Art Appreciation Test
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Course Introduction
Art Appreciation is an introductory course designed to enhance students understanding and enjoyment of visual art. Through exploration of various artistic movements, styles, and media, students learn to analyze and interpret works of art from different cultures and historical periods. The course emphasizes the development of visual literacy, critical thinking, and perceptual skills, encouraging students to engage thoughtfully with art in museums, galleries, public spaces, and everyday life. By studying the elements and principles of design, students gain insights into the creative process and the social, political, and personal contexts that influence artistic expression.
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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) In The Last Supper , Leonardo da Vinci found __________ the most difficult to paint.
A) John and Peter
B) Judas and Jesus
C) the table
D) the arrangement of the five segments
E) the windows in the background
Answer: B
Q2) __________ painted a number of frescoes in the monastery of San Marco, Florence, including an Annunciation .
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Piero della Francesca
D) Masaccio
E) Fra Angelico
Answer: E
Q3) Properzia de' Rossi was from Cremona.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is a __________.
A) fresco
B) polyptych
C) diptych
D) triptych
E) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) __________ are an examples of the secular music that became increasingly popular in the Renaissance and which are characterized by lyrics written in the vernacular.
A) Gregorian chants
B) Soliloquies
C) Madrigals
D) Mystery plays
E) both A and B
Answer: C
Q3) Iconoclasm is the systematic celebration of religious icons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ was in charge of her family's Bologna shop and supported her parents and three siblings through the sale of paintings that appealed to patrons with their sentimentality, such as the Virgin and Child of 1663.
A) Artemisia Gentileschi
B) Judith Leyster
C) Elisabetta Sirani
D) Rachel Ruysch
E) Clara Peeters
Answer: C
Q2) A __________ is composed of three or four independent parts of which one part, or voice, states a theme, which is then imitated in succession by each of the others.
A) fugue
B) cantata
C) madrigal
D) both B and C
E) none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) __________ art was most closely associated with the French Revolution.
A) Jean-Antoine Watteau's
B) Jacques-Louis David's
C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard's
D) François Boucher's
E) Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Q2) Give an example of a mock epic.
Q3) Rococo is to frivolity as Neoclassical art is to __________.
A) moral virtue
B) violence
C) emotion
D) mythology
E) genre
Q4) __________, an artist of the Parisian Rococo is noted for his rapid brushwork, painting an entire work inside of an hour.
A) Jean-Antoine Watteau
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
D) Jacques-Louis David
E) François Boucher
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) How is one's understanding of nineteenth-century sexual politics enhanced by applying feminist theories to Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass?
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Q2) __________wrote Wuthering Heights which is a perfect encapsulation of the Romantic sensibility in the "violence of its scenes and the extravagance of its style."
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) John Keats
E) Emily Dickinson
Q3) St.Augustine's Confessions is to the honor and glory of God as Rousseau's Confessions is to the honor and glory of __________.
A) nature
B) the self
C) altruism
D) patriotism
E) social contracts
Q4) Trace the role of photography in the development of Realism.
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) Albert Einstein proposed his "Theory of Relativity" in 1905, but it was not until 1919 that mathematical equations central to his theory could be confirmed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who were the two key figures in philosophy at the turn of the century and what are the principal theories each espoused?
Q3) What new directions did sculpture take in the nineteenth-century and whose work is a good example of these new attitudes?
Q4) Discuss the significance of Darwin's theory of evolution through the process of natural selection to people of the late nineteenth century. Essay
Q5) The name "Impressionism" was derived from a painting by __________.
A) Édouard Manet
B) Claude Monet
C) Mary Cassatt
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot
Q6) List the features of Art Nouveau and provide an example of this style.
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) What purpose did Scholars' Rocks serve?
Q2) The calligraphy at the upper left of Shen Zhou's Poet on a Moutaintop is a
A) poem
B) prayer
C) song
D) signature
E) novella
Q3) What was Mao Zedong's belief about the arts?
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Q4) Wu Zhen's Bamboo could be interpreted as a symbol of survival of Chinese under foreign rule.
A)True
B)False
Q5) China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain after their defeat in the Opium War; the city has now reverted back to the control of the Chinese.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why was calligraphy so revered in Chinese culture?
Q7) What is the significance of the subject matter of Wu Zhen's Bamboo ?
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) What happened after 1600 in terms of literature?
Q2) The Himeji Castle was built during the __________ period.
A) Muromachi
B) Nara
C) Edo
D) modern
E) Momoyama
Q3) Muromachi gardens were designed for __________.
A) exercise
B) meditation
C) social gatherings
D) love trysts
E) ceremonies
Q4) What is koto music, how did it develop, and what is its importance in Japan?
Essay
Q5) Using a work of art, examine the forms and ideas behind landscape painting during the Muromachi period.
Q6) What are the differences between Noh and Kabuki?
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Q7) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) The role of African music is as __________.
A) entertainment only
B) an expression of their belief system
C) a form to pass stories from generation to generation
D) an element of events performed only on special occasions
E) none of the above
Q2) The message, for the Mexican people, of Sigueiros' large-scale mural, Cuauhtémoc Against the Myth was that __________.
A) Mexicans need to control their population
B) indigenous people could regain power
C) cultures can co-exist in one nation
D) colonialism was not damaging
E) religious faith will be rewarded
Q3) Mexico's president Alvaro Obregón initiate __________ in 1920 to restore Mexico's indigenous cultural identity.
A) an indigenous music movement
B) a mural movement
C) a literary movement
D) an oral history movement
E) a series of festivals
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of the Depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ is in a number of ways responsible for the invention of fascism.
A) Franz Kafka
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D) Mahatma Gandhi
E) Arnold Schoenberg
Q3) What did the Fauves believe about color?
Q4) Salvador Dalí was a(n) __________.
A) Dadaist
B) Abstract Expressionist
C) Surrealist
D) Futurist
E) Fauve
Q5) Benton and DiYanni assert that abstraction takes three forms.What are they?
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Q6) What were the root causes of the Russian Revolution?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Robert Rauschenberg called work like the Odalisk __________.
A) "action painting"
B) "combine painting"
C) "meldings"
D) "environmental art"
E) "pure information"
Q2) Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut abandons the __________ of traditional religious architecture.
A) grid-like structure
B) bays
C) devotionality
D) concave and convex shapes
E) symmetry
Q3) What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?
Q4) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q5) Benton and DiYanni assert that "as consumerism increasingly preoccupied American life, artists and intellectuals turned their attention to the cycle of production, consumption, and waste that defined experience." Select at least three works of art, music, and literature to respond to this statement.
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Q6) Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) List the key differences between western and non-western art as delineated by Benton and DiYanni.
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Q2) M.Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did the Magicians of the Earth exhibition of 1989 underscore about globalization and world art?
Q4) __________ photographed herself in a variety of "self-portraits," whose variety and artificiality serve to announce that the "self" is a fictionalized construction.
A) Judy Chicago
B) Cindy Sherman
C) Lisa Fifield
D) Eleanor Antin
E) Susan Rothenberg
Q5) Postmodernism is a celebration and continuation of the tenets of Modernism.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.
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