Chapter 12 Application Quiz

. On the stage screen is the text, Peace is power. Ono sits on the floor of the stage. Her bra is exposed. An old woman stands near Ono and cuts her clothes with a scissor.
Figure 9.23. Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 2019 (re-performance by Echo Morgan). As part of Yoko Ono: Peace is Power, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany. Performed at MoMA. Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images.


Recall Yoko Ono's Cut Piece and where it was performed. What museum etiquette norm does this exhibit break?

. Beautiful paintings are on the wall of a bakery that has tables and chairs for people to sit.
iBakery Gallery Cafe by Tung Wah Hospital, 2012. Photograph by Wong35Lau27.


This cafeteria for a hospital in Hong Kong is an example of a(n) ______.

. A painting on the wall has the words Only You. The You is in a bigger font. The O in the You is in the shape of a bear face. It wears a cap with the text Smokey on it. A text on the wall reads, burn walls, not forests.
Figure 12.12. Unknown artist, Only You, date unknown. Donner Pass, California. Photograph by Deanne Beausoleil.


The given artwork of Smokey the Bear is an example of all the following EXCEPT

. On a poster, there is a figure of a woman who moves her hand backward and rolls her sleeves as if to show her muscles. The text on the top is, We can do it.
Figure 12.16. J. Howard Miller, "We Can Do It!" [Westinghouse poster used by the War Production Coordinating Committee], ca. 1942-45. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.


This given poster is an example of

. The bronze statue of a man who sits and thinks with his hand below his chin is shown.
Figure 12.19. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, bronze. Model 1880, cast 1901, 28.25 × 14.3125 × 23.4375 in. Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.


The given sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin embodies the philosophical principle that the act of thinking produces irrefutable evidence of a self—"I think, therefore I am." If you immediately recognize The Thinker and can talk about it thoughtfully, that's an example of _______.

. Simon Rodia poses for a photograph below the Watts Tower which looks like a skeleton of a tower.
Figure 12.23. Sanford H. Roth, Simon Rodia/Watts Towers, circa 1950. 2 1/4 in. negative. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beulah Roth Bequest (PhA.1993.9.12.12). © Museum Associates/LACMA


An example of ________ art is Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles. The sculptor used concrete and found materials such as steel, bottles, and seashells. Although he died in 1965, his complex was preserved and saved from demolition. Watts Towers is now a National Historic Landmark and a major tourist attraction.

. A crayon and ink sketch shows a sky and a sun. Two human figures stand on the ground. One figure looks like a stick figure of a human and another figure looks like a rectangular block with an irregular large face with its mouth open on the top.
Figure 12.21. Reid Mosher, Old House, 2015. Crayon and ink on paper. 11 × 8.5 in. Refrigerator Gallery. Courtesy of the artist.


Nowhere is the _______ clearer to us than in children's art. For example, in the given drawing by a four-year-old child, the concept of a staircase is anything but logical and is unbound by physics or the laws of gravity; yet, the rapid, cramped lines are unmistakably stairs, though they are strange, unique, and purely creative.

. Women and children work on a peace mosaic on a wall.
Figure 12.28B. Community members participate in the creation of the Salem Peace Mosaic, YMCA building in Salem, Oregon. Courtesy of Lynn Takata. Photographs by Frank Miller.


In Salem, Oregon, artist Lynn Takata guided six hundred community members in the creation of a mosaic of porcelain, glass, and stone tile. This art experience made it possible for people of all ages and backgrounds to take small broken pieces—over 25,000 in all—to make the Salem Peace Mosaic in 2011. According to Takata, the benefits of _______ public art are three-fold: it transforms not only the site but the people who create the artwork and also the people who view it.

. Many cuboid lamps are arranged on the floor. Paper stars hang from the top. Wooden bricks are arranged on a bowl on a stand. Fire comes up from the bricks.
Figure 12.27. Beacon of Hope, 20 May 2020. Courtesy of WaterFire Providence. Photograph by Jeff Meunier.


The creation of art can help serve many purposes. Which of the following does Rhode Island artist Barnaby Evans's creation Beacon of Hope best exemplify?

. A very large piece of paper is on the ground with pencil sketches. Three children play around a chair on paper.
Figure 12.29. Rebecca Szeto, Drawing Chair: Performance Piece for the Fidgety Child, 2014. Graphite pencil leads, wood, metal, and Masonite, 20 × 11.5 × 11.5 in. Courtesy of the artist.


Interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Szeto created The Drawing Chair: Performance Piece for the Fidgety Child after her daughter accidentally broke a chair while experimenting with its other possible uses. This example, in which art is used as a fun solution to a broken chair, best aligns with the view of art as ______.

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