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