifying a value expressed in a work of art?
c. artistic form
A participative experience involves
d. undivided and sustained attention to a work of art
According to the authors, which of the following basic distinctions of art is the most fundamental?
a. participation
Who of the following said, “If the world were clear, art would not exist”?
b. Albert Camus
Anyone who has participated with cummings’ “1(a” will understand
c. the isolation of loneliness and death
Lichtenstein used comic strips as subject matter because
c. of the stark simplicity and power of comic strips
