ART 305 Questions & Answers-
Italian artist Paolo Uccello's drawing of a "mazzaccio" (a man's hat):
✓ :~~ Demonstrates the scientific potential of perspective images.
Shows how perspective renderings aniticpated computer modeling images.
Demonstrates the artist's mastery of perspective.
Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola was:
✓ :~~ The first woman artist to become an international celebrity.
Leonardo da Vinci's portraits of women represent a radical departure for the
Renaissance, in that they present women as
✓ :~~ Individualized human beings with personal agency.
German printmaker Albrecht Durer's woodcut "Man Drawing a Lute" is important
because:
✓ :~~ It depicts a mechanical device that artists used to make their images
look more realistic.
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It is found in the book Durer wrote on persepctive.
It depicts a device that Michelangelo may have used.
Filippo Brunelleschi's painting of the Baptistry near the Florence Cathedral fused:
✓ :~~ Art and science.
Leonardo's "Last Supper" can be considered an "up-dated" depiction because:
✓ :~~ Da Vinci situates the historic event inside an Italian Renaissance palace.
The art historical importance of the Renaissance can be found in:
✓ :~~ ts revolutionary development of perspective.
Its revolutionary attention to the human condition.
Its revolutionary development of printed books.
Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Wedding" portrait:
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✓ :~~ Shows how artists could make convincing images without the use of
linear perspective
The Protestant Reformation was:
✓ :~~ Initiated by Martin Luther.
A protest of perceived excesses by the Catholic Church, particularly the selling of
indulgences.
A cataclysmic blow at the authority of the Pope.
In "The Last Supper" mural, in order to underscore Jesus' liturgical centrality and
stability, Leonardo da Vinci configures Jesus as:
✓ :~~ An equilateral triangle.
The site of the linear perspective vanishing point.
The psychological center of the composition.
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Unlike the mass media, the Modern tradition of fine art stressed which inherent
values:
✓ :~~
Given that our experience is, to a great extent, governed by pictures (particularly
images in the mass media):
✓ :~~
Ancient Aztec art is rarely represented in today's mass media because:
✓ :~~ It's bad art.
It involves weak communication skills.
It doesn't deal with any of the important things in life.
NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!
Within cultural context, a myth is:
✓ :~~ An explanation for how things originate and/or work.
Becoming visually literate means:
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