A. the image is presented in immediate relation to the artist himself
B. the image is presented is immediate relation to the artist and others
C. the image is presented in a way that is not purely personal
D. the image is presented in immediate relation to others only
Related Mcqs:
- The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?
A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else - In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ?
A. 1778
B. 1769
C. 1798
D. 1792 - In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s relationship with his Irish nationality ?
A. he is conflicted by his desire to leave Ireland because he has inextricable ties to it
B. he is sure of his desire to become a leader like Parnell because his friends and family universally praise Irish leaders
C. he is committed to staying in Ireland
D. he deeply wants to leave Ireland, but he feels that, as an artist, he can only work with national themes - In Ulysses, with which mythical character does Stephen best correspond ?
A. Odysseus
B. Telemachus
C. Nestor
D. Nausicaa - From whom does Stephen borrow his idea of clarity ?
A. Thomas Aquinas
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Augusta Gregory
D. Ezra Pound - In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s relationship with his Catholic faith ?
A. he is opposed to the Catholic faith for the entire novel
B. because he has been raised Catholic, he never struggles with his faith
C. he is torn between his desire for freedom and his desire to be moral
D. he is committed to priesthood for the entire novel - What are the three parts of Stephen’s espoused aesthetic theory ?
A. perception, clarity, and wholeness
B. kinesis, clarity, and perception
C. clarity, wholeness, and kinesis
D. wholeness, harmony, and clarity - Which is/are an element(s) of Stephen’s aesthetic theories ?
A. art should not produce stasis in the viewer
B. art should be kinetic
C. art should be harmonious and proportional
D. art should not please the perception
