Art Appreciation Test

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

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

Which of the following is NOT a genre of dance?

Ludwig van Beethoven was in what artform?

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

William Shakespeare was in what artform?

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

What is texture as it relates to visual art?

Which musical term means "soft"

Michelangelo Caravaggio was in what artform?

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

Martha Graham was in what artform?

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

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

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

Which of the following is an opera by Mozart?

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

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

Michelangelo Buonarroti was in what artform?

All of the following are plays by William Shakespeare EXCEPT

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

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

Molière was in what artform?

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

Criticism is the process of analyzing a work of art.

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is not a genre of theater?

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

What is the central character of a play called?

This Italian opera composer was closely tied to Italian politics.

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

Which of the following is NOT a genre of opera?

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

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

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

Richard Wagner was in what artform?

Frank Lloyd Wright was in what artform?

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

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

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in what artform?

Which of the following is NOT a genre of sculpture?

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

Igor Stravinsky was in what artform?

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

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

Pablo Picasso was in what artform?