YEAR 12 ATAR VISUAL ART EXAM PREP

Question 1

What is chiaroscuro?

Accepted Answer

An effect of contrasted light and shadow.

Question 2

The Contemporary Art Society or 'Moderns' were split into which two groups?

Accepted Answer

The Social Realists, Angry Penguins

Question 3

How many Australians died in active service in WW1?

Accepted Answer

60,000

Question 4

Is this a sculpture or an installation?

Accepted Answer

installation

Question 5

What are two questions you would answer in the 'Description' component of an analysis?

Accepted Answer

Have any images been appropriated and re-contextualised?, What style or movement does the work belong to?

Question 6

Is this artwork by Bruegel or Bosch?

Accepted Answer

Bosch

Question 7

Was conscription compulsory in Australia during WW2?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 8

What art movement does the above artwork belong to?

Accepted Answer

Cubism

Question 9

Boyd developed an expressive style in order to adequately express ...

Accepted Answer

the trauma of his personal wartime experience.

Question 10

Why was the Herald Exhibition housed in a town hall?

Accepted Answer

NGV didn't want modern art displayed in its collection.

Question 11

How many times did Japan bomb Darwin?

Accepted Answer

64

Question 12

Expressionism used...

Accepted Answer

distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect.

Question 13

Pieter Bruegel's depict

Accepted Answer

multitudes of small figures in deep panoramic landscapes

Question 14

What materials, techniques and processes have been used in Melbourne Burning?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following are principles?

Accepted Answer

Balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, repetition, unity

Question 16

At times Arthur Boyd used cripples as metaphors for...

Accepted Answer

Evil

Question 17

What year did the Herald Exhibition come to Melbourne?

Accepted Answer

1939

Question 18

The above artwork is an example of what postmodern technique?

Accepted Answer

Recontexualisation

Question 19

South Melbourne communicates...

Accepted Answer

the anxiety and sorrow of Melbourne during the Depression, the true vulnerability of humanity and the cruelty of chance

Question 20

How many Australians were unemployed in 1932?

Accepted Answer

32%

Question 21

What colour scheme has been used in this artwork?

Accepted Answer

Triadic

Question 22

Australians had an ... point of view towards WWI.

Accepted Answer

isolationist

Question 23

Which of the following are elements of art?

Accepted Answer

Line, shape, colour, texture, form, value, space

Question 24

Grounds of chrome green and red inspired by ... Boyd introduced ... to the Australian landscape

Accepted Answer

the Venetians, an intensity of colour and fine gradations of tone

Question 25

When analysing sculpture, what must you take into consideration?

Accepted Answer

Use of materials, Use of element and principles

Question 26

What gave Boyd's work the symbolic richness of a medieval or Renaissance painting?

Accepted Answer

egg tempera and oil paint

Question 27

The conservative art establishment in Australia was called?

Accepted Answer

The Australian Academy of Art

Question 28

The Social Realists believed art must...

Accepted Answer

challenge and transform social attitudes, fulfill a political/ social/ moral role to fight for justice

Question 29

What painting technique has been used in this painting?

Accepted Answer

wet on wet

Question 30

What are two questions you would address in the ‘Interpretation’ component of an analysis?

Accepted Answer

Is it confronting or does it make political comment?, Is the meaning immediately apparent or alluded to?

YEAR 12 ATAR VISUAL ART EXAM PREP

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YEAR 12 ATAR VISUAL ART EXAM PREP

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