2018 AcDec Art Section 1

Question 1

Neoclassicism was the revival of what type of art?

Accepted Answer

Greek and Roman

Question 2

Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of ___ in an art piece

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Beauty

Question 3

Who was NOT a Renaissance artist?

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Francois Boucher

Question 4

The cave paintings date from

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30,000 BCE

Question 5

Which art piece readily uses sfumato?

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Mona Lisa

Question 6

What is one building where Roman engineering can still be seen today?

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Pantheon

Question 7

Pre-Raphaelites were people that were dissatisfied with (the)

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Industrial Revolution

Question 8

What inventions allowed for MInimalist painters to achieve very precise outlines?

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Acrylic paint and airbrushes

Question 9

The Counter Reformation was against the

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Protestants

Question 10

Hagia Sophia was Byzantine architecture that was built in

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Constantinople

Question 11

Which one of these is a formal quality of art?

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Line, Shape, Form, Color

Question 12

Sfumato is

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The use of warm colors and a blurred outline

Question 13

Oldest works of art we consider are cave paintings are found in southeastern

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Turkey

Question 14

Ribbed vaults were what type of style?

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Gothic

Question 15

One human cave painting was found in (the)

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Lascaux

Question 16

Who pioneered the arch?

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Roman

Question 17

The civilization of Mesopotamia was between what river(s)?

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Tigris and Euphrates

Question 18

Flying buttresses were used as additional bracing material where on a building?

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Exterior

Question 19

Who commissioned Michelangelo to design his tomb?

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Pope Julius II

Question 20

Ziggurats were/was

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Stepped pyramids

Question 21

Realism included what in its pieces?

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The positives and negatives

Question 22

Who is credited with making innovations in the subject matter of landscapes?

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Giorgione

Question 23

Corinthian columns were against what type of background?

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Floral

Question 24

Sfumato is from the Italian word fumo which means

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Smoke

Question 25

Which piece is best known for small stone female figures with exaggerated body parts?

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Venus of Willendorf

Question 26

Arbitrary colors are colors that are

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Unrealistic

Question 27

The Academy was established under

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Louis XIV

Question 28

Giorgio Vasari gathered biographies of great Italian artists in

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The Lives of the Artists

Question 29

The Armory Show was the first

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major showing of modern art in the US

Question 30

The linear perspective is also known as

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Single vanishing point

Question 31

Art criticism is

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The explanation of current art events to the general public

Question 32

Who was most closely associated with the Counter Reformation?

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E Greco

Question 33

Rococo works were celebrations of

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Cheerfulness, Romance, Frivolity

Question 34

The old cave paintings include outlines of what human body part?

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Hands

Question 35

What type of work is best known from the Byzantines?

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Mosaic

Question 36

Color Field Paintings often feature

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Geometric forms

Question 37

What color are the smaller rocks in Stonehenge?

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Blue

Question 38

Doric and Ionic column styles were

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Greek

Question 39

Ziggurats functioned as

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Administrative centers, Temples, Economic centers

Question 40

The Code of Hammurabi is preserved in the

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Louvre Museum

Question 41

What is minimalism?

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Reducing art to its barest essentials

Question 42

Tintoretto is most often linked with (the)

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Mannerism

Question 43

Oil paints were used mostly by the

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South

Question 44

De Stijl works use what type of colors?

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Primary

Question 45

Der Blaue Reiter was a(n)

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Expressionist

Question 46

What is the hierarchical scale?

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Uses status of figures to determine the size of their pieces

Question 47

Stonehenge features concentric rings made with

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Sarsen

Question 48

Pliny the Elder sought to analyze art in his text

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Natural History

Question 49

Baroque art was between what centuries?

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16th-18th

Question 50

Formal analysis focuses on what type of quality?

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Visual

Question 51

Contextual analysis focuses on

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History, Context

Question 52

Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a ___ scholar

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German

Question 53

The oldest cave paintings are found in

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Chauvet Cave

Question 54

Who was one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance?

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Raphael Sanzio

Question 55

Romanesque churches are usually formed of a tunnel of arches called a

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Barrel vault

Question 56

Which of the following is NOT an example of a "fine art"?

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Pottery

Question 57

The cave paintings were discovered in

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1994

Question 58

Which of the following disciplines is NOT is not closely related to art history?

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Literature

Question 59

Venus means

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Women

Question 60

Who was one of the most prolific of the Venetian painters?

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Titian Vecelli

Question 61

Where were the Sumerians from?

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Mesopotamia

Question 62

Die Brucke was a/were

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Group of artists

Question 63

Egypt was conquered by

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Alexander the Great

Question 64

Sumer came under the rule of who in 2334 BCE?

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Sargon of Akkad

2018 AcDec Art Section 1

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2018 AcDec Art Section 1

Questions 79