Art Appreciation
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Course Introduction
Art Appreciation is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and diverse forms of visual art across cultures and historical periods. Through critical observation, analysis, and discussion, students will explore major works, styles, and movements in painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media. The course emphasizes the development of visual literacy, enabling students to interpret and respond to art within its social, historical, and personal contexts, while fostering a lifelong engagement with the visual arts.
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Art A Brief History 6th Edition by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art in Europe
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Q1) As seen in the houses of Çatalhöyük,what is the focus of many Neolithic paintings?
A)people planting crops
B)herds of animals
C)exaggerated female figures
D)violent and wild scenes
Answer: D
Q2) What tells historians that some people that stayed at Durrington Walls had traveled from regions far away from the site?
A)oral traditions
B)historical documents
C)archeological evidence
D)anthropological evidence
Answer: C
Q3) The Neolithic period ended with the introduction of A)weaving.
B)metalworking.
C)cabinetry.
D)glassmaking.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East
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Q1) Who was the most well-known Neo-Babylonian ruler?
A)King Croesus
B)Nebuchadnezzar II
C)Xerxes I
D)Darius I
Answer: B
Q2) Describe the function and appearance of Sumerian votive figures.
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
The images are dedicated to the gods.
They are seen in cylindrical form, as stocky men are bare-chested and wear sheepskin kilts.
The bold, glaring, inlaid eyes may be related to statements that advise worshipers to approach their deities with an attentive gaze.
Q3) What is the name for an early form of writing using wedge-shaped marks?
A)hieroglyphic
B)cuneiform
C)pictograph
D)hieratic
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
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Q1) Which of the following are windows above a side roof that let light into the central interior space?
A)pylons
B)hypostyle
C)bracketing
D)clerestory
Answer: D
Q2) What is the significance of Funerary Stele of Amenemhat?
A)It displays the success and harmony of dynastic rule.
B)It represents the politics of the time.
C)It shows military power of the government.
D)It presents unity and confidence.
Answer: D
Q3) Why was Hatshepsut portrayed as a male king?
A)She was not of royal blood and used her image to validate her reign.
B)She was a warrior and led many successful battles.
C)There was not artistic tradition for a female ruler.
D)There was not a legitimate heir and she pretended to be a male king.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Early Asian Art
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Q1) Which Shinto shrine has been ritually rebuilt every 20 years?
A)Inner Shrine,Ise,Japan
B)Horyu-ji,Japan
C)Nanchan Temple,China
D)Great Stupa,Sanchi,India
Q2) Discuss how the purpose and design of Horiyu-Ji reveals the influence of China.
Q3) The Indus Valley civilization is also called
A)Aryan.
B)Akkadian.
C)Mauryan.
D)Harappan.
Q4) Which of the following is a building used as a tomb?
A)stupa
B)module
C)mausoleum
D)cenotaph
Q5) Explain the symbolism of the Eternal Shiva from the Cave-Temple at Elephanta.
Q6) Describe the Silk Road and its use and effect in China and the West.
Q7) How is the colossal Seated Buddha from Sanxi,China,different from its earlier Indian counterparts?
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Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World
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Q1) Noblemen from which cultural group wore Torcs?
A)Celts
B)Greeks
C)Neo-Babylonians
D)Persians
Q2) Which architectural order has fluted columns without bases and unadorned capitals?
A)Ionic
B)Corinthian
C)Tuscan
D)Doric
Q3) The Parthenon is a Greek temple dedicated to A)Poseidon.
B)Athena.
C)Aphrodite.
D)Zeus.
Q4) How does the altar from Pergamon highlight the characteristics of Hellenistic art?
Q5) Give an example and describe the style of Minoan wall painting.What can we conclude about the Minoan people?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
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Q1) Citing examples,discuss what the Roman Empire valued based on the commemorative nature of the architecture.
Q2) The title "Augustus" means A)important.
B)sacred.
C)untouchable.
D)immortal.
Q3) A structure that transports flowing water is called A)a voussoir.
B)a pier.
C)a bay.
D)an aqueduct.
Q4) The oculus of the Pantheon is
A)a central circular opening at the top of the dome.
B)the round supportive structure under the dome.
C)the sunken panels of the interior.
D)the original dedication of the Pantheon.
Q5) Discuss the details of the domestic life as seen through the remnants of Pompeii.
Q6) How do an Etruscan temple and a Greek temple compare in form?
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Chapter 7: Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) In Byzantine architecture,which is the preferred way to support a dome?
A)with squinches
B)with pendentives
C)with a colonnade
D)with a drum
Q2) Which of the following is an image of a holy person?
A)mandorla
B)icon
C)cherub
D)cloison
Q3) A high-ranking angel closely associated with God is A)a madrasa.
B)a transept.
C)an icon.
D)a cherub.
Q4) Discuss Andrey Rublyov's art and style as an example of Byzantine art.What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the naturalism and idealization of the ancient Greeks?
Q5) Compare and contrast the early Christian church Old St.Peter's Basilica and the early Byzantine church Hagia Sophia.
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Chapter 8: Islamic Art
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Q1) What was the name for the angular Islamic script that developed first?
A)tugra
B)iwan
C)muqarnas
D)kufic
Q2) What was the intended audience of the narrative painting,Court of Gayumars?
A)the rulers
B)the laity
C)the imam
D)the elite
Q3) Which design element was used to create a narrative on the Baptistery of St.Louis?
A)registers
B)faience
C)symmetry
D)perspective
Q4) How does the Dome of the Rock reveal the presence of outside architectural and decorative influences?
Q5) Discuss the style and function of the illuminated manuscripts produced by the Persians and provide an example.
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Chapter 9: Later Asian Art
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Q1) Why is Zhao Mengfu unusual?
A)He was a high Yuan official.
B)He resigned his position with the Yuan court.
C)He refused association with the Yuan dynasty.
D)He combined poetry and painting.
Q2) During the Heian period,Japan was culturally influenced by
A)China and India.
B)India and Korea.
C)China and Cambodia.
D)China and Korea.
Q3) Which is a construction method used in Japan in which a large wooden sculpture is made from smaller carved blocks?
A)woodblock
B)system
C)joined-block
D)assemblage
Q4) What makes Chinese landscape painting fundamentally different from Western landscape painting? Explain why a viewer might be able to "wander" through a Song painting more easily than a Western painting.
Q5) Discuss the iconography of Shiva Nataraja.
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
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Q1) Who controlled the Western Roman Empire after it fell in the fifth century?
A)the Muslims
B)the Spaniards
C)Germanic peoples
D)the Byzantines
Q2) Which is the hybrid style developed by Christian artists living in Islamic Spain?
A)Mozarabic
B)Arabesque
C)Romanesque
D)ukiyo-e
Q3) Which of the following describes the depiction of Jesus on the Lindau Gospels outer cover?
A)calm and Classical
B)turbulent and agitated
C)emotional
D)abstract and ornamental
Q4) Discuss the style and iconographic meaning of the page with Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples.
Q5) Describe the influence of multiculturalism as seen in the burial at Sutton Hoo.
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) Which of the following was typical of English cathedrals?
A)thin walls and piers
B)wide projecting transepts
C)narrow nave arcades
D)large rose windows
Q2) What was Gothic architecture called in its own time?
A)modern
B)Italian
C)old-fashioned
D)ancient
Q3) Where were the two important centers of Italian Gothic painting located?
A)Rome and Naples
B)Venice and Ravenna
C)Milan and Bologna
D)Siena and Florence
Q4) Who introduced the term Gothic?
A)Michelangelo Buonarroti
B)Giorgio Vasari
C)Petrarch
D)Dante
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Chapter 12: Early Renaissance Art
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Q1) Which is the term for a little boy often shown naked and with wings?
A)giornata
B)sgraffito
C)aedicul
D)putto
Q2) What is the term for art that has been created using a gouge to make high-relief areas for the image?
A)intaglio
B)lithograph
C)engraving
D)woodcut
Q3) Which is a process in which lines are cut into a plate with a burin and the low areas are printed?
A)aquatint
B)engraving
C)woodcut
D)lithography
Q4) Describe how Martin Schongauer created an emotionally charged engraving.Give examples of technique and compare this technique with that of a woodcut.
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Chapter 13: Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) What inspired Giorgione's landscape paintings?
A)Roman sculpture
B)"Venus" paintings
C)classical landscape paintings
D)ancient pastoral poetry
Q2) Which artist critiqued the early drawings of Sofonisba Anguissola?
A)Bronzino
B)Michelangelo
C)Raphael
D)Titian
Q3) What is dramatically altered from reality in Titian's portrait of Isabella d'Este?
A)her nose
B)her left eye
C)her age
D)her left hand
Q4) How and why did the early style of Michelangelo,as seen in David,change to his later style,as seen in the Last Judgment?
Q5) How does Hieronymus Bosch's painting Garden of Earthly Delights defy the traditions of the Renaissance?
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Chapter 14: Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) How does Hyacinthe Rigaud represent the figure of the king? How is this typically Baroque?
Q2) To whom does the phrase le Roi Soleil ("the Sun King")refer?
A)Phillip IV of Spain
B)Charles I of England
C)Louis XIV of France
D)Henri IV of France
Q3) Whose life story did Rubens paint?
A)Phillip IV,King of Spain
B)Pope Innocent X
C)Marie de' Medici,Queen of France
D)Charles I,King of England
Q4) Which of the following artists inspired Peter Paul Rubens' technique in The Raising of the Cross?
A)Michelangelo
B)Caravaggio
C)Diego Velázquez
D)Annibale Carracci
Q5) How does Bernini's Cornaro Chapel reveal the characteristics of Baroque art?
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Chapter 15: Art of the Americas
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Q1) Which ancient Americans made the most accurate calendar?
A)Olmec
B)Aztec
C)Nazca
D)Maya
Q2) Which technique did the Moche use to mass-produce some ceramic forms?
A)lost-wax casting
B)geoglyphs
C)molds
D)assembly line
Q3) How did the Inca finance their 23,000 miles of roads and 1,000 storehouses and lodgings that they built for transportation and communication?
A)with their gold mines
B)with labor taxation
C)with slavery
D)road-use fees
Q4) Describe the iconography of The Founding of Tenochtitlan page from the Codex Mendoza.
Q5) How was the Chilkat Blanket used? Discuss the formal qualities and style.
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Chapter 16: African Art
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Q1) In Benin sculpture,such as that of the iyoba,what represents Olokun,the Lord of the Great Waters?
A)a Portuguese soldier
B)a mudfish
C)a panther
D)coral-beads
Q2) What makes art historians believe that Ife heads were not true portraits?
A)They show abstract rather than naturalistic figures.
B)They represent individuals of the same age and are idealized.
C)They have found written records that provide names.
D)They show aesthetically pleasing features.
Q3) Which of the following was true of kente cloth?
A)It was made of pounded bark.
B)Only women wore it.
C)Some patterns were restricted to certain classes of people.
D)It could not be traded or sold to non-Ashanti people.
Q4) How does a hierarchy of materials or subject differ in African cultures compared to Western cultures? How do African cultures differ from Western cultures in their assessment of "fine art" as opposed to "craft"?
Q5) Explain the myth of "primitive" art and how it applies to African art.
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Chapter 17: European and American Art, 1715-1840
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Q1) Which describes the English Romantic landscape painting style that was thought to be "sublime"?
A)tranquil
B)reverent
C)beautiful
D)dramatic
Q2) Which art movement was particularly interested in moral incorruptibility,patriotism,and courage?
A)Romanticism
B)Rococo
C)Realism
D)Neoclassicism
Q3) Which group of early nineteenth-century landscape painters was inspired by Thomas Cole?
A)the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
B)the Hudson River School
C)the Barbizon Painters
D)the Wanderers
Q4) Discuss why David's Oath of the Horatii is considered to be a severely Classical painting by a truly Neoclassical artist.
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Chapter 18: European and American Art, 1840-1910
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Q1) The original idea of the avant-garde,as applied to art,was that it would prepare people for
A)social change.
B)intellectual ideas.
C)unusual designs.
D)new subject matter.
Q2) Which group first organized exhibitions independent from the official Salon?
A)the Realists
B)the Impressionists
C)the Post-Impressionists
D)the Symbolists
Q3) Who took portraits of famous British scholars and wanted to make photography an art form in its own right?
A)Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
B)William Henry Fox Talbot
C)Julia Margaret Cameron
D)Alexander Gardner
Q4) Why was Nocturne in Black and Gold,The Falling Rocket by James Abbott McNeill Whistler a controversial work? Discuss the formal characteristics.
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1900-1945
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Q1) Who coined the name "mobile"?
A)Marcel Duchamp
B)Alexander Calder
C)Georgia O'Keeffe
D)Pablo Picasso
Q2) El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise known as
A)a Proun.
B)a readymade.
C)Suprematism.
D)Surrealism.
Q3) What took on new importance in the work of Henry Moore?
A)texture
B)holes
C)the materials
D)motion
Q4) What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow,Red,and Blue and Schroder House embody the movement?
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Chapter 20: Art Since 1945
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Q1) Which was the art movement that used broad sweeping expanses of color to evoke transcendent contemplative states?
A)Minimalism
B)Color Field Painting
C)Action Painting
D)Gesturalism
Q2) Discuss the International Style of Architecture and its expression in the Seagram Building in New York.Include its use of materials and ideas of aesthetics.
Q3) Contrast the painting of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.What is the emotional impact on the viewer and how does it differ between the two painters? What was the difference in the artists' approaches?
Q4) Which of the following eliminated the art object itself?
A)Performance artists
B)Conceptual artists
C)Minimalists
D)Pop artists
Q5) Discuss the controversies over public funding of the arts.Use Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary as an example.
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Chapter 21: Introduction
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Q1) What does the erection of Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut symbolize?
A)the end of a war and hope for the future
B)the power of nature
C)the prevailing religion
D)the kingdom of heaven
Q2) During which era did artists begin to be designated as "masters"?
A)Baroque
B)Ancient Rome
C)Renaissance
D)Middle Ages
Q3) To depict the human body according to an idea of physical perfection is called A)idealization.
B)romanticism.
C)naturalism.
D)realism.
Q4) How many times does Zhu Da sign his work Quince (Mugua)?
A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
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