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Art 305 Midterm Exam Questions AndAnswers @ 2024
New York artist Keith Haring was: - Answer Always considered a "fine" artist.
Artists have used projective technologies: - Answer Since the Pop Art movement.
US cultural critic bell hooks deals with popular cultural images because: - Answer All the
Above
-She is convinced that representations are meaningful.
-She believes students can understand theory when it is related to examples from
popular culture.
-Because she wants to help students think critically about their lives.
The term "bipolar opposition" is used to refer to a linked pair of concepts: - Answer All
the Above
-In which one is valued over the other.
-In which both concepts are considered absolutes.
-In which the concepts are in conflict
Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism": - Answer Has to do with how people from
Western culture (i.e., Europe and the US) view those from the Near East and Far East.
Ferdinand de Saussure used the term "signified" to refer to: - Answer The object or
concept the word refers to.
True or false. The male/female bipolar opposition is considered "the primary opposition
,within western metaphysics." - Answer True
John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" analyzed: - Answer How seeing is affected by what we
know or what we believe
True/False. The "fine arts" of painting, sculpture and architecture have always been
valued more than "low" cultural products or "crafts" like ceramics or textiles. - Answer
False
Marshall McLuhan's media theories analyze: - Answer How the content of any media
system consists of the preceding media environment.
Becoming visually literate means: - Answer All the Above
-Being able to understand, interpret and evaluate the significance of images in our lives.
-Understanding the intended, evolving and received meanings of images.
-Developing a critical awareness of mass media images.
The site that marks the transition from an oral tradition to a pictographic writing tradition
is: - Answer Ancient Iraq
Unlike the mass media, the Modern tradition of fine art stressed which inherent values: -
Answer The value of the unique art object, the value of the artist's individual personality,
and the value of innovative artistic forms.
The monumental sculptures known as Coatlicue and David have in common: - Answer All
the Above
-They both embody the cultural values of their makers.
-They are both iconic representations of the cities in which they originally stood.
-They are both large stone sculptures.
, True or False. Human vision is intelligent. We "see" as our culture teaches us to see. -
Answer True
The relationship between the Signifier and the Signified is NEVER: - Answer Natural
Ancient Aztec art is rarely represented in today's mass media because - Answer None of
the above
- It doesn't deal with any of the important things in life.
-It's bad art
-It involves weak communication skills.
Within cultural context, a myth is: - Answer An explanation for how things originate
and/or work
Given that our experience is, to a great extent, governed by pictures (particularly images
in the mass media): - Answer All the Above
-First hand experience is diminished.
-We need to understand the picture itself to determine how it becomes a signifying
structure of its own accord, that is, to understand how it creates meaning on its own
terms.
-Rather than interpreting reality, pictures seem to have replaced it
Images have a meaning that: - Answer None of the above
-Remains static over time.
- Is singular
- Is fixed
The manuscript image of Christ as geometer: - Answer Was created to introduce the book
of Genesis.
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