Final

Question 0

The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being ultimately, truth

Answer 0

Ontology of something

Question 1

Who is the photographer who took the picture Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) during the Great Depression

Answer 1

Dorothea Lange

Question 2

What was the invention of photography seen by many as? Such as who?

Answer 2

As ushering in increased objectivity in images

Andre Bazin

Question 3

Where was photography invented? By who? When?

Answer 3

England
William Henry Fox Tablot and Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
Mid 19th century

Question 4

What refers to Japanese pictures of the floating world

Answer 4

Ukiyo

Question 5

What is a woodcut?

Answer 5

A print made by carving a design into a wooden block inking the raised surfaces, placing a piece of paper on the inked surface, and applying pressure to transfer the ink to the paper

Question 6

Classic work of Japanese literature often considered worlds first novel

Answer 6

Tale of Gengi

Question 7

What did the Jomon culture create? Where were they from?

Answer 7

Of japan and they created works such as figural sculptures, with chord like patterns

Question 8

Assignment in the visual arts of human traits to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature

Answer 8

Anthropomorphism

Question 9

Who were the Gutai Art Association influenced by

Answer 9

The work of Jackson Pollock

Question 10

What were the heavy emphasis with Ando Hiroshige prints

Answer 10

Landscapes, women, and actors

Question 11

Image where all the elements are arranged neatly inside the frame

Answer 11

Closed composition

Question 12

What did Zen Buddhism emphasize enlightenment through

Answer 12

Mediation and dharma practices

Question 13

Where and when were Buddhism, a writing system, art, medicine, and forms of governmental organization introduced to japan

Answer 13

From china during the Asuka Period

Question 14

Opposition to the use of religious images and, in some cases, the systematic destruction of religious icons

Answer 14

Iconoclasm

Question 15

Why in his Apologia did St. Bernard object to lavish decoration of churches and the use of fantastical imagery in manuscripts

Answer 15

Because they had no scriptural basis in the bible

Question 16

What is the Germanic Animal Style characterized by

Answer 16

Abstract patterns in vigorous, ornamental designs

Question 17

When was the Book or Kells write end and decorated? What did it contain?

Answer 17

Irish Monks circa 800 AD

Contained illuminated illustrations marked by a flat, abstract representation

Question 18

What is interlace in the Medieval manuscripts?

Answer 18

The curvilinear decoration in which ribbon like bands are stylistically depicted as if woven under and over one another

Question 19

What is the Chi-Ro page?

Answer 19

Monogram of the letters XP, the first two characters of the name Christ in Greek

Question 20

Angelo-Saxon Germanic literary epic

Answer 20

Beowulf

Question 21

The use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition

Answer 21

Chiaroscuro

Question 22

Imitation or copy of another object

Answer 22

Mimesis

Question 23

What did Friedrich Nietzsche wire in his book The Birth of Tragedy

Answer 23

That Alexandrian Art was syncretic, didactic and was informed by models in history

Question 24

Human figure with most of it’s weight on one foot so that it’s shoulders and arms twist off axis from the hips and legs, giving an “S” curve to their body

Answer 24

Contrapposto

Question 25

Who is the god of wine, debauchery, and agriculture who induced madness and drunkenness in his followers

Answer 25

Dionysus

Question 26

What did Plato conceive

Answer 26

Allegory or the cave

Question 27

Single path structure

Answer 27

Labyrinth

Question 28

What did Socrates found?

Answer 28

Classical Greek philosophy but never actually but his beliefs into writing

Question 29

Where is Chauvet Cave? What does it contain? Dated to when?

Answer 29

Southern France
Earliest known cave paintings
28,000 B.C.

Question 30

What is the Woman of Willendorf

Answer 30

Portable sculpture that bears a strong resemblance to the female form, despite being rather abstract to some degree

Question 31

Where is Serpent Mound located? How big? Creation attributed to who?

Answer 31

Peebles Ohio
1,300 foot long earthwork
Fort Ancient culture

Question 32

What did the Mound builder cultures often create

Answer 32

Structures which were geometric or sometimes based on animals

Question 33

Substance, usually ground, that used to give color in the tempera, fresco, and early oil painting techniques

Answer 33

Pigment

Question 34

What does “Three Sisters” refer to? That three things do they rely on?

Answer 34

Hopewell and Fort Ancients cultures

Maize, squash, beans

Question 35

What did many Native American cultures use as weapons

Answer 35

Flint

Question 36

Sculpture in which the forms project substantially from the background

Answer 36

High Relief

Question 37

Simultaneous expression of two or more rhythms

Answer 37

Polyrhythms