The model for Manet's Olympia was a well known:
Parisian courtesan
Utamaro's print A Pair of Lovers is an erotic image referred to as a:
Shunga Print
The Japanese term "ukiyo" identifies subject matter known as the:
Floating world
The compositional elements of the African Dogon Primordial Couple convey:
harmony of the first male and female union.
The bulbous form of a tiny limestone carving nicknamed the Venus of Willendorf may have been a/an:
A charm or fetish
Among the Ashanti, a doll was first successfully used in a ritual to conceive a child by a woman named:
Akua
Which popular expression is graphically conveyed by the Aztec Marriage Couple?
Tying the knot
In the 17th century, European missionaries collected native Oceanic carvings to preserve the heritage and religion of the indigenous populations.
False
The contrasting textural surfaces and the title of Bourgeois' sculpture Blind Man's Bluff are an invitation to touch the sculpture that may be difficult to resist.
True
The Potawatomi Male Figure was used in a Native American culture as a love doll to cast a magic spell on another person
True
Hershman's computer-video installation Deep Contact is a scientific animation about the mating rituals of Neolithic cultures.
False
Stone female figures carved with nubile, plank-like bodies were found in the Islands of the Aegean Sea.
Cycladiccla
In India, Krishna is conventionally depicted in the color
Blue
The erotic figures on the exterior of the Kandarya Mahadeva Temple at Khajuraho are relevant to the religion.
Hindu
An , which is a Turkish harem girl, was the subject of a painting by Ingres.
Odalisque
The simplified, cylindrical brass forms of Brancusi's Torso of a Young Man may be interpreted as a symbol.
Phallic
The ceramic effigy vessel of a Mother and Nursing Child was found in a of the Mississippi Period Cahokian culture.
Tomb
A wall painting in the Pompeiian Villa of Mysteries depicts:
whipping an initiate to a Dionysian cult.
O'Keeffe's Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow is considered abstract sexual imagery.
True
Masaccio's The Expulsion from Paradise is of which primordial couple?
Adam and Eve
In ancient Greece, water was collected by women from the community fountain house in a:
Hydria
The subject of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party is a tribute to:
significant women in Western culture.
A bronze vessel with three legs that was used for food during the Chinese Zhou dynasty was a:
Ting
The dominant theme in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper pertains to:
the Christian religion
The simplicity of Mu Qi's painting, Six Persimmons (by Mu-Qi) , reflects which principle?
Zen Buddhism
A distinctive feature of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is the large, round rooms that served as ceremonial centers called:
Kivas
Safdie's Montreal Habitat was built with the efficient and economical use of:
prefabricated modular units.
The parts of the Toba Batak House have symbolic meaning with the internal spaces seen as:
maternal or womblike
Fallingwater shows much influence from what architecture, especially in its cantilevered porches and flowing interior space?
Japanese and Chinese
A type of Native American Indian basket created by Pomo women was woven so tightly that it could:
hold water
U.S. Pavilion, a geodesic dome, is an example of the what style?
somewhat post Modernism, but NOT International Style (plain square boxlike buildings)
A Table of Desserts alludes to what?
the idea of vanitas, the impermanence of all earthly things and the inevitability of death.
In Africa, what was a valued resource that could be carved and given as a high-level diplomatic gift?
Ivory
The Japanese tea ceremony is a formalized ritual that was influenced by what?
Zen Buddhism
What in Chinese buildings protects earthen foundations from rain damage?
Wide, projecting eaves
The Mali's Dogon Cliff Dwellings with Granaries are primarily to accommodate groups of villagers leaving the flat land to farming.
True
Photographer focused on close-ups of natural forms, such as artichokes, to reveal the beauty of inherent textures and patterns.
Edward Weston
The Bamana people of Mali perform a ritual dance with a headdress of a Chi Wara spirit that represents a mythic who introduced farming to the community.
Antelope
The was a portable tent used by Great Plains Indians.
Tipi
The Pompeiian House of Vettii featured an open BLANK with a pool or impluvium for collecting rainwater.
Atrium
Sue Coe's There Is No Escape is an indictment of the what?
Meat Industry
What is Warhol "celebrating" in Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup and Del Monte Freestone Peach Halves?
Commercialism
Lascaux's images probably had a(n) ____ purpose linked to nature's bounty.
Ritual
Prehistoric artists painted images in the ____ of the caves.
Shelter
Australian Aboriginals painted "contour maps" indicating food and water locations; these maps were then ____ after a ritual celebration.
Destroy
Coe's There Is No Escape is from a series condemning the meat industry called ____.
Porkopolis
The ancient Chinese made ____ vessels for storing wine.
Bronze
As its name suggests, the ancient Greek ____ was used for carrying and storing water.
Hydria
The Pomo tribal baskets, covered with feathers and shells were made as ceremonial ____.
Gifts
Warhol's work, such as Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup celebrated the commercial art of ____.
Advertising
Salt (during 16th century) was considered so valuable that it was a source of wealth; the European nobility used elaborate saltcellars as a ____ .
Status symbol
Jan Davidsz de Heem's (from the Netherlands) A Table of Desserts reflects cultural and ____ beliefs.
Religious
Mu Qi's Six Persimmons emphasizes ____ in life.
Meditation and simplicity
An important component of European still life painting was the idea of ____.
food as beauty
In the early twentieth century, still life paintings were not concerned with ____.
Food as sustenence
The Venus of Willendorf is a statue of
pregnant Venus
The paintings in the Villa of Mysteries were done by the?
Greek
An odalisque was a member of
A Harem
In prehistoric times fertility was
An important concern
Louise Bourgeois' Blind Man's Bluff is a sculpture of
Bulbous forms
Historically in India, images of ideal erotic sexuality were ____.
common in temples and miniature paintings
Duane Hanson made what:
Self Portrait with Model; realistically detailed sculpture that fooled the viewer's eye
Who created "Fallingwater"?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Villa Rotunda
Andrea Palladio
Gnaw (Chocolate blocks)
Janine Antoni
Pie Counter
Wayne Thiebaud
The Expulsion from Paradise
Masaccio
Wedding Portrait
Jan Van Eyck
A Pair of Lovers
Kitagawa Utamaro
Grand Odalisque
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Olympia
Edward Manet
Deep Contact
Lynn Hershman
Torso of a Young Man
Constantin Brancusi
Pregnant Woman
Alice Neel
Virgin and Child in Niche
Rogier Van Der Weyden