Exam 40: Gateway Features for Gateways to Art

The gardens at the Taj Mahal were heavily influenced by the royal palaces and gardens of the Christian French monarchy.

When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.

In Goya's The Third of May,1808,the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition.Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as ________ lines.

Gustav Klimt's Judith I was made in direct response to an artwork of the same subject by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ______.

What material was used to make the Olmec colossal heads?

The designers of the Taj Mahal went to great lengths to use radial and bilateral symmetry.Based on what you have read about the building and its history,what were the main ideas that the architects wanted to communicate to viewers? Why?

Chris Jordan's Gyre refers to:

What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?

The decapitation of Holofernes,which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi,happened because:

In the painting The Third of May,1808,this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast "good" and "bad."

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement?

When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange:

How many Olmec colossal heads have been discovered?

The term "vanitas" in art includes references to ______.

In the Islamic faith,gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth.

What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa" in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene?

Francisco Goya used visual rhythms to convey ideas and emotions in his works The Third of May,1808 and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.Do the rhythms in Goya's works communicate the dichotomy of good and evil to you? If so,how? If not,what other meanings are created?

Mount Fuji,the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusai's famous print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," is sacred to believers of ________.

Artemisia Gentileschi worked during this stylistic and historical period.