Art Appreciation Test

What is the high-ness or low-ness of sound in music called?

Historical Periods is Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century

This film is often seen as the first "blockbuster" of cinema (despite its racist plot).

Ludwig van Beethoven was in what artform?

This Russian film is important because it is the first film to use montage as a narrative technique.

This art style combines paint to wet plaster. When it dries, the plaster and paint mixed together form the wall.

This nineteenth-century painter is famous for applying paint dot by dot instead of using traditional brushstrokes.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in what artform?

This artist is famous for his Cubist paintings around the turn of the 20th century.

Richard Wagner was in what artform?

Which piece of music is important for having a choir sing the "Ode to Joy" in the last movement?

Music in the 20th century is radicalized by techniques of Serialism, 12-tone, polytonality featuring music by Stravinsky

Which of the following is NOT a genre of sculpture?

Which of the following is an opera by Mozart?

Abstract Art is important because it is first visual art movements to include non-representational subject matter.

Which of the following is NOT a genre of dance?

The production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas is called

Criticism is the process of analyzing a work of art.

Recitative is musically unimportant plot information, the leitmotif is emotionally-charged reaction to the recitative.

Which genre of music features an instrumental soloist accompanied by an orchestra?

This Italian opera composer was closely tied to Italian politics.

William Shakespeare composed works in the following genres: tragedy, comedy, satire, and history.

What is texture as it relates to visual art?

Which of the following is NOT a type of music texture?

What is the central character of a play called?

Which genre of music is a multi-movement work that features the orchestra?

Michelangelo Caravaggio was in what artform?

All of the following are plays by William Shakespeare EXCEPT

What term is used to define the illusion of depth or distance in a painting?

Igor Stravinsky was in what artform?

Frank Lloyd Wright was in what artform?

This renown Renaissance artist is famous for his sculpture masterpieces, but a painting of the Pope's chapel in Rome.

What term refers to emotional, mental, phycological, and physical separation between the audience and actors on stage?

What are post-and-lentil, arches, bearing wall, skeleton frame, and catilever?

William Shakespeare was in what artform?

Which of the following is not a category of musical timbre?

Empathy is trying to get an audience to care about the events in a play or movie

Greek Theater featured a style of theater called Theater of Convention. It used only male actors 

Which musical term means "soft"

This group of Renaissance artists, intellectuals, poets, philosophers, and musicians created opera in Florence.

Molière was in what artform?

Ansel Adams is a famous painter known for his portraits of Hollywood starlets in the 1930s-1950s.

Pablo Picasso was in what artform?

Michelangelo Buonarroti was in what artform?

The creator of the dance moves in ballet is called the choreographer

This type of paint is developed in a laboratory. It is commercially available and fairly inexpensive.

Which of the following is not a genre of theater?

Which of the following is NOT a genre of opera?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three ways an artist can achieve a focal point?

Martha Graham was in what artform?