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Visual Culture Exam Prep
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Review of Art History and Visual Analysis
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Who is the artist?
Claude Monet
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michaelangelo
Edgar Degas
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This artist wanted to emphasise the effect of pure colour and pure form, inaugurating the art movement known as...
Abstract Art
Cubism
Figurative Art
Expressionism
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Paul Cézanne was interested in...
Starting a new revolutionary art
Mastering the illusion of reality
Exploring the limits of linear perspective
Balancing form & colour
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Why did we watch two productions of Cavalleria Rusticana?
To prove that Panofsky's method can be applied to opera
To check that formal aspects are more important than content
To understand that form & content work together
To understand the difference between signifier & signified
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What is the artistic movement?
Baroque
Neo-Classicism
Renaissance
Romanesque
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What is the artistic movement which seeks the creation of fantastic and dream-like images?
Expressionism
Renaissance
Op-Art
Surrealism
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Who is John Berger?
An Art Theorist with an ideological approach to art
An Art Historian frequently quoted by Gombrich
An Art Theorist who invented the term Damnatio Memoriae
An Art Historian, expert on Medieval Iconography
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Gombrich considers that Egyptian paintings lack a correct linear perspective because...
They had a different understanding of perspective
They represent what they know is important and its significance
They were just teaching about their religion and faith
They hadn't fully developed the technique for achieving it
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What is the movement?
Impressionism
Expressionism
Renaissance
Surrealism
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Who is the artist?
Brunelleschi
Raphael
de Chirico
Fra Angelico
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What does Hume say about art judgment & personal taste?
There are strict canonical rules determining what is and isn't art
We rely on taste rather than reason, but not everyone has good taste
Art is solely based on emotions: if it moves you, it is art
There is no such thing as Art, it doesn't really matter
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What style of art is this?
Impressionism
Ancient Roman Painting
Baroque
Romanesque
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What type of work is this?
Landscape
Portrait
Still Life
Impressionism
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Gombrich thinks that when visiting a museum we must consider that...
Most works have been stolen and appropriated
Works of art shouldn't be explained at all
Most works were made with a different purpose
All artists dreamt about their works being in a museum
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Where is the vanishing point in this piece?
behind the figure in the center
in the back left corner
on the ceiling in the back
on the right side in the doorway
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What genre is this?
Landscape
Portrait
Still Life
Genre painting
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Roger Fry is an Art Theorist with a focus on
Hidden ideology in art
Iconology
Formal aspects
Art semiotics
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This photograph was taken...
Following the rules of Surrealism
As a formal exercise of compositional balance
Considering its semiotic quality as an index
In a propagandistic way (which had already been used in history)
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Who is the artist?
Henry Matisse
Roy Lichtenstein
Pablo Picasso
Wassily Kandinsky
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What were the Academies?
Independent museums created by the Impressionists
Greek temples dedicated to the god of Arts
National art schools during the Enlightment
Renaissance workshops were apprentices learnt the craft
