What are the different modes of visual representation? For each mode of visual representation, identify, define, and discuss one artwork that employs it.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Naturalism or realism is the lifelike descriptions of the visual appearance of the natural world. An example would be Adriaen van der Spelt's and Frans van Mieris' Flower Piece with Curtain because it depicts a garland of flowers and a curtain that mimic the way these objects appear in the natural world.
2. Abstract artworks transform recognizable natural subjects into patterns or make them conform to ideals. In Jack in the Pulpit, No. IV, Georgia O'Keeffe abstracts a flower into a stylized form that expresses the pure vigor of the flower's life force rather than captures its precise visual appearance.
3. Nonrepresentational artworks do not depict a recognizable natural subject. David Smith's sculptures Cubi XVII, Cubi XVIII, and Cubi XIX do not represent anything found in nature but are a combination of geometric shapes and lines.
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Discuss the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus in terms of its social and artistic significance
What will be an ideal response?
Adrian Willaert’s innovations with the New Music’s madrigals helped secular song by
a. enabling it to be performed by a single voice. b. raising it to the level of the religious motet. c. creating the form that would become opera. d. allowing it to be adapted for religious services.
Blues harmony is distinctive because
A. it is improvised. B. it is performed by a complex interlocking of instruments. C. it is limited to the use of two chords. D. it utilizes unusual chord patterns.
What takes place during trading fours?
a. Soloists alternate four-note solo patterns b. Soloists improvise over a four chords c. Soloists alternate four-measure sections with each other d. Soloists alternate eight note solo sections with each other