Create Your Own Still Life - Quiz

An analyis of a work of art by Victoria Fontana

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. What is the aim (target, purpose) of this painting?

   1.   ?    to make you cry when you look at art.
   2.   ?    to protest about the way we look at art.

2. What is another problem about the way people look at different styles and creations?

   1.   ?    We're lazy about how we contemplate art.
   2.   ?    We're against our own laziness.

3. What is special about the gestures in the painting in the large rectangle on the left?

   1.   ?    Each is a representation of a picture of an object and a number in the rectangle on the right.
   2.   ?    Each is an essentially still figure which is to be loosely interpreted.

4. What is special about the number display of pictures in the rectangle on the right?

   1.   ?    It helps lazy people to feel more comfortable if they see the original pieces in the model.
   2.   ?    It is a sort of key to the still life in the large rectangle on the left.

5. What was special about some of the songs we used to sing as children?

   1.   ?    They were easy to remember even though they did not make any sense at all because our minds were open to such things.
   2.   ?    They didn't make any sense so they opened our minds making them easier to remember.

6. As adults, why do we reject things that don't make any sense?

   1.   ?    Because we have a constant need to make sense of everything we see, say, hear and do.
   2.   ?    Because we reject ideas that are different from our own and people who come from cultures that we don’t understand.

7. What is so comforting about looking at a realistic painting?

   1.   ?    We feel empowered by our ability to recognize skill.
   2.   ?    The more realistic the painting is, the more skill the artist has.

8. Why is it good to look at figurative (not realistic) paintings

   1.   ?    Life imitates art and art helps us to remain ignorant and hate things which we do not understand.
   2.   ?    Life imitates art and art helps us to grow, educate ourselves better and understand more.