Deck 11: Engaging With Form and Content

Question 1

Both biographical and historical analysis are important for understanding the meaning of Velázquez's Las Meninas.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Picasso's Las Meninas is ________.

A) representational
B) non-objective
C) impressionistic
D) three-dimensional
E) illusionistic

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (1.161) is a representational artwork.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's representational portrayal of the woman in Grande Odalisque ________ her body.

A) depicts accurately
B) distorts
C) depicts the flaws of
D) represents a feminist analysis of
E) none of the other answers

Question 5

Formal analysis cannot be used to study the film Triumph of the Will.

Question 6

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the café, is one of ________.

A) pleasure
B) excitement
C) anger Formal Analysis
Combined Analysis of Las Meninas
D) loneliness
E) romance

Question 7

Match the methodological approach with its definition:

Question 8

Triumph of the Will is a film about ________.

A) a slave uprising in pre-Civil War America
B) a Nazi rally and the speeches of Adolf Hitler
C) the overthrow of the Iraqi government
D) health care in America in the twenty-first 
century
E) none of the other answers

Question 9

Picasso's Las Meninas is less abstract than Velázquez's original.

Question 10

Picasso was an inventive artist who never used artworks from the past for inspiration.

Question 11

Feminist analysis of Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres considers the role of women in nineteenth-century France but not viewers' perspectives on gender.

Question 12

Match the artwork with a good description of its style:

Question 13

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks reflects the solemn mood of the USA at ________.

A) the levels of crime in New York City
B) the onset of the Great Depression
C) its entry into World War II
D) the death of a President
E) the time of Prohibition

Question 14

Thomas Struth's Museo del Prado 7 is ________.

A) non-objective
B) abstract
C) Cubist Conclusion
D) representational
E) stylized

Question 15

Amongst the events in her life that might have inspired Eva Hesse's work Hang-Up is ________.

A) her birth in Germany
B) the break-up of her marriage
C) her happy family life
D) moving to New York City
E) minimalist sculpture

Question 16

Thomas Struth photographs ________.

A) famous artworks
B) people looking at art
C) the inside of museums
D) paintings in the Prado museum
E) all of the other answers