Art Appreciation
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Course Introduction
Art Appreciation introduces students to the fundamental concepts, forms, and historical context of visual art. Through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media, students develop an understanding of artistic techniques, styles, and the role of art in reflecting and shaping culture. The course fosters skills in observing, analyzing, and interpreting art, while exploring the contributions of diverse artists and movements from different periods and societies. By engaging with artworks both past and present, students cultivate a deeper appreciation for creative expression and the ways art impacts individuals and communities.
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Jansons Basic History of Western Art 9th Edition by Penelope J.E. Davies
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) It's likely that the imagery in Prehistoric cave paintings represents:
A) a ritual or religious purpose
B) art for art's sake
C) narrative, or storytelling functions
D) a settled Paleolithic lifestyle
Answer: A
Q2) Chauvet is a cave that:
A) contains corbelling
B) shows post-and-lintel construction
C) has Paleolithic murals
D) is a menhir
Answer: C
Q3) According to one feminist view, the distorted form of figures like the Woman of Willendorf reflects:
A) a woman's view of her own body as she looks down on it.
B) the Paleolithic interest in population control
C) a cultural prohibition against obesity
D) Paleolithic religious beliefs
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) Art in Mesopotamian visual culture enabled and reflected political power.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?
A) Xerxes
B) Darius I
C) Alexander
D) Ramses II
Answer: C
Q3) Darius I and Xerxes are two of the most important figures of which culture?
A) Sumerian
B) Egyptian
C) Persian
D) Assyrian
Answer: C
Q4) Naram-Sin was among the first Mesopotamian kings to deify himself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) ______________evolved from a mastaba.
A) Post and lintel
B) Cartouche
C) Ka sculptures
D) Step pyramids
Answer: D
Q2) All eras of Egyptian religion were monotheistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Egyptian figural canon:
A) determined the ideal proportions of a human figure.
B) was the same for all members of Egyptian society.
C) dictated that all males should be represented as youthful.
D) forbade the depiction of women.
Answer: A
Q4) Tutankhamun carried on the religious devotions of his predecessor Akhenaten.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) The Toreador Fresco probably depicts what kind of event?
A) Bullfight
B) Ritual game
C) Religious ceremony
D) Mythological battle
Q2) Describe the subject matter and style of fresco paintings found on Minoan Crete.
Q3) What is a frequent subject in Minoan wall paintings?
A) nature
B) war
C) royalty
D) gods
Q4) Female nudes with arms folded across the waist, and toes extended are typical of:
A) Mycenaean art
B) Cycladic art
C) Minoan art
D) Sumerian art
Q5) Compare the architecture at Mycenae and Crete. What do the differing types of structures found reveal about these two cultures?
Q6) Describe the architecture of Mycenae.
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) Where are triglyphs and metopes found?
A) In a ziggurat
B) As part of the Doric order
C) In a Corinthian frieze
D) In an Egyptian temple
Q2) How many major periods in Greek art are there?
A) six
B) three
C) four
D) nine
Q3) What style is black-figure ceramics?
A) Orientalizing
B) Archaic
C) Classical
D) Hellenistic
Q4) Homer was a Greek statesman.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What influences caused Greek art to evolve more rapidly than Egyptian art?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) How many major periods in Etruscan art are there?
A) a. four
B) b. three
C) c. five
D) d. six
Q2) Describe relationships and influences on the art and architecture among the styles of the Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.
Q3) Where is the wall painting that shows hunting and fishing located?
A) In a temple
B) In a palace
C) In a tomb
D) In a fortress
Q4) When were the Etruscans at the peak of their power?
A) 8th-7th centuries BCE
B) 7th-6th centuries BCE
C) 6th-5th centuries BCE
D) 5th-4th centuries BCE
Q5) Describe Etruscan tombs. What do the nature of the decorations and objects found within these tombs suggest about Etruscan contact with other cultures?
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) Which is true of the Pantheon?
A) It was a form of basilica.
B) It supported a dome with pendentives.
C) It had an apse on each end.
D) It had a dome atop a drum.
Q2) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
Q3) The Pantheon remains entirely as it existed in antiquity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does the Column of Trajan illustrate?
A) Emperor Trajan's life story, from birth until death
B) Emperor Trajan's military career, from his early political career until his death
C) The Roman military campaigns against the Dacians
D) The Roman victory in the Olympic games against the Greeks
Q5) In what ways was the Theater of Pompey similar to its Greek forebears?
A) It had sloping banks of seats in a semicircle
B) It was nestled into a preexisting hillside
C) It was made of concrete
D) It was a true half circle
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) The term pagan is another word for believers in early Christian traditions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in order to escape the militarily powerful Western Roman Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Other than Constantinople, where can Byzantine art be seen?
A) Rome
B) Ravenna
C) Athens
D) Paris
Q4) Most typically, how were the exterior of Early Christian churches designed?
A) Covered with mosaic decoration
B) Covered with three-dimensional sculpture
C) Had frescoes
D) They were left plain
Q5) Compare basilica-plan with central-plan churches. Cite examples of each.
Q6) Explain the iconoclastic controversy. Why were abstract symbols widely used?
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) Prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and charity are four subsidiary pillars of the so-called Five Pillars of Islam. The primary pillar is:
A) Filial piety
B) Observance of Islamic holy days
C) Affirmation of Faith
D) Celebration of Mohammad's birthday
Q2) The adjective referring to the architectural use of many columns is:
A) hypostyle
B) pilaster
C) entasis
D) columnar
Q3) What is the style of arch found at the Great Mosque at Cordoba?
A) Roman
B) Greek
C) Horseshoe
D) Hiberno-Saxon
Q4) Describe the relationships between the principles and the Islamic religion and Islamic art and architecture.
Q5) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Who was Odo of Metz?
A) Charlemagne's son
B) Charlemagne's grandson
C) Son of Otto I
D) Architect of the Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
Q2) The Palace chapel at Aachen was directly inspired by the architecture and ornamentation of Old St. Peter's basilica in Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Gero Crucifix is an example of which style?
A) Carolingian
B) Hiberno-Saxon
C) Celtic-Germanic
D) Ottonian
Q4) Ottonian manuscripts and ivories:
A) blend Carolingian and Byzantine elements
B) incorporate Greco-Roman illusionism
C) show no interest in narrative
D) do not convey messages of imperial power
Q5) Describe the influences and design of the Palace Chapel of Charlemagne.
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) What kind of monastic order is the Franciscan order?
A) mendicant
B) Cistercian
C) Carthusian
D) Benedictine
Q2) Where is sculpture commonly found in a Romanesque church?
A) tympanum
B) reliquary
C) jambs
D) all of the above
Q3) The four main pilgrimage routes through France ended up at which Spanish church?
A) Santiago de Compostela
B) Notre Dame
C) Amiens Cathedral
D) Chartres Cathedral
Q4) Where is the west facade in a Romanesque church?
A) apse end
B) the transept end
C) the front entrance
D) the altar end
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) Why are so many Gothic churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary?
Q2) Who had the first Gothic church built?
A) Abbot Suger
B) Louis V
C) the pope
D) St. Denis
Q3) How does Gothic sculpture differ from Romanesque sculpture? How does the imagery differ?
Q4) With what are the sections of stained glass windows are held together?
A) pressure
B) tracery
C) mortar
D) strips of lead
Q5) The Roettgen Pieta belongs to what category of objects?
A) sorrowful images
B) Andachtsbild (contemplation image)
C) Romanesque
D) illuminated manuscripts
Q6) How is stained glass produced and what visual qualities does it bring to the interior of Gothic structures?
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) What impact did the plague or Black Death have on Italian society in the fourteenth century?
Q2) The theme of Ambroio Lorenzetti's frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena is:
A) Christian Redemption
B) Good and Bad Government
C) The stories of the Virgin and Christ
D) Franciscan and Dominican mendicant activities
Q3) What influence did the mendicant religious orders exert on the development of art in thirteenth and fourteenth century in Italy?
Q4) Enrico Scrovegni was the patron of:
A) The Palazzo della Signoria
B) The Good and Bad Government frescoes
C) Andrea Pisano's bronze doors
D) The Arena Chapel
Q5) For whom did Giovanni dei Grassi make a book of hours?
A) Arnolfo di Cambio
B) Petrarch
C) Giangaleazzo Visconti
D) Giotto
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) A diptych is a work of art with two panels; a triptych has three panels.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
Q3) How were the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Angel Gabriel depicted in the Mérode Triptych?
A) in the Holy Lands in Biblical times
B) in ancient Rome
C) in ancient Greece
D) in a fifteenth-century Flemish household
Q4) What did the Limbourg Brothers produced for the Duke of Berry?
A) A Book of Hours
B) An altarpiece
C) A large fresco
D) a detailed woodcut
Q5) Compare and contrast tempera, fresco and oil painting. Include in your discussion the technique, the working time and the final appearance.
Q6) There is no evidence of the use of oil paints before Jan van Eyck.
A)True
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) How are aspects of the Florentine Renaissance reflected in Donatello's St. Mark?
Q2) How does Ghiberti create the illusion of spatial depth in his panels? Where are the panels located? What material was used to make the doors?
Q3) What were the social conditions that encouraged the development of the Renaissance in fifteenth century Florence?
Q4) Which was an important manufacturing town, a key point for trade, and a major center for international banking?
A) Florence
B) Rome
C) Siena
D) Naples
Q5) The altarpiece in which Florentine Chapel echoes the Portinari Altarpiece and reflects the impact of Netherlandish innovations?
A) Sassetti Chapel
B) Sistine Chapel
C) Brancacci Chapel
D) Arena Chapel
Q6) Discuss innovations seen in the works of Masaccio.
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Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
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Q1) Who was one of the foremost patrons of art during the High Renaissance?
A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Lorenzo the Magnificent
C) Julius II
D) Martin Luther
Q2) Who designed the dome of St. Peter's?
A) Bramante
B) Alberti
C) Brunelleschi
D) Michelangelo
Q3) What was Michelangelo's preferred art medium?
A) cast bronze
B) fresco
C) carved wood
D) carved marble
Q4) Most of the great achievements that made Rome the center of Italian art during the first quarter of the sixteenth century were influenced by what events and which important patron of the arts?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Who designed the church for the Jesuits with a broken architrave, a broken entablature and large scroll-shaped buttresses?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta
Q2) Which architect is known for his symmetrical, classically inspired villas throughout the Venetian countryside?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta
Q3) Who was the founder of the Jesuit order?
A) Ignatius Loyola
B) Pope Clement VII
C) Luther
D) Palladio
Q4) How and why did art in Venice develop so differently than art in Florence or Rome?
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Q5) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) Discuss the combination of Italian figural forms and northern symbolism in Dürer's Adam and Eve. Given what we know of Dürer's biography, how do we account for this combination of southern and northern characteristics in this work?
Q2) Who affixed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door at Wittenberg Castle?
A) Martin Luther
B) Lucas Cranach
C) Hans Holbein
D) Matthias Grünewald
Q3) What social group did Bruegel often paint?
A) Peasants
B) Religious leaders
C) Biblical characters
D) Aristocrats
Q4) The Reformation changed the art of Central Europe by encouraging the destruction of religious art and reducing commissions for religious subjects.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) Who constructed the architectural baldacchino over the high altar of St. Peter's?
A) Bernini
B) Borrmomini
C) Caravaggio
D) Carracci
Q2) Who is known for using light very dramatically with extremes of light and dark?
A) Carracci
B) Caravaggio
C) Reni
D) Cortona
Q3) Who became court painter to Philip IV of Spain?
A) El Greco
B) Murillo
C) Algardi
D) Velázquez
Q4) Compare Bernini's David to Michelangelo's David. How do you account for the similarities and differences between these two works?
Q5) Describe Velázquez's The Maids of Honor and comment on the likely purpose of the painting.
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) Compare and contrast Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait and Frans Hals's Malle Babbe. What characteristics suggest that these are contemporary works by artists with similar interests? How do the subjects of these works differ?
Q2) Describe Rubens' patrons, his range of subject matter, and his manner of working.
Q3) In the seventeenth century, The Dutch Republic was predominantly:
A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Orthodox
D) Jewish
Q4) What types of scenes are typical in Vermeer's paintings?
A) genre
B) landscape
C) history
D) still life
Q5) Discuss the Baroque elements and influences in Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print. How would you relate this work to paintings by Caravaggio?
Q6) What was the official religion for Flanders and Holland? How did religion have an impact on the arts of each region?
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) Wren's plan for St. Paul's Cathedral was
A) A basilica plan, based on a Latin cross
B) Accepted by church authorities as Wren had originally conceived it
C) Conceived without a dome
D) Inspired by a previous design by Borromini
Q2) The Grand Manner was a concept introduced into French painting by Poussin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) While Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to organize the rebuilding of London, the city turned to another architect for the design of Saint Paul's Cathedral.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ideal landscape represents a particular locale in a specific though beautiful manner.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does Hyacinth Rigaud's Portrait of Louis XIV function on a number of levels as an image of absolute monarchy? What elements in the painting are there for substantially symbolic reasons?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) "Rococo" was taken from the French word rocaille (meaning "pebble") and the Portuguese barrocco (meaning "baroque").
A)True
B)False
Q2) What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?
Q3) Two factions in the French Academy at the end of the seventeenth century were the "Poussinistes" and the
A) Rubenistes
B) Watteauists
C) Canaletti
D) Caravaggisti
Q4) Chardin's Saying Grace:
A) Appealed to members of the rising bourgeoisie
B) Was commissioned by Louis XIV
C) Served as a domestic altarpiece
D) Is the only painting like this that the artist produced
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) The Chiswick House by Lord Burlington demonstrates a movement away from Palladio's influence in English Neoclassical architecture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux designed 50 or more tax gates or customs houses for Rome using an inventive neoclassical vocabulary of architectural forms.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Neoclassicism was a reaction against:
A) The control of the French Academy
B) The Enlightenment
C) Napoleon
D) Rococo
Q4) Though an accomplished Neoclassical painter, Angelica Kauffmann was not permitted to join the Royal Academy because she was a woman.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) Compare Goya's attitude toward war to that of David's. How did each feel about Napoleon and employ his art either to support or criticize the Napoleonic regime?
Q2) Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?
A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q3) Which artist, who used lively, colorful, fluid brushwork, looked to literature for exotic subject matter to excite the imagination?
A) Walpole
B) Delacroix
C) Gardner
D) Constable
Q4) Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?
Q5) Romanticism dealt with themes of:
A) Orientalism
B) Emotion
C) Nature
D) All of the above
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Chapter 25: The Age of Positivism
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Q1) The term often used to describe the new mentality of pragmatism and materialism that emerged in the 1840s is:
A) Positivism
B) Modernism
C) Industrialization
D) Idealism
Q2) Why was Manet's Luncheon on the Grass so controversial and shockingly new when it was first painted and exhibited? Be sure to discuss both the subject matter and style of his painting in your answer.
Q3) The Salon des refusés was an exhibition, held in conjunction with the official Salon, of:
A) rejected artists
B) prize-winning artists
C) female artists
D) those who refused to participate
Q4) What were the motivations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and how are those motivations manifested in their artwork?
Q5) Discuss the various ways in which artists employed the new medium of photography in the nineteenth century.
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Chapter 26: Progress and Its Discontents:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) Discuss the changes in building techniques and innovations that allowed for the construction of the skyscraper.
Q2) Who was the earliest builder of Midwestern American skyscrapers?
A) Paxton
B) Sullivan
C) Wright
D) Mackintosh
Q3) What is distinctive about the Wainwright Building?
A) Walls of glass derived from the Crystal Palace
B) An internal steel skeleton
C) Vaulted arches on a colossal scale
D) Avoidance of all flat surfaces, straight lines, or symmetry of any kind
Q4) Frank Lloyd Wright worked for which architect before starting his own practice?
A) Richardson
B) Gaudi
C) Sullivan
D) Paxton
Q5) Discuss how Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House represents a sensitive accommodation to the American prairie landscape. Page 29
Q6) Discuss the influence of Japanese prints on late nineteenth century Western art.
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
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Q1) Two groups of German Expressionist artists were Die Brücke and:
A) Der Blaue Reiter
B) Die Rote Blume
C) Das Grüne Blatt
D) Die Gelbe Sonne
Q2) The 1913 Armory Show was instrumental in introducing modernist art to Parisian culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the name of Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery?
A) New York Collects
B) The Photography Gallery
C) Stieglitz Gallery
D) "291" Gallery
Q4) Constantin Brancusi's Newborn of 1915 is a completely non-objective work of modernist sculpture.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Describe the impact of the Armory Show and of Stieglitz's "291" Gallery on the development of Modernism in the United States.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) Who experimented with mobiles as a form of art?
A) Man Ray
B) Hepworth
C) Duchamp
D) Calder
Q2) Dada evolved into Surrealism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and the circumstances of its initial display at an exhibition in 1917. Discuss how the exhibition of this work challenged the notion of what constitutes a work of art?
Q4) There was a clear separation between abstract art and radical politics in the revolutionary society that developed in Russia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast Mondrian's abstract paintings with Calder's sculptures.
Q6) How are questions of identity and difference explored in the art of Jacob Lawrence and Diego Rivera?
Q7) How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) What was innovative about Rauschenberg's assemblages? How do they relate to the painting of the same period?
Q2) Which Pop artist satirized middle-class values?
A) Lange
B) Lichtenstein
C) Kelly
D) Stella
Q3) What impact did World War II have on American art?
Q4) Romare Bearden, an African-American artist, made collages about his identity and became an active member of the Haarlem Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What material is Smithson best known for using?
A) wood
B) stone
C) bronze
D) nature
Q6) How did Minimalist sculpture relate to architecture of the period?
Q7) How does Judy Chicago's Dinner Party function as a work of feminist art?
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Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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Q1) Michael Graves' Public Service Building in Portland appropriates motifs from which of the following styles?
A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Byzantine
D) Greek
Q2) Art historians have named the period since 1980:
A) Postmodern
B) Ultra Modern
C) Continued Mondern
D) Modern Revival
Q3) Which painter often evokes German history?
A) Kiefer
B) Stirling
C) Gehry
D) Gropius
Q4) Compare the Postmodern architecture of Graves, both aesthetically and structurally, to the High Modern architecture of Mies van der Rohe.
Q5) What are the influences in Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
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