Art and Culture
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between art and culture, examining how artistic expressions both shape and reflect social values, beliefs, and historical contexts. Students will study a variety of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, music, literature, and film from diverse cultures and time periods. Through critical analysis and discussion, the course encourages students to consider how cultural identity, politics, religion, and technology influence the creation and interpretation of art. By engaging with theoretical frameworks and case studies, students will develop a deeper understanding of the role of art as a powerful force in both individual and collective cultural development.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) In sculpture,__________ refers to the size,shape,and volume of forms.
A) symmetry
B) weight
C) harmony
D) mass
E) spectrum
Answer: D
Q2) What are some of the traditional concerns of art?
Answer: creativity,aesthetic communication,decoration,entertainment,social commentary,and therapy
Q3) Handel's Messiah is an example of a(n)__________.
Answer: oratorio
Q4) A(n)__________ is a large musical composition for orchestra,usually divided into four movements.
Answer: symphony
Q5) The hero or main character of a dramatic or literary work is called a(n)__________.
Answer: protagonist
Q6) How does "contextual criticism" approach an artwork?
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Answer: It examines both the artwork and information in the society.
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Egyptians believed the __________ embodied the sun god.
Answer: pharaoh
Q2) The Egyptian royal headdress seen in the funerary mask of Tutankhamun is called a(n)__________.
A) amarna
B) akenaton
C) nefertiti
D) nemes
E) amenhotep
Answer: D
Q3) __________ is the Sumerian writing system,consisting of wedge marks pressed into damp clay.
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Syllabic
C) Notation
D) Liturgy
E) Cuneiform
Answer: E
Q4) What was the attitude of the Egyptians toward the human body?
Answer: admiring
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) The Greeks took the Minoans as their model.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) How was the government of the Greek polis different from a monarchy?
Answer: it was governed by the citizens
Q3) __________ often had signatures and typically served as funerary and temple art.
Answer: Kouroi
Q4) __________ refers to a freestanding sculpture of a nude male youth.
A) Ionic
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Kouros
E) Doric.
Answer: D
Q5) By the end of the Archaic period,Greek city-states no longer included slaves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) Plato's Theory of __________ held that material reality was only a copy of a perfect,universal reality that can only be grasped by reason.
A) Gods
B) Reason
C) Forms
D) Senses
E) Art
Q2) Who was the first (and perhaps greatest)Greek tragedian?
Q3) For __________,proper art depends upon the "moral ends of the polis."
A) Aristotle
B) Diogenes
C) Plato
D) Myron
E) Amyntas
Q4) Although talented in many things,the Greeks produced no major mathematicians.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Zeno was the founder of Stoicism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The __________ was a 200-year span of stability during the Roman Empire,beginning with Emperor Augustus.
A) Great Peace
B) Pax Romana
C) Cella
D) Empire
E) Augustean
Q2) Analyze the design of the Roman Pantheon.What are the important engineering and stylistic qualities? What would it feel like to be inside? What was the Pantheon's purpose?
Q3) Probably the most influential concept developed by the Romans was __________.
A) aestheticism
B) imperialism
C) jurisprudence
D) asceticism
E) courtly love
Q4) What are two concepts that reject abstract speculation in favor of experience and practicality?
Q5) Which two epic poems did Vergil's Aeneid largely parallel?
Q6) __________ is considered the greatest Roman poet.
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) The __________ served as underground cemeteries for the Roman Christians.
A) mausoleums
B) basilicas
C) tombs
D) catacombs
E) aqueducts
Q2) Fundamental to the moral law of the Torah are the principles of justice and __________.
Q3) All Roman emperors after Constantine were __________.
A) assassinated
B) overthrown
C) Muslim
D) Christian
E) Germanic
Q4) Messiah means "__________."
A) chosen people
B) anointed one
C) teacher
D) God
E) Diaspora
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) What was the layout of the typical Byzantine church?
Q2) The __________ demanded the removal of icons from Orthodox churches,on grounds that they were in fact idols.
A) clergy
B) Muslims
C) Visigoths
D) iconoclasts
E) iconophiles
Q3) The Hagia Sophia has the largest __________ ever created.
A) proscenium
B) pendentive
C) apse
D) dome
E) nave
Q4) The Caliph Abu Bakr encouraged __________ to expand the religion of Islam.
A) missionary work
B) scholarship
C) art
D) holy struggle
E) theatre
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) The __________,as a symbol of the powers of darkness and evil,was a strong force in medieval thinking.
A) Roman emperor
B) pharaoh
C) devil
D) king
E) ocean
Q2) Charlemagne was called "the Great" because of his vast formal education.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The "Song of Roland" is an imaginative epic based on the real-life King
Q4) Painting became a largely __________ art after the fall of Rome.
Q5) Christian __________ was championed by St Bernard.
A) asceticism
B) hermeticism
C) monasticism
D) mysticism
E) theocracy
Q6) How did the Gero Crucifix depict Christ?
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) The Crusades had a direct influence on painting style.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In their human qualities and personalized faces,the jamb statues on Chartres Cathedral illustrate the High Gothic style,or Gothic __________.
Q3) The content of Gothic sculpture is __________.
A) innovative
B) didactic
C) classical
D) personal
E) scientific
Q4) __________ is a sculpture or painting of the dead Christ supported by Mary.
A) Allegory
B) Stigmata
C) Lamentation
D) Pietà
E) Resurrection
Q5) In Chrétien's story of Arthur and Camelot,which character's sufferings and trials parallel those of Christ?
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) What Renaissance system of thought influences Donatello's depiction of St.George as a "hero of everyday proportions"?
Q2) Alberti's Palazzo Recellai is clearly influenced by the Roman __________.
A) cathedral
B) basilica
C) Colosseum
D) bathhouse
E) gymnasium
Q3) Classical scholarship was the forte of Pope Pius II.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A roofed,open arcade is called a __________.
Q5) The focal point of Donatello's Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata is the __________.
A) military implements
B) horse
C) attendants
D) rider
E) relief sculpture
Q6) With 50,000 citizens __________ was the largest city in Europe during the 1400s.
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) .Sophonisba Anguissola was a(n)__________ for the Queen of Spain.
A) attendant
B) court painter
C) court musician
D) playwright
E) poet
Q2) Bramante's __________ ("little temple")exemplifies High Renaissance style in architecture.
Q3) Under the aegis of Lope de Vega,a __________ theatre emerged in Spain.
A) religious
B) popular
C) courtly
D) national
E) international
Q4) Part of Titian's unique technique involved thin layers of paint over top of a reddish __________.
Q5) The Ottoman Empire defeated the Turks.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which institution's patronage attracted artists to Rome?
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Ulrich Zwingli condemned pilgrimages,fasts,papal supremacy and __________.
A) masses
B) baptism
C) catechism
D) transubstantiation
E) church taxes
Q2) Copernicus argued for a(n)__________ theory of the universe.
Q3) Montaigne's book inaugurated the term __________ for a short prose composition treating a given subject in a rather informal and personal manner.
A) prose poem
B) commentary
C) dialogue
D) discourse
E) essay
Q4) The __________ helped spread music and identify composers as individuals.
A) court
B) church
C) aristocracy
D) guild
E) printing press
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) Was St.Theresa associated with the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation?
Q2) __________ asserts that reason is a better path to knowledge than experience or observation.
A) Empiricism
B) Scholasticism
C) Protestantism
D) Idealism
E) Rationalism
Q3) Operas grew out of __________.
A) poems
B) madrigals
C) folk music
D) symphonies
E) religious chants
Q4) The Death of the Virgin,by __________,was rejected by the parish of Santa Maria del Popolo.
Q5) In France the absolutist state and the church worked in harmony.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Between 1600 and __________ most European artists used the baroque style.
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) Jacques-Louis David's painting Oath of the Horatii sought to inspire __________.
A) political debate
B) religious sentiment
C) appreciation of classical art
D) artistic controversy
E) patriotism
Q2) The first recorded American theatre was built in __________.
A) Boston
B) New York
C) Washington
D) Richmond
E) Williamsburg
Q3) "Man was born free,and everywhere he is in chains" is the opening line of a work by Jean-Jacques __________.
Q4) The attempts of architects to engage with Enlightenment philosophy are classified as __________ architecture.
Q5) Although the movement began in the eighteen century,the term __________ was not coined until the nineteenth century suffrage movement.
Q6) Faith in reason and __________ informed much eighteenth century thought.
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) __________ was one of the first artists to complete paintings out-of-doors.
A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
C) Francisco de Goya
D) Joseph Mallord William Turner
E) Théodore Géricault
Q2) Richard Wagner drew heavily on __________ mythology.
Q3) Franz Schubert was the earliest composer of __________.
Q4) Music was relatively unimportant in the Romantic age.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Romantic aesthetics are often described as __________.
A) classical
B) modernist
C) medieval
D) anti-classical
E) traditional
Q6) The cycle of love poems called "Black Venus" was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) Henri Matisse's Blue Nude tries to express the artist's feelings about the nude as an object of aesthetic interest.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Pierre-Auguste Renoir's work was concerned with social commentary on urban alienation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The foundations of modern dance are found in __________.
A) ballet
B) ballroom dancing
C) ritual dance
D) folk dance
E) social dance
Q4) Early photographers in Paris spent much of their time making studies of nudes for use by __________.
Q5) The work of Arthur Schoenberg grew out of German __________.
Q6) The international socialist movement supported the German Reich.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) __________ erased the line between literature and journalism,producing works that tersely represent simple acts,employ sparse dialogue,and understate emotion.
Q2) The early work of William Butler __________ was influenced by Irish myth.
Q3) The plays of Luigi Pirandello are associated with __________.
A) expressionism
B) modern traditionalism
C) Marxism
D) International Style
E) absurdism
Q4) Fritz Lang's most important film,called __________,depicts life in the twenty-first century.
Q5) What was the purpose of Surrealist "automatic writing"?
Q6) European modernist art was first exhibited in the United States at __________.
A) the Museum of Modern Art
B) Gallery 291
C) the Armory Show
D) the World's Columbian Exposition
E) the Society of Independent Artists' gallery
Q7) __________ combined elements from West African,American,and European music.
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) Judy Pfaff's Dragon is an example of __________.
A) installation
B) neo-expressionism
C) new media
D) feminist art
E) pluralism
Q2) Color-field painting is associated with the artist __________.
A) Mark Rothko
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Willem de Kooning
D) Barnett Newman
E) David Smith
Q3) "Fusion" is characterized by __________.
A) a combination of classical and jazz elements
B) an interest in opera
C) a combination of rock and jazz elements
D) the near total absence of percussion
E) complex form and surprising harmony
Q4) The novels of __________ reflect black vernacular culture and deal with sexual violence.
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