Question: What criteria did the Aztecs use to evaluate artistic quality?

Answer: whether it resembled art by a neighboring people

Question: Which would receive highest praise in traditional Chinese art criticism?

Answer: conveying the spirit of an object

Question: What caused the negative response to Impressionism by contemporary audiences in the nineteenth century?

Answer: It was so different from traditional painting

Question: What distinguishes formal art criticism from other theories used to evaluate art?

Answer: It focuses primarily on the art object itself

Question: Which can be described as an “artist-centered” approach to evaluating a work of art?

Answer: expressive art criticism

Question: Critics using which critical approach might look first at environmental influences on the artist?

Answer: contextual

Question: What can we best determine from the $179.4 million auction price for a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso?

Answer: the economic value of the painting when it was sold

Question: Museums are interested in buying and exhibiting works that

Answer: embody high-quality standards determined by experts

Question: Why is it difficult to determine the cash value of artworks in museums?

Answer: They are outside the marketplace system and most will never be sold

Question: What distinguishes analysis from factual information or evaluation when writing about a work of art?

Answer: Analysis considers how different elements work together