Chapter 4: Style, Form, Content Flashcards
In the visual arts, ____________ refers to a distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school or movement, or specific culture or time period.
a. iconography
b. content
c. style
c. style
Historical periods refer to periods of human development: Stone Age – Prehistoric, Classical, Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism among them.
a. True
b. False
a.True
The term ____________ applies to art that departs significantly from the actual appearance of things.
a. expressionistic
b. representational
c. abstract
c. abstract
Twentieth-century proponents of ____________ reduced natural forms into largely angular geometrical equivalents.
a. Cubism
b. Pop Art
c. Postimpressionism
a. Cubism
An excellent example of cubism in sculpture is The Kiss by _______________.
a. Constantin Brancusi
b. Grant Wood
c. Jan van Eyck
Constantin Brancusi
The ____________ of a work of art is everything that is contained in it.
a. content
b. form
c. iconography
a. content
____________ has a strong influence on style.
a. Context
b. The viewer
c. A major east-coast museum
a. Context
____________ is the study of the themes and symbols in the visual arts—the figures and images that lend work their underlying meanings.
a. content
b. form
c. iconography
c. iconography
Broadly speaking, realism refers to the portrayal of people and things as they are seen by the eye or really thought to be, without idealization, without distortion, which can be seen in _______________________’s painting American Gothic.
a. Constantin Brancusi
b. Grant Wood
c. Jan van Eyck
b. Grant Wood
__________________’s painting Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride is loaded with iconography.
a. Constantin Brancusi
b. Grant Wood
c. Jan van Eyck
c. Jan van Eyck
