USAD 2023-2024 Art review

Question 1

What style is seen as an extension of the Baroque Period?

Accepted Answer

Rococo

Question 2

What did Niepce successfully do with sunlight?

Accepted Answer

An engraving on paper

Question 3

Who created the world's first mass-produced book?

Accepted Answer

Wang Chen

Question 4

Who invented the first magnetic compass?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 5

How many times was The Bridge at Argenteuil painted?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 6

Egyptian and Syrian raw material markets were vital for which of the Venetian markets?

Accepted Answer

Jewelry

Question 7

What type of portraits conveys the palpable psychology of their sitters?

Accepted Answer

Fayum portraits

Question 8

What is a camera Obscura?

Accepted Answer

An ancient optical device

Question 9

What was one of the first art movements from the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Precisionism

Question 10

Concrete vaults were relatively….

Accepted Answer

Fireproof

Question 11

What was the world’s first “camera”?

Accepted Answer

Camera obscura

Question 12

What type of style did the silhouette have?

Accepted Answer

Plain

Question 13

Who is the first recognized female photographer?

Accepted Answer

Anna Atkins

Question 14

Who was commonly hailed as the “father of video art”?

Accepted Answer

Nam June Paik

Question 15

What Roman Discovery was a major contribution to architecture?

Accepted Answer

Concrete

Question 16

What shade of blue is used in The Italian Comedians?

Accepted Answer

Prussian Blue

Question 17

According to the guide, which work is one of the oldest examples of Islamic architecture?

Accepted Answer

Dome of the Rock

Question 18

Who is famous for the documentation of a rapidly industrializing New York City?

Accepted Answer

Berenice Abbott

Question 19

Who was the most photographed person in the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Fredrick Douglas

Question 20

Who were the first known printers?

Accepted Answer

Sumerians

Question 21

What was Wang Chen’s most famous text about?

Accepted Answer

Agriculture

Question 22

Which term refers to the artist's organization of the elements of art?

Accepted Answer

Compisition

Question 23

Egyptians would add which false organ to a mummy?

Accepted Answer

Eyes

Question 24

In the Pantheon, what would the Oculus represent to a visitor in Ancient Rome?

Accepted Answer

The eye of Jupiter

Question 25

What could the symbolism of the Dragon in Jar with Dragon represent?

Accepted Answer

The rise of Ming rulers

Question 26

In Muybridge’s method of photographing a horse in motion, what were the cameras spaced in?

Accepted Answer

21 inch intervals

Question 27

Who’s color theories helped to find impressionist color theory?

Accepted Answer

Michel Eugene Chevreul

Question 28

When was A Girl with a Kitten completed?

Accepted Answer

The first half of 1720s

Question 29

What is the indicator of the young man’s coming-of-age in the portrait of the selected mummy?

Accepted Answer

Mustache

Question 30

In what mountains were the lapis lazuli stone mined?

Accepted Answer

Syria

Question 31

What does Chamberlain’s sculpture function as?

Accepted Answer

Refined and Minimalistic

Question 32

Who invented the collapsible metal tube?

Accepted Answer

John Goffe Rand

Question 33

When was photography’s global introduction made?

Accepted Answer

1839

Question 34

What was the first successful photographic process?

Accepted Answer

The daguerreotype

Question 35

What are the two modes of Art analysis?

Accepted Answer

Formal and contextual

Question 36

2. What style does much Egyptian art emphasize?

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical Scale

Question 37

By the 12th century in Europe, stained glass was seen as what?

Accepted Answer

A Refined art and a Religious Phenomenon

Question 38

What year was Eadweard Muybridge commissioned to conduct a series of photographic experiments on animal locomotion?

Accepted Answer

1872

Question 39

Why did the Academy deny Vigee- Lebrun access?

Accepted Answer

Her gender

Question 40

In which city did Johannes Gutenberg develop his printing press?

Accepted Answer

Mainz

Question 41

Who started experimenting with new technologies in the first decades in the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Nicephore Niepce

Question 42

Who invented the physiognotrace?

Accepted Answer

Gilles-Louise Chretien

Question 43

Which transept at the Chartres Cathedral represents stories from the New Testament?

Accepted Answer

North

Question 44

What was the name for wax-based Paints in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Encaustic

Question 45

By not using kaolin clay, British potters produced what kind of pottery?

Accepted Answer

Bone China

Question 46

Who was the first-place winner In the competition to design the baptistry doors in Florence?

Accepted Answer

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 47

Who did Berenice Abbott get support from?

Accepted Answer

The Federal Art Project

Question 48

Who created the Samson Rending the Lion print?

Accepted Answer

Albrecht Durer

Question 49

Why were Abbott’s photographs more significant?

Accepted Answer

all of the above, The trains station survived, The train station survived, The train station had not survived

Question 50

What two metals were used in the daguerreotype?

Accepted Answer

Silver and copper

Question 51

What Label was the silhouette given?

Accepted Answer

True representation

Question 52

What is the oldest form of printing?

Accepted Answer

Woodcutting

Question 53

During which century was photography developed?

Accepted Answer

Mid-19th

Question 54

Where is the Benin Plaque with Oba located today?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 55

Tintoretto is often linked with what artistic style?

Accepted Answer

Mannerism

Question 56

Which invention sparked the Age of Discovery?

Accepted Answer

The magnetic compass

Question 57

What feature does phrenology privilege to reveal the character?

Accepted Answer

Face

Question 58

The interstate highway act of 1956 created a system of how many miles?

Accepted Answer

41,000 miles

Question 59

In the South Rose window at Chartres, a figure of Christ has his right hand raised in what kind of gesture?

Accepted Answer

Blessing

Question 60

Who made The Bridge at Argenteuil?

Accepted Answer

Claude Monet

USAD 2023-2024 Art review

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USAD 2023-2024 Art review

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