Deck 38: The Body in Art

Question 1

Kaigetsudô Dohan was an artist from which culture?

A) African
B) Japanese
C) Italian
D) Mexican
E) Indian

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques possessed by male athletes.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?

A) a prehistoric stonemason
B) an Egyptian pharaoh
C) a Greek athlete
D) a Roman circus performer
E) a contemporary DJ

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________.

A) classical Greek sculptures
B) prehistoric goddess figurines
C) Romanesque tapestries
D) photographs made during Venus's lifetime
E) all of the other answers

Question 5

The sculpture of a head, which probably represents a king of Ife (4.134), was made using which medium?

A) bronze
B) ivory
C) limestone
D) terracotta
E) none of the other answers

Question 6

Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus?

A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Titian
D) Édouard Manet
E) no one knows for sure who the artist was

Question 7

Anthropométries de l'epoque bleue introduced which of the following for the very first time?

A) living brushes
B) International Klein Blue
C) monochromatic paintings
D) a musical accompaniment to the presentation 
of art
E) a nude audience and clothed performers

Question 8

Which of the following issues are raised by Yasumasa Morimura's Portrait (Futago)?

A) the meaning of an artwork gains depth when one knows about the context
B) race and gender can be seen as artificial constructions
C) we should not make assumptions about identity based on appearances
D) our understanding of who we are can be directly influenced by the past
E) all of the other answers

Question 9

The date of Willem de Kooning's painting Woman I is?

A) 24,000-22,000 bce
B) 545-500 bce
C) 1100-1200 ce
D) 1950-2 ce
E) the date is not known

Question 10

Which of the following is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf?

A) it is a portable doorstop
B) it is a deadly weapon
C) it is an ancient piggy bank
D) it is the first garden gnome
E) none of the other answers

Question 11

Which type of beauty does Kaigetsudô Dohan's painting Beautiful Woman represent?

A) the physical beauty of a young geisha's apprenticeship
B) the inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geisha
C) the kind of beauty that will win the woman the beauty pageant in which she is participating
D) supernatural beauty bestowed by the gods
E) the beauty inherent in the woman's musical abilities, represented by the instrument she holds

Question 12

What concepts of beauty are conveyed in the sculpture of a head, believed to represent a king of Ife (4.134)?

A) the community's core values of composure, wisdom, and power
B) both internal attributes as well as external appearance
C) elegant lines, delicate features, and a composed demeanor
D) graceful and refined facial features
E) all of the other answers

Question 13

What is the medium of Yves Klein's Anthropométries de l'epoque bleue?

A) metal sculpture
B) performance
C) sculptural clothing
D) pastels on paper
E) sticks and bones

Question 14

What is the medium of Yasumasa Morimura's Portrait (Futago)?

A) painted limestone
B) oil on canvas
C) fresco
D) color photograph
E) multimedia installation

Question 15

Willem de Kooning intended his painting Woman I to ________.

A) emphasize elements of female anatomy
B) convey the inherent abilities of women to give and protect life
C) reflect universal ideas of powerful women
D) refer to images of women made throughout the history of art
E) all of the other answers

Question 16

When and where was the artist of Olympia working?

A) prehistoric Europe
B) sixteenth-century Italy
C) nineteenth-century France
D) twentieth-century Japan
E) twenty-first-century America

Question 17

Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others?

A) Titian, Venus of Urbino
B) Édouard Manet, Olympia
C) Yasumasa Morimura, Portrait (Futago)
D) they were all made at the same time
E) no one knows the date of at least one of these artworks

Question 18

What was the artist of Olympia trying to do?

A) persuade the gods to bestow good fortune on the community
B) convince viewers that a fictional figure actually existed
C) pretend that his walls were actually windows onto a beautiful garden
D) update a classical subject for his own time
E) all of the other answers

Question 19

Titian's Venus of Urbino shows ________.

A) a full-bodied figure, understood to be a sign of fertility
B) a classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting
C) a French model in the guise of a prostitute with an assertive gaze
D) a Japanese man pretending to be a female icon of Western culture
E) none of the other answers

Question 20

The Woman from Willendorf is made out of which medium?

A) woven reeds
B) limestone
C) fired ceramic
D) marble
E) oil paint on canvas

Question 21

What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work?

A) she took pictures of thousands of nude people
B) she impersonated a famous work of art
C) she instructed a room full of models to stand still and not speak
D) she dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair
E) she direct other people to paint with their bodies

Question 22

Spencer Tunick considers his artworks to be ________.

A) performances
B) photographs
C) installations
D) drawings
E) priceless

Question 23

The key component of Spencer Tunick's installation at Zócalo, Mexico City, is ________

A) a group of police officers
B) thousands of nude bodies
C) replicas of famous sculptures
D) a replica of Mt. Vesuvius erupting
E) none of the other answers

Question 24

Who is the artist of Loving Care?

A) Yasumasa Morimura
B) Yves Klein
C) Janine Antoni
D) Vanessa Beecroft
E) Spencer Tunick

Question 25

When was VB35 created?

A) 1960
B) 1976
C) 1984
D) 1998
E) 2010

Question 26

How were Icarus and Blue Nude II made?

A) using cast bronze
B) using stained glass
C) using painted paper cutouts
D) using dried fruit
E) using crumpled bed sheets

Question 27

Key issues addressed by VB35 are that "feminine actions" should be celebrated, as should female artists.