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Henry Sayre’s
A World of Art
Sixth Edition
By Bryan Wheeler
Texas Tech University
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – A World of Art 3
Chapter 2 – Developing Visual Literacy 8
Chapter 3 – Seeing the Value in Art 15
Chapter 4 – Line 20
Chapter 5 – Space 25
Chapter 6 – Light and Color 31
Chapter 7 – Other Formal Elements 37
Chapter 8 – The Principles of Design 41
Chapter 9 – Drawing 46
Chapter 10 – Printmaking 52
Chapter 11 – Painting 58
Chapter 12 – Photography and Time-Based Media 65
Chapter 13 – Sculpture 72
Chapter 14 – The Crafts as Fine Art 78
Chapter 15 – Architecture 83
Chapter 16 – The Design Profession 89
Chapter 17 – The Ancient World 93
Chapter 18 – The Age of Faith 99
Chapter 19 – The Renaissance through the Baroque 105
Chapter 20 – The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 112
Chapter 21 – From 1900 to the Present 118
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Chapter 1 – A World of Art
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Gates is a typical artwork by the collaborative team:
a) Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt.
b) Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
c) Herbert and Dorothy Vogel.
d) Ron and Nancy Howard.
2. Renzo Piano’s Jean–Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of “green
architecture.” Such buildings are praised for their:
a) innovative design.
b) use of high-tech materials.
c) lack of renewable resources.
d) self-sufficiency.
3. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:
a) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
b) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
c) a universal concept of freedom.
d) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights movement.
4. The imagery in Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America was inspired by the:
a) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
b) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
c) Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
d) Desert Storm conflict.
5. What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?
a) it is purely aesthetic
b) it is a fertility idol
c) it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it
d) it was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the
United States
6. Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America (p. 17) features an American flag turned into a
prison cell. How is the figure of the woman contradictory?
a) She is both free and imprisoned.
b) She is both nationalistic and patriotic.
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c) She is both angry and joyous.
d) She is both patriotic and racist.
7. In America (p. 17), Yukinori Yanagi directly addresses:
a) the traditional view that Japan is a distinct and isolated culture.
b) why people value their country’s flag.
c) the rise of technology and the Web.
d) how countries break down over time.
8. According to Sayre what are the three steps in the process of “seeing”?
a) detection, processing, reference
b) reception, extraction, inference
c) looking, seeing, believing
d) reception, interpreting, understanding
9. What might have affected Pablo Picasso’s severe style of representation seen in The
Women of Avignon (pp. 13-15)?
a) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
b) Native American sites he visited
c) his collection of Asian ceramics
d) the imagery on Korean tapestries
10. Where did Christo and Jean-Claude locate their temporary installation, The Gates?
a) In northern California
b) In the Great Salt Lake, Utah
c) New York’s Central Park
d) On the Arkansas River in Colorado
e) At the Reichstag in Germany
11. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be
_______ rather than functional.
a) utilitarian
b) aesthetic
c) objective
d) iconographic
12. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to “give form to the immaterial,” to represent
hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings in:
a) religious art
b) art based on close observation of one’s immediate surroundings
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c) contemporary art that deals with “identity politics”, like Ana Mendieta’s Silueta
d) a & b
13. Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America was inspired by:
a) a parade in NYC on Allies Day, May 1917
b) the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
c) a universal concept of freedom
d) the Desert Storm conflict
14. In The Language of Art, what, according to Nelson Goodman (p. 16), “selects, rejects,
organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes, and constructs”?
a) the museum curator
b) the Quantel Program
c) the artist Jasper Johns
d) the eye
15. Where did the court painters for the 16th century Mughul ruler, Akbar, draw
inspiration for their illuminated manuscripts?
a) Japanese Ukiyo-e prints
b) Greek marble statues
c) African ritual masks
d) Western paintings and prints
16. Which of these statements apply to the remarkable 16th century Mughal ruler, Akbar?
a) he promoted religious tolerance, inviting followers of many different religions to
participate in his court
b) he expanded his empire at the turn of the first millennium CE to include all of the
Mediterranean and most of modern Europe
c) he helped promote the spread of Buddhism from India, across China, and
eventually to Japan
d) he established early trade routes across the Atlantic Ocean to North America
17. Where does Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama draw inspiration for her work?
a) careful observation of her surroundings
b) art history
c) from very personal visual and existential experiences of her surroundings
d) her desire to express her subconscious
18. Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities
that most don’t. Which of the following best describes these qualities?
a) artists must be willing to “buck the system”
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b) artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new
directions
c) they must “look” like artists, dress in turtle-necks and berets or have lots of tattoos
d)artists are always “outsiders,” meaning they stand in opposition to the dominant
paradigms of their day
19. Which of these is not a principle of “green architecture”?
a)architects look to continue to use building techniques and materials that have been
in use since the Industrial Revolution in the West
b) self-sufficiency of buildings (lack of reliance on nonsustainable energy sources)
c) it seeks to use sustainable building materials and renewable resources
d) it is suitable to the climate and culture in which it is built
20. Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right
side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
a) Classical Greek sculpture
b) African ritual masks
c) Renaissance painting
d)careful observation of live models
Short Answer Questions
21. Give an example from the textbook of an artwork used for political purposes.
22. There are two basic steps to seeing. The first is physical; the second is _______.
23. Do you consider the critique of The Gates as a “violation of the natural landscape” to
24. Why might Japanese visitors to The Gates interpret it differently than others?
25. What is the primary role or “function of the artist” that Christo and Jean-Claude
26. The Karaori Kimono is more an aesthetic object that a functional one. Why?
Essay Questions
27. How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude execute their project The Gates? How do the
gates themselves relate to the history and geography of their location? What did the gates
evoke for Japanese viewers?
28. Identify the four roles that artists play that have not changed over time. Cite
29. Use examples from the chapter to illustrate how artworks featuring the American flag
30. In the West, when we see objects made in African, Oceanic, Native American, or
Asian cultures in museums, we see them as works of art. Why is this problematic? How
were many of these objects originally “used”?
31. Discuss the creative process of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon. What
transformations took place in the early sketches and how does the final product differ
from the artist’s initial sketch?