24 Jan Common to many religions

• Question 1

Memento mori is Latin for __________.

• Question 2

In 1981 Artforum commissioned a series of photographs by __________ that ultimate were never published due to the fear that the photographs would be misunderstood by the public.

• Question 3

During the five-day period of pilgrimage called the Hajj, one of the rituals involves walking seven times around the Kaaba (“cube”), the physical center of Muslim life. What does the Kaaba hold?

• Question 4

The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, is __________.

• Question 5

In many Native American creation myths it is the __________ that teaches human beings how to survive.

• Question 6

Beginning in the 1920’s the artist __________ signed his works (on and off) as Rose Selavy.

• Question 7

Among the Maori the most sacred part of the body was __________.

• Question 8

Art critic Jerry Saltz recently argued that selfie __________.

• Question 9

In Mexican cultural practice, memorial objects such as those included in Amalia Mesa-Bains’ An Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio function as __________.

• Question 10

The concept of __________ is central to the spiritual lives of the Pueblo peoples of South America.

• Question 11

Beginning in the 1970’s Cindy Sherman began taking photographs of __________ as if they were still from Hollywood films.

• Question 12

Kandinsky’s Composition VII creates a feeling of biblical Apocalypse through __________.

• Question 13

In Buddhist belief, by contemplating stages of human death and decay through Japanese kuzosu imagery, viewers __________.

• Question 14

Suzanne Lacy symbolizes the beauty of aging women in Whisper, the Waves, the Wind by __________.

• Question 15

The Islamic faith, Judaism and certain Protestants faiths share a belief that God (Allah) __________.

• Question 16

In 1974 Joseph Beuys shared a fenced-in New York City gallery space with __________.

• Question 17

Why were St. Sernin in Toulouse, France, and Santiago de Compostela in Spain pilgrimage churches in the eleventh century?

• Question 18

An example of a polytheistic faith is __________.

• Question 19

In 1972 Brice Marden was deeply influenced by __________ before beginnings his series of paintings based on the poems of Buddhist hermit Cold Mountain.

• Question 20

The Japanese art of kusozu is rooted in __________.

• Question 21

The central metaphor of Suzanne Lacy’s Inevitable Associations compared a hotel renovation to __________.

• Question 22

Common to many religions is the spiritual journey to a sacred space; this journey is called a __________.

• Question 23

The 2013 work Honey Baby is a __________.

• Question 24

In Japan, the three sacred shrines of Kumano, considered places of physical healing, are dedicated to the kami of the three Kumano mountains. What are kami?

• Question 25

What unifying device does Nicholas Nixon employ to document the aging process in his photographic series of The Brown Sisters?