Art Appreciation Test

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright was in what artform?

Which of the following is NOT a genre of opera?

William Shakespeare was in what artform?

Michelangelo Buonarroti was in what artform?

Pablo Picasso was in what artform?

Which musical term means "soft"

Martha Graham was in what artform?

Michelangelo Caravaggio was in what artform?

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

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

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

Richard Wagner was in what artform?

This Italian opera composer was closely tied to Italian politics.

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

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

Which of the following is not a genre of theater?

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

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

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

Molière was in what artform?

Criticism is the process of analyzing a work of art.

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

Which of the following is NOT a genre of dance?

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

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

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

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

What is the central character of a play called?

Ludwig van Beethoven was in what artform?

Which of the following is NOT a genre of sculpture?

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

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

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

What is texture as it relates to visual art?

Igor Stravinsky was in what artform?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is an opera by Mozart?

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

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

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in what artform?

All of the following are plays by William Shakespeare EXCEPT