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1
_________, the charged attempt to make the inner workings of the mind visible in art.
Romanticism
Modernism
Art Nouveau
Expressionism
2
Sfumato: means smoke, is the use of mellowed colors & a blurred outline.
True
False
3
When did Modernism emerge?
20th Century
21st Century
22nd Century
19th Century
4
What school of design became a byword of modern design by establishing standards for architecture?
Bauhaus
Brinton
Haywood
Mayordine
5
Who developed concrete?
The Romans
The famous Greek Parthenon
Antoni Gaudi
The Native Americans
6
What did Michelangelo sculpt?
Moses
Nothing he only painted
The Tempest
7
What does “positive space” mean?
The objects that occupy an artwork
Lines drawn throughout a background to add texture to the piece
A good amount of space in the background of an art piece
The space between two objects in a painting
8
What age was the figure Venus of Willendorf a part of?
Middle Stone Age
New Stone Age
Old Stone Age
9
Mosaic work is largely Christian in content
False
True
10
The elements of art include all except which of the following?
Line
Shape
Texture
Intensity
11
What does “neutral” mean?
A color that is darker than most others
A color that is mainly found in nature
A color that is lighter than most others
A color that is not intense or saturated
12
Who is viewed as the most famous artist of Reformation Germany?
Caravaggio
Albrecht Dürer
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Matthias Grünewald
13
What artist was not a part of the surrealist movement?
Rene Magritte
Joan Miro
Salvador Dali
Marcel Duchamp
14
During what years did Harlem become a center for African American creativity?
1940s
1920s
1910s
1930s
15
Photography was developed during the mid-nineteenth century.
True
False
16
What is the oldest legal code known?
Napoleonic Code
The Magna Carta
Code of Justinian
Code of Hammurabi
17
What is “Pop Art”
Art that pops out of its frame, adding texture and perspective.
Art that depicts a minimalistic amount of details and colors.
Art that is an event to view
Art that violates unspoken rules of what was appropriate subject matter
18
Craft and Folk Art is a variety of art forms across all cultures.
True
False
19
Until the time of the Renaissance, painters and sculptors were…
Artisans, were of lesser status because they worked with their hands
Intellectual figures, were accorded a special place in society
Disappointments
Common People
20
What are the two types of Abstract Expressionists?
Tempera, Encaustic
Action, Color Fields
21
Who created mobiles with forms suspended by wire which can be moved by wind or air currents?
Alexander Calder
Robert Rauschenberg
Giotto di Bondone
Filippo Brunelleschi
22
In 1401, who won the door designing competition for the city of Florence?
Botticelli
Donatello
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Filippo Brunelleschi
23
What was an ordinary object given a new context called?
Ready-mades
Black-rocks
Wallets
Bundies
24
Where were the oldest works of art discovered?
Ruins of Machu Picchu
Pyramids of Egypt
Ancient Rome
Chauvet Cave
25
_________, a kind of mixed media in which artists combine various materials.
Collage
Sculpting
Conjunction
Folk Art
26
What were Etruscan buildings constructed of?
Brick and wood
Baked clay
Concrete
Reinforced concrete
27
Carving is an additive process.
True
False
28
What mode focuses on looking outside of the work to find its meaning?
Visual deconstruction
Interpretive criticism
Formal analysis
Contextual analysis
29
How are coils made?
Punching the thumb into the center of the ball and pinching until thinned.
Rolled out with the palm of the hand.
Weaved individually.
By pouring liquid clay into a mold.
30
Filippo Brunelleschi won second place in the competition, after losing he focused on…
painting
architecture
sculpture
31
What is post-and-lintel construction?
It is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings.
The construction of both woven and nonwoven materials.
The technique in which a stone or wooden beam is placed across vert. posts.
A building style that alternated between buttresses & thin walls
32
What is relief printmaking?
When a camera achieves a higher degree of realism.
When the artist cuts away parts from the surface of the plate.
When lines are incised on the wood or soft metal plate.
When a surface is engraved.
33
Who most strongly influenced modern art history?
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Giorgio Vassari
Giotto di Bondone
Pliny the Elder
34
Raphael Sanzio was not one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance.
True
False
35
Lorenzo Ghiberti designed a door panel with figures harkening back to those of classical Greece. This depicts…
The sacrifice of Isaac
Gates of Paradise
Innovative techniques of the Renaissance
A unifying feature of the design
36
What uses the status of figures/objects to determine their relative sizes?
Point scaling
Linear perspective
Atmospheric perspective
Hierarchical scale
37
Who wrote The Lives of the Artists?
Giotto di Bondone
Giorgio Vassari
Pliny the Elder
Johann Joachhim Winckelmann
38
What does optical color refer to?
The “true” color of an object or area as seen in normal daylight.
The choice of colors for their emotional or aesthetic impact.
The effect that special lighting has on the color of objects.
The equal distribution of visual weight in a work of art.
39
What was the first major showing of modern art in America
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
The Great Exhibition
The Armory Show
The First Impressionist Exhibition
40
Which of the following are types of paint?
Impasto, fresco, watercolor and acrylic paint.
Gouache, encaustic, watercolor, and acrylic paint.
Acrylic paint, gouache, glazes, and watercolor.
Fresco, encaustic, tempera, and impasto.
41
What is “Abstract Expressionism”
Visual art that is created in public places.
Art that represents its subject matter truthfully.
Art should be free from the limitations of pictorial subject matter.
Art that reflects modern industrial society and urban space.
42
What does ”hue” mean?
The blending of colors to fill space
The particular degree of light or dark of a color
The amount of total color on a page
The shading of an object to properly implement it within the background
43
Why did architecture decline during the Late Classical Period?
People turned their focus to painting
Athens were defeated in the Peloponnesian War
The ruling government banned architecture
The weather made it difficult to continue building
44
What does formal analysis focus on?
Historical background
The artist’s background
Price of artwork
Visual qualities of the work itself
45
What is Neoclassicism?
A revival of interest in the art of classical Greece and Rome
Characters of classical myth
Characterized by distortion of certain elements like perspective or scale
A style hearkened back to the emotional emphasis of the Baroque
46
What liquid clay assembles pots together?
Slip
Liquid Polymer
Coils
Glaze
47
Where did many Northern European artists travel to study in the 16th Century?
England
France
Italy
Greece
48
Which of the following is an example of the Intaglio printmaking process?
Etching
Stippling
Cross Hatching
Modeling
49
Two models for the “Renaissance man”
Botticelli & Lorenzo Ghiberti
Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo
Raphael & Botticelli
Filippo Brunelleschi & Donatello
50
Who is widely considered to be the founder of modern sculpture?
Leonardo
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
51
Who is often mentioned in connection to the transitional time period of the medieval period to the Renaissance?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Giotto di Bondone
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
52
Brunelleschi is credited with developing…
Sharp perspective
Simple perspective
aerial perspective
linear perspective
53
During the Renaissance, what medium was primarily used to create realistic details?
Gouache
Acrylic Paints
Oil Paints
Baroque
54
Baroque artwork was characterized by a greater sense of movement & energy
False
True
55
What primarily functioned as temples and served as administrative and economic centers?
The Parthenon
Ziggurats
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Great Pyramids of Giza
56
What was the text Natural Rights meant to analyze?
Role of people in a society
Impact of industrialization
Historical and contemporary art
Freedoms of individuals
57
What feeling does a “line” intend to envoke in the audence?
Stability
Uneasiness
Happiness
Sadness
58
What age is linked with rings/rows of rough hewn stones located in Western Europe?
New Stone Age
Middle Stone Age
Old Stone Age
59
What movement aimed to protest against everything in society
Pop Art
Rococo
Surrealism
Dada
60
Simple perspective: creates an illusion of a stage for Giotto’s figures, gives viewers a sense of looking into the event
False
True
61
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Gothic style?
Rounded arches
Ribbed vaults
Flying buttresses
Pointed arches
62
Chiaroscuro is:
dramatic contrast of light & dark
doesn’t mean anything
the name of a painting
An important feature of Louis XIV’s court
63
True or False: mosaic work is largely Christian in content
False
True
64
What is considered the greatest art piece from China?
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
Great Wall
Spring Morning in the Han Palace
Along the River During the Qingming Festival
65
What does “intensity” mean?
The brightness or darkness of a color
A scaling of color using a color wheel
The amount of paint used in a single work
A technique that involves the beating of a canvas in order to form texture
66
What does “negative space” mean?
A logical grouping of elements
An optical trick that uses dark colors to add emphasis on objects
The area that surrounds and is in between objects.
A way of story-telling
67
What is Lithography?
Process where a design is incised through wax/varnish on a metal plate
Process of paint on walls or ceilings.
Process where waxy pencil or crayon draws directly on a plate.
An additive process.
