Artwork
Art Concepts
Key Terms
Art and Appearances
100

This artwork expresses Andy Warhol's fascination with celebrities' separate existence as images of themselves. 

What is Thirty Are Better than One

100

Art that does not refer to the world outside itself, creating meaning and expressive power from the elements of art itself, is called? 

What is nonrepresentational art?

100

Artwork that is created by non professional artists

What is Outsider Art

100

Features forms found in the natural world resulting in recognizable objects. 

What is representational art? 

200

This artwork is described by its audience as giving a feeling of closure for Vietnam war veterans and brings back memories of friends who died in the war, in addition to being a place for quiet reflection and a symbol of freedom.  This piece is located in Washington D.C. 

What is Mya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial

200

The context of a work of art is its? 

What is the connection to the world? 

200

Philosphy of the nature and meaning of beauty as it pertains to art.

What is aesthetics? 

200

French for Fool the eye

Trompe l'oiel

300

Teeth, lard and spitting are used in which artwork by Janine Antoni? 

What is Gnaw

300

A work of art that uses our visual experiences as a starting point but then progresses by simplifying or fragmenting the subject.

What is abstract art

300

It is what an artwork is about. 

What is content?
300

Artwork that is very faithful to visual experience. 

What is naturalistic? 

400

During the Renaissance in Western Europe these arts came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts.

Painting, sculpture, and architecture

400

Setting aside any personal or practical stake we have in what we are looking at in order to experience intellectual pleasure. 

What is disinterested contemplation.

400

Object or event upon which a work of art is based. 

What is Subject matter
400

Distorts, exaggerates, or simplifies the natural world to provide essence or universality. 

What is abstract art? 

500

 A well known sculpture by Kara Walker

What is A Subtlety 

500

A standard subject in Christian art that includes Mary, the mother of, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

What is the Pieta

500

The way a work of art looks.

Form

500

Artwork that conforms to a preset style or set of conventions for depicting the world. 

What is stylized?