How Is Robert Smithson's Tatey Different From Traditional Landscapes?
Chapter 1 – A World of Art
Multiple Choice Questions with Slides
1. (Slide: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Umbrellas, Japan and United States) (figs. 1-2; pp. 9-10)
The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:
a) Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt
b) Christo and Jeanne-Claude
c) Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
d) Ron and Nancy Howard
Answer: (b)
2. (Slide: Albert Bierdstadt’s Rocky Mountains) (fig. 3; p. 11)
Bierdstadt’s picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:
a) European experience
b) World War I experience
c) Polynesian heritage
d) Alaskan Expeditions
Answer: (a)
3. (Slide: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty) (fig. 6; p. 15)
This work is/was in:
a) …show more content…
Great Salt Lake, Utah
b) Lake Superior, Michigan
c) Lake Geneva, Switzerland
d) Wonderlake, Illinois
Answer: (a)
4. (Slide: Jasper Johns’s Three Flags) (fig. 10; p. 18)
Jasper Johns chose to paint this image of the American flag to express:
a) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era
b) his proclivity for things seen but not examined
c) a universal concept of freedom
d) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement
Answer: (b)
5. (Slide: Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America) (fig. 12; p. 20)
This imagery in this work was inspired by the:
a) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917
b) McCarthy era in the 1950s
c) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
d) Desert Storm conflict
Answer: (c)
Multiple Choice Questions without Slides
6. In the painting Central Mountain (pp. 12-13), Chinese artist Wu Chen uses landscape elements to express the contradictory principle of _______, which is central to the philosophical tenets of Tao.
a) Nirvana
b) Black and white
c) Yin and Yang
d) I Ching
Answer: (c)
7. Erna Motna’s painting Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming (pp. 13-14) depicts the preparations for a corroboree, or:
a) a human sacrifice
b) a funeral
c) a ritual hunt
d) a celebration ceremony
Answer: (d)
8. Scott Tyler’s Proper Way to View the American Flag, features an American Flag on the floor (pp. 20-21). The U.S. flag, thought to represent freedom, plays an ironic role. What is it? a) it has become the painting b) it is reduced to a mere photograph c) it prevents you from signing the book d) it shocks anyone that touches it with a small electrical volt
Answer: (c)
9. To evaluate a work of art properly we must deal with it in the context of: a) the culture that produced it b) art museums c) our own values d) our own time
Answer: (a)
10. According to Sayre (p. 19), what are the three steps in the process of “seeing”?
a) detection, processing, reference
b) reception, extraction, inference
c) looking, seeing, believing
d) reception, interpreting, understanding
Answer: (b)
11. In The Language of Art, what, according to Nelson Goodman (p. 18), “selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes, and constructs”?
a) the museum curator
b) the Quantel Program
c) the artist Jasper Johns
d) the eye
Answer: (d)
12. How is Erna Motna’s Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming similar to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (pp. 14-15)?
a) similar size and shape
b) same subject matter
c) each uses abstract symbols
d) both use the same medium
Answer: (c)
Short Answer Questions
13.
Part of Albert Bierstadt’s influence for his painting The Rocky Mountains came from a very different source. What was it?
14. Why was Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty different from traditional landscapes?
15. Give an example from the textbook of an artwork used for political purposes.
16. There are two basic steps to seeing. The first is physical; the second is ___ __.
17. In Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Umbrella Project, what two factors connect the two different sets of umbrellas to their locations? _______ and _______.
18. What aspect of ancient Australian ideology did Erna Motna include in his painting, Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming?
19. Wu Chen’s landscape, The Central Mountains, raises an ordinary landscape scene to a higher level of beauty, what the Chinese call _______.
Essay Questions
20. How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceive the Umbrella Project? What was the intended symbolism of the umbrellas themselves? The color? Geographic location?
21. Using the works of Erna Motna and Wu Chen, discuss the various ways in which artists describe their world.
22. There are four roles that artists play that have not changed over the centuries. What are these roles and cite examples from Chapter 1 for each
role.
23. Using examples from the chapter, how do works of art featuring the American Flag have six very different meanings?
24. Explain how Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains represents the “sublime.”
Multiple Choice Questions with Slides
1. (Slide: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Umbrellas, Japan and United States) (figs. 1-2; pp. 9-10)
The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:
a) Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt
b) Christo and Jeanne-Claude
c) Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
d) Ron and Nancy Howard
Answer: (b)
2. (Slide: Albert Bierdstadt’s Rocky Mountains) (fig. 3; p. 11)
Bierdstadt’s picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his:
a) European experience
b) World War I experience
c) Polynesian heritage
d) Alaskan Expeditions
Answer: (a)
3. (Slide: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty) (fig. 6; p. 15)
This work is/was in:
a) …show more content…
Great Salt Lake, Utah
b) Lake Superior, Michigan
c) Lake Geneva, Switzerland
d) Wonderlake, Illinois
Answer: (a)
4. (Slide: Jasper Johns’s Three Flags) (fig. 10; p. 18)
Jasper Johns chose to paint this image of the American flag to express:
a) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era
b) his proclivity for things seen but not examined
c) a universal concept of freedom
d) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement
Answer: (b)
5. (Slide: Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America) (fig. 12; p. 20)
This imagery in this work was inspired by the:
a) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917
b) McCarthy era in the 1950s
c) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
d) Desert Storm conflict
Answer: (c)
Multiple Choice Questions without Slides
6. In the painting Central Mountain (pp. 12-13), Chinese artist Wu Chen uses landscape elements to express the contradictory principle of _______, which is central to the philosophical tenets of Tao.
a) Nirvana
b) Black and white
c) Yin and Yang
d) I Ching
Answer: (c)
7. Erna Motna’s painting Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming (pp. 13-14) depicts the preparations for a corroboree, or:
a) a human sacrifice
b) a funeral
c) a ritual hunt
d) a celebration ceremony
Answer: (d)
8. Scott Tyler’s Proper Way to View the American Flag, features an American Flag on the floor (pp. 20-21). The U.S. flag, thought to represent freedom, plays an ironic role. What is it? a) it has become the painting b) it is reduced to a mere photograph c) it prevents you from signing the book d) it shocks anyone that touches it with a small electrical volt
Answer: (c)
9. To evaluate a work of art properly we must deal with it in the context of: a) the culture that produced it b) art museums c) our own values d) our own time
Answer: (a)
10. According to Sayre (p. 19), what are the three steps in the process of “seeing”?
a) detection, processing, reference
b) reception, extraction, inference
c) looking, seeing, believing
d) reception, interpreting, understanding
Answer: (b)
11. In The Language of Art, what, according to Nelson Goodman (p. 18), “selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes, and constructs”?
a) the museum curator
b) the Quantel Program
c) the artist Jasper Johns
d) the eye
Answer: (d)
12. How is Erna Motna’s Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming similar to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (pp. 14-15)?
a) similar size and shape
b) same subject matter
c) each uses abstract symbols
d) both use the same medium
Answer: (c)
Short Answer Questions
13.
Part of Albert Bierstadt’s influence for his painting The Rocky Mountains came from a very different source. What was it?
14. Why was Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty different from traditional landscapes?
15. Give an example from the textbook of an artwork used for political purposes.
16. There are two basic steps to seeing. The first is physical; the second is ___ __.
17. In Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Umbrella Project, what two factors connect the two different sets of umbrellas to their locations? _______ and _______.
18. What aspect of ancient Australian ideology did Erna Motna include in his painting, Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming?
19. Wu Chen’s landscape, The Central Mountains, raises an ordinary landscape scene to a higher level of beauty, what the Chinese call _______.
Essay Questions
20. How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceive the Umbrella Project? What was the intended symbolism of the umbrellas themselves? The color? Geographic location?
21. Using the works of Erna Motna and Wu Chen, discuss the various ways in which artists describe their world.
22. There are four roles that artists play that have not changed over the centuries. What are these roles and cite examples from Chapter 1 for each
role.
23. Using examples from the chapter, how do works of art featuring the American Flag have six very different meanings?
24. Explain how Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains represents the “sublime.”