Art 125, Quiz no 2
Note that the processes of artistic development that we have traced BEGIN in many cultures (Egypt, Archaic and Classical Greece, Minoan Crete, Scythian Russia, Celtic Europe, Etruscan Italy) - but it all focusses and combines in Hellenistic Greece. THAT is where the whole lot finally comes together and we get the kind of art that modern people tend to enjoy (Boy Throttling Goose, remember??).
So this quiz is checking that you know the origins of the ideas, and how to recognize them, and also that you know how they came together, and how to recognize that. Plus some vocab. You can do this!
SLIDE IDENTIFICATIONS
1. Minoan 2. Scythian 3. Celtic 4. Etruscan 5. Greek
1. Boy with fish (1) 8. Fresco with hills and flowers (1)
2. Mars of Todi (4) 9. Market woman (5)
3. Charioteer (5) 10. Mirror with couple dancing (4)
4. Gold Panther (2) 11. Openwork torque with odd creatures (3)
5. Shield (3) 12. Fallen Warrior (5)
6. Relief showing wrestlers (5) 13. Venus de Milo (5)
7. Saddle (2) 14. She-Wolf (4)
15. Dying Gaul (5)
EGYPTIAN STUFF
1. True/Yes 2. False/no
16. Surviving Egyptian art is primarily concerned with the preservation of the universe (1)
17. The person who protected the body of the dead pharoah was his widow (2)
18. Egyptian tomb art is intellectually truthful (1)
19. It didn't matter if anyone ever saw the art in the tombs (1)
20. Egyptian tomb art is visually truthful (2)
21. The person who protected the sun was the living pharoah (2)
22. Egyptian art tends to conform to the dynamic compositional type (2)
CLASSICAL STUFF
23. The picture plane is the area of a picture defined by a frame (2)
24. Greek kouros and kore statues are records of what individual people looked like (2)
25. The attempt to show a perfect person by presenting them nude, in the contrapposto stance and with their face and body at rest is called "idealism" (2) the word is Idealization - "idealism" is a personal honour code
26. The Greeks invented foreshortening (1)
27. Greek kouros and kore statues record the moments when individual people became most near being perfect (e.g. as war heroes, or as medal-winning athletes) (1)
28. The false picture plane is when the artist makes you think objects in the painting are occupying your physical space. (1)
29. Classical Beauty has nothing to do with personal reaction or personal taste (1)
30. The picture plane is the assumed surface of a picture (1)
31. Polyclitus' Spear Bearer was designed to show the perfect male physique (1)
32. The picture plane is the actual surface of a picture (2)
33. Greek kouros and kore statues benefit society by irradiating all who see them with perfection. (1)
34. Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Cnidus is the earliest known large-scale female nude sculpture (1)
35. Foreshortening is a system of making objects seem to project. (1)
36. Classical artists added an erotic element to their statues to strengthen our attraction to them (1)
37. Once you can create recession AND projection, the picture plane takes on a new importance (1)
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
38. Greek temples were built using the post and lintel system (1)
39. The geometry of Greek temples was perfect (2)
40. The Doric capital is saucer shaped (1)
41. The Ionic capital is saucer shaped (2)
42. The entasis is a slight bulge in a column's shaft (1)
43. Metopes sometimes contain paintings or relief sculptures (1)
44. Greek temples were slightly distorted to make them appear more perfect (1)
45. Triglyphs are only found in the frieze of the Doric Order (1)
ARCHITECTURE VOCAB
Match each term below with its letter on the diagram. Then fill in the bubble number which appears above that letter on this chart below. e.g. if you think the frieze is at letter g, fill in bubble number 2.
Bubble numbers: 1 2 3 4 5
Vocab letters: a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n
46. stylobate 52. necking 56. pediment
49. metope 53. entablature 57. abacus
50. raking cornice 54. architrave 58. triglyph
51. capital 55. stereobate 59. frieze
There is no diagram to scan in here, SO check out the vocab against Honour and Fleming's diagram. The character "l" did not correspond to anything in the diagram - just keeping you on your toes!