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iart quiz 3

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The best way to describe an interpretation of an artwork is to say that it is:
an explanation of the artwork's meaning
Who of the four thinkers below regarded art as the sublimation of the artist's unconscious desires?
Sigmund Freud
Who of the thinkers listed below argued that art communicates its meaning through symbolic representations of subjective reality?
Suzanne Langer
Michel Foucault believed that artworks are one of the ways in which people manifest their underlying principles of seeing the world and ourselves in it, and he designated these principles as:
epistemes
The painting Las Meniñas was created by which of the artists listed below?
Diego Velazquez
Which of the schools of thought listed below did the American philosopher John Dewey represent?
pragmatism
What aspect of Pop art does the work of the American artist Daniel Arsham reflect?
Consumerism
Artwork in the Impressionism was mainly based on:
Contemplation
Of the 4 characteristics of sound as discussed in class, which is used to describe the frequency of a sound wave?
Pitch
In Classical Greek mythology, the arts were supervised by which of the gods listed below?
Apollo
The Classical style is characterized by which of the following qualities:
balance, symmetry, and proportion
Who was the author of the statement, "The sight of my contemporaries offends me and I seek refuge among the noble dead of Antiquity"?
Petrarch
The medieval sense of historical time was:
eschatological
The flying buttress of the Gothic cathedral was invented in order to:
make thinner and taller walls possible
One of the earliest proponents of the Gothic style, Abbot Suger, was associated with which center of medieval Christianity?
Saint-Denis
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