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Both paintings address
the Sublime.
Both paintings are primarily concerned with themes of
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nature
What is true about both paintings?
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They reflect a transcendental vision of nature.
From an art historical perspective, Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Androgyne III can best be interpreted as
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expressing human suffering.
From an art historical perspective, Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Androgyne III can be interpreted as expressing human suffering, in keeping with the artist’s interest in the effects of war and totalitarianism. The hollow, genderless figure speaks broadly to human experience. By focusing on this figure’s cracked skin, hunched back, and need for wooden supports to prop it up, the artist further emphasizes brutal suffering.
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The type of complex shown can be defined as an acropolis because it
was converted from a fortress to a site for religious ritual.
The building can be identified as part of an acropolis due to its location within a fortified complex as well as its function as a center for religious rituals.
The freestanding female figures associated with the Parthenon, including the now-lost chryselephantine statue of Athena and the surviving Peplos Kore, have what in common?
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They both functioned as religious images and offerings made to a deity.
The freestanding female figures associated with the Parthenon, including the chryselephantine statue of Athena and the Peplos Kore, functioned as religious images and offerings made to a deity. Both statues were gifts created for the Goddess Athena, who was the patroness of the Athenian people.
These buildings date to what century?
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fifth-century B.C.E.
Both buildings are part of a complex built to celebrate
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Athens’ domination of the eastern Mediterranean.
The development of the Athenian agora as a public space differed substantially from the Forum of Trajan in that the agora
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evolved gradually over centuries in response to political change.
The development of the Athenian agora as a public space differed substantially from the Forum of Trajan in that the agora of Athens, having been in use since Neolithic times, was gradually transformed over time in response to political change. In contrast, the Forum of Trajan was commissioned by Emperor Trajan and constructed as part of a major building project by an architectural engineer, Apollodorus of Damascus.
The citizens of ancient Athens likely responded to the Athenian agora with a sense of
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civic pride, because it represented a place of communal governance and cultural identity.
The citizens of ancient Athens most likely regarded the agora of their city with a sense civic pride because it represented a place of communal governance and cultural identity. As a central place surrounded by buildings, the Athenian agora constituted the focal point of public life, where citizens met to conduct business, discuss issues of communal governance, and exchange ideas. Since Athenians practiced an early form of direct democracy during the classical period, Athenians were directly involved in the communal government. As a place where political and philosophical discourse was practiced, the agora is believed to have fostered the development of Athenian democracy.
The patterns on the cape are traditionally
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associated with a particular lineage.
Traditionally, feather-cape creators recited the genealogy of the wearer during the construction of the cape, weaving the story of the family and the individual into the patterns of the garment.
The cape was intended to accomplish what three functions?
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frighten the viewer
protect the wearer
contain the owning family’s mana
The capes were not created for purely aesthetic reasons or to specifically demonstrate wealth. The brightly colored, intricately crafted garments woven with sacred feathers and individualized geometric design elements were intended to convey power and social standing in Hawaiian culture and to connect the wearer with the gods.
The Hawaiian feather cape was created to be a
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sacred garment worn by chiefs.
The Hawaiian feather cape was created as a sacred object. Both feathers and the color red were associated with gods. The cape symbolized the king’s religious responsibilities and conveyed his divinity.
The choice of sunflower seeds as the subject matter of the work shown was influenced by their association with
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Chairman Mao and China’s Cultural Revolution.
Ai Weiwei uses layered references in Kua Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) to offer a critical reflection on modern Chinese society, as well as on modern society in general, by examining issues such as the role of individualism and cultural conformity. Among others, the subject matter of the sunflower seeds in Ai Weiwei’s work references Chairman Mao, who was often associated with the Sun and sunflowers in Cultural Revolution–era propaganda, in which sunflowers often symbolized the Chinese people who would turn towards Chairman Mao as if he were the Sun. By evoking this reference, Ai Weiwei reflects on the relationship between the individual and society, and on issues of cultural and political conformity.
In the work shown, one reason that Ai Weiwei included over a million handmade sunflower seeds spread across a large area was to
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allude to the volume of Chinese goods in contemporary global markets.
The 100 million sunflower seeds in Ai Weiwei’s work were handmade by Chinese laborers in order to reference the large volume of Chinese goods on the international market.
Ai Weiwei chose to use porcelain to create sunflower seeds because the material
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connects the work to China’s long tradition of porcelain production.
Ai Weiwei uses porcelain in his work to reference China’s long history of producing and exporting porcelain.
The medium Ai Weiwei used in Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) comments on an artistic tradition exemplified by which work of art?
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David Vases
The David Vases are made of porcelain and exemplify the processes of the Chinese tradition of porcelain making that Ai Weiwei intended to reference in this work.
The relief shown can be attributed to the Amarna period in Egypt based on what typical characteristic?
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The depiction of the deified Aten as a sun disk with diagonal rays
The relief shown can be attributed to the Amarna period in Egypt due to the depiction of Aten. The work depicts Aten as a disk surrounded by diagonal rays. This was a common subject for the Amarna period, during which the pharaoh Akhenaton established a monotheistic religion centered around the worship of the sun god Aten.
Originally located in a private house in Pompeii, the Alexander Mosaic was likely interpreted by viewers in what way?
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It conveyed the elevated and learned status of the owner of the house.
Art played a serious role in the intellectual and cultural life of the Roman elite who used their homes to showcase their taste and erudition.
The foreshortening of figures in the Alexander Mosaic likely affected viewers in what way?
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It conveyed the climactic moment of a narrative.
The horses and figures are foreshortened, dramatizing the retreat of Darius and his Persian army as Alexander the Great charges into the scene.
The use of over one million small tiles to make the Alexander Mosaic allowed its creator to
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model the anatomy of the figures naturalistically.
The numerous tiles allowed the artist to contrast lights and darks, creating modeled figures and cast shadows, along with a number of other illusionistic details.
The artist of the Alexander Mosaic likely intended to celebrate ancient Greek art by
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emulating an earlier painting described in ancient texts.
Evidence indicates that the Alexander Mosaic is a copy of a Greek painting by Philoxenes of Eretria. A description of the original painting by Pliny the Elder has led to this attribution.
The work depicts a battle in which
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Alexander the Great overthrew King Darius III.
The work is a
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mosaic.