Art Appreciation

These cave images are:a.A painting made over 15,000 years agob. graffiti made as a joke by some boys around 60 years ago.

Cave painting Lascaux, c. 15,000 B.C. France

This picture is :a.An illustration for a children’s storyb. an artwork

Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River 1851- Robert S Duncanson

This is:a.A briefcaseb. An artwork

H.R.H Briefcase, 1985-Marilyn Levine

This is :a.Diagram of color/value relationshipsb. An artwork

Homage to the Square : Glow 1966, Josef Albers

This is:a.A panel from a comic stripb. An artwork

Whaam! 1963- Roy Lichtenstein

This is a photograph of:a.An oil spill cleanupb.An environmental artwork

Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet , Little Bay, Sydney, Australia 1968-69-Christo and Jeanne-Claude

This is :a.An artworkb.A western movie costume

Shirt, Broule Sioux, early 19th century

This is:a. A protest by animal rights activistsb. An artwork

Monogram 1959-Robert Rauschenberg

This is:

a.A major piece of American architecture

b.Just another old office building

Wainwright Building, St. Louis Missouri 1890-91- Louis Sullivan

This is :

a.An artwork

b.A suit of clothes

Felt Suit, 1970

Joseph Beuys

Ch. 1 Review Questions

1. What does art involve besides artworks?

2. What were the three forms generally accepted as art prior to 1900?

3. Define- archaeologist.

4. Define the word medium as it is used in art.

5. Explain why people today might think of a stuffed goat as an artwork.

Ch. 1 Review Questions

6. Choose an object you like and use regularly (i.e pen, a mug, a key chain) write a short paragraph describing what the object tells about life in your culture today.

7. Divide the works in this chapter into two groups: those made before 1940, and those made after 1940. Explain what the works in each group have in common.

Ch. 1 Review Questions

8. Imagine you are an art buyer for a museum. Recommend three non-traditional works from this chapter for purchase by the museum. Justify your choices: What makes these works nontraditional?

9. Define abstract art.

10. Define relics.