Art 1107 exam 1
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What does the "content" of art refer to?
a. Personal style
b. Materials and technical methods of production
c. Meaning or mass of ideas
d. Line, color, and shape - Answer c. Meaning or mass of ideas
What is studied when an analyst evaluates the symbolic images within a work of
art?
a. Iconography
b. Composition
c. Formal elements
d. Context - Answer a. Iconography
What is the critical approach that analyzes and critiques an artwork based on the
compositional arrangement of its elements?
a. Composition
,b. Formalist criticism
c. Context
d. Iconography - Answer b. Formalist criticism
What kind of critical approach considers the interrelated historical, social, and
political conditions that surround a work of art?
a. Semiotics
b. Context
c. Content
d. Deconstruction - Answer b. Context
What is the primary subject of Shirin Neshat's Speechless?
a. Stereotypes of women in contemporary Western culture
b. Discrimination against Muslims in the United States after 9/11
c. The experience of women in a contemporary fundamentalist Islamic culture
d. Lack of religious freedom - Answer c. The experience of women in a
contemporary fundamentalist Islamic culture
,Which type of criticism holds that art should be studied as the product of
individuals who are shaped by their pasts, their unconscious urges, and their
social histories?
a. Psychoanalytic criticism
b. Iconography
c. Formalist criticism
d. Semiotics - Answer a. Psychoanalytic criticism
What geometrical shape is repeated in this image?
a. A circle
b. A square
c. A triangle
d. A rectangle - Answer a. A circle
Which choice best describes how the written text is featured in this photograph?
a. The text is arranged in vertical lines that form a border around the image.
b. Lines of text cover all parts of the image.
c. The text is arranged in horizontal lines that cover the woman's face like a veil.
d. The text appears below the image, like a caption. - Answer c. The text is
arranged in horizontal lines that cover the woman's face like a veil.
, Which of the following choices best describes mood of the scene in this painting?
a. Tragically catastrophic
b. Lonely and isolated
c. Festive and energetic
d. Bustling and frenetic - Answer b. Lonely and isolated
Which statement best describes the viewpoint from which this scene is depicted?
a. The viewpoint of someone outside on the street, looking into the diner
b. The viewpoint of someone in a high rise, looking down on the diner
c. A "bird's-eye" viewpoint
d. The viewpoint of someone standing inside the diner - Answer a. The viewpoint
of someone outside on the street, looking into the diner
Which statement best describes the formal elements and composition of this
vessel?
a. All of the lines in the vessel are diagonal.
b. The vessel is asymmetrical.
c. The composition is frontal and symmetrical.
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