Art Sections 1 and 2

Question 1

What is a lintel?

Accepted Answer

The cross piece put over two upright pieces.

Question 2

What was a major factor in ancient Chinese and Japanese art?

Accepted Answer

The ruler, The dynasty

Question 3

After World Wars 1 and 2, which place became the center of modern art?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 4

Art that is taken out of museums into nature or outside venues, that are large scale works is?

Accepted Answer

Earthworks, Environmental Art

Question 5

What is so unique about Jasper Johns "Flag"

Accepted Answer

It was seen as 3 flags up close and 1 flag from far away.

Question 6

What type of art dominated the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Pop Art

Question 7

What were African masks meant for?

Accepted Answer

To be integrated into performance with jokes and dances.

Question 8

Where and when was glass first created?

Accepted Answer

Middle East in 3000 BCE

Question 9

The Greeks were very___________ in their sculptures but the Romans were more ___________

Accepted Answer

realistic, idealistic

Question 10

What were characteristics of Gothic Architecture?

Accepted Answer

Pointed arches, flying buttresses, stained glass windows

Question 11

What is a ribbed vault?

Accepted Answer

Stone ribs/arches built under intersections.

Question 12

What were 3 early periods of Greek Civilization?

Accepted Answer

Cycladic, Mycenean, and Minoan

Question 13

Which painter's art influenced/ led into Impressionism?

Accepted Answer

Diego Velazquez

Question 14

Some differences between Baroque and Renaissance Art were what?

Accepted Answer

Baroque art kept the church in power and had more motion.

Question 15

What did art in the 1960's reflect?

Accepted Answer

Political tumult, experimentation and new freedoms

Question 16

Where is most Islamic art found?

Accepted Answer

In copies of the Koran and in architecture/ buildings

Question 17

What is photorealism

Accepted Answer

Images with clear, sharp focus- like a photograph.

Question 18

Where did Abstract Expressionism (AbEx) grow?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 19

Illuminated Manuscripts were_______?

Accepted Answer

copies of religious manuscripts that were illustrated.

Question 20

What type of art that showed the inner workings of your brain in arbitrary colors?

Accepted Answer

Expressionism

Question 21

Church architecture was in a Romanesque style. What features did it have?

Accepted Answer

Vaults, massive walls, small doors and windows with reliefs

Question 22

What were ready-mades?

Accepted Answer

Ordinary objects that were given new context by the artist.

Question 23

What method/medium did Jasper Johns use that involved suspending paint in hot wax?

Accepted Answer

Encaustics

Question 24

What were the stepped pyramids built by Sumerians called?

Accepted Answer

Ziggurats

Question 25

The importance of a figure in Egyptian art was represented by what?

Accepted Answer

Their size in the artwork

Question 26

What were Japanese artists known for?

Accepted Answer

Printmaking

Question 27

What was a Renaissance man?

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A person who had interests and ideas in multiple fields.

Question 28

What did art of the Benin Kingdom depict?

Accepted Answer

Rich life at court

Question 29

When did "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" happen?

Accepted Answer

October 1959

Question 30

Who made "Flag"

Accepted Answer

Jasper Johns

Question 31

What were characteristics of a Romanticist's painting?

Accepted Answer

Imaginative, emotional, romantic, like Baroque Art.

Question 32

Drip technique was developed by who?

Accepted Answer

Jackson Pollock

Question 33

What were two achievements of Filippo Brunelleschi?

Accepted Answer

The dome of the Florence Cathedral and linear perspective.

Question 34

Who dominated the art scene in the 1960's?

Accepted Answer

White men

Question 35

Polynesian art traditions are

Accepted Answer

Tattoos, carved masks, and carved wooden shields.

Question 36

Romans were the first to use a form of concrete and what did they develop?

Accepted Answer

Arches, vaults, and domes

Question 37

What is pop art?

Accepted Answer

Images of media and mass culture

Question 38

What was the "Academy"?

Accepted Answer

A means for imposing standards and principles of taste.

Question 39

Indian art was affected by which religion/s?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism

Question 40

Who said that art and music can be free of limitations in subject matter?

Accepted Answer

Wassily Kandinsky

Question 41

Performance art is a mix of what?

Accepted Answer

Art and theater

Question 42

What was realism?

Accepted Answer

Art that showed all parts of a subject, even negative ones.

Question 43

Neo- Babylonian rule brought what wonder of the Ancient World?

Accepted Answer

The Hanging Gardens

Question 44

What preceded Baroque art? What was Baroque art a reaction to?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance Art

Question 45

The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act influenced art. When was the act created?

Accepted Answer

1964

Question 46

What is minimalism?

Accepted Answer

Art with basic essentials, simple forms, and color palettes

Question 47

Throughout time, who were the patrons of artists?

Accepted Answer

royalty, wealthy nobility

Question 48

Why was television important in the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

It spread ideas, news, and the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Question 49

What art style did the Byzantine empire develop?

Accepted Answer

mosaics

Question 50

What African civilization created terracotta sculptures of religious and political figures?

Accepted Answer

The Nok Civilization

Question 51

Native Americans of the southwest had impressive architectural skills building what?

Accepted Answer

pueblos

Question 52

Who created "18 happenings in 6 parts"?

Accepted Answer

Allan Kaprow

Question 53

What was "18 Happenings in 6 Parts"

Accepted Answer

An event where people moved around 3 areas with instructions

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