Art Appreciation Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Art Appreciation offers students an introduction to the visual arts, exploring fundamental principles, historical contexts, and various forms of artistic expression. The course examines major art movements, influential artists, and diverse media, helping students develop critical observation and interpretation skills. By analyzing works of art from different cultures and periods, students gain a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and personal significance of art, as well as its impact on society and individual perception. This course encourages active engagement with art and fosters an appreciation for creativity and aesthetic values.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) Marsilio Ficino translated both Plato and Plotinus into Latin and wrote the Theologia Platonica.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In 1401, Leonardo Bruni sponsored a competition to determine who would make the doors of Florence Cathedral's baptistery which __________ won.
A) Donatello
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Filippo Brunelleschi
D) Leon Battista Alberti
E) Lorenzo Ghiberti
Answer: E
Q3) Angnolo Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid is typically Mannerist in its ambiguity and complexity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) The hay in Hieronymous Bosch's Hay Wain symbolizes __________.
A) heaven
B) youth
C) material possessions
D) pleasures of the flesh
E) the wheel of fate
Answer: C
Q2) The Essays written by __________ are a stunning example of Renaissance individualism grounded in humanism.
A) Erasmus
B) Martin Luther
C) Montaigne
D) William Shakespeare
E) Kit Marlowe
Answer: C
Q3) Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) John Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, is recognized for its extended analogy comparing lovers to __________.
A) a sunrise
B) a telescopic lens
C) trees in a forest
D) the two feet of a geometrician's compass
E) planets in orbit
Answer: D
Q2) The Hall of Mirrors is located in __________.
A) the Louvre
B) St. Paul's Cathedral
C) the Palace of Versailles
D) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
E) Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Answer: C
Q3) A fugue is composed of multiple instrumental parts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The Enlightenment was a period in which a group of intellectuals called philosophes believed that through reason, humanity could achieve a perfect society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Give an example of a work in which the choice of style, either Rococo or Neoclassical, was determined by the message that the artist, musician, or writer was trying to convey.
Q3) Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington .symbolized the states by
A) the number "13" in the corner of the of the work
B) thirteen fasces bound together
C) thirteen colonists standing together
D) thirteen canons
E) thirteen swords
Q4) How was the Neoclassical style used to promote the ideals of the French Revolution?
Q5) Give an example of a mock epic.
Q6) Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.
Q7) What are the elements of Enlightenment thought and how did they manifest themselves in artistic, musical, and literary works?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) List as many interests of the Romantics as possible and provide examples of each from art, music, or literature.
Q2) What was Wagner's contribution to music of the nineteenth-century?
Q3) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther is his contribution to the Sturm und Drang movement that espoused Enlightenment objectivity, rationality, and restraint.
A)True
B)False
Q4) John Constable was an English landscape painter whose work conveyed a sense of "the enduring attachment to place so fundamental to rural life."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare at least three works to explore how did political unrest during the nineteenth-century affect the art of Europe and the United States.
Q6) Select a text by either Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau to explain the Transcendentalist view of nature.
Q7) How do Francisco Goya and Théodore Géricault compare as Romantic artists?
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) Baron Haussmann was responsible for the __________.
A) "grands boulevards" of Paris
B) Eiffel Tower in Paris
C) The Statue of Liberty
D) Art Nouveau presence in Paris
E) "Batignolles" group
Q2) What do the differences between Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles suggest about varying attitudes of the late nineteenth century?
Q3) __________ is an important subject in Impressionism.
A) Mythological subjects
B) The ordinary life of the working class
C) Religious subjects
D) The good life and the entertainments of the belle époque
E) Foods, fruits, and elements of fine dining
Q4) Art nouveau favored forms derived from __________.
A) nature
B) mathematics
C) pop culture
D) astronomy
E) classical antiquity
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) What was Mao Zedong's belief about the arts?
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Q2) Explain what is meant by "the patriarchal nature" of Confucian society.
Q3) The most important paintings created in China after the thirteenth century were
A) genre scenes
B) portraits
C) ceremonial images
D) historical events
E) landscapes
Q4) Discuss the impact of the arrival of Jesuit Catholic missionaries, such as Matteo Ricci, into China during the Qing dynasty.
Q5) __________ best describes the "literati."
A) Mongol invaders during the Yuan rule
B) Poet-artists who used brushwork to express their understanding of humankind and nature
C) Designers of the present-day Beijing
D) Composers of Chinese theater music
E) Communist officials
Q6) What purpose did Scholars' Rocks serve?
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Woodblock prints were closely associated with __________.
A) Beijing opera
B) Kabuki theater
C) Hsi-wen
D) Bunraku puppet theater
E) bushido
Q2) How do the styles of Chinese and Japanese architecture reflect the cultures in which each was created?
Q3) Trace the influence of Zen Buddhism on the arts and literature of Japan after the fifteenth century.
Q4) A geisha in training is called a maika.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Summarize the Japanese approach to architecture during the Muromachi and Momoyama periods.
Q6) The first Zen patriarch is named Daruma and is represented in a work by Hakuin Ekaku.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain how woodblock prints were linked to the world of Kabuki theater.
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) The meeting held from 1884 to 1885, which resulted in the division of the African continent among Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, was called the __________.
A) Division of Powers Colloquium
B) African War Act
C) Conference of Berlin
D) Bismarck Session
E) Benin Expedition
Q2) According to Benton and DiYanni, __________ was not one of the three commodities from Africa that came into demand as the desire for slave labor decreased.
A) palm oil (used to lubricate machinery)
B) latex (natural rubber)
C) gum arabic (a dye fixer)
D) coffee (to supply European homes and coffeehouses)
E) none of the above
Q3) With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?
Q4) Describe the impetus for the Mexican mural movement.
Q5) What developments began the decline of slavery in the early 1800s?
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.
A) the bird itself
B) space
C) time
D) a squawking parrot
E) the flight of the bird
Q2) The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Nazi's were proponents of the policy of __________, which they claimed justified the geographic expansion of the "superior" German race into territories of other countries.
A) Gesamtkunstwerk
B) Kunstgeschichte
C) Sturm und Drang
D) Ausbuildung
E) Lebensraum
Q4) Benton and DiYanni assert that abstraction takes three forms.What are they?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Le Corbusier is the nickname of the sculptor Alexander Calder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How should one define the International Style of architecture and which work serves as the paradigm of this style?
Q3) Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?
Q4) How do Jean-Paul Sartre's, Simone de Beauvoir's and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical views of Existentialism differ?
Q5) Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist artist.
A)True
B)False
Q6) __________ is not an Abstract Expressionist painter.
A) Mark Rothko
B) William de Kooning
C) Edward Hopper
D) Jackson Pollock
E) Helen Frankenthaler
Q7) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q8) Examine the idea behind the "Theater of the Absurd."
Q9) What was the most significant effect of World War II and why? Page 13
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) __________ achieved notoriety as "Samo," a grafitti artist writing on walls in Soho and Tribeca.
A) Judith F. Baca
B) Betye Saar
C) Roy Licthenstein
D) Jean-Michel Basquiat
E) Andy Warhol
Q2) Vaclav Havel was the first president of the post-Soviet Czech Republic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ is the focus of the Guerilla Girls.
A) The gender inequities in the art scene
B) The nudity of female art figures
C) The need for more minority representation in art gallery attendance
D) The need to make art galleries handicapped accessible
E) both A and C
Q4) What are the four identities that Andreas Huyssen demarcated?
Q5) What function does identity play in art and art criticism in the late twentieth-century? Be sure to examine particular works to prove the point.
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