OSU ART 101 Midterm exam 1 100% correct

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Question 1

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In René Magritte's The Treason of Images, the phrase "This is not a pipe" refers to which of the following concepts?

the world of the object is different in French than English

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the image is a representation of a pipe but not the object itself

there are many different kinds of pipes

language can never be the same for everyone

Question 2

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Janine Antoni's Touch is a video work in which _____________________ is flattened through illusion.

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cultural expectations and associations

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our sense of depth

linear perspective

mass and density

Question 3

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Which one of these works depicts the American flag as a heavily textured object using wax, pigment, and newspaper?

Faith Ringold's God Bless America

Dread Scott's What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?

Andy Warhol's Race Riot

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Jasper John's Flag

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What kind of line is created by movement or direction, such as the line established by a pointing finger, the direction of a glance, or a body moving through space?

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implied line

contour line

outline

line of sight

Question 5

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Which of the following was initially not designed as a public artwork?

Alexander Calder's Le Grande Vitesse

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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Charles the First

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Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial

Richard Serra's Tilted Arc

Question 6

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How is Sol LeWitt’s line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C best described?

contour

romantic

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analytic

personal

Question 7

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African masks appeared to the art historian Kenneth Clark as expressive of...

the early origins of western art history

the superiority of African craftsmanship over European craftsmanship

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a world of fear and darkness

the vibrancy and liveliness of African culture

Question 8

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An example of nonobjective, or nonrepresentational work, meaning it doesn't represent something taken from reality is...

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Kazimir Malevich's Black Square

Michelangelo's David

Wolf Kahn's Afterglow

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Charles the First

Question 9

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Much of the content in Jan Van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami is understood from

examining the paintings...

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iconography

unique use of color

technical mastery

exhibition history

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In the video where an alternate interpretation of Arnolfini and his Wife is explored, it is thought that the woman in the painting may be...

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dead

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symbolic of the biblical Eve

the Virgin Mary

the mistress of Arnolfini

Question 11

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Jan van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called...

aesthetics

content

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iconography

form

Question 12

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__________________ was a controversial artwork originally installed in the Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan as part of the GSA's Art in Public Places Program. It ended up being removed.

Alexander Calder's Le Grande Vitesse

Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio

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Richard Serra's Tilted Arc

Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial

Question 13

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Marcel Duschamp’s Nude descending a Staircase was a study of movement that it's American audience had difficulty understanding. In this way it was very similar to another developing medium at the time, which was ____________________.

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performance art

installation art

photography

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the motion picture

Question 14

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What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence?

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It depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face, showing her as liberated and equal to men.

It is depicts a Muslim woman in Western dress to show her as rebellious.

It reflects the artist’s comfort with the roles of women in Iranian society.

It depicts the prominent place of women within every aspect of Iranian culture.

Question 15

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The crown, the name "SAMO," and the letter "X" are all part of the personal iconography of...

Giovanni Arnolfini

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jan Van Eyck

Lorna Simpson

Question 16

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According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of “seeing”?

reception, interpreting, understanding

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reception, extraction, inference

detection, processing, reference

looking, seeing, believing

Question 17

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Jean-Marie Tjiboau Cultural Center, designed by Renzo Piano utilizes...

natural lighting

bamboo as a building material

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breezes for natural cooling

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all of the answers

Question 18

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Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express

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his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.

a universal concept of freedom.

his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.

Question 19

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What, according to philosopher Nelson Goodman, "selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes and constructs?"?

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the eye

museum curators

history

prejudices

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Which artist writes instructions allowing the placement of lines to be determined by museum staff?

Jasper Johns

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Sol LeWitt

Matthew Ritchie

Vincent van Gogh

Question 21

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How is Wolf Kahn’s Afterglow I comparable to James Turrell's Roden Crater?

Both works are representations of real landscapes

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Both works are experiential and immersive

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Both works are largely concerned with the effects of light

Both works are highly representational

Question 22

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Ken Gonzalez-Day's At daylight the miserable man was carried to an oak...," is an example of a work where...

an artist collaborates with biologists to further understand oak trees

the oak tree is used as a vehicle to show off the linear patterns of the branches

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an aesthetically pleasing image gives way to dark, historical content

the aesthetic qualities of the image where meant to inspire curiosity for the natural world

Question 23

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The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered...

SAMO

symbolic

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abstract

natural

Question 24

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On what basis did a Cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenity in showing an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’ s work?

The exhibition was cancelled

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The work was not controversial

The controversial work was removed from the exhibition

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The work possessed "serious artistic value."

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The Vietnam War Memorial by Maya Lin was highly criticized initially because...

it was not representational

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it was designed by a young woman with little experience

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all of the answers are correct

it was sunk into the ground, not elevated

Question 26

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External stimuli enter the nervous system through our eyes in the process of...

inference

extraction

retraction

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reception

Question 27

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The imagery in Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America was inspired by the...

parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.

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Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

McCarthy era in the 1950s.

Desert Storm conflict.

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The colors, patterns, and textures in Beatriz Milhazes Carambola are all inspired by...

old images from magazines

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the history of European settlement in Brazil

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her immediate surroundings in Rio de Janiero

IKEA prints

Question 29

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Renzo Piano’s Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of “green architecture.” Such buildings are praised for their

use of renewable materials

site specific, environmentally dictated design schemes

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all of these answers apply

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self-sufficiency

Question 30

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What makes Sol LeWitt’s line autographic?

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it is recognizably his own

it has no contour lines

it is personally expressive

it is based on a grid

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In one-point perspective, all of the lines that create the illusion of depth, (go back into space towards the horizon), follow this rule...

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they all converge in a single point on the horizon

they all remain parallel as they go back into space

they all are implied and of the same length

they all converge in a single point in the center of the image

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Non-objective art...

is synonymous with "abstract art."

typically involves the use of trompe l'oeil.

gives concrete form to the representation of objects.

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does not refer to the natural world in any way.

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Upon completion, Michelangelo's David was regarded as...

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all the answers are correct

a highly charged political statement

a highly technical sculptural achievement

a gratuitous display of male nudity

UnansweredQuestion 34

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Which element of Janine Antoni’s Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space?

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vantage point (camera view)

figure-ground line

vanishing point

Antoni's movement

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What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci’s perspective system in The Last Supper and the painting’s actual location?

Evidence for multiple perspective systems was discovered in the room during the painting’s restoration.

The painting’s perspective projects a vantage point diagonally into the location room.

When the painting is viewed in its actual location, a second vanishing point can be seen.

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The painting’s perspective is directly linked to the architectural space of its location.

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How does Chérie Samba’s Calvary use line to draw a parallel between the painter and Christ?

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Implied lines arc over the artist, connecting him with the soldier’s imminent whipping.

Precise lines are painted to show the whips strike the artist.

Grid lines are drawn connecting the artist with the soldiers’ whips.

Expressive lines in bright colors create a halo effect around the artist.

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Which kind of line delineates shape and form?

diagonal line

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contour line

line of sight

implied line

Question 38

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In two dimensional works of art, two-point perspective is a technique used for what?

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to create the illusion of depth using lines going back towards two vanishing points

for building up layers and creating contrast

to show the viewpoints of two individuals

to create overlap and the illusion of shallow space

Question 39

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Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most do not. Which of the following best describes these qualities?

They must “look” like artists, dressing in turtlenecks and berets and never smile.

Artists are always “outsiders,” meaning they stand in opposition to the dominant paradigms of their day.

Artists must be willing to “buck the system" and not participate in society.

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Artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions.

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What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an ancient Greek statue represents a “higher state of civilization” than a West African mask?

aesthetic

Afrocentric

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ethnocentric

American

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Martin Puryear’s Self is a sculpture where the forms’ density and mass are...

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not what they seem

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eroded by water over time

determined by the properties of basalt

determined by what remains after carving it from a massive block of wood

Question 42

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Jan van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, like René Magritte’s The Treason of Images, is concerned with...

political messages

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images that are not literally what they appear to be

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experimental painting materials

expensive object that signify wealth and success

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Shirin Neshat is uniquely situated to create work that comments on misunderstanding between Islam and the west because...

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all the answers apply

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she feels as though she doesn't fully relate to contemporary Iranian culture, or western culture.

she was born and raised in secular Iran

she has spent much of her adult life in western countries

Question 44

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Which of the following aspects of Albert Bierstadt’s painting Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast renders the image naturalistic rather than realistic?

the boats in the center are not historically accurate

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The image depicted is not an actual place and Bierstadt never visited the location.

a critic described the painting as "a portrait of the place depicted".

the species of trees painted on the left side of the composition are painted incorrectly

Question 45

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Both Howling Wolf’s and John Taylors Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge have the same...

level of representation

composition

level of abstraction

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content

Question 46

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"Mudra" refers to which aspect of Buddhist representation/iconography?

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the hand gestures of the Buddha

the age of the Buddha

the power of the Buddha

The Buddha's geographic location

Question 47

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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Charles the First is a tribute to...

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Charlie Parker

Charles Mingus

Chuck D

Charles Barkley

Question 48

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The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called...

calligraphy

bismillah

icons

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mudras

Question 49

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How is a viewer’s experience of the Rubin vase similar to that of experiencing Eliasson’s Suney?

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Perception changes in response to light.

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Forms are intentionally distorted.

Space is organized from the same perspective.

Abstraction is the dominant style of both.

Question 50

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In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

linear perspective

scientific perspective

atmospheric perspective

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figure-ground reversal

Question 51

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Andrea Mantegna’s Dead Christ appears out of proportion due to...

symmetry

two-point perspective

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foreshortening

one-point perspective

Question 52

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Gustave Caillebotte’s Place de l’Europe on a Rainy Day is based on what specific type of perspective?

isometric perspective

one-point linear perspective

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two-point linear perspective

trimetric perspective

Question 53

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In a work of art, "content" refers to...

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what the work means

the culture that produced the work

the way it looks

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its style

Question 54

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According the artist, Faith Ringgold, the older woman in the painting God Bless America is symbolically imprisoned by...

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the bars of an actual jail cell

McCarthyism

the scale of the painting

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her own bigotry

Question 55

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Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper exemplifies the use of...

two-point perspective

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one-point perspective

foreshortening

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multiple-point perspective

Question 56

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What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon?

the use of classical models in modern photography

the biased portrayal of bodybuilding competitors

the belief that line is the most important element in art

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the traditional representation of the female form

Question 57

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The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh indicates the power of the artist’s...

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expressive line

analytical line

contour line

classical line

Question 58

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Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?

It orients the image to the edges of the frame

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It reiterates the rationality of Socrates’ actions.

It does not; it is purely coincidental.

It refers to the passion of the moment.

Question 59

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Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely functional but...

utilitarian

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aesthetic

iconographic

objective

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What is the chief form of Islamic art?

figurative abstraction

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calligraphy

figurative representation

abstraction of animals

Quiz Score: 36 out of 60

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