Exam #1 | Chp 2 | Art Pieces

Question 1

Answer 1

• Piece:*
• *Shoki the Demon Queller**
• Artisit:*
• *Utagawa Kunisada**
• Period / Movement:*
• *???**
• Medium:*
• *Japanese Woodblock Print**

The overall context of Kunisada’s artwork affects the understanding of the line.

Most lines in this print are bold and calligraphic, except for those in the hair and beard, where fine lines depict texture.

1849-1853

Question 2

Answer 2

• Piece:*
• *Bounds of the Intellect**
• Artist:*
• *Paul Klee**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Surrealism**

Notes…?

1927. Oil on canvas, 16” × 22”

Question 3

Answer 3

• Piece:*
• *Mr. and Mrs. Andrews**
• Artist:*
• *Thomas Gainsborough**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Naturalism**

Saturated Color in the blue in Mrs. Andrew’s dress

Neutral Color in the tree trunk

Local Colors in the yellow hay and gray-and-white clouds

1750, oil

Question 4

Answer 4

• Piece:*
• *Blanket Chilkat style**
• Artisi:*
• *Unknown**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Tlingit people**

The black and yellow patterns of this Tlingit blanket are abstracted from human or animal features and have a geometric quality

Mountain goat wool and cedar bark

31” × 71”

Question 5

Answer 5

• Piece:*
• *Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)**
• Artist:*
• *Giorgio De Chirico**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Metaphysical**

HISTORY

1914, oil

Question 6

Answer 6

• Piece:*
• *Bat Project I (Shenzhen)**
• Artist:*
• *Huang Yong Ping**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Post-modern**

Ping’s installation was too politically charged to remain in China, so was relocated to an amusement park in the U.S., thus reducing its impact

2001

NOTE:
-this is not the same image from the text book

Question 7

Answer 7

• Piece:*
• *The Passage from Virgin to Bride**
• Artist:*
• *Marcel Duchamp**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Futurism/Cubism**

Motion is implied by:
• rhythmic repetition of abstracted forms.
• the fading in and out of the image on the left and on the right.

1912, oil

Question 8

Answer 8

• Piece:*
• *Temple of Athena Nike and Propylaea**
• Artist:*
• *Mnesicles**
• Period / Movement:*
• *Greek Classical**

Subcategories of post-and-lintel architecture:
• Classical Greek order
• Roman architectural orders

An order consists of the following, all exhibiting standardized proportions and decorative ornamentation:
• column with a base • shaft
• capital
• entablature

Athens, Greece

437-432 b.c.e