Exam 33: Art and Science

Jean Dubuffet's Cow with the Subtle Nose combined new scientific advancements in photography with Renaissance techniques of linear perspective.

Astrolabes were treated as purely scientific instruments that did not need decoration or inscriptions.

Marcia Smilack's synesthetic photograph of ripples on water made her think of the sound of ________.

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

Georges Seurat feverishly painted Sunday on La Grande Jatte in one weekend.

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique, which means a dramatic use of light and dark:

Why did Jasper Johns paint the 1965 version of his Flag in green, orange, and black?

Match the quotation with the artist and artwork it describes:

Synesthesia is when stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in another, for example visualizing color when one hears music.

Body Worlds is controversial because the figures in the exhibition never gave permission for their bodies to be used.

Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?

Willard Wigan carves grains of rice and sand and paints them with an eyelash.

Salvador Dalí's painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks, ants, and a distorted face, all of which are symbols of his mother, who died the month before this was painted.

Astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of the 1965 version of Jasper Johns's Flag a solid rectangle with a black dot in the middle?

Artworks by Martín Ramírez, made during his time in Californian mental hospitals, often:

Thomas Eakins painted a surgery he witnessed in person. Who is shown in the painting, but was unlikely to be at the actual surgery?

When the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was completed in 1989, artists, scholars, and scientists throughout the world universally applauded the restorers' efforts.

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

Art Brut is art that is: