1. Vivid opening. Describe an image you thought was one of the best elements of the show. Write with color and vibe.
2. The overall impact or significance of the display or performance. Ex: "The Graffiti show at Artspace attempts to broaden visitors' sense of the definition of fine arts."
3. Principal elements of the event or display. Use detail. "Sculptures, masks, fabrics, paintings and photos are the principal elements of the museum. One eight foot-tall mahogany sculpture of a warrior was entitled 'The Hunter.'"
4. Your evaluation: what you think was effective or appealing.
- Also, what you thought was difficult to understand or to like.
- Technical successes or problems.
- Philosophical approval or disagreements.
5. Names of people and / or groups responsible for the production.
6. Location, date(s). Ticket price.
7. Online source for more info.
8. Titling: snappy title, explanatory subtitle.
9. Third person voice at all times.
Saved to Google Doc folder. Scored at 15 pts.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Requiescat in pace, JD Salinger, 1919 - 2010
J. D. Salinger, who the NY Times says "was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91."
Raised in Manhattan, says Wikipedia, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II.
In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2]
The novel remains widely read and controversial,[3] selling around 250,000 copies a year.
In the mood for reading a bit of Salinger?
Raised in Manhattan, says Wikipedia, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II.
In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2]
The novel remains widely read and controversial,[3] selling around 250,000 copies a year.
In the mood for reading a bit of Salinger?
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, 1410 CE
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or simply the Très Riches Heures (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) is a richly decorated Book of Hours (containing prayers to be said by the lay faithful at each of the canonical hours of the day), says Wikipedia.
It was commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry around 1410. It is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, "le roi des manuscrits enluminés" ("the king of illuminated manuscripts"). The Très Riches Heures consists of 416 pages, including 131 with large miniatures and many more with border decorations or historiated initials, that are among the high points of International Gothic painting in spite of their small size. There are 300 decorated capital letters.
The book was created over a period of nearly a century, in three main campaigns, led by the Limbourg brothers, Barthélemy van Eyck, and Jean Colombe. The book is now Ms. 65 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. The Limbourg brothers used very fine brushes, expensive paints and such to make the paintings.
It was commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry around 1410. It is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, "le roi des manuscrits enluminés" ("the king of illuminated manuscripts"). The Très Riches Heures consists of 416 pages, including 131 with large miniatures and many more with border decorations or historiated initials, that are among the high points of International Gothic painting in spite of their small size. There are 300 decorated capital letters.
The book was created over a period of nearly a century, in three main campaigns, led by the Limbourg brothers, Barthélemy van Eyck, and Jean Colombe. The book is now Ms. 65 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. The Limbourg brothers used very fine brushes, expensive paints and such to make the paintings.
Book of Kells - "Amazing Art of Kells" Exhibit Opening
Book of Kells - "Amazing Art of Kells" Exhibit Opening
Originally uploaded by Washington Centerville Public Library
It is a masterwork of Western calligraphy and represents the pinnacle of Insular illumination. It is also widely regarded as Ireland's finest national treasure.
The illustrations and ornamentation of the Book of Kells surpass that of other Insular Gospels in extravagance and complexity. The decoration combines traditional Christian iconography with the ornate swirling motifs typical of Insular art.
Figures of humans, animals and mythical beasts, together with Celtic knots and interlacing patterns in vibrant colours, enliven the manuscript's pages. Many of these minor decorative elements are imbued with Christian symbolism and so further emphasise the themes of the major illustrations.
The Insular majuscule script of the text itself appears to be the work of at least three different scribes. The lettering is in iron-gall ink, and the colours used were derived from a wide range of substances, many of which were imports from distant lands.
The manuscript takes its name from the Abbey of Kells that was its home for centuries. Today, it is on permanent display at the Trinity College Library, Dublin.
World's most notable amulet: the Udjat Eye or Eye of Horus
The Eye of Horus (Wedjat)[1] (previously Wadjet and the Eye of the Moon; and afterwards as The Eye of Ra)[2] or ("Udjat")[3] is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities, in this case from Horus or Ra. The symbol is seen on images of Horus' mother, Isis, and on other deities associated with her, says Wikipedia.
In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "Wedjat".[4][5] It was the eye of one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bast, Mut, and Hathor as well. Wedjat was a solar deity and this symbol began as her eye, an all seeing eye. In early artwork, Hathor is also depicted with this eye.[6] Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus. The Wedjat or Eye of Horus is "the central element" of seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II.[7]
The Wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the afterlife"[8] and to ward off evil. Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.[9]
In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "Wedjat".[4][5] It was the eye of one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bast, Mut, and Hathor as well. Wedjat was a solar deity and this symbol began as her eye, an all seeing eye. In early artwork, Hathor is also depicted with this eye.[6] Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus. The Wedjat or Eye of Horus is "the central element" of seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II.[7]
The Wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the afterlife"[8] and to ward off evil. Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.[9]
The Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt
The tomb paintings associated with the Pharaonic era are the basis of Beckett's second stop in her History of Painting.
The time is 3000 BC.
Recent scholarship, btw, links the construction of the Sphinx to the builder of the second great pyramid, Pharaoh Kahfre.
The time is 3000 BC.
Recent scholarship, btw, links the construction of the Sphinx to the builder of the second great pyramid, Pharaoh Kahfre.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sister Wendy Beckett: the BBC art guide brings us the History of Painting
Sister Wendy Beckett (born 25 February 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC.
Venus of Willendorf
This stone-carving, dated between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE, has been dubbed Venus of Willendorf because she was found in Willendorf, Austria. Today she's housed in a museum in nearby Vienna.
It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
Is she a primal mother goddess, representation of women or a particular woman, an image used in fertility rituals, or a doll?
The Venus is not a realistic portrayal, notes Wikipedia, but rather an idealization of the female figure. The figure has no visible face, her head being covered with circular horizontal bands of what might be rows of plaited hair, or a type of headdress.[2]
It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
Is she a primal mother goddess, representation of women or a particular woman, an image used in fertility rituals, or a doll?
The Venus is not a realistic portrayal, notes Wikipedia, but rather an idealization of the female figure. The figure has no visible face, her head being covered with circular horizontal bands of what might be rows of plaited hair, or a type of headdress.[2]
Paleolithic art: in the Cave of Altamira, Northern Spain
Paleolithic cave art developed across Europe, from the Urals to the Iberian Peninusula, from 35,000 to 11,000 BC. The Paleolithic Age is the Old Stone Age.
Because of their deep galleries, isolated from external climatic influences, these caves are particularly well preserved. The caves are inscribed as masterpieces of creative genius and as the humanity’s earliest accomplished art.
Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
Because of their deep galleries, isolated from external climatic influences, these caves are particularly well preserved. The caves are inscribed as masterpieces of creative genius and as the humanity’s earliest accomplished art.
Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
Paleolithic Art: life 20,000 years ago in Europe
The cave at Lascaux, France, contains nearly 2,000 figures, which can be grouped into three main categories — animals, human figures and abstract signs. Notably, says Wikipedia, the paintings contain no images of the surrounding landscape or the vegetation of the time[6]. Most of the major images have been painted onto the walls using mineral pigments( red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal), although some designs have also been incised into the stone.
The most famous section of the cave is The Great Hall of the Bulls where bulls, equines and stags are depicted. But it is the four black bulls that are the dominant figures among the 36 animals represented here. One of the bulls is 17 feet (5.2 m) long — the largest animal discovered so far in cave art. Additionally, the bulls appear to be in motion.
A painting referred to as "The Crossed Bison" and found in the chamber called the Nave is often held as an example of the skill of the Paleolithic cave painters. The crossed hind legs show the ability to use perspective in a manner that wasn't seen again until the 15th century.
Many of the bovine figures are aurochs.
The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa, but is now extinct; it survived in Europe until 1627.
The most famous section of the cave is The Great Hall of the Bulls where bulls, equines and stags are depicted. But it is the four black bulls that are the dominant figures among the 36 animals represented here. One of the bulls is 17 feet (5.2 m) long — the largest animal discovered so far in cave art. Additionally, the bulls appear to be in motion.
A painting referred to as "The Crossed Bison" and found in the chamber called the Nave is often held as an example of the skill of the Paleolithic cave painters. The crossed hind legs show the ability to use perspective in a manner that wasn't seen again until the 15th century.
Many of the bovine figures are aurochs.
The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa, but is now extinct; it survived in Europe until 1627.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Second semester Fine Arts Survey papers, projects, tests and point totals
- Arts experience essays: one per month for these 4 months:
Jan, Feb, Mar and Ap.
You may write about a
- Fine Arts event such as an opera or orchestra concert or
- about eating at an ethnic cuisine restaurant - Thai, Indian or Japanese, for ex - or
- an indie movie that is approved by your teacher.
No more than 2 of the 4 essays may be on movies.
- also, an art exhibit at a gallery or museum.
The idea is to force yourself to get acquainted with fine arts experiences not normally on a students' agenda.
All tests and essays scored at 15 pts.
The arts experience essay must be
- descriptive: basic info plus sensory details
- evaluative: what was appealing, what was not clear, what might have been improved.
Multiple-choice, open notes tests based on class web site notes: approximately one per month.
First test is on Mozart and the 18th century.
In-class projects - to be completed as homework, when necessary.
Essays researched and written in class (3 or 4, total). Example: comparing Mozart and Michael Jackson.
All to be submitted and stored in GoogleDocs.
An overview -
Indie arts experiences (4) - 60 pts
Tests (4) - 60 pts
Projects (4) - 60
Essays in class (3) - 45 pts
Total - 225 pts.
Jan, Feb, Mar and Ap.
You may write about a
- Fine Arts event such as an opera or orchestra concert or
- about eating at an ethnic cuisine restaurant - Thai, Indian or Japanese, for ex - or
- an indie movie that is approved by your teacher.
No more than 2 of the 4 essays may be on movies.
- also, an art exhibit at a gallery or museum.
The idea is to force yourself to get acquainted with fine arts experiences not normally on a students' agenda.
All tests and essays scored at 15 pts.
The arts experience essay must be
- descriptive: basic info plus sensory details
- evaluative: what was appealing, what was not clear, what might have been improved.
Multiple-choice, open notes tests based on class web site notes: approximately one per month.
First test is on Mozart and the 18th century.
In-class projects - to be completed as homework, when necessary.
Essays researched and written in class (3 or 4, total). Example: comparing Mozart and Michael Jackson.
All to be submitted and stored in GoogleDocs.
An overview -
Indie arts experiences (4) - 60 pts
Tests (4) - 60 pts
Projects (4) - 60
Essays in class (3) - 45 pts
Total - 225 pts.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Discussion questions on the movie Amadeus
1. What kinds of things does the movie say about Mozart's ability as a composer (does he work hard? is he well-trained? does he "earn" his success?)
2. What kinds of things does the movie say about Mozart as a man (citizen, husband, father)? In today's superstar terms, is he a "role model"?
3. How does the movie compare Salieri's talent and personal traits to Mozart's? Is Salieri a complete villain in this story or is he justified in some way?
4. The characters in this movie are real people and the basic outline of Mozart's career is accurate, BUT the specific events are invented (Salieri never tried to kill Mozart and the two were professional rivals, but not personal rivals). Does this change the way you think of the film?
5. Does the movie's depiction of Mozart's music help you to hear it differently (verbal descriptions, etc.)? Specifically think about Salieri's description of the music he sees on the page before he concludes that God has given this genius to someone who is unworthy, Mozart's description of the opening of the Marriage of Figaro when he is trying to convince the emperor to allow him to finish it, and the scene near the end when Salieri is writing down the music from the Requiem that Mozart is singing to him.)
2. What kinds of things does the movie say about Mozart as a man (citizen, husband, father)? In today's superstar terms, is he a "role model"?
3. How does the movie compare Salieri's talent and personal traits to Mozart's? Is Salieri a complete villain in this story or is he justified in some way?
4. The characters in this movie are real people and the basic outline of Mozart's career is accurate, BUT the specific events are invented (Salieri never tried to kill Mozart and the two were professional rivals, but not personal rivals). Does this change the way you think of the film?
5. Does the movie's depiction of Mozart's music help you to hear it differently (verbal descriptions, etc.)? Specifically think about Salieri's description of the music he sees on the page before he concludes that God has given this genius to someone who is unworthy, Mozart's description of the opening of the Marriage of Figaro when he is trying to convince the emperor to allow him to finish it, and the scene near the end when Salieri is writing down the music from the Requiem that Mozart is singing to him.)
A review of details from the award-winning movie Amadeus
Amadeus, the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, review questions -
1. How does Mozart propose to Constanza?
He says it backwards. 'Em yrram.' Mozart finds speaking backwards very amusing, especially when obscenities are involved.
2. What does Salieri NOT include in his promise to God?
The virtue of charity. he said, 'In return I give you my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility- every hour of my life.'
3. How do the Mozarts secure extra money?
They pawn household objects. Gold snuffboxes to be exact.
4. How many times is the opera Don Giovanni played in Vienna?
Five. Salieri said, 'Through my influence, I saw to it Don Giovanni was played only five times in Vienna - but in secret I went to every one of those five, worshipping the sound that I alone seemed to hear.'
5. The first time we see Mozart as a child, for whom is he performing?
For the Pope. He plays the harpsicord blindfolded, then repeats the same tune on the violin.
6. The first time we see Mozart as an adult, for whom is he performing?
The Archbishop of Salzburg. He makes an embarrassing late appearance, because he's fooling around with Constanza.
7. What is the first of Mozart's operas we hear parodied in the common theater? Don Giovanni. The ghost of Don Giovanni's father is played by a midget.
8. How many years pass between Mozart's death and Salieri's attempted suicide? 32. '...and he kept me alive to torture! Thirty-two years of torture, thirty-two years!'
9. What is Constanza's 'penalty' for losing a round of musical chairs? To show her legs. A very risque' act for the day!
10. What is the name of the Mozarts' maid? Laurel. She's hired by Salieri, who uses her as a spy.
11. How old was Mozart when he composed his first symphony? Age seven. 'This man had written his first Concerto at the age of four, his first symphony at seven, a full-scale opera at twelve!'
12. How many Italians serve as the Emperor's musical advisors? There are three. All musical idiots, according to Mozart.
13. Where does Constanza go to get her health back? The spa. She was sent away by her mother, after Wolfgang's drinking and erratic behavior took their toll on her.
14. Who from the cast was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar? Both
principal actors were. Abraham won, but graciously remembered Hulce in his speech.
15. What did Salieri's father call the child Mozart? Old man Salieri called him "A trained monkey." Salieri the child wanted to make music. His father asked him if he wanted to be a trained monkey like the young Mozart. Throughout his youth, Mozart and his sister Nannerl toured the palaces of Europe as child prodigies. Other detractors also referred to the child Mozart as a trained monkey. More of a reflection upon the father than the child?
16. What did Salieri call Mozart? "The creature." In fact, Mozart had a very puerile and off-color sense of humor. He enjoyed speaking backwards and had a high, strange laugh.
17. Who is Mozart's employer when the movie begins? The Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Mozart was unhappy working under the patronage system of his day. His employment with the prince archbishop was frustrating and stifling. The last 10 years of his life (age 25-35) Mozart strove to be a successful independent musician. If he had lived longer, he might have been the first composer to triumph over the patronage system. As it happened, Beethoven is credited with being the first.
18. Although Constanze and Mozart had six children, only two lived to adulthood. How many were shown in the movie? One. Only Karl Thomas is shown in the movie, and the child never says a word! In truth, Constanze gave birth to a son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang, in July 1791, 5 months before Mozart died. This pregnancy/child was never shown or mentioned in the movie! (There has been some speculation about the paternity of Franz Xaver.) Of the six children, Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver Wolfgang were the only two who survived into adulthood. Salieri actually taught Karl Thomas as a composition student after Mozart's death. He taught him for free.
19. In 1984 "Amadeus" won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Who won the Best Actor award? Salieri: the actor F. Murray Abraham. Ironically, Salieri (Abraham) finally beat Wolfgang (Hulce) at something! Sam Waterston was also nominated for Best Actor in "The Killing Fields" and Simon Callow is the actor who played Schickaneder (not nominated). Maurice Jarre, who won the 1984 Oscar for original score ("A Passage to India") remarked that he was glad that Mozart was not eligible for nomination!
20. Who was Emperor Joseph's famous sister? (The child Mozart asked her to marry him.) Marie Antoinette. Emperor Joseph mentions her several times in the movie. He references the time that the child Mozart asked her to marry him and he later mentions that his dear sister Antoinette "is beginning to fear her own people"... smart girl. (Her own people finally guillotined her.) Maria Theresa was Joseph's and Antoinette's mother and Elizabeth was Joseph's niece.
21. What mask does Leopold choose for the costume party scene? Tragedy/comedy. This is the mask that is resurrected for Salieri's harrassment of Mozart in the movie. In truth, the strange circumstances surrounding the "Requiem" commissioning are thought to be the work of Count Walsegg, a nobleman who was notorious for commissioning compositions and trying to pass them off as his own.
22. What did Count Orsini-Rosenberg remove from "The Marriage of Figaro" score? The dance scene. Count Orsini-Rosenberg was the Italian born master of opera in the court of Emperor Joseph II. Viennese composers were required to get his permission before beginning work on a new opera.
23. "The Magic Flute" is classified as "singspiel". What does Schickaneder call it in the movie? He calls it a vaudeville. "Singspiel" is very much like musical comedy. Vaudeville describes it well. In the hands of a genius such as Mozart, however, the resulting "Magic Flute" transcends the genre and becomes a masterpiece. Recommended: http://detnews.com/showtime/9710/16/opera/opera.htm ...a fascinating comparison of "The Magic Flute" and "Star Wars".
24. According to the movie, from whom does Mozart get his inspiration for the Queen of the Night's famous aria? Frau Weber (his mother-in-law). I don't know if this scene has any historical basis, but it is a rich moment in the film! Originally, Frau Weber was Mozart's landlady. He fell in love with her older daughter who did not return his affections. Then he turned his attention to Constanze, the younger. Maria Magdalena Hoffdeml is the focus of great rumor and speculation concerning Mozart. Although she is never seen or mentioned in the movie, Maria was Mozart's piano student and alleged mistress. One of the Mozart death theories has Maria's angry husband attempting to murder her, poisoning Mozart, and committing suicide. Maria was pregnant during all this, supposedly with Mozart's child.
25. Whom does the movie portray as the commissioner of Mozart's "Requiem"? Antonio Salieri. The rumor mill of the day was filled with stories of Salieri's poisoning of the great Mozart. These rumors are actually mentioned in Beethoven's conversation books. The entire movie is based on the assumption that Salieri's old age confession and alleged letter is truth. In fact, no proof exists to support the idea that Salieri murdered Mozart. Proof does exist that he resented him, was very jealous of him, and sabotaged his work, but no proof of murder. Facts: Salieri was frequently at Mozart's deathbed and attended his funeral. The "Requiem", however, was eventually completed by Mozart's composition student, Franz Xaver Sussmayer (recognize the youngest child's name?) who often accompanied Constanze to the spa at Baden Baden.
26. What "miracle" made it possible for Salieri to pursue music in Vienna? His father choked to death. Salieri's father was a businessman who forbade his son from following in Mozart's footsteps. His death made it possible for Salieri to fulfil his dream... or at least to try.
27. When preparing to meet the Emperor in Vienna, how many wigs does Mozart try on? " Mozart tries on three wigs, one of which is a decidedly unorthodox shade of pink. Indecisive, he asks his hairdresser, "Why don't I have three heads?" and then erupts in his annoying, high-pitched giggle.
28. After Mozart hears Salieri's march of welcome, how does he humiliate Salieri in front of the Emperor? He corrects and embellishes the march. After pointing out that a phrase "doesn't really work," he improves the phrase, and then plays variations on the march's theme. Salieri's face is wonderful as he seethes with rage while trying to look composed for the others in the room.
29. When Emperor Joseph suggests that Mozart would make a good music teacher for his niece Elizabeth, what protest does Salieri offer? Choosing Mozart might look like the Emperor is playing favorites. Salieri tells the Emperor he wants to protect him from any appearance of showing favoritism. Princess Elizabeth rolls her eyes at this, seeing the truth much more clearly than her uncle. In the director's cut, Salieri also suggests that Mozart has taken advantage of female music students in the past.
1. How does Mozart propose to Constanza?
He says it backwards. 'Em yrram.' Mozart finds speaking backwards very amusing, especially when obscenities are involved.
2. What does Salieri NOT include in his promise to God?
The virtue of charity. he said, 'In return I give you my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility- every hour of my life.'
3. How do the Mozarts secure extra money?
They pawn household objects. Gold snuffboxes to be exact.
4. How many times is the opera Don Giovanni played in Vienna?
Five. Salieri said, 'Through my influence, I saw to it Don Giovanni was played only five times in Vienna - but in secret I went to every one of those five, worshipping the sound that I alone seemed to hear.'
5. The first time we see Mozart as a child, for whom is he performing?
For the Pope. He plays the harpsicord blindfolded, then repeats the same tune on the violin.
6. The first time we see Mozart as an adult, for whom is he performing?
The Archbishop of Salzburg. He makes an embarrassing late appearance, because he's fooling around with Constanza.
7. What is the first of Mozart's operas we hear parodied in the common theater? Don Giovanni. The ghost of Don Giovanni's father is played by a midget.
8. How many years pass between Mozart's death and Salieri's attempted suicide? 32. '...and he kept me alive to torture! Thirty-two years of torture, thirty-two years!'
9. What is Constanza's 'penalty' for losing a round of musical chairs? To show her legs. A very risque' act for the day!
10. What is the name of the Mozarts' maid? Laurel. She's hired by Salieri, who uses her as a spy.
11. How old was Mozart when he composed his first symphony? Age seven. 'This man had written his first Concerto at the age of four, his first symphony at seven, a full-scale opera at twelve!'
12. How many Italians serve as the Emperor's musical advisors? There are three. All musical idiots, according to Mozart.
13. Where does Constanza go to get her health back? The spa. She was sent away by her mother, after Wolfgang's drinking and erratic behavior took their toll on her.
14. Who from the cast was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar? Both
principal actors were. Abraham won, but graciously remembered Hulce in his speech.
15. What did Salieri's father call the child Mozart? Old man Salieri called him "A trained monkey." Salieri the child wanted to make music. His father asked him if he wanted to be a trained monkey like the young Mozart. Throughout his youth, Mozart and his sister Nannerl toured the palaces of Europe as child prodigies. Other detractors also referred to the child Mozart as a trained monkey. More of a reflection upon the father than the child?
16. What did Salieri call Mozart? "The creature." In fact, Mozart had a very puerile and off-color sense of humor. He enjoyed speaking backwards and had a high, strange laugh.
17. Who is Mozart's employer when the movie begins? The Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Mozart was unhappy working under the patronage system of his day. His employment with the prince archbishop was frustrating and stifling. The last 10 years of his life (age 25-35) Mozart strove to be a successful independent musician. If he had lived longer, he might have been the first composer to triumph over the patronage system. As it happened, Beethoven is credited with being the first.
18. Although Constanze and Mozart had six children, only two lived to adulthood. How many were shown in the movie? One. Only Karl Thomas is shown in the movie, and the child never says a word! In truth, Constanze gave birth to a son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang, in July 1791, 5 months before Mozart died. This pregnancy/child was never shown or mentioned in the movie! (There has been some speculation about the paternity of Franz Xaver.) Of the six children, Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver Wolfgang were the only two who survived into adulthood. Salieri actually taught Karl Thomas as a composition student after Mozart's death. He taught him for free.
19. In 1984 "Amadeus" won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Who won the Best Actor award? Salieri: the actor F. Murray Abraham. Ironically, Salieri (Abraham) finally beat Wolfgang (Hulce) at something! Sam Waterston was also nominated for Best Actor in "The Killing Fields" and Simon Callow is the actor who played Schickaneder (not nominated). Maurice Jarre, who won the 1984 Oscar for original score ("A Passage to India") remarked that he was glad that Mozart was not eligible for nomination!
20. Who was Emperor Joseph's famous sister? (The child Mozart asked her to marry him.) Marie Antoinette. Emperor Joseph mentions her several times in the movie. He references the time that the child Mozart asked her to marry him and he later mentions that his dear sister Antoinette "is beginning to fear her own people"... smart girl. (Her own people finally guillotined her.) Maria Theresa was Joseph's and Antoinette's mother and Elizabeth was Joseph's niece.
21. What mask does Leopold choose for the costume party scene? Tragedy/comedy. This is the mask that is resurrected for Salieri's harrassment of Mozart in the movie. In truth, the strange circumstances surrounding the "Requiem" commissioning are thought to be the work of Count Walsegg, a nobleman who was notorious for commissioning compositions and trying to pass them off as his own.
22. What did Count Orsini-Rosenberg remove from "The Marriage of Figaro" score? The dance scene. Count Orsini-Rosenberg was the Italian born master of opera in the court of Emperor Joseph II. Viennese composers were required to get his permission before beginning work on a new opera.
23. "The Magic Flute" is classified as "singspiel". What does Schickaneder call it in the movie? He calls it a vaudeville. "Singspiel" is very much like musical comedy. Vaudeville describes it well. In the hands of a genius such as Mozart, however, the resulting "Magic Flute" transcends the genre and becomes a masterpiece. Recommended: http://detnews.com/showtime/9710/16/opera/opera.htm ...a fascinating comparison of "The Magic Flute" and "Star Wars".
24. According to the movie, from whom does Mozart get his inspiration for the Queen of the Night's famous aria? Frau Weber (his mother-in-law). I don't know if this scene has any historical basis, but it is a rich moment in the film! Originally, Frau Weber was Mozart's landlady. He fell in love with her older daughter who did not return his affections. Then he turned his attention to Constanze, the younger. Maria Magdalena Hoffdeml is the focus of great rumor and speculation concerning Mozart. Although she is never seen or mentioned in the movie, Maria was Mozart's piano student and alleged mistress. One of the Mozart death theories has Maria's angry husband attempting to murder her, poisoning Mozart, and committing suicide. Maria was pregnant during all this, supposedly with Mozart's child.
25. Whom does the movie portray as the commissioner of Mozart's "Requiem"? Antonio Salieri. The rumor mill of the day was filled with stories of Salieri's poisoning of the great Mozart. These rumors are actually mentioned in Beethoven's conversation books. The entire movie is based on the assumption that Salieri's old age confession and alleged letter is truth. In fact, no proof exists to support the idea that Salieri murdered Mozart. Proof does exist that he resented him, was very jealous of him, and sabotaged his work, but no proof of murder. Facts: Salieri was frequently at Mozart's deathbed and attended his funeral. The "Requiem", however, was eventually completed by Mozart's composition student, Franz Xaver Sussmayer (recognize the youngest child's name?) who often accompanied Constanze to the spa at Baden Baden.
26. What "miracle" made it possible for Salieri to pursue music in Vienna? His father choked to death. Salieri's father was a businessman who forbade his son from following in Mozart's footsteps. His death made it possible for Salieri to fulfil his dream... or at least to try.
27. When preparing to meet the Emperor in Vienna, how many wigs does Mozart try on? " Mozart tries on three wigs, one of which is a decidedly unorthodox shade of pink. Indecisive, he asks his hairdresser, "Why don't I have three heads?" and then erupts in his annoying, high-pitched giggle.
28. After Mozart hears Salieri's march of welcome, how does he humiliate Salieri in front of the Emperor? He corrects and embellishes the march. After pointing out that a phrase "doesn't really work," he improves the phrase, and then plays variations on the march's theme. Salieri's face is wonderful as he seethes with rage while trying to look composed for the others in the room.
29. When Emperor Joseph suggests that Mozart would make a good music teacher for his niece Elizabeth, what protest does Salieri offer? Choosing Mozart might look like the Emperor is playing favorites. Salieri tells the Emperor he wants to protect him from any appearance of showing favoritism. Princess Elizabeth rolls her eyes at this, seeing the truth much more clearly than her uncle. In the director's cut, Salieri also suggests that Mozart has taken advantage of female music students in the past.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Jesuit Church in Vienna
The 18th century, or 1701 - 1800, was important in Fine Arts thusly (selected notes),
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
- JS Bach, German composer
- Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
- Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker
- Piano, first one, built by Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Steam Engine invented by Thomas Newcomen
- Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy
- Antoine Lavoisier discovers the law of conservation of mass, the basis for chemistry, and begins modern chemistry
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer
- William Blake, English artist and poet
- Jacques-Louis David, French painter
- Jane Austen, English writer
- Voltaire, French writer and philosopher
- Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
- One Thousand and One Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland.
- The French Encyclopédie
- A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
- JS Bach, German composer
- Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
- Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker
- Piano, first one, built by Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Steam Engine invented by Thomas Newcomen
- Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy
- Antoine Lavoisier discovers the law of conservation of mass, the basis for chemistry, and begins modern chemistry
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer
- William Blake, English artist and poet
- Jacques-Louis David, French painter
- Jane Austen, English writer
- Voltaire, French writer and philosopher
- Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
- One Thousand and One Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland.
- The French Encyclopédie
- A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
Drum and piano background from musician Joseph LeBlanc on Thurs, Jan 21
Dance band drummer at Mark Foy's Empress Ballroom
Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection
I've also asked him to show us the guts of a piano. We'll take a look at the felt-covered hammers that are part of the character of a pianoforte.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
In How many Ways was Mozart similar to a Rock star?
Like Michael Jackson, Mozart became a star early in his life. While MJ hit the road at age 8, Mozart had been entertaining more or less full time since age 5.
He and his talented sister were home-schooled by his father in both music as well as languages and literature. When they hit the road it was to entertain in the salons of royalty in France, Italy and Germany. The Mozart kids were prodigies - like the Jacksons, you might say.
Both stars were considered eccentrics; neither ever quite related to others based on the socialization developed by the likes of you and me. They bypassed the life-forming pressures of Middle School, entirely.
In the movie Mozart plays keyboard upside-down as a show-off stunt at a party. Reminds us of Jimi Hendrix, who played electric guitar behind his head and with his teeth.
Mozart loved to drink, dine, dance and be surrounded by his fans. He lived well, buying the best of everything. But he was not a good manager of money. At the peak of his career, age 35, he had amassed no wealth. At his untimely death he was no longer anxious about the money he owed, but he remained in debt.
He and his talented sister were home-schooled by his father in both music as well as languages and literature. When they hit the road it was to entertain in the salons of royalty in France, Italy and Germany. The Mozart kids were prodigies - like the Jacksons, you might say.
Both stars were considered eccentrics; neither ever quite related to others based on the socialization developed by the likes of you and me. They bypassed the life-forming pressures of Middle School, entirely.
In the movie Mozart plays keyboard upside-down as a show-off stunt at a party. Reminds us of Jimi Hendrix, who played electric guitar behind his head and with his teeth.
Mozart loved to drink, dine, dance and be surrounded by his fans. He lived well, buying the best of everything. But he was not a good manager of money. At the peak of his career, age 35, he had amassed no wealth. At his untimely death he was no longer anxious about the money he owed, but he remained in debt.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart[1] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Fine Arts Survey semester exam . . .
Please file all your GoogleDoc papers under a folder for me - no later than Sun at 5 pm.
Checklist -
1. Jazz presentation - Miles and a comparison
2. Manhattan quiz
3. PIcasso to Warhol presentation
4. Pollock movie review
5 Essay on the Significance of Picasso
6.Picasso Project presentation (10 images, 10 mult-choice questions)
7. Review of a performance for Nov.
8. Review of a performance for Dec.
All scored at 15 pts.
Fine Arts semester exam / Trudeau
C 1. Shallow-space still-lifes, employing illusionistic devices such as the use of shadows to cause small objects to appear to exist above the surface of the painting. Painted so as to "fool the eye." a) pret a manger b) non sequitur c) trompe l'oeil d) le sommelier.
C 2. The artist systematically transfers the image from the photographic slide onto canvases by projecting the slide onto the canvas or by using traditional grid techniques. a) surrealism b) graffiti c) photorealism d) pointillism.
C 3. Opening recommended for your descriptive essays: a) evaluation of the work
b) names of people involved c) vivid description d) significance of the event.
B 4. American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. A collapse in 1988 left him paralyzed but he continues to work. a) Alberto Hinojosa b) Chuck Close c) Jean-Michel Basquiat d) Shepard Fairey.
B 5. Greek goddess of victory: a) Daedalus b) Nike c) Athena d) Ionia.
B 6. Historic period marked by the spread of Greek language and philosophy: a) Greco-Roman b) Hellenistic c) Athenian d) Aegean.
A 7. A trove of realistic Greek sculpture of the golden age can notably be found in the
a) British Museum b) National Sculpture Gallery, Wash, DC c) Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth d) The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
A 8. The acropolis of Athens: a) peak overlooking the city b) classical temple
c) Athena, the city's goddess d) philosophical peak of the golden age.
D 9. Sculpture featured in the RW Norton Art Foundation gallery: a) Dean and Delucca
b) Dolce and Gabbana c) Ptolemy and Plutarch d) Remington and Russell.
B 10. "This might well be on your next test!" a) Sotto voce b) Nota bene c) Ad hoc
d) Sic transit gloria.
C 11. Considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, this artist's work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory and modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. a) Lysippos of Alexandria b) Alexander Calder c) Auguste Rodin d) Jean Dubuffet.
A 12. "testy, thick-skinned, thoughtless, threatening, tight, timid, tired, tiresome, troubled, truculent, typical, undesirable, unsuitable, unsure:"
a) adjectives b) adverbs c) nouns d) sobriquets.
D 13. Preferable vocab for your writing in Fine Arts: a) "Great!" b) "Terrific!" c) "Crisp!" d) "Unctuous!" e) "Lapidary!"
A 14. Capital city of Senegal: a) Dakar b) Maputo c) Lagos d) Fez.
B 15. Sings in Wolof, inspired by sufis, band's name is the Super Etoile: a) Adnan Kashoggi b) Youssou n'Dour c) Nina Simone d) Jhene.
A 16. Swahili: a) East Africa b) Mediterranean Africa c) Arabian peninsula d) West Africa.
A 17. African region with most intimate relationship with the US: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
C 18. The Pharaonic civilisation, one of the world's earliest and longest-lasting societies: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
D 19. The wealthiest part of the continent. Deposits of gold and diamonds, rich farmland and additional minerals: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
B 20. The Rift Valley is considered the home of human kind. It is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth: : a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
A 21. Gold mines were the source of the power of the Yoruba, Ghana and Songhai Empires: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
A 22. Darius the Great: a) Iran b) Iraq c) Saudi Arabia d) Afghanistan.
A 23. A sculptured artwork in which a modelled form is raised from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project: a) relief b) frieze c) free-standing d) pediment.
A 24. SUMAS features African art from the major art-producing regions of Africa, including Mali, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast of West Africa, Cameroon, and the Congo. a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
B 25. It houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the tenth to the twentieth century: a) Dallas Museum of Art b) Meadows Museum of Art c) Nasher Sculpture Center d) Crow Collection of Asian Art.
C 26. Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Richard Serra: a) Dallas Museum of Art b) Meadows Museum of Art c) Nasher Sculpture Center d) Crow Collection of Asian Art.
A 27. Piano and harpsichord keys, violin, guitar, and cello fingerboards, endpieces, pegs and chinrests. Traditionally, black piano and harpsichord keys and the black pieces in chess: a) ebony b) teak c) maple d) mahogany.
A 28. African sculpture was influential in the work of European artists such as Picasso and a) Magritte b) Van Gogh c) Dali d) Matisse.
A 29. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz had one more name: a) Picasso b) Warhol c) Cezanne d) el Greco.
B 30. Picasso's portrayal of the German bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War: a) d' Avignon b) Guernica c) Seville d) Madrid.
D 31. The sharp mind and free manner of an American writer and collector who would become one of Picasso's most important patrons was captured in a famous portrait. a) Alice B Toklas b) Eleanor Roosevelt c) Ella Fitzgerald d) Gertrude Stein.
B 32. Most of this European nation was an African colony from 711 to 1492 CE. It was controlled by the African Arabic/Berber Muslims known as the Moors. The Islamic invaders engendered lovely creations in the arts: architecture, music, design, etc. a) France b) Spain c) Portugal d) Italy.
C 33. The Helga Pictures are a compilation of tempera and dry brush paintings, watercolours and pencil studies secretly created within a span of over fifteen years by one of the most august of American painters: a) Pablo Picasso b) Andy Warhol
c) Andrew Wyeth d) Norman Rockwell.
B 34. Like Lennon & McCartney, Pablo Picasso was competitive with his peers. He both worked with and in an effort to top fellows like:
a) Jackson Pollock b) Henri Matisee c) Chuck Close d) Richard Serra.
D 35. Picasso would have served you a supper of a) tortellini b) sauerkraut c) mughal curry d) paella.
B 36. The Spanish peninsula was occupied by the Romans and, later, by the North African Moors. The peninsula is called a) Apulia b) Iberia c) Anatolia d) Barcelona.
A 37. Seville, Cordova, Granada: these are the Moorish cities of Spain's southern region. It is known as a) Andalusia b) Navarre c) Valencia d) Aragon.
C 38. The region of Paris historically notable for pimps, eccentrics, anarchists, students and artists: a) Bastille b) le Louvre c) Montmartre d) Champs Elysees.
C 39. The dramatic figure of the Harlequin may be related to the weekday of Wednesday via the antecedent of a) Zanni b) Hellequin c) Woden d) Arlecchino.
A 40. Which order of production is correct? a) opium>morphine>heroin b) heroin>opium>morphine c) morphine>opium>heroin.
C 41. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon were a group of young women in a brothel in a) Madrid b) Paris c) Barcelona d) Malaga.
C 42. We can see that Picasso saw himself as a shaman, an intermediary between the human and spirit worlds, by his display of influence from a) surrealism b) cubism c) Africa d) mythology.
B 43. Chinese influence in Paris: a) Lapin Agile b) Les Deux Magots c) Harlequins d) opium.
B 44. This figure dwelled at the heart of the Cretan labyrinth: a) Harlequin b) minotaur c) Alhambra d) Odysseus.
T 45. The Spanish Civil War featured a Fascist force versus an anti-government rebel force. T / F
D 46. Gynophobia: a) fear of exercise b) fear of witches c) fear of female physicians d) fear of women.
A 47. Exaggerated male attitude: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
B 48. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Amish, Mennonites: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
C 49. Mapping the life of Picasso: 1. Malaga 2. Barcelona 3. ___ 4. Paris 5. Provence region of France 6. Cote d'Azur of France. a) London b) Valencia c) Madrid d) Seville.
B 50. Andy Warhol was born and raised near a) NYC b) Pittsburgh c) Philadelphia
d) Washington, DC.
B 51. Warhol used the silk screen process to make a) paintings b) prints c) sculptures d) photos.
C 52. Warhol was quite successful in his first career: a) filmmaker b) writer
c) illustrator d) fashion designer.
A 53. In the early 1960's critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of a) materialism b) avant garde attitudes c) drugs and sex d) social protest.
B 54. Picasso's women: a) Olga> Marie-Therese> Francoise> Dora> Jacqueline. b) Olga> Marie-Therese> Dora> Francoise> Jacqueline.
B 55. Kiss, Eat and Sleep were movies by Warhol that were inspired by avant garde composer LaMonte Young's musical compositions. All were works that could be called a) kinetic b) static c) tectonic d) semiotic.
A 56. Many of Warhol's films explored his longstanding interest in a) homosexuality b) heterosexuality c) asexuality d) auto-eroticism.
F 57. In the second phase of Warhol's filmmaking (Flesh, Trash, and Heat, also, Andy Warhol's Dracula and Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) he worked in Hollywood. T / F
A 58. Warhol's pop art is interpreted as a reaction against the abstract expressionism of painters like a) Jackson Pollock b) Keith Haring c) Chuck Close d) Thomas Hart Benton.
T 59. Pop art is laden with irony, and as such should be viewed as a non-literal commentary on the culture. T / F
C 60. Pop art and your teacher's posting of an image from a Cheezit box: a) he loves snacks made of wheat flour, vegetable oil, sharp yellow cheese, salt, and spices. b) he loves the graphic design chosen by Kellogg c) he appreciates the seductiveness of a well-designed image from the mass media.
T 61. Kitsch refers to objects that may seem charming to the less-sophisticated consumer but be seen as banal (trite, commonplace, hackneyed, trivial, platitudinous, corny, common) by the educated viewer. T / F
B 62. Among many renditions of the US flag there is the 1954 version by a NYC artist who was part of the Robert Rauschenberg-John Cage group. It was a pre-pop art image. He was a) Andy Warhol b) Jasper Johns c) Marcel Duchamp d) Merce Cunningham.
A 63. The audacious Mexican muralist: a) Diego Rivera b) Frida Kahlo
c) Alberto Garcia d) Juan Rodriguez.
C 64. The Mexican muralist, an art lion in the 1930's, was given a great NYC commission during the Depression. He painted a mass of men in a composition called Man at the Crossroads. One of the figures was Vladimir Lenin. The work was removed by powerful benefactor __ . a) Cornelius Vanderbilt. b) JP Morgan c) Nelson Rockefeller d) Henry Clay Frick.
C 65. John Cage's classical composition "4' 33"" is arguably one of the world's most notable pieces. That's because it is a) very, very brief b) played by a naked pianist - in the nude c) no notes are played d) it is 4' 33" of silence.
C 66. Cage proposed that Any sounds constitute, or may constitute, ___ . a) noise
b) life c) music d) sound itself.
F 67. The importance of the work that Robert Rauschenberg produced, in 1951, via a series of white paintings, seemingly "blank" canvases (though painted with white house paint), is that the painting is utterly blank. Nada. Zip. T / F
B 68. Collages formed of both painting materials and everyday objects such as clothing and urban debris were called Combines by artist __. a) Jasper Johns
b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Robert Motherwell.
B 69. Traditional movie film was produced in 3 sizes: a) 8 mm (Super 8), b) 16 mm and c) 35 mm. Today there's also 70 mm for Imax films. Which one was used for most indy or art movies? ___
C 70. These artists died young. But which one was younger at the end? a) Jackson Pollock b) Andy Warhol c) Michel Basquiat.
A 71. These artists lived long lives. Which one was oldest when he passed?
a) Pablo Picasso b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Alexander Calder.
B 72. Which one of these 1960's stars was associated with Warhol? a) Twiggy
b) Edie Sedgwick c) Jane Fonda d) Raquel Welch.
A 73. Schooled in both the US and Paris, one fellow seems to be responsible for the kinetic art called wire sculpture or the mobile. a) Alexander Calder b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Robert Motherwell.
A 74. One of the many stories about the financial significance of the abstract impressionists' work is the one about the National Gallery of Australia. They bought a __ work in 1973 for some $2 million. The high price caused a scandal. Today the painting has been appraised at $200 million. a) Jackson Pollock b) Andy Warhol c) Michel Basquiat d) Pablo Picasso.
A 75. The definition is a fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. It can be found in nature (clouds, snow flakes, etc) or in mathematic designs: a) fractal b) Kirlian image c) abstraction d) deconstruction.
A 76. In the 1950's the capital of excitement in cultural activity shifted from its long-time home of __ to a new home: __ . a) Paris, NYC b) Paris, London c) London, NYC
d) Paris, Los Angeles.
C 77. This artist "refused to separate fine art and commerce." a) Jasper Johns
b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Pablo Picasso.
D 78. Dapper dress, elegant manners and handsomeness gave this jazz artist a distinctive nickname: a) Louis Satchmo Armstrong b) Miles Davis c) John Trane Coltrane d) Duke Ellington.
B 79. Which was chronologically earlier? a) Big band jazz b) Dixieland c) Bebop d) Jazz rock.
A 80. Which was chronologically second? a) Big band jazz b) Dixieland c) Bebop d) Jazz rock.
A 81. Which is most often said to be the most characteristic element of jazz? a) improvisation b) syncopation c) use of blue notes d) polyrhythms.
D 82. Which was the earlier form of American music? a) jazz b) blues c) ragtime d) spirituals.
D 83. New Orleans is pinched by 2 bodies of water: a) Lake Pontchartrain, the Gulf of Mexico b) Gulf of Mexico, Lake Borgne c) Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi R. d) Mississippi R, Lake Pontchartrain.
A 84. Slaves danced weekly in the colonial capital of Louisiane. The name of their dance grounds reflected one of many tribal affiliations: a) Congo b) Angola
c) Orleans d) Vieux.
A 85. Class literature implies that among the earliest European instruments mastered by slaves was the a) violin b) trumpet c) guitar d) piano.
B 86. Which was the place of origin for jazz? a) Storyville, the legal red light district of the Crescent City b) marching bands in the streets of the city.
A 87. The movement of Black Americans from the South to the North is called the Great Migration. It can also be called the a) diaspora b) exodus c) rift d) renaissance.
A 88. The earliest movement of Jazz: from New Orleans to a) Chicago b) NYC
c) Kansas City d) Washington, DC.
C 89. New Orleanian Louis Armstrong, the king of jazz, is buried in a) New Orleans b) Paris c) NYC d) Chicago.
A 90. Louisiana term for people of mixed ethnic background, esp. a mixture of French, Spanish, native American and Afro-Caribbean: a) Creole b) mulatto c) quadroon d) octaroon.
B 91. "Break it down," "chops," "crib," "daddy-o," "dig" and similar words were jazz
__, words that indicated that you were an insider. a) hipsters b) shibboleths
c) slurs d) blues words.
A 92. The birth of jazz is said to be some __ years ago. a) 100 b) 150 c) 80 d) 60.
A 93. Broadway: a) North-South b) East-West c) Bronx-Manhattan-Brooklyn.
A 94. Empire State Bldg. is at 34th St and a) Fifth Ave b) Broadway c) 42nd St.
B 95. NYU: a) Central Park b) Greenwich Village c) Harlem d) Upper West Side.
D 96. Greenwich Village: a) Upper West Side b) Upper East Side c) Above Midtown d) Above SoHo.
A 97. Lower East Side: a) Brooklyn Bridge b) George Washington Bridge c) Lincoln Tunnel d) Staten Is Ferry.
A 98. Wall St / Financial District: a) New Amsterdam b) Greenwich Village c) Harlem
d) Upper East Side.
A 99. The NYSE is closest to a) 1st St b) 34th St c) 42nd St d) 155th St
A 100. Harlem: a) Above Central Park b) South of Theater District c) Midtown d) Lower East Side.
Checklist -
1. Jazz presentation - Miles and a comparison
2. Manhattan quiz
3. PIcasso to Warhol presentation
4. Pollock movie review
5 Essay on the Significance of Picasso
6.Picasso Project presentation (10 images, 10 mult-choice questions)
7. Review of a performance for Nov.
8. Review of a performance for Dec.
All scored at 15 pts.
Fine Arts semester exam / Trudeau
C 1. Shallow-space still-lifes, employing illusionistic devices such as the use of shadows to cause small objects to appear to exist above the surface of the painting. Painted so as to "fool the eye." a) pret a manger b) non sequitur c) trompe l'oeil d) le sommelier.
C 2. The artist systematically transfers the image from the photographic slide onto canvases by projecting the slide onto the canvas or by using traditional grid techniques. a) surrealism b) graffiti c) photorealism d) pointillism.
C 3. Opening recommended for your descriptive essays: a) evaluation of the work
b) names of people involved c) vivid description d) significance of the event.
B 4. American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. A collapse in 1988 left him paralyzed but he continues to work. a) Alberto Hinojosa b) Chuck Close c) Jean-Michel Basquiat d) Shepard Fairey.
B 5. Greek goddess of victory: a) Daedalus b) Nike c) Athena d) Ionia.
B 6. Historic period marked by the spread of Greek language and philosophy: a) Greco-Roman b) Hellenistic c) Athenian d) Aegean.
A 7. A trove of realistic Greek sculpture of the golden age can notably be found in the
a) British Museum b) National Sculpture Gallery, Wash, DC c) Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth d) The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
A 8. The acropolis of Athens: a) peak overlooking the city b) classical temple
c) Athena, the city's goddess d) philosophical peak of the golden age.
D 9. Sculpture featured in the RW Norton Art Foundation gallery: a) Dean and Delucca
b) Dolce and Gabbana c) Ptolemy and Plutarch d) Remington and Russell.
B 10. "This might well be on your next test!" a) Sotto voce b) Nota bene c) Ad hoc
d) Sic transit gloria.
C 11. Considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, this artist's work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory and modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. a) Lysippos of Alexandria b) Alexander Calder c) Auguste Rodin d) Jean Dubuffet.
A 12. "testy, thick-skinned, thoughtless, threatening, tight, timid, tired, tiresome, troubled, truculent, typical, undesirable, unsuitable, unsure:"
a) adjectives b) adverbs c) nouns d) sobriquets.
D 13. Preferable vocab for your writing in Fine Arts: a) "Great!" b) "Terrific!" c) "Crisp!" d) "Unctuous!" e) "Lapidary!"
A 14. Capital city of Senegal: a) Dakar b) Maputo c) Lagos d) Fez.
B 15. Sings in Wolof, inspired by sufis, band's name is the Super Etoile: a) Adnan Kashoggi b) Youssou n'Dour c) Nina Simone d) Jhene.
A 16. Swahili: a) East Africa b) Mediterranean Africa c) Arabian peninsula d) West Africa.
A 17. African region with most intimate relationship with the US: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
C 18. The Pharaonic civilisation, one of the world's earliest and longest-lasting societies: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
D 19. The wealthiest part of the continent. Deposits of gold and diamonds, rich farmland and additional minerals: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
B 20. The Rift Valley is considered the home of human kind. It is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth: : a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
A 21. Gold mines were the source of the power of the Yoruba, Ghana and Songhai Empires: a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
A 22. Darius the Great: a) Iran b) Iraq c) Saudi Arabia d) Afghanistan.
A 23. A sculptured artwork in which a modelled form is raised from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project: a) relief b) frieze c) free-standing d) pediment.
A 24. SUMAS features African art from the major art-producing regions of Africa, including Mali, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast of West Africa, Cameroon, and the Congo. a) West Africa b) East Africa c) Mediterranean Africa d) Southern Africa.
B 25. It houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the tenth to the twentieth century: a) Dallas Museum of Art b) Meadows Museum of Art c) Nasher Sculpture Center d) Crow Collection of Asian Art.
C 26. Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Richard Serra: a) Dallas Museum of Art b) Meadows Museum of Art c) Nasher Sculpture Center d) Crow Collection of Asian Art.
A 27. Piano and harpsichord keys, violin, guitar, and cello fingerboards, endpieces, pegs and chinrests. Traditionally, black piano and harpsichord keys and the black pieces in chess: a) ebony b) teak c) maple d) mahogany.
A 28. African sculpture was influential in the work of European artists such as Picasso and a) Magritte b) Van Gogh c) Dali d) Matisse.
A 29. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz had one more name: a) Picasso b) Warhol c) Cezanne d) el Greco.
B 30. Picasso's portrayal of the German bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War: a) d' Avignon b) Guernica c) Seville d) Madrid.
D 31. The sharp mind and free manner of an American writer and collector who would become one of Picasso's most important patrons was captured in a famous portrait. a) Alice B Toklas b) Eleanor Roosevelt c) Ella Fitzgerald d) Gertrude Stein.
B 32. Most of this European nation was an African colony from 711 to 1492 CE. It was controlled by the African Arabic/Berber Muslims known as the Moors. The Islamic invaders engendered lovely creations in the arts: architecture, music, design, etc. a) France b) Spain c) Portugal d) Italy.
C 33. The Helga Pictures are a compilation of tempera and dry brush paintings, watercolours and pencil studies secretly created within a span of over fifteen years by one of the most august of American painters: a) Pablo Picasso b) Andy Warhol
c) Andrew Wyeth d) Norman Rockwell.
B 34. Like Lennon & McCartney, Pablo Picasso was competitive with his peers. He both worked with and in an effort to top fellows like:
a) Jackson Pollock b) Henri Matisee c) Chuck Close d) Richard Serra.
D 35. Picasso would have served you a supper of a) tortellini b) sauerkraut c) mughal curry d) paella.
B 36. The Spanish peninsula was occupied by the Romans and, later, by the North African Moors. The peninsula is called a) Apulia b) Iberia c) Anatolia d) Barcelona.
A 37. Seville, Cordova, Granada: these are the Moorish cities of Spain's southern region. It is known as a) Andalusia b) Navarre c) Valencia d) Aragon.
C 38. The region of Paris historically notable for pimps, eccentrics, anarchists, students and artists: a) Bastille b) le Louvre c) Montmartre d) Champs Elysees.
C 39. The dramatic figure of the Harlequin may be related to the weekday of Wednesday via the antecedent of a) Zanni b) Hellequin c) Woden d) Arlecchino.
A 40. Which order of production is correct? a) opium>morphine>heroin b) heroin>opium>morphine c) morphine>opium>heroin.
C 41. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon were a group of young women in a brothel in a) Madrid b) Paris c) Barcelona d) Malaga.
C 42. We can see that Picasso saw himself as a shaman, an intermediary between the human and spirit worlds, by his display of influence from a) surrealism b) cubism c) Africa d) mythology.
B 43. Chinese influence in Paris: a) Lapin Agile b) Les Deux Magots c) Harlequins d) opium.
B 44. This figure dwelled at the heart of the Cretan labyrinth: a) Harlequin b) minotaur c) Alhambra d) Odysseus.
T 45. The Spanish Civil War featured a Fascist force versus an anti-government rebel force. T / F
D 46. Gynophobia: a) fear of exercise b) fear of witches c) fear of female physicians d) fear of women.
A 47. Exaggerated male attitude: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
B 48. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Amish, Mennonites: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
C 49. Mapping the life of Picasso: 1. Malaga 2. Barcelona 3. ___ 4. Paris 5. Provence region of France 6. Cote d'Azur of France. a) London b) Valencia c) Madrid d) Seville.
B 50. Andy Warhol was born and raised near a) NYC b) Pittsburgh c) Philadelphia
d) Washington, DC.
B 51. Warhol used the silk screen process to make a) paintings b) prints c) sculptures d) photos.
C 52. Warhol was quite successful in his first career: a) filmmaker b) writer
c) illustrator d) fashion designer.
A 53. In the early 1960's critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of a) materialism b) avant garde attitudes c) drugs and sex d) social protest.
B 54. Picasso's women: a) Olga> Marie-Therese> Francoise> Dora> Jacqueline. b) Olga> Marie-Therese> Dora> Francoise> Jacqueline.
B 55. Kiss, Eat and Sleep were movies by Warhol that were inspired by avant garde composer LaMonte Young's musical compositions. All were works that could be called a) kinetic b) static c) tectonic d) semiotic.
A 56. Many of Warhol's films explored his longstanding interest in a) homosexuality b) heterosexuality c) asexuality d) auto-eroticism.
F 57. In the second phase of Warhol's filmmaking (Flesh, Trash, and Heat, also, Andy Warhol's Dracula and Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) he worked in Hollywood. T / F
A 58. Warhol's pop art is interpreted as a reaction against the abstract expressionism of painters like a) Jackson Pollock b) Keith Haring c) Chuck Close d) Thomas Hart Benton.
T 59. Pop art is laden with irony, and as such should be viewed as a non-literal commentary on the culture. T / F
C 60. Pop art and your teacher's posting of an image from a Cheezit box: a) he loves snacks made of wheat flour, vegetable oil, sharp yellow cheese, salt, and spices. b) he loves the graphic design chosen by Kellogg c) he appreciates the seductiveness of a well-designed image from the mass media.
T 61. Kitsch refers to objects that may seem charming to the less-sophisticated consumer but be seen as banal (trite, commonplace, hackneyed, trivial, platitudinous, corny, common) by the educated viewer. T / F
B 62. Among many renditions of the US flag there is the 1954 version by a NYC artist who was part of the Robert Rauschenberg-John Cage group. It was a pre-pop art image. He was a) Andy Warhol b) Jasper Johns c) Marcel Duchamp d) Merce Cunningham.
A 63. The audacious Mexican muralist: a) Diego Rivera b) Frida Kahlo
c) Alberto Garcia d) Juan Rodriguez.
C 64. The Mexican muralist, an art lion in the 1930's, was given a great NYC commission during the Depression. He painted a mass of men in a composition called Man at the Crossroads. One of the figures was Vladimir Lenin. The work was removed by powerful benefactor __ . a) Cornelius Vanderbilt. b) JP Morgan c) Nelson Rockefeller d) Henry Clay Frick.
C 65. John Cage's classical composition "4' 33"" is arguably one of the world's most notable pieces. That's because it is a) very, very brief b) played by a naked pianist - in the nude c) no notes are played d) it is 4' 33" of silence.
C 66. Cage proposed that Any sounds constitute, or may constitute, ___ . a) noise
b) life c) music d) sound itself.
F 67. The importance of the work that Robert Rauschenberg produced, in 1951, via a series of white paintings, seemingly "blank" canvases (though painted with white house paint), is that the painting is utterly blank. Nada. Zip. T / F
B 68. Collages formed of both painting materials and everyday objects such as clothing and urban debris were called Combines by artist __. a) Jasper Johns
b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Robert Motherwell.
B 69. Traditional movie film was produced in 3 sizes: a) 8 mm (Super 8), b) 16 mm and c) 35 mm. Today there's also 70 mm for Imax films. Which one was used for most indy or art movies? ___
C 70. These artists died young. But which one was younger at the end? a) Jackson Pollock b) Andy Warhol c) Michel Basquiat.
A 71. These artists lived long lives. Which one was oldest when he passed?
a) Pablo Picasso b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Alexander Calder.
B 72. Which one of these 1960's stars was associated with Warhol? a) Twiggy
b) Edie Sedgwick c) Jane Fonda d) Raquel Welch.
A 73. Schooled in both the US and Paris, one fellow seems to be responsible for the kinetic art called wire sculpture or the mobile. a) Alexander Calder b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Robert Motherwell.
A 74. One of the many stories about the financial significance of the abstract impressionists' work is the one about the National Gallery of Australia. They bought a __ work in 1973 for some $2 million. The high price caused a scandal. Today the painting has been appraised at $200 million. a) Jackson Pollock b) Andy Warhol c) Michel Basquiat d) Pablo Picasso.
A 75. The definition is a fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. It can be found in nature (clouds, snow flakes, etc) or in mathematic designs: a) fractal b) Kirlian image c) abstraction d) deconstruction.
A 76. In the 1950's the capital of excitement in cultural activity shifted from its long-time home of __ to a new home: __ . a) Paris, NYC b) Paris, London c) London, NYC
d) Paris, Los Angeles.
C 77. This artist "refused to separate fine art and commerce." a) Jasper Johns
b) Robert Rauschenberg c) Andy Warhol d) Pablo Picasso.
D 78. Dapper dress, elegant manners and handsomeness gave this jazz artist a distinctive nickname: a) Louis Satchmo Armstrong b) Miles Davis c) John Trane Coltrane d) Duke Ellington.
B 79. Which was chronologically earlier? a) Big band jazz b) Dixieland c) Bebop d) Jazz rock.
A 80. Which was chronologically second? a) Big band jazz b) Dixieland c) Bebop d) Jazz rock.
A 81. Which is most often said to be the most characteristic element of jazz? a) improvisation b) syncopation c) use of blue notes d) polyrhythms.
D 82. Which was the earlier form of American music? a) jazz b) blues c) ragtime d) spirituals.
D 83. New Orleans is pinched by 2 bodies of water: a) Lake Pontchartrain, the Gulf of Mexico b) Gulf of Mexico, Lake Borgne c) Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi R. d) Mississippi R, Lake Pontchartrain.
A 84. Slaves danced weekly in the colonial capital of Louisiane. The name of their dance grounds reflected one of many tribal affiliations: a) Congo b) Angola
c) Orleans d) Vieux.
A 85. Class literature implies that among the earliest European instruments mastered by slaves was the a) violin b) trumpet c) guitar d) piano.
B 86. Which was the place of origin for jazz? a) Storyville, the legal red light district of the Crescent City b) marching bands in the streets of the city.
A 87. The movement of Black Americans from the South to the North is called the Great Migration. It can also be called the a) diaspora b) exodus c) rift d) renaissance.
A 88. The earliest movement of Jazz: from New Orleans to a) Chicago b) NYC
c) Kansas City d) Washington, DC.
C 89. New Orleanian Louis Armstrong, the king of jazz, is buried in a) New Orleans b) Paris c) NYC d) Chicago.
A 90. Louisiana term for people of mixed ethnic background, esp. a mixture of French, Spanish, native American and Afro-Caribbean: a) Creole b) mulatto c) quadroon d) octaroon.
B 91. "Break it down," "chops," "crib," "daddy-o," "dig" and similar words were jazz
__, words that indicated that you were an insider. a) hipsters b) shibboleths
c) slurs d) blues words.
A 92. The birth of jazz is said to be some __ years ago. a) 100 b) 150 c) 80 d) 60.
A 93. Broadway: a) North-South b) East-West c) Bronx-Manhattan-Brooklyn.
A 94. Empire State Bldg. is at 34th St and a) Fifth Ave b) Broadway c) 42nd St.
B 95. NYU: a) Central Park b) Greenwich Village c) Harlem d) Upper West Side.
D 96. Greenwich Village: a) Upper West Side b) Upper East Side c) Above Midtown d) Above SoHo.
A 97. Lower East Side: a) Brooklyn Bridge b) George Washington Bridge c) Lincoln Tunnel d) Staten Is Ferry.
A 98. Wall St / Financial District: a) New Amsterdam b) Greenwich Village c) Harlem
d) Upper East Side.
A 99. The NYSE is closest to a) 1st St b) 34th St c) 42nd St d) 155th St
A 100. Harlem: a) Above Central Park b) South of Theater District c) Midtown d) Lower East Side.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Open a folder in Google Docs: insert all second 9 weeks docs and presentations
Last assignment for the first semester:
- Open a Google Doc folder under your name.
- Insert all your 2nd 9 weeks work, including shared projects.
- Arrange as shown below.
- Share with trudeau11@gmail.com.
* Mozart & Bach presentation
* Jazz presentation: Miles Davis & another figure
* Tour of Manhattan quiz
* Picasso to Warhol presentation
* Pollock movie review
* Essay on Picasso
* Picasso Project presentation (10 images, 10 mult-choice questions)
* Reviews of a performance for Nov.
* Review of a performance for Dec.
- Open a Google Doc folder under your name.
- Insert all your 2nd 9 weeks work, including shared projects.
- Arrange as shown below.
- Share with trudeau11@gmail.com.
* Mozart & Bach presentation
* Jazz presentation: Miles Davis & another figure
* Tour of Manhattan quiz
* Picasso to Warhol presentation
* Pollock movie review
* Essay on Picasso
* Picasso Project presentation (10 images, 10 mult-choice questions)
* Reviews of a performance for Nov.
* Review of a performance for Dec.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Exam notes: answers to Graffiti quiz
A sample of the sort of questions to be essayed on the 100-question fine arts semester exam (to be answered on Scantron sheets):
B 1. Generalities are appropriate parts of any good essay. Nonetheless, generalities - such as "Artspace is full of color" - demand to be followed by a) documentation b) examples c) blending of topics d) colorful descriptions.
C 2. What kind of opening must your essays employ? a) Conversational b) 1st person c) vivid description.
D 3. "According to " is considered a) punctuation b) comparison c) an opening d) documentation.
Choose a) Keith Haring b) Jean-Michel Basquiat c) Banksy d) Shepard Fairey e) Blek le Rat.
A D 4. Leading NYC graffiti artists of the 80's. Choose 2 of the above.
A 5. Died in 1990 - age 32 - of Aids-related disease.
D 6. Early street agenda featured a giant named Obey.
A 7. Critics say his work was significant in semiotics.
E 8. Considered the godfather of stencil art.
D 9. Obama campaign Hope poster.
D 10. Has done album art work for Black Eyed Peas, Smashing Pumpkins, Anthrax.
B 11. First African-American to become an international art star.
E 12. Born in Paris.
B 13. Street slogans under the name SAMO ( as in Same Old Sh--).
C 14. Artist famed for giant photorealist portraits: a) Andy Warhol b) Lysippos. c) Chuck Close d) Jean-Michel Basquiat.
15. Photorealist painter and illustrator from Texas who has been a notable faculty member at Louisiana Tech.
__Albino Hinojosa______ _________ .
B 1. Generalities are appropriate parts of any good essay. Nonetheless, generalities - such as "Artspace is full of color" - demand to be followed by a) documentation b) examples c) blending of topics d) colorful descriptions.
C 2. What kind of opening must your essays employ? a) Conversational b) 1st person c) vivid description.
D 3. "According to " is considered a) punctuation b) comparison c) an opening d) documentation.
Choose a) Keith Haring b) Jean-Michel Basquiat c) Banksy d) Shepard Fairey e) Blek le Rat.
A D 4. Leading NYC graffiti artists of the 80's. Choose 2 of the above.
A 5. Died in 1990 - age 32 - of Aids-related disease.
D 6. Early street agenda featured a giant named Obey.
A 7. Critics say his work was significant in semiotics.
E 8. Considered the godfather of stencil art.
D 9. Obama campaign Hope poster.
D 10. Has done album art work for Black Eyed Peas, Smashing Pumpkins, Anthrax.
B 11. First African-American to become an international art star.
E 12. Born in Paris.
B 13. Street slogans under the name SAMO ( as in Same Old Sh--).
C 14. Artist famed for giant photorealist portraits: a) Andy Warhol b) Lysippos. c) Chuck Close d) Jean-Michel Basquiat.
15. Photorealist painter and illustrator from Texas who has been a notable faculty member at Louisiana Tech.
__Albino Hinojosa______ _________ .
Cat Daddy's former restaurant; please go to the 4158 Hollywood Ave location
Here's a video visit to Cat Daddy's Restaurant, Hollywood Ave, the theme of which is soul food and regional culture.
Fun, fun, fun: Fine Arts review example questions
1. Shallow-space still-lifes, employing illusionistic devices such as the use of shadows to cause small objects to appear to exist above the surface of the painting. Painted so as to "fool the eye." a) pret a manger b) non sequitur c) trompe l'oeil d) le sommelier.
2. The artist systematically transfers the image from the photographic slide onto canvases by projecting the slide onto the canvas or by using traditional grid techniques. a) surrealism b) graffiti c) photorealism d) pointillism.
3. Opening recommended for your descriptive essays: a) evaluation of the work
b) names of people involved c) vivid description d) significance of the event.
4. American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. A collapse in 1988 left him paralyzed but he continues to work. a) Alberto Hinojosa b) Chuck Close c) Jean-Michel Basquiat
d) Shepard Fairey.
5. Greek goddess of victory: a) Daedalus b) Nike c) Athena d) Ionia.
6. Historic period marked by the spread of Greek language and philosophy: a) Greco-Roman b) Hellenistic c) Athenian d) Aegean.
7. A trove of realistic Greek sculpture of the golden age can notably be found in the
a) British Museum b) National Sculpture Gallery, Wash, DC c) Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth d) The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
8. The acropolis of Athens: a) peak overlooking the city b) classical temple
c) Athena, the city's goddess d) philosophical peak of the golden age.
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