Art Appreciation Test

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

perspective

Question 4

Which musical term means "soft"

Accepted Answer

piano

Question 5

All of the following are plays by William Shakespeare EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Oedipus Rex

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

architectural systems of construction

Question 7

What is texture as it relates to visual art?

Accepted Answer

the apparent roughness or smoothness of the brushstrokes

Question 8

Richard Wagner was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

music/opera

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a genre of sculpture?

Accepted Answer

linear

Question 10

This Italian opera composer was closely tied to Italian politics.

Accepted Answer

Giuseppe Verdi

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Uniphony

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a genre of dance?

Accepted Answer

pantomime

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Pablo Picasso was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

visual art/architect/sculpture

Question 16

Molière was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

theatre/dance

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a genre of opera?

Accepted Answer

Opera Cantata

Question 19

Ludwig van Beethoven was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

music/opera

Question 20

William Shakespeare was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

theatre/dance

Question 21

Michelangelo Buonarroti was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

visual art/architect/sculpture

Question 22

What is the central character of a play called?

Accepted Answer

protagonist

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

symphony

Question 25

Michelangelo Caravaggio was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

visual art/architect/sculpture

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

empathy

Question 28

Criticism is the process of analyzing a work of art.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Igor Stravinsky was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

music/opera

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

concerto

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

The Battleship Potemkin

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

pitch

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

chiaroscuro

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 37

Martha Graham was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

theatre/dance

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Pablo Picasso

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

Florentine camerata

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

acrylics

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

Georges Seurat

Question 43

Frank Lloyd Wright was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

visual art/architect/sculpture

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in what artform?

Accepted Answer

music/opera

Question 46

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

Accepted Answer

montage

Question 47

Which of the following is an opera by Mozart?

Accepted Answer

The Marriage of Figaro

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

electronica

Question 49

Which of the following is not a genre of theater?

Accepted Answer

satire

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

fresco

Art Appreciation Test

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Art Appreciation Test

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