Use examples from the chapter to illustrate how artworks featuring the American flag can have different meanings
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. In Flag, Jasper Johns represented the United States flag with lumps and smears, asking viewers to consider the work as a painting and to contemplate its meaning.
2. Johns created this work during a time of patriotism in the Cold War.
3. Faith Ringgold's God Bless America is a comment on bigotry.
4. She painted at a time that white prejudice was supported by the legal system. She represents the star of the United States flag as a sheriff's badge, the stripes as prison bars, and the woman behind the bars as a prisoner of her bigotry.
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A fourth scale degree is called the ______________________ .
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Pedimental sculpture is extremely rare in Etruscan temple architecture. Normally the Etruscans placed their narrative statuary on which of the following elements?
A. The peaks of the temple roof B. The double niches on the porches C. Only in interior niches in the cella D. Only in niches next to the entrance