Title: Context and Perspective
Course: Joni's Quizzes

Q: Perspective is seeing from a specific point-of-view. Which best describes considering an artwork from a cultural perspective?
- a perspective formed by scholarship and research over-time
- a perspective that is informed by aspects of personal identity
- a perspective that is formed through a set of ideas or practices between members of a society or group
A: a perspective that is formed through a set of ideas or practices between members of a society or group

Q: Which best describes a historical perspective?
- a perspective that is formed through a set of ideas or practices between members of a society or group
- a perspective that is informed by aspects of personal identity
- a perspective formed by scholarship and research over-time
A: a perspective formed by scholarship and research over-time

Q: Which best describes personal perspective?
- a perspective formed by scholarship and research over-time
- a perspective that is formed through a set of ideas or practices between members of a society or group
- a perspective that is informed by aspects of personal identity
A: a perspective that is informed by aspects of personal identity

Q: Recognition of an artwork, artist, or movement (which forms overtime through academic concensus) is an example of what type of perspective?
- personal
- cultural
- historical
A: historical

Q: Which best describes how perspective and context are connected?
- Context is defined as the cultural forces that shape perspectives.
- Perspective and context are both used as lenses to analyze artwork.
- Perspectives are shaped by the contextual circumstances that are the background they form within.
A: Perspectives are shaped by the contextual circumstances that are the background they form within.

Q: The notion that our concept of reality is expressed through language and related systems of communication is the basis for which type of criticism?
- formalist criticism
- deconstructivist criticism
- structural criticism
A: structural criticism

Q: Which form of criticism is concerned with art being embedded in a social, economic, and political structures?
- structural criticism
- deconstructivist criticism
- idealogical criticism
A: idealogical criticism

Q: This type of criticism approaches artwork as always having a plurality of meanings attached to it.
- psychoanalytic criticism
- feminist criticsim
- deconstructivist criticism
A: deconstructivist criticism

Q: This form of criticism has expanded in recent years to include all underrepresented groups.
- idealogical criticism
- psychoanalytic criticism
- feminist criticism
A: feminist criticism

Q: This form of criticism is focused on art as personal expression.
- feminist criticsim
- idealogical criticism
- psychoanalytic criticism
A: psychoanalytic criticism

Q: Which best describes the different cultures that Kehinde Wiley is mixing in his artwork.
- contemporary African-American culture with old world European culture
- contemporary African-American culture
- old world European culture
A: contemporary African-American culture with old world European culture

Q: Semiotics analyzes what aspect of artwork?
- symbols whose meaning is understood within a culture of a specific time
- formal qualities such as how elements and principles are used in an artwork
- signs that are analyzed in relation to other signs, and wider systems of meaning
A: signs that are analyzed in relation to other signs, and wider systems of meaning

Q: Iconography analyzes what aspect of artwork?
- formal qualities such as how elements and principles are used in an artwork
- signs that are analyzed in relation to other signs, and wider systems of meaning
- symbols whose meaning is understood within a culture of a specific time
A: symbols whose meaning is understood within a culture of a specific time

Q: A sign used to signify first aid is often a red cross or a cross. Is this an example of a icon, index, or symbol type of sign in semiotics?
- symbol
- icon
- index
A: symbol

Q: In America, a stop sign is typically red and octagonally shaped. We have come to understand this sign means stop. Likely even without the word ‘stop’ included on it we would associate it with stopping. Which of the following is correct?
- To stop— is the signified
- To stop— is the signifier
- To stop— is both the signifier and signified
A: To stop— is the signified

Q: In semiotics an index differs from an icon in what way?
- an index is a sign that has some visual connection to the thing it represents but is one step removed
- an index is an exact visual representation to the thing it represents
- an index is arbitrary and visually unrelated to thing it represents
A: an index is a sign that has some visual connection to the thing it represents but is one step removed